"The Big Broadcast" Sunday 5/16 7-11pm est Live

WAMU ^ | 5/16/10 | Ed Walker

[Vision]

Friends, it's Sunday night again. 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...

I'm still traveling, now in Vegas, but hope to catch a little of the show.

[Vision]

• 07:00 p.m. Johnny Dollar
  12/30/56 #519 Squared Circle Matter (Sus.)(CBS)(24:36)
• 07:30 p.m. Dragnet
  10/05/54 #268 Big Handsome Bandit (NBC)(26:05)
• 08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  10/02/60 #443 The Big Itch (CBS)(23:42
• 08:30 p.m. Red Skelton
  Red Skelton: 05/09/44 Red Talks About Swimming (NBC)(26:29)
• 09:00 p.m. Options
  For Graduation w/Ed Walker
• 10:00 p.m. Escape
  11/12/47 The Young Man with the Cream Tarts (Sus.)(CBS)(29:28)
• 10:30 p.m. Mystery House
  1940s #33 Death Passed by My Window (Synd)(26:16)

[ThreePuttinDude]

Thanks for the (((((PING)))))

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx again, Vision !

May 16, 2010 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

• 07:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
  12/30/56 #519 Squared Circle Matter (Sus.)(CBS)(24:36) Program #519 Bob Bailey, Harry Bartell (Paul Kendrick), Herb Ellis, Victor Perrin (Ricky Malone), Jack Kruschen, Les Tremayne, Lawrence Dobkin (Frankie Fortina) ; Writer/Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Musical Supervisor - Amerigo Marino ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; CBS Radio Network ; Expense Account Total = $491.20 ; The case of a prize fighter, in Joplin, Missouri, who could only win by losing because his life depended on it. A prize fighter is about to get murdered in the ring...literally! Paul Kendrick of Eastern Allied Casualty Insurance Company, Hartford, calls Johnny about a mutual acquaintance, the prize fighter Al Coronado. Paul says that Al seems to have lost his extraordinary reflexes. Johnny travels to Joplin, Missouri, to see Frankie box. Al has had a $50,000 insurance policy on his life by his manager, Ricky Malone. The beneficiary is Frankie Fortina, a New York City bookie. In the ring, Al is easily defeated with a soft punch by a fighter who the old Al could have easily defeated.. Johnny gets past Ricky Malone and talks to Al who appears to have a brain injury. Al shouldn't be fighting any longer, and continuing to do so will only get him murdered in the ring ... which is maybe what Malone and Fortina are counting on. Ricky cracks Johnny over the head, knocking him out. Sergeant Danny Ruskin of the Joplin police has tracked Al and Ricky's travels to Monterrey, Mexico. Johnny goes to Monterrey and meets Sergeant Garcia where he learns that the 181 pound Coronado is to fight the powerful 240 pound El Toro Negro. Johnny tracks down Al in a hotel. While Johnny is phoning to have a physician examine Al, Frankie and Ricky bust into the room. Frankie, packing heat, tells Ricky to throw Dollar out of the window, but it is Ricky who exits the room through the glass. While Dollar and Ricky are scuffling Al knocks out Frankie with a left hook, just as Sergeant Garcia arrives.

• 07:30 p.m. Dragnet
  10/5/54 #268 "The Big Handsome Bandit" (NBC)(26:05) Program# 268 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson & Earl Schley ; A tavern has been robbed and a couple shot. One of the crooks has been shot and rats on the other two. robbery Gang of Thieves Strike

• 08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  10/2/60 "The Big Itch" (CBS)(23:42) Program #443 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), Lynn Allen (Samantha Church), Sam Edwards ; Producer/Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - Marian Clark ; Editorial supervision - John Meston ; Music Composed and Conducted - Rex Koury ; Announcer - George Walsh ; Pitchman - Dennis James ; Sponsor - Kellogg's ; Samantha Church reports to Matt that her husband George has been missing for two days. The Churches had done well with their cattle sale and George was bringing the money into Dodge to pay off the not eon their house. The only people who knew about the money were Ben Stanley, who worked for the Churches since childhood, and Hobie Price, who rode off with George the day he disappeared. It takes a case of poison ivy to help Matt solve the mystery. Chester gets the itch and leads Matt to the answer of the disappearance of George Church.

• 08:30 p.m. Red Skelton
  Red Skelton: 5/9/44 "Red Talks About Swimming" (NBC)(26:29) Program #59. Red Skelton, Shirley Mitchell, Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra, Harriet Hilliard, Sara Berner, Bea Benaderet.NBC net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. Red interviews a lifeguard. The topic of the program is "Swimming." Red's characters: Clem Kadiddlehopper, Willie Lump Lump, Junior "The Mean Widdle Kid."

• 09:00 p.m. Options For Graduation
  w/Ed Walker

• 10:00 p.m. Escape
  11/12/47 "The Young Man with the Cream Tarts" (Sus.)(CBS)(29:28) Episode #14 Paul Frees (Theophilus Guedall/Crown Prince Florizell), Bill Johnstone (Major Hammersmith /Colonel Geraldine), Barton Yarborough (young man), William Conrad ; Writer - Robert Louis Stevenson ; Producer/Director/Radio Adaptation - William N. Robson ; Music - Cy Feuer ; Announcer - William Conrad ; It is 19th century London. A young man with a tray is giving away cream tarts. Two men who introduce themselves as Theophilus Guedall and Major Hammersmith (but who are really Crown Prince Florizell and Colonel Geraldine), accept the young man's last two tarts and then treat the young man to dinner and wine at Michele's in Soho. They all agree that they are "ruined" men. The young man says that £40 is the initiation fee for the Suicide Club. Guedall and Hammersmith become initiated into the club. They learn from old Bartholomew Malthus, a cripple, that each day one Club member is selected to murder another member, based on dealing of cards. The member receiving the ace of clubs is to be the murderer and the ace of spades is to be the victim. The play for the night finds the young man getting the ace of clubs and Malthus getting the ace of spades. The next day's newspaper reports the death of Malthus as a result of a fall from the upper parapet at Trafalgar Square. Guedall and Hammersmith return to the Suicide Club for the next night's play. Guedall draws the ace of spades. Geraldine has slipped away and brought help that rescues Guedall. The president of the Club commits suicide with poison.

• 10:30 p.m. Mystery House
  3/31/46 "Death Passed by My Window" (Synd)(26:16) Program #33 Nanette Sargent (Barbara Glenn), Forrest Lewis (Dan Glenn) ; Announcer - Rye Billsbury ; Sponsors - Peter Hand Brewing Company [Meister Brau Beer] ; Harry S. Goodman syndication ; Origination - WGN, Chicago ; Dan and Barbara Glenn are the husband and wife publishers of mystery novellas for their "strange" Mystery House Publishing House, purportedly located on Park Avenue in New York City. As a twist, the firm had a policy of "the staff acting out their proposed novels prior to publication". In this episode, the detective (an invalid female named Hope Graves) never even sees the scene of the murder, yet she solves the crime.

[Vision]

Really like the 10 o’clock hour.

[steelyourfaith]

The "Escape" episode is good, especially Paul Frees' effort.
Mystery House doesn't even have a citation in Dunning's "The Encycopedia of Old-Time Radio.

These Sunday night shows have rekindled my interest in OTR.

I came across this Olde Tyme Radio Network Broadcast Archives to add to my bookmarked list of websites to listen to OTR.

[don-o]

I can do w/o Red Skelton. But, I never cared for Martin & Lewis, either (I’m not French enough, I guess :)

Thanks for the ping.

[don-o]

Nice. Do you know how to save those as mp3?

[steelyourfaith]

No. Would be nice to save as mp3, but I’m still using cassettes.

[don-o]

After I asked, I did a Google on the question and got me an answer. Now to see how Real Player works, I uninstalled it long ago.

I will uses a freeware sound file editing program that I already have - Audacity. I should be able to record the RP file on Audacity as it plays on RP.

If I can find the time to do that. Looks like a nice collection.

[BluesDuke]

Welcome to Vegas!!

(thanks for the ping, too!)

[don-o]

The VLC player will play Real Player files and the Audacity option seems to be a winner. Thanks for listening to me figure it out.

[don-o]

Much better bumper music tonight.

[Vision]

Thanks. The weather is great. Better than Phoenix and San Diego.