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1 posted on 05/02/2010 3:31:27 PM PDT by Vision

To: Arthur McGowan; BluesDuke; Cold Heat; Country Eagle; don-o; Fantasywriter; ...

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

2 posted on 05/02/2010 3:32:16 PM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)

07:00 p.m. Johnny Dollar
12/09/56 #516 Burning Car Matter (Sus.)(CBS)(29:24)(CBS)(26:42)
07:30 p.m. Dragnet
09/21/54 #266 Big Try (AFRS)(24:14)
08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
09/11/60 #440 About Chester (CBS)(23:54)
08:30 p.m. Columbia Presents Corwin
05/16/44 New York: A Tapestry for Radio(Sus.)(CBS)(29:30)
09:00 p.m. We Hold These Truths
12/15/41 (All Networks)(Sus.)(59:56)
09:30 p.m. Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show
04/09/50 #69 The Easter Bunny (Rexall)(NBC)(29:26)
10:00 p.m. Screen Guild Theater
12/07/41 Between Americans w/Orson Welles (Gulf)(CBS)(29:26)
10:30 p.m. Columbia Workshop
02/02/46 Homecoming (Sus.)(CBS)(28:58)

3 posted on 05/02/2010 3:32:33 PM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)

Thanx again, Vision !

May 2, 2010 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

07:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
12/09/56 #516 "The Burning Carr Matter" (Sus.)(CBS)(29:24)(CBS)(26:42) Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg, Parley Baer, Victor Perrin (Earl Poreman), Bob Bruce, Harry Bartell, Vivi Janniss, Tony Barrett, Junius Mathews (Frank) ; Writer/ Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Musical Supervisor - Amerigo Marino ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; Johnny travels to Sarasota, Florida where he first meets Earl Poreman, branch office manager for TriState Life & Casualty Company, located in the Conrad Building. Earl is a tall, lanky, easy going fellow with clear blue eyes and a ready smile. He lives in a concrete and stucco , two story home on St. Armand's Key, across Sarasota Bay from the mainland, and drives a new Cadillac with air-conditioning and "all the fixings". Dollar is there to investigate suspected arson at lumber yards in Orlando and Arcadia owned by the Carr brothers, Arnold and Edward. Edward is a dead wringer for Johnny, and his girlfriend Betty did a sister song and dance act with Earl's wife Mike, both being blonde, petite and green-eyed. Arnold is murdered. Three sets of twins, two men, two girls, and two fires that hit the coast of Florida with the impact of a hurricane. Storyline similar to "The Case of Trouble Matter" of 5/5/62 Expense Account Total = $385.26 ; CBS Radio Network
07:30 p.m. Dragnet
9/21/54 "The Big Try" (AFRS)(24:14) Program# 266 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson ; Young Emil Salter comes into headquarters to confess that he had stolen a truck and killed a man along the highway in a hit and run auto accident
08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
9/11/60 #440 "About Chester" (CBS)(23:54) Program #440 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), Bartlett Robinson, Harry Bartell, Lynn Allen (Lilly Mae), Vic Perrin, John Dehner ; Producer/Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - Frank Paris ; Editorial Supervision - John Meston ; Music Composed and Conducted - Rex Koury ; Announcer - George Walsh ; Sponsor - Doan's Pills, General Motors Guardian, Kellogg's, Pepsi ; Matt and Chester set out to look for Doc Adams, who has been missing for four days. They split up to follow two different paths. Matt's trail leads to Doc, who is recovering from an illness at a friend's ranch. Chester's path leads to trouble in the person of Lilly Mae and her husband Dack, a horse thief who ties Chester up and threatens to kill him. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on February 25, 1961.ß
08:30 p.m. Columbia Presents Corwin
5/16/44 "New York: A Tapestry for Radio" (Sus.)(CBS)(29:30) Program #11. CBS net, WBNS, Columbus aircheck. "New York, A Tapestry For Radio". Sustaining. A description of the world's greatest city at war. The second program of a trilogy about three cities. Martin Gabel (narrator), Norman Corwin (writer, producer, director), Frederick Steiner (composer), Lyn Murray (conductor), Minerva Pious, Hester Sondergaard, Donna Keith, Paul Mann, Richard Huey, Kermit Murdock, Sam Raskin, Sid Cassell, Walter Burke, Edward Cullen.
9:00 p.m. We Hold These Truths
12/15/41 (All Networks)(Sus.)(59:56) . Pool feed, Mutual net aircheck. Sustaining. A "Bill Of Rights Day" broadcast. The story of the first ten amendments to the Constitution is told, one150 years after they were enacted. A superb production in the Corwin tradition. See cat. #50316 for the same script, updated for broadcast fifty years later! Lionel Barrymore, Orson Welles (narrator), Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Bob Burns, Walter Huston, Marjorie Main, Edward G. Robinson, Rudy Vallee, Leopold Stokowski and His Symphony Orchestra, Franklin Roosevelt (from Washington, D. C.), Norman Corwin (writer, producer, director), Jimmy Stewart (narrator), Bernard Herrmann (composer), Elliott Lewis, Dane Clark.
9:30 p.m. Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show
4/9/50 #69 "The Easter Bunny" (Rexall)(NBC)(29:26) Phil Harris & Alice Faye, Elliot Lewis (Frankie Remley), Walter Tetley (Julius Abbrusio), Robert North (William "Willie" Faye), Jeanine Roos (Little Alice), Anne Whitfield (Phyllis) ; Producer/Director - Paul Phillips ; Writers - Ray Singer & Dick Chevillat ; Music - Walter Scharf and his Orchestra ; Announcer - Bill Forman ; Sponsor - Rexall ;
10:00 p.m. Screen Guild Theater
12/7/41 "Between Americans" (Gulf)(CBS)(29:26) Orson Welles
10:30 p.m. Columbia Workshop
2/2/46 "Homecoming" (Sus.)(CBS)(28:58) The start of "a new series of broadcasts." World War II is over, and a farm boy returns home; but not really. Norman Corwin (producer, director), Davidson Taylor (host), Norman Williams (writer), Lyn Murray (composer), Jeff Alexander (conductor), Will Geer, Elsie Mae Gordon, Robert Dryden, Edgar Stehli, Alan Drake, John Mitchell.

4 posted on 05/02/2010 3:32:34 PM PDT by steelyourfaith ("Let his days be few; and let another take his office. " - Psalm 109:8)

To: steelyourfaith

Tomorrow, you might care to note, Norman Corwin---the author of We Hold These Truths---will turn 100.

5 posted on 05/02/2010 3:34:06 PM PDT by BluesDuke (Another brief interlude from the small apartment halfway up in the middle of nowhere in particular)

To: steelyourfaith

Hey. Am liking the lineup tonight with the history, new offerings, and Welles appearance.

6 posted on 05/02/2010 3:36:03 PM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)

Thanks for the ping.

Johnny Dollar wins over Phillip Marlowe (XM). Besides XM runs the same episode several times.

7 posted on 05/02/2010 3:58:44 PM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine Lance Corporal texted me at 0330 on 2/3/10: AMERICA!)

Norman Corwin ping. Ed’s fully aware of it.

8 posted on 05/02/2010 4:01:42 PM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)

9 posted on 05/02/2010 4:01:58 PM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)

Johnny Dollar never padded an expense account. I wish the host would leave off on that.

10 posted on 05/02/2010 4:04:25 PM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine Lance Corporal texted me at 0330 on 2/3/10: AMERICA!)

11 posted on 05/02/2010 4:08:35 PM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)

Happy Birthday to Norman Corwin.

12 posted on 05/02/2010 4:21:13 PM PDT by steelyourfaith ("Let his days be few; and let another take his office. " - Psalm 109:8)

Variety is great.

The three regular shows at the top of the line-up every week (YTJD, Dragnet & Gunsmoke) are right among my all time favorite shows.

13 posted on 05/02/2010 4:24:55 PM PDT by steelyourfaith ("Let his days be few; and let another take his office. " - Psalm 109:8)

To: steelyourfaith

I could go for some fishing in the Gulf.

The shows are good but a little mix up could be nice.

14 posted on 05/02/2010 4:32:25 PM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)

The way I heared it, the host mentions a “padded” expense account. Sadly, tonight, I heard, for the first time, an indication that Johnny might be a bit loose. He said he included three days of fishing and all the “incidentals” he could think of.

15 posted on 05/02/2010 4:33:17 PM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine Lance Corporal texted me at 0330 on 2/3/10: AMERICA!)

He was speaking figuratively.

16 posted on 05/02/2010 4:36:28 PM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)

OMG he’s playing the carpenters again. Somebody kill me.

17 posted on 05/02/2010 5:25:39 PM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)

Thankfully a short one. Orson Welles - an all time great!

18 posted on 05/02/2010 5:33:25 PM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine Lance Corporal texted me at 0330 on 2/3/10: AMERICA!)

19 posted on 05/02/2010 5:40:40 PM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)

The sounds of a better America.

20 posted on 05/02/2010 5:48:23 PM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)

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