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WAMU ^ | 11/30/14 | Ed Walker

[Vision]

Friends, it's Sunday night again and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana.

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[Vision]

The Big Broadcast is a Sunday night tradition for families throughout the WAMU listening area. Each week, Big Broadcast host Ed Walker offers listeners priceless recordings of popular radio programs from the '30s, '40s and '50s. Priceless, especially, for a man whose first sentence as a child was, 'Turn the radio on.'

[Vision]

Happy Sunday Night...Classic Radio Time...

[Vision]

• 07:00p Johnny Dollar
  12/21-22/55 Nick Shurn Matter Pts. 3-4 (Sus.) (CBS) (27:16)
• 07:30p Dragnet
  03/01/53 #193 Big Want (NBC) (26:42)
• 08:00p Gunsmoke
  02/26/56 #203 Who Lives by the Sword (CBS) (21:12)
• 08:30p 21st Precinct
  12/22/54 The Giver (AFRS) (29:50)
• 09:00p Archie
  12/13/47 Christmas Shopping (Swift) (NBC) (29:40)
• 09:30p My Favorite Husband
  12/23/49 #068 The Sleigh Ride (Jello/Log Cabin) (CBS) (29:12)
• 10:00p Lux Radio Theater
  12/20/48 Miracle on 34th Street (Lux) (CBS) (59:50)

[Vision]

Good afternoon, an early ping as I’ve got to make a dinner engagement tonight and will be back as soon as I can. Gina is hosting (oh, Gina, did I forget to tell you that? (: )

How was Thanksgiving? Probably better than mine which was mostly dealing with bronchitis.

Tonight’s lineup begins the Christmas season, a little too soon if you ask me. I’m interested in 21st Precinct and of course the iconic Lux with Miracle on 34th Street.

How you doing?

[RedMDer]

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[WXRGina]

Hello, FRiends! Thanks, Vision! And I'm very glad to host the thread as you run a little late this evening. :-) We always love "Miracle on 34th Street," a classic of classics!

These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2014 J. David Goldin.

7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. December 21, 1955. Program #3. CBS net. "The Nick Shurn Matter". Sustaining. A lonely vigil in the snow, a killer prowls the night, and a lady vanishes. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Jack Kruschen, Ken Christy, Amerigo Moreno (musical supervisor), Sam Edwards, Peggy Webber, Don Diamond, Ben Wright, Barney Phillips. 15:22. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. December 22, 1955. Program #4. CBS net. "The Nick Shurn Matter". Sustaining. A little girl who believes in Santa Claus, a big girl who believes in very little, and both of them facing death! Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Jack Kruschen, Ken Christy, Amerigo Moreno (musical supervisor), Sam Edwards, Peggy Webber, Don Diamond, Ben Wright, Barney Phillips. 15:12. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

7:30 Dragnet. March 1, 1953. Program #193. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. The search for a "George Richmond" leads to a killer of cops who always takes cabs. Walter Schumann (music), Hal Gibney (announcer), Joyce McCluskey, Paul Richards, Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, John Robinson (writer). 25 minutes. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

8:00 Gunsmoke. February 26, 1956. CBS net. "Who Lives By The Sword". Sponsored by: L & M, Chesterfield. Marshal Dillon beats up Joe Delk, a professional gunfighter. Delk loses his courage shortly thereafter. The system cue is added live. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on May 18, 1957. William Conrad, John Meston (writer), Georgia Ellis, John Dehner, Sam Edwards, Clayton Post, Parley Baer, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), George Walsh (announcer). 25:41. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.

8:30 21st Precinct. December 22, 1954. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. Mrs. Beaven complains that her next door neighbor is doing business from his apartment. Mr. Wolfschmidt however, is giving the merchandise away! The public service announcements and part of the closing credits have been deleted. Everett Sloane, Ken Lynch, Harold Stone, Santos Ortega, John Ives (producer), Stanley Niss (writer, director). 30:06. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Incomplete.

9:00 The Adventures Of Archie Andrews. December 13, 1947. NBC net. Sponsored by: Swift's Premium Meats. Mass confusion results when Archie and his parents and all his friends go Christmas shopping at the same time in the same department store. Bob Hastings, Harlan Stone, Alice Yourman, Ian Martin, Gloria Mann, Rosemary Rice, Arthur Kohl, Ray Hedge, Kenneth MacGregor (producer, director), Bob Sherry (announcer). 29:35. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

9:30 My Favorite Husband 12/23/49 #068 The Sleigh Ride (Jello/Log Cabin) (CBS) (29:12). Synopsis is missing from the Index.

10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. December 20, 1948. CBS net. "Miracle On 34th Street". Sponsored by: Lux. The script was used again on "The Lux Radio Theatre" previously on December 22, 1947 (see cat. #45155) and subsequently on December 21, 1954 (see cat. #272). William Keighley (host), Edmund Gwenn, Joseph Kearns, Willard Waterman, Marlene Ames, William Johnstone, Herb Butterfield, Norman Field, Gil Stratton, Cliff Clark, Lawrence Dobkin, Louise Fitch, John McGovern, Sara Berner, Edward Marr, Herb Vigran, June Whitley, Jeanine Roos, George Seaton (screenwriter), Valentine Davies (author), Helena Sorrell (20th Century Fox diction coach: Intermission guest), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Fred MacKaye (director), Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, John Milton Kennedy (announcer). 58:51. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

[Vision]

Thanks Gina. How was thanksgiving?

[WXRGina]

Hi, Vision! It was fine. We didn’t do much. Did you have a good one, too? And, are you already back from your dinner?

[steelyourfaith]

Got something on the missing synopsis:

9:30 My Favorite Husband 12/23/49 #68 "The Sleigh Ride" Lucille Ball (Liz Cooper), Richard Denning (George Cooper), Gale Gordon (Rudolph Atterbury), Bea Benaderet (Iris Atterbury), Ruth Perrott (Katie, the maid), Hans Conreid (Mr. Wood, Mr. Gundlefinger) ;  Announcer - Bob Lamond ; CBS ; Sponsor - Jello, Log Cabin  ; Producer - Jess Oppenheimer ; Mr. Wood, from next door, wants to hide out from his eleven kids at the Coopers.  Mr. Negley, the mailman, shows up.  The group goes Christmas caroling in a sleigh.  George is vice president of the Sheridan Falls National Bank.  Mr. Gundlefinger gets run over by his sleigh as it is "stolen" and reports it to the police.  

[iowamark]

Do you remember Richard Denning as the Governor in the old Hawaii Five-O?

[WXRGina]

SteelYourFaith! Thank you! It’s so good to see you here. :-) I hope you’re doing very well.

[Vision]

Hey Gina, I’m in the car and listening. Looks like we have a nasty gunfighter in Dodge.

[Vision]

Hey, where the heck have you been?

[WXRGina]

Hi, Vision! Yeah, old Delk is quite calmed down after the beating he received from Marshal Dillon.

[Vision]

I’ve never heard this Christmas story before…

[WXRGina]

I think I remember Ed playing this—at least I remember the premise: the guy the woman is complaining about is not doing business out of his apartment. He’s giving stuff away. I remember that story line.

[Vision]

I was talking about that anti-advertising story. have you heard that before?

[Vision]

Ok, I'm back.

This 21st Precinct is a nice story. But why play the same stuff each year? There are countless Christmas shows.

[WXRGina]

Oh! Yes, Ed plays that every year, too. And, he always says they weren’t allowed to play it on the radio, which is pathetic. They didn’t want to alert the sheeple to the “angle” of Christmas commercialism.

[Vision]

Your memory is better than mine.

In other news, I got tablet on sale. Do you have one of these?