"The Big Broadcast" Sunday 5/9 7-11pm est Live

"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.' "

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

Enjoy. I've got to catch a flight tonight. Maybe someone else can play host? Might be able to check in very late.

07:00 p.m. Johnny Dollar
12/16/56 #517 Rasmussin Matter (CBS)(29:36)
07:30 p.m. Dragnet
09/28/54 #267 Big Bible (AFRS)(25:08)
08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
09/18/60 #441 Two Mothers (CBS)(28:26)
08:30 p.m. Information Please
01/10/39 (NBC)(29:18)
09:00 p.m. Curtain Time
03/22/47 Wanted: A Name (NBC)(29:22)
09:30 p.m. Great Scenes from Great Plays
01/21/49 #17 Icebound (Synd)(26:32)
10:00 p.m. MGM Theatre
1949-50 #10 Youngest Profession w/Margaret O'Brien (Synd)(53:30)

Thanx again, Vision !

May 9, 2010 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

07:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
12/16/56 "Rasmussin Matter" (CBS)(29:36) Episode #517 Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg (Laura Olson Rasmussin), Jean Tatum (Mrs. Frances Olson), Eric Snowden (Hardy, the butler), Roy Glenn (Stauffer, the chauffeur), Will Wright (Ellis Rasmussin), Frank Nelson (Universal agent on phone/LAPD Officer Daley), Jack Kruschen (Mr. Oberlin) ; Writer - John Dawson (Jack Johnstone) ; Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Musical Supervisor - Amerigo Marino ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; Expense Account Total = $1965.00 ; CBS Radio Network ; "A case with a real twist, one that will just about tear your heart out." Fred, the beloved son of millionaire Ellis Rasmussin of Holmby Hills, California, has been brutally murdered by guerrillas in Malaya, Asia, and his wife, Laura Olson Rasmussin, whom Ellis has never met, has disappeared ... and with good reason. Fred worked for the Imperial Rubber Company. Johnny attempts to track down Laura to give her the $25,000 life insurance check from Universal Insurance.. Her drunken mother, Mrs. Frances Olson, is no help. and Oberlin, a recent fellow airplane passenger, casts aspersions on Laura's character. LAPD Officer Daley calls Dollar to say that Laura is in their drunk tank. Laura has a rap sheet of petty thievery, beginning at age 16. Dollar bails Laura out. Ellis' health is failing. Stauffer calls Johnny's hotel number while Laura is filling out the forms to claim the check. He wants to know if Johnny has had any luck finding Laura. Laura hears Dollar tell Stauffer "no", not wanting the dying man to know what a poor choice of wife his son had made. Later, at the bar Laura approaches Dollar, having learned from the newspaper that Ellis is dying. With heart felt remorse, she tells Johnny that she wants to meet her father-in-law. Fred had changed her life and then he was ripped from her. Ellis warmly welcomes her, requiring no explanation, "You're my daughter".
07:30 p.m. Dragnet
9/28/54 "The Big Bible" (AFRS)(25:08) Program# 267 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson & Earl Schley ; Carl Hamlin has committed suicide...or has he? There's something fishy about the gun found in his dead hand.
08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
9/18/60 "Two Mothers" (CBS)(28:26) Program #441 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), Jeanne Bates, Virginia Christine ; Producer/Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - Marian Clark ; Editorial Supervisor - John Meston ; Music Composed and Conducted - Rex Koury ; Announcer - George Walsh ; Commercial Spokesman - Dennis James ; Sponsor - Kellogg's cereals ; Jake Meisner murders Mrs. Lorinda Henshaw's son and must pay the consequences. Jake is sentenced to hang. While Mrs. Henshaw grieves for the loss of her boy, Hattie Meisner, Jakes's Mother, a normally good woman, is "thrown off balance" by the imminent death of her son. Each woman reacts differently to the tragedy. Mrs. Henshaw locks herself in her home avoiding all visitors, and Mrs. Meisner threatens to kill Matt if her son's sentence is carries out.
08:30 p.m. Information Please
1/10/39 (NBC)(29:18) Clifton Fadiman (host), Franklin P. Adams, John Kieran, Oscar Levant, Alexander Woollcott ; Announcer - Milton Cross ; Blue Network ; Sponsor - Canada Dry ; A letter from Walter Winchell is read on the air. His question for the panel is, "Identify these seven names." Winchell says that he's too busy to appear on the show, but that someday he might.
09:00 p.m. Curtain Time
3/22/47 "Wanted: A Name" (NBC)(29:22)Sponsor - Milky Way
9:30 p.m. Great Scenes from Great Plays
01/21/49 "Icebound" (Synd)(26:32) Program #17 Walter Hampden (host), Cornel Wilde ; National Council Of The Protestant Episcopal Church syndication ; Mutual ; Produced by The H. B. Humphrey Company Inc. ; A drama of love and family hate "down East" in New England. .
10:00 p.m. MGM Theatre
12/16/49 "Youngest Profession" (Synd)(53:30) Program #10 Margaret O'Brien, Leon Janney, Ted Osborne, House Jameson, Marissa O'Brien ; Host - Howard Dietz ; Announcer - Ed Stokes ; Director - Marx B. Loeb ; Producer - Raymond Cass ; Music Composer/Conductor - Joel Herron ; Radio Adaptation - Ira Marion ; WMGM, New York City origination, MGM syndication ; The date above is possibly the date of first broadcast on WMGM, New York City. ; Two autograph collectors in Hollywood are out to meet the stars.

Thanks for the ping. That was one of the best Johnny Dollars I’ve heard yet.

Thanks for the ping. I was distracted listening to my new favorite string band. The Carolina Chocolate Drops.