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WAMU ^ | 7/25/10 | 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...

[Vision]

• 07:00p Johnny Dollar
  09/15/57 #554 JPD Matter (AFRS) (24:30)
• 07:30p Dragnet
  12/07/54 #277 Big Dig (AFRS) (23:50)
• 08:00p Gunsmoke
  12/18/60 #454 Hero's Departure (Multi-Sponsored) (CBS) (22:38)
• 08:30p Gangbusters
  06/04/49 #583 Case of the Date with Death (24:46)
• 09:00p Nick Carter
  01/28/45 #168 An Eye for an Eye (Lin-X) (MBS) (28:58)
• 09:30p Mysterious Traveler
  06/08/48 #157 Murder is My Business (Sus.) (MBS) (29:42)
• 10:00p Campbell Playhouse
  05/12/39 #23 Our Town (Campbell's Soup) (CBS) (59:24)

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx again, Vision !

July 25, 2010 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

• 07:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
  09/15/57 #554 "JPD Matter" (AFRS) (24:30) Bob Bailey, Eleanor Audley, Jeanne Bates, G. Stanley Jones, Alan Reed, Austin Green ; Writer/Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; Expense Account Total = $204.80 ; United States Armed Forces Radio & TV Service ; J. P. Dorfman thinks her small brewery on the banks of the Pinxsutawney Creek in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, insured for $820,000, will be endangered by dynamiting for the expansion of a nearby rival brewery.

• 07:30 p.m. Dragnet
  12/7/54 "The Big Dig" (AFRS) (23:50) Program# 277 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson ; Friday and Smith are working out of homicide department. A woman reports that her sister named Margaret Shayne has disappeared, and that her brother-in-law killed her. Bloodstains in the garage look suspicious.

• 08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  12/18/60 #454 "Hero's Departure" (Multi-Sponsored) (CBS) (22:38) Program #454 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), John Dehner, Vic Perrin, Jack Moyles, Sam Edwards ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - Marian Clark ; Music Composed and Conducted - Rex Koury ; Announcer - George Walsh ; Jonathan Wood announces that he intends to settle down in Dodge. The residents are thrilled because Wood is "a bigger hero than Molly Pitcher". Wood single handedly fought off the enemy at the Battle of Hog Back, during the Civil War. At least, that is the story that Wood is spreading. In reality, he is a coward and a liar. Jake Roe, whose father died as a result of Wood's actions, is determined to make him pay dearly for his deeds.

• 08:30 p.m. Gangbusters
  06/04/49 #583 "Case of the Date with Death" (24:46) Program #583. CBS net origination syndicated, WRVR-FM, New York aircheck ; Sponsor - World Wide Handicrafts.

• 09:00 p.m. Nick Carter
  01/28/45 #168 "An Eye for an Eye" (MBS) (28:58) or "The Mystery Of The Upstate Murder" ; Lon Clark (Nick Carter), Helen Choate (Patsy Bowen), John Kane, Humphrey Davis, ; Writer/Director - Jock MacGregor ; Organ Music - Lew White; Announcer - Ken Powell ; Sponsor - Lin-X Three Home Brighteners (Cream Polish, Self-Polishing Wax,  Clear Gloss Varnish) ;

• 9:30 p.m. Mysterious Traveler
  06/08/48 #157 "Murder is My Business" (Sus.) (MBS) (29:42) Maurice Tarplin (Mysterious Traveler), Shirley Blank, Richard Coogan, Eric Dressler, John Sylvester ; Writer/Producer/Director - Robert A. Arthur & David Kogan ; Music - Paul Taubman ; Announcer - Carl Caruso ; Broadcast Engineer - Walter Payne ; Sound Engineer - George Cooney ; Sustaining ; A radio writer is offered $600 a week to work for Basil King, "the most hated man in radio." Unable to stand it anymore, the writer decides to kill King ...with the sponsor's new product!

• 10:00 p.m. Campbell Playhouse
  05/12/39 #23 "Our Town" (59:24) Agnes Moorehead, Effie Palmer, Everett Sloane, John Craven, Parker Fennelly, Patricia Newton; Host - Orson Welles ; Narrator - Ray Collins ; Announcer - Ernest Chappell ; Author - Thornton Wilder ; Sponsor - Campbell's Soup ; CBS ; The first radio performance of the 1938 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Thornton Wilder. Good radio! An excellent production of a superb play.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Thanks for keeping the ping list going.

You help to keep classic radio alive. Thanks.

I assume Stan Freburg is retired now. Is that correct? Do you know if anyone has taken over his show, “When Radio Was?”

I used to listen to that show whenever I could back in Seattle. I can’t find golden-age shows in the Philadelphia area (through the radio, that is). Any ideas?

[Vision]

Hey

[Vision]

Thanks. I don’t know. Maybe steel has some info?

[steelyourfaith]

Yeah. Stan Freberg's last show, after 13 years as host was Friday, October 6, 2006. It featured the Jack Benny Program of January 8, 1950 and his own Stan Freberg Show of July 28, 1957.

Stan was preceded by Art Fleming as the host of WRW.

Chuck Schaden out of Chicago took When Radio Was over beginning with the October 9, 2006 show. His first offering was Freberg's very first show of 7/14/47 and his 12th show of 9/27/57. Near as I can recall, Schaden's last show was 9/9/07, his last offering a personal audio tape interview with Parley Baer. I think WRW did not offer any shows until...

Greg Bell, the current host, took over. I believe his first show was 11/15/07 and featured Philo Vance of 11/15/49 and Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel of 10/24/42.

When Radio Was

[steelyourfaith]

Oops. See above post. WRW can be heard in their archives which goes back a little over a week. WRW just changed