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WAMU ^ | 1/17/10 | Ed Walker

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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.' "

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Happy Sunday Night. Classic Radio Time.

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• 07:00 p.m. Johnny Dollar
  10/09-10/10/56 Primrose Matter Pts. 2-3 (Sus.)(CBS) (27:10)
• 07:30 p.m. Dragnet
  06/22/54 #253 Big Customer (AFRS) (24:50)
• 08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  05/22/60 #424 Maryin' Bertha (CBS) (24:42)
• 08:30 p.m. Fibber McGee & Molly
  10/20/42 #335 Family Tree (Johnson's Wax)(NBC) (29:28)
• 09:00 p.m. * Philip Marlowe*
  10/10/48 The Panama Hat (Sus.) (CBS) (29:28)
• 09:30 p.m. Mayor of the Town
  09/13/42 Holly Has a Crush on John Andrews(Rinso) (NBC) (29:26)
• 10:00 p.m. * Whistler* 01/07/51 Hit & Run (Signal Oil) (CBS) (29:50)
• 10:30 p.m. Arch Obler's Plays 12/16/39 Nobody Died (Sus.) (NBC) (29:06)

[Red_Devil 232]

Is The Primrose Matter the continuation of the investigaton of the diamonds being hiested?

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx again !

 

January 17 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

• 07:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
  
10/09-10/10/56 "The Primrose Matter" Pts. 2-3 of 5 (Sus.)(CBS) (27:10) Bob Bailey, Marvin Miller (Brad Taylor), Junius Matthews (Jake Meagher), Herb Ellis, B.J. Thompson (Mrs. Bardell), Herb Butterfield, Tony Barrett, Barbara Eiler (Jenny Bardell) ; Writer - Les Crutchfield ; Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Musical Supervisor - Amerigo Marino ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; Expense Account Total = $ 914.15 ; (... continued ...) Cal Mervyn calls Dollar. Johnny goes on to Primrose Camp. Pop doesn't have a cabin for him, even though they seem empty. Pop isn't so talkative. The nephew isn't too friendly. Dollar buys some Chesterfield cigarettes. Johnny quizzes the nephew about the new power plant being built in Tulsa, and the nephew says that it is about finished. To Johnny's knowledge, there is no new power plant being built in Tulsa. Dollar moves on and meets a local uranium prospector named Jed Marsh. Jed says that Pop has no nephew in Tulsa. In fact he has no relatives. Jed tells Johnny that he found a car half-buried under a rock slide at the bottom of a cliff. Johnny goes with him and they dig to where they can open the car door. Inside is a dead man, the other man who had been wounded by the state police at the roadblock.
  Dollar calls Lieutenant Mervyn to relate that he has discovered the stolen car that Nitzen gang used in it's robbery in the Mountains of Santa Rita National Forest. Bardell still doesn't want to rent Johnny a cabin, despite the fact that the lights don't work on his rented car. The "nephew" tells Pop to get a cabin ready for Dollar. Mrs. Bardell makes Johnny some sunnyside-up eggs and ham. Johnny senses something is wrong when he gets her to talk about her 20 year old daughter, Jenny. She admits that they are all in danger, and that the place is a powder-keg. (... continued next week ...)

• 07:30 p.m. Dragnet
  
06/22/54 "The Big Customer" (AFRS) (24:50) Program #253 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Announcer - George Fenneman ; Writer - John Robinson ; A special officer has been shot on routine patrol and the owner of a liquor store knifed to death during a robbery. One of the robbers has filthy finger nails!

• 08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  
05/22/60 "Marryin' Bertha" (CBS) (24:42) Program #424 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), Virginia Gregg, Joseph Kearns, Ben Wright, Vic Perrin ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - Tom Hanley ; Editorial Supervisor - John Meston ; Music Composed and Conducted - Rex Koury ; Announcer - George Walsh ; Chester is in the doghouse for not doing his chores due to a whopping case of spring fever. However, that is just the start of Chester's troubles. A widow woman from St. Louis who Chester has been corresponding with, Coreen Gatesly, is over at the Dodge House awaiting her "fiance's" arrival. Chester is in quite a pickle. He has stretched the truth a bit implying he has money and even went so far as to send Coreen a picture of Matt as himself. The mail order bride is no beauty, however. She is big and ugly, taller than Chester and weighing more than Matt. As if all this is not enough, Kitty suspects that the widow is really Bertha Housecavitz, a woman who marries wealthy men and then has them murdered.

