"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 11/22 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 11/22/09 | Ed Walker

[Vision]

It's Sunday night again. Happy Thanksgiving! Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio programs.

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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. Thanksgiving Edition.

[Vision]

• 7:00p Johnny Dollar
  09/26-27/56 The Meg's Palace Matter Pts 3-4(Sus.)(CBS)(27:42)
• 7:30p Dragnet
  05/04/54 #246 Big Stop (NBC)(26:00)
• 8:00p Gunsmoke
  03/06/60 (03/27/54) #413 Blood Money (CBS)(24:36)
• 8:30p Jack Benny
  11/30/47 Turkey Dream (NBC)(24:55)
• 9:00p Great Gildersleve
  11/21/51 #419 Inviting Thanksgiving Guests(Kraft)(29:45)
• 09:30p Sam Spade
  11/24/50 #223 The Terrified Turkey Caper(Sus.)(NBC)(29:45)
• 10:00p Falcon
  03/04/51 Case of the Gangster's Girl (Kraft)(NBC)(29:44)
• 10:30p Curtain Time
  03/15/47 A Bridge for Martha (Mars Candy)(NBC)(29:25)

[steelyourfaith]

9/24-28/56 "The Meg's Palace Matter"

Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg (Meg McCarthy), Jack Kruschen (Bill "Willie" Morgan), Byron Kane (Byron Kay), Forrest Lewis (Tim Beasley), Bert Holland, Stan Jones, Bob Bruce, Austin Green, Harry Bartell ; Writer/Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - Roy Rowen ; Musical Supervision - Amerigo Marino & Carl Fortina ; Expense Account Total - $221.60 ; One of the biggest, toughest, loudest characters I've ever met, a real two-fisted terror - and her name is Meg McCarthy. Byron Kay, Intercoastal Maritime and Life Insurance Company, Boston, calls Johnny for help. Meg McCarthy's restaurant, Meg's Palace Cafe, is on the waterfront of Cod Harbor, Massachusetts. Her restaurant is insured for $15,000 and her life for $25,000. Several written threats have been made to burn down her restaurant, above which she has her residence. When Dollar arrives at Meg's Palace he finds Meg and a sailor named Bill "Willie" Morgan, captain of the fishing boat Lilly-Ann, in a knock down-drag out verbal fight. After Willie leaves Meg speaks of him in fond terms. He is the beneficiary of her life insurance policy. Meg suspects that all of her restaurant competitors are responsible for the attempts to burn down the Palace. They include Clem Harris of the Silver Plate Cafe, Ernie Turner of the Manor House, and Tony Fortina of Irving's Chop Suey. Johnny receives a threatening phone call, telling him to leave or he will be killed. Johnny takes a room above the Palace, and orders six fire extinguishers through Byron Kay, and then interviews local law enforcement head Tim Beasley, who is self-appointed both as mayor and chief of police. Clem Harris is his cousin and he doesn't seem too anxious to help. Back at Meg's Palace, Captain Billy Morgan is ordering his sailors around as they clean up the restaurant they had recently trashed. Dollar goes for a walk and sees someone sneaking around in the shadows, and then he gets knocked out by someone who comes out of the side door of Meg's Palace. Tim Beasley finds him and returns him to Meg's Palace. The person who knocked Johnny out had to be one of Morgan's crew, since they were the only people in the Palace. The crew includes Montgomery, and Charlie Buttons. The next morning Johnny goes out fishing with the crew of the Lilly-Ann, during which he gets pushed and thrown overboard by powerful arms. He gets ripped up by the propeller and knocked out. Dr. Lionel Champion bandaged Dollar and splinted his right leg. The splint is soon removed, it was just the doctor's ruse to make Dollar rest a bit. Charlie Buttons has left to visit his sister, Sally, in Barnesboro. Dollar goes there. Buttons admits that he killed a man once, and that he was blackmailed into throwing Dollar overboard. Before he can tell Dollar who it was he gets shot to death by someone through the window. Johnny calls the Barnesboro Police Chief Walters to pick-up Charlie Buttons' body. Dollar and Chief Walters return to Cod Harbor and find the back of Meg's Palace in flames. It is obviously arson. Captain Billy and his crew are fighting the fire. The front of the Palace is so far untouched. Dollar goes in and finds Meg unconscious, with a bruise on her head. He saves her, but passes out with a burn on his left arm. He comes to with Meg at Clem Harris' place. Meg says she was struck from behind. Chief Walters arrests Captain Billy Morgan for arson and murder. Morgan's handwriting matches that on the threatening notes to Meg. Morgan confesses. He owed quite a bit on his boat and he was scheming to get that money to pay it off. Johnny admits to Meg that he had not seen any handwriting. It had been a bluff. (Meg McCarthy returns on 11/10/57, in "The Alkali Mike Matter")

[silentreignofheroes]

Thanks for posting this.

[steelyourfaith]

DRAGNET 5/4/54 "The Big Stop" Program #246

Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson ; homicide Cop Killer on the Loose.

[steelyourfaith]

GUNSMOKE 3/6/60 "Blood Money" Program #413

William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell) ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - John Meston (Repeat 3/27/54)

[Vision]

Sure. Happy Thanksgiving. Let me know if you want on the ping list. Some good programs tonight...

[Vision]

Hi there.

[steelyourfaith]

SAM SPADE 11/24/50 "The Terrified Turkey Caper" Program #223

Stephen Dunne (Sam Spade), Lurene Tuttle (Effie Perrine), William Conrad

[steelyourfaith]

Thanks again.

[silentreignofheroes]

Seems as though (must have been 2/3 years old)my granddad listened to these as I was sittin’ with him.

Thanks, add me to your list.

[Viking2002]

A chilly, wet, Sunday good evening from Alabamastan, Vision. Just lit the Padilla Series '68. The wife was kvetching before I even got a good ash going.

[Vision]

That’s a beautiful memory you get to enjoy.

[Vision]

Hey. Happy Thanksgiving. I hear they do that. LOL. Let me know what you think of the ‘68. I use fans to vent the smoke outside.

I’m still considering what to smoke, and since this is a vacation week, am dipping a little into some bourbon tonight.

[Viking2002]

And Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, as well. I consider the '68 a decent smoke, despite the wife's protestations. LOL I, too, use the dual-motor window fans in the bedroom and my computer shop. I tamped out the Padilla for later imbibement and tried the Pepin Garcia 601. I like the taste of that wrapper in my mouth. They'll both get finished down to the ring, I promise. Oh, BTW, speaking of 'imbibement' - not only is bourbon is my spirit of choice, I am a card-carrying Maker's Mark ambassador.

[Vision]

Nice. Not sure if I mentioned it but diet coke/coke goes very well with cigars, and of course bourbon. I'm a Rip Van Winkle man myself.

Cigars can take a while to open up and usually change flavors each third. The better the cigar, the more flavors. IMO the 68 doesn't hit it's stride until the last third or half way point. The 601 is more consistent throughout. The best part of the cigar is usually the last half or last third.

[Cold Heat]

I collect this stuff....I have over 200 g's of it .

Very entertaining on a weekend!

[Vision]

200g of these? Wow. I imagine that’s about all of them. Welcome. Let me know if you want on the ping list.

[Cold Heat]

Yes, I have a huge library of it. Just about anything, and some you likely have never heard of. I really need to spend some time on it and get it better organized. I had though about doing a podcast, but I have not had the time until recently. I'll have to give it some thought. I could do a daily and never play the same thing for years.