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"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.

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx again !

• 7:00p Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
  
12/20/59 Red Mystery Matter (Multi Sponsors)(CBS)(23:39) Bob Bailey, Forrest Lewis (Red Barrett), Barney Phillips (Buster Favor), Alan Reed, Sr. (Ham Pratt), Lawrence Dobkin (Pat McCracken) ; Writer/Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; Expense Account Total - "On the house" - Pat McCracken ; The strangest disappearance Dollar has ever been called on to investigate. Johnny has been overworked lately. Red Barrett, fishing guide at the Lake Mojave Resort, Arizona, calls him on the advice of Pat McCracken. Red says that something tragic is going to happen at the resort, but doesn't tell Johnny what it is. Dollar travels out to the Resort, at the southern end of the Lake, near Davis Dam. He first meets his old friend Buster favor, general factotum of the Resort, who says that Red has disappeared, his room a shambles, and there is blood on the floor. Johnny notices a single fish scale among the still wet blood. Ham Pratt says that a car matching the description of Red's was seen turning off the main road in the direction of Temple Bar fishing camp. Johnny goes there - and finds Red - waiting to fish with him. It has all been arranged as a vacation for Johnny by Pat McCracken at Red's new place of employment, Temple Bar. Commercials for Winston, Tel Torme` for Four Way Cold tablets, Yardley Gift Sets. Promo for Suspense.

• 7:30p Dragnet
  
05/25/54 #249 Big Watch Program #249 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson ; A market has been robbed of $7000 by Herbert Langley, the clue to the bandit: a cheap broken watch.

• 8:00p Gunsmoke
  
04/03/60 (04/10/54) #417 Greater Love William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell) ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - John Meston ; Music Composer/Conductor - Rex Koury ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; Previously broadcast 4/10/54

• 8:30p Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show
  
12/17/50 Buying Alice a Christmas Present(RCA/Victor): RCA. What to get Alice for Christmas? Alice sings, "It's A Lovely Day Today," Phil sings, "The Thing." Disc jockey Bob McLaughlin presents Phil with a gold record for, "The Thing." Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Ray Singer (writer), Dick Chevillat (writer), Elliott Lewis, Walter Tetley, Robert North, Walter Scharf and His Orchestra, Bill Forman (announcer), Paul Phillips (producer, director), Bob McLaughlin, Sheldon Leonard, Jeanine Roos, Anne Whitfield.

• 9:00p My Favorite Husband
  
12/23/49 #068 The Sleigh Ride(Jello/Log Cabin)(CBS) 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  ; 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.  

• 09:30p Jack Benny
  
02/02/47 It's a Wonderful Life (NBC)(23:50)

• 10:00p Lux Radio Theater
  
03/10/47 It's A Wonderful Life (Lux)(CBS) • Sponsored by: Lux Soap, Spry. Tired of his life on Earth, a man finds out what it's like never to have been born. Edwin Maxwell, Janet Scott, Noreen Gammill, Cliff Clark, Norma Jean Nilsson, Leo Cleary, Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed, Victor Moore, William Keighley (host), John Milton Kennedy (announcer), Louis Silvers (music director), William Johnstone, John McIntire, Philip Van Doren (author), Fred MacKaye (director), Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Frank Capra (screenwriter), Frances Goodrich (screenwriter), Albert Hackett (screenwriter), Jo Swerling (screenwriter), Susan Blanchard (intermission guest), Norman Field, Franklyn Parker, Ann Carter, Charles Seel, Doris Singleton (commercial spokesman: as "Libby"), Edward Marr.

[mylife]

Thanks for keeping classic radio alive.

[mylife]

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