• 08:30 p.m. Fibber McGee & Molly
  
10/20/42 "Family Tree" (Johnson's Wax)(NBC) (29:28) Program #335 Jim Jordan (Fibber McGee), Marian Jordan (Molly McGee, Little Girl), Isabel Randolph, Bill Thompson, Gale Gordon ; Billy Mills Orchestra and the King's Men ; Harlow Wilcox ; Sponsor - Johnson's Wax Polishes ; From Hollywood ; Writer - Don Quinn ; Fibber plans to change his furnace from burning oil to coal.

• 09:00 p.m. The New Adventures of Philip Marlowe
  
10/10/48 "The Panama Hat" (Sus.) (CBS) (29:28) Program #3 Gerald Mohr (Phillip Marlowe), Jacqueline DeWit (Isabelle Gordon), Wilms Herbert (Uncle Avery Fairchild), Bill Dowley (Bruce Gordon), Shep Menken (John "Skipper" Martin), Lou Krugman (Brock), Jeff Corey (Detective Lieutenant Ybarra); Creator - Raymond Chandler; Producer/Director - Norman Macdonnell; Special Music Conceived and Conducted -Richard Aurandt ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; Tall, thin Isabelle Gordon calls Marlowe and asks to meet with him at the roadside Pelican Inn near Malibu, to discuss unsigned threats that have been mailed for the past two weeks to her husband, Bruce. The threatening letters are composed from words cut from newspapers and pasted on sheets of paper. They have been married for little more than a year and he is an intrepretive photographer. They live at the Estate of her uncle, Avery Fairchild, who doesn't like Bruce. Isabelle wants Marlowe to stay at the guest cottage a while, posing as an old USC college friend so as not to arouse suspicion. She also says that a man in a white Panama Hat has been lurking around lately. Upon leaving the Pelikan Inn, Marlowe is nearly run over by a man wearing a white Panama Hat. Marlowe goes to the Fairchild Estate where he meets Uncle Avery. As Avery is talking disparagingly of Bruce, the latter walks in. Marlowe engages Bruce in conversation about photography on their way to the guest cottage, which contains Bruce's photographic studio. Later, Marlowe is awakened by a noise outside. When he investigates he is punched out. When he awakes he finds a gold cigarette lighter inscribed to "Skipper". Isabelle says that her cousin John "Skipper" Martin has come for a visit. Later, Marlowe runs into a man holding a .38 revolver on him. The man thinks that Marlowe is Martin. He says that his name is Brock, and he is here to collect the $10,000 gambling debt loan. Marlowe then locates Martin at the Wilshire Gardens and poses as Brock on his collection run. He then calls Isabelle who tells him that Bruce has been kidnapped and a ransom of $50,000 has been demanded. Marlowe then sees Martin enter the abode of flaming red haired Carla Winters. Avery agrees to give Isabelle the $50,000. Bruce returns. Avery will not allow Bruce to talk to the police because he doesn't like publicity. Avery tells Marlowe that he will receive his payment tomorrow. Marlowe looks around the guest cottage before he leaves. There is a portrait of Carla Winters. Marlowe calls Ybarra but gets Sergeant Neely who tells him that the Lieutenant is at Martin's place. Marlowe calls there and learns that Martin has been shot. Marlowe finds a piece of paper that ties the case all together. Marlowe goes back into the Fairchild Estate and says that Bruce staged his own kidnapping and then killed Martin, and that Carla Winters has the money. Martin was blackmailing Bruce and Carla to pay off his gambling debts. The piece of pare was a department store receipt for one Panama hat. Marlowe returns to his place on Franklin Avenue.

• 09:30 p.m. The Mayor of the Town
  
09/13/42 "Holly Has a Crush on John Andrews" (Rinso) (NBC) (29:26) Lionel Barrymore, Agnes Moorehead, Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra, Bea Benaderet, Priscilla Lyon ; Announcer - Harlow Wilcox ; Writer/Creator - Jean Holloway ; Sponsor - Swan Soap, Rinso ; NBC ; The Mayor's grand-daughter has a crush on John Andrews, who's planning to marry her mother!

• 10:00 p.m. The Whistler
  01/07/51 "Hit & Run" (Signal Oil) (CBS) (29:50) Episode#449 Bill Forman (The Whistler), Ed Begley, Gerald Mohr, Herb Lytton, Lurene Tuttle, Marvin Miller; ; Producer/Director - George W. Allen ; Writer - Joseph Cochran ; Music - Wilbur Hatch ; Announcer - Marvin Miller ; Sponsor - Signal Oil ; A man running away with a married woman has an auto accident...and kills the woman's husband!

• 10:30 p.m. Arch Obler's Plays
  12/16/39 "Nobody Died" (Sus.) (NBC) (29:06) Program #39 Jay Novelo

[Red_Devil 232]

ees - heisted

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Nope. That was two weeks ago I believe.

07:15 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
“Primrose Matter” Pt. 1 (Sus.)(CBS) Bob Bailey, Marvin Miller (Brad Taylor), Junius Matthews, Herb Ellis, B.J. Thompson (Mrs. Bardell), Herb Butterfield, Tony Barrett, Barbara Eiler (Jenny Bardell) ; Writer - Les Crutchfield ; Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Musical Supervisor - Amerigo Marino ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; Expense Account Total = $ 914.15 ; “There’s uranium, they say, in the Arizona Hills. There’s also a killer with three victims behind him, and he’s looking for another.” Brad Taylor, Mid-States Industrial Insurance Company, Hartford, calls America’s fabulous freelance insurance investigator about the Nitzen Gang who committed a $100,000 payroll robbery of an armored car in Kansas City. The payroll was insured. They Tommy-gunned two bank guards in the stick-up. The gang includes Gipper Nitzen, Bledsoe and two unknowns. Dollar goes to Tucson where he meets with state highway police Lieutenant Cal Mervyn. His partner was killed at a roadblock on the Nogales Road by the Nitzen gang, but the cops killed Bledsoe immediately and wounded another. Johnny poses as uranium prospector. He goes into Jake’s Bar & Grill where he talks to Jake Meagher, and gets directions to get himself lost. Jake tells him about the Primrose Tourist Camp, fourteen miles up a dead-end road. It is a series of tourist cabins and a service station run by talkative Pop Bardell. Jake says that Pop has a new helper, a nephew from Tulsa. (...continued next week...)

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Hello. Love The Whistler.

[Red_Devil 232]

What happened to JD and the diamonds? Have I missed episodes?

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If I remember correctly, there were no diamonds and a woman was involved.

[Red_Devil 232]

No. He was in some European country. People were falling out of windows. Yes, a woman was involved.

[steelyourfaith]

This?

• 07:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
  10/05 & 10/08/56 "Picture Postcard" Pt.5 Bob Bailey, Lucille Meredith (Ilsa Shaffer), Victor Perrin (Tom Wilkins), Forrest Lewis (Anton the gunman), Stan Jones (Otto Weider), Ben Wright (Jeffrey Harris) ; Writer - Robert Ryf ; Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - Roy Rowen ; Musical Supervision - Amerigo Marino ; Expense Account Total - $1723.00 ; "Well, they say that diamonds are a girl's best friend. But I wonder - when they are a motive for murder." Tom Wilkins, Global Casualty, Hartford, reports that $100,000 of insured, uncut, diamonds have been stolen in the Zurich airport from a courier. The only lead is a letter which arrived from someone named Sebastian, in Zurich, who offers information on the theft. Johnny travels to Zurich, and goes to the Polo Hotel, as specified by Sebastian. He shares a cab with an attractive woman named Ilsa Shaffer. Two blocks later she quickly leaves, kissing him, after she hears Johnny's name, but leaves her purse. At the Hotel a big man sticks a gun in his ribs and orders him back outside into a car. The man saw the incident and believes that Ilsa passed the diamonds to him in her purse. Johnny breaks away. He goes back to his Hotel and waits for Sebastian to show. Eventually, Sebastian approaches Dollar and asks about the reward. He says he will arrange for the return of the diamonds for $25,000. He passes a picture postcard to Dollar, which is part of the key to the location of the diamonds. The picture is of the Klibach Inn, an Alps resort, and was sent by F. Grunner. He also leaves his newspaper which has his address written on one of the inner pages. He asks Dollar to meet him at his apartment in two hours. Sebastian was floating face down in the bathtub. Inspector Honeger, Zurich Police, calls Dollar the next day. Dollar's theory is that Sebastian was part of the team that robbed the courier and his efforts to return it are to benefit him, while double-crossing his cohorts. Johnny goes to the Klibach Inn. Otto Weider, the inn-keeper of the Klibach Inn, checks Dollar in. Otto claims not to have heard of Sebastian. Soon knocking on his door is Englishman Jeffrey Harris, who had a friend back in London named John "Bunny" Dollar. Johnny shakes Harris off when he sees Ilsa at the bar. She thanks him for turning in her purse. She claims to come to this resort often, but Otto says he had never seen her before. Johnny arranges to go skiing with Ilsa. While on the ski trail they become the targets of rifle fire. Honeger sends Dollar another picture postcard that had been sent to Sebastian. It is of a chalet for skiers. Ilsa admits that Sebastian had told her to get into Dollar's cab, to throw off Sebastian's confederates. Ilsa was to meet Sebastian here for some skiing. Otto says that Harris had gone out mountain climbing at the same time that Dollar and Ilsa had gone skiing. Dollar finds the chalet of the second postcard. He sees Harris in the vicinity. The chalet is a ski hut on the ridge, and inside it has been torn apart. Police Inspector Honeger arrives in Klibach. They discuss the case over coffee. Dollar is sure that the stones are in Klibach. Johnny finds a recently fired rifle, with a telescopic site, in Harris' closet. Johnny goes into the village with Ilsa. Johnny sees a suspicious character following then, and so he and Ilsa split up, and she is to go back to the Hotel. Then another man falls from a window and dies. Ilsa recognizes him as Grunner, the last of Johnny's known leads. Ilsa and Johnny go to the room Grunner fell from. It is empty. They hear something down the hall. They break open the door to that room and see an open window leading to the fire escape. Looking out the window Johnny thinks he sees the big man who had him at gunpoint in Zurich. They go back to the Inn and Dollar runs into Harris, who denies he has a rifle. Otto gives a third postcard to Dollar of the village square. Dollar suspects that the diamonds may be located in the spot where the three postcard pictures can be seen. Dollar goes there and starts to dig, and finds the diamonds. Dollar is jumped by Anton, the gunman from Zurich, but Dollar overpowers him. He is working for Otto. Otto shows up with a gun, but gets distracted, and Johnny gets the gun. Otto could not figure out where the diamonds were so he had given the postcard to Dollar hoping that he would lead him to the stones.
  
  Bob Bailey, the Quintessential Johnny Dollar

  Dick Powell 1 audition program (12/7/48) Charles Russell 37 programs, including 1 audition (1/7/49-1/14/50) Edmond O'Brien 104 programs, including 6 repeats (2/3/50-9/3/52) John Lund 95 prorgams, including 8 repeats & 2 auditions (11/24/52-9/54) Gerald Mohr 1 audition program (8/29/55) Bob Bailey 556 programs, including 72 repeats & 1 audition (10/3/55-11/27/60) Bob Readick 29 programs (12/4/60-6/18/61) Mandel Kramer 66 programs (6/25/61-9/30/62)

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You can go to one of the old time radio sites and listen to it.

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It appears that the January 10 show is still archived at WAMU.