"The Big Broadcast" Sunday 5/30 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...

07:00 p.m. Johnny Dollar
07/21/57 #546 Yours Truly Matter (AFRS)(28:56)
07:30 p.m. Dragnet
10/19/54 #270 Big Manikin (AFRS)(24:28)
08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
10/30/60 (07/05/52) #447 Never Pester Chester (Sus.)(CBS) (28:46)
08:30 p.m. Fibber McGee & Molly
10/17/39 #218 Best Kept Lawn (Johnson's Wax)(NBC)(29:50)
09:00 p.m. Broadway is My Beat
07/21/49 #02 The Otto Prokosh Murder Case (Sus.)(CBS)(29:46)
09:30 p.m. Whitehall 1212
02/03/52 #11 The Peter Williams Case (Sus.)(NBC)(29:14)
10:00 p.m. NBC University Theater
08/06/48 #02 A Farewell to Arms w/John Lund & Lurene Tuttle (Sus.)(NBC)(59:36)

Thanx again, Vision !

May 30, 2010 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

07:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
07/21/57 #546 "Yours Truly Matter" (AFRS)(28:56) Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg (operator), Lawrence Dobkin (Pat McCracken), Barney Phillips (Buster Favor), Chet Stratton (un-named thug), Junius Mathews ("Mac" McKinney) ; Writer/Producer/Director- Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; Expense Account Total = $528.00 ; Next week, the" Yours Truly Matter", and I give you one guess as to the victim. Johnny talks to Pat McCracken of the Universal Adjustment Bureau, Hartford, about the recently completed Kincaid matter. Pat says that he may have more work for Johnny out west, but Dollar has plans to go vacation fishing with his old friend Buster Favor (see "Wayward Trout Matter" of 4/20/58) of the Lake Mohave Resort on the Colorado River. Johnny and Buster pull over for a car with a flashing light. They think it is a cop, but they, and their rental Cadillac, get abducted by someone impersonating a state trooper around on Route 95 in the Mohave desert near Las Vegas, Nevada. The guy robs them of all their valuables and then lets them out to walk in the heat on "Mac" McKinney's property. Buster resists and the guy clubs him, and then drives off. While on the ground Buster went to work on the tires with his penknife. "Mac" McKinney comes by and says that he helped some guy change his tire - but the guy will not be able to get past "Mac's" locked gate. "Mac" had seen the bulge of the guy's gun. Johnny had noted the guy's car: a gray and white '56 Chevy, license number CGJ158. Johnny and Buster borrow "Mac's" jeep and head after the guy. They find the Cadillac smashed against "Mac's" gate. They cut a hole in the fence and continue after the guy - but he had slipped into the back of the jeep while they were inspecting the Cadillac at the gate. He makes them drive to his car. Buster and Johnny bluff the guy into thinking that the cops are behind him
07:30 p.m. Dragnet
10/19/54 "The Big Mannequin" (AFRS)(24:28) Program# 270 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson & Earl Schley ; Jason Helmer is reported missing by his wife. His drinking companion, Fredrick Madison knows...but isn't talking. missing persons Man Fails to Return Home
08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
10/30/60 (07/05/52) "Never Pester Chester" (Sus.)(CBS) (28:46) William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Paul DuBov (Stobo), Lou Krugman (Trevert), Georgia Ellis (Miss Kitty). Don Diamond, Gil Straton, Jr., Jack Kruschen, Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc) ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - John Meston ; Music Composer/Conductor - Rex Koury ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; Chester is dragged through town by two bullies, Stobo and Trevert, and is left out on the prairie. all because he tried to do "Matt's Job". Matt, feeling terribly guilty about the incident, goes after the two men with a vengeance. He captures them and puts them in jail. He lets Trevert go and tells him never to return to Dodge. Then he lets Stobo out and engages the big man in a fist fight and whips him. he then tells Shiloh to get Stobo out of town. Rebroadcast 10/30/60 Program #447
08:30 p.m. Fibber McGee & Molly"
10/17/39 "Best Kept Lawn" (NBC)(29:50) Program #218 Jim Jordan (Fibber McGee), Marian Jordan (Molly McGee, Sis), Hal Peary (Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve), Bill Thompson (Rupert "Mr. Old Timer" Blasingame, Nick Depopoulous), Harlow Wilcox, Isabel Randolph (Abigail Uppington); Sponsor - Johnson's Wax ; It is autumn and the leaves are falling. The McGee's next door neighbor, Gildersleeve, is complaining that the McGee's leaves are blowing in his yard. Molly is after Fibber to rake up their leaves. Fibber borrows a rake from Abigail Uppington. As he is raking Mr. Old Timer offers him a drink. Nick Depopoulous is shocked to find Fibber working.
09:00 p.m. Broadway is My Beat
7/21/49 #02 "The Otto Prokosh Murder Case" (Sus.)(CBS)(29:46) Larry Thor (Detective Lieutenant Danny Clover), Charles Calvert (Detective Sergeant Gino Tartaglia), Jack Kruschen ; Producer/Director - Gordon T. Hughes ; Musical Direction- Lud Gluskin ; Writers - Morton Fine & David Friedkin ; New York detective Larry Clover, Broadway Special Detail, A good story about multiple murders in a vaudeville theatre, starting with Otto Procash, an athlete from Vienna. Well-written.
9:30 p.m. Whitehall 1212
2/3/52 #11 "The Peter Williams Case" (Sus.)(NBC)(29:14) Writer/Director - Wyllis Cooper ; Researcher - Percy Hoskins ; A woman's murdered body is found, but she seems to be very much alive. Scotland Yard investigates the strange case of Jesse Williams. A killer is caught because of his poor spelling
10:00 p.m. NBC University Theater
8/6/48 #02 "A Farewell to Arms" (Sus.)(NBC)(59:36) John Lund, Lurene Tuttle, Jack Edwards Jr., Georgia Backus, John Beal, Joseph Vitale, Marion Richman, Paul Marion, Rolfe Sedan, Sidney Miller, Byron Kane, Donald Morrison Author - Ernest Hemingway ; Radio Adaptation - Ernest Kinoy ; Music Composer/Conductor - Albert Harris & Henry Russell ; Director - Andrew C. Love

Hey. Kind of surprised they’re not more of a focus on Memorial Day tonight.

Yeah, go figure.

Here we go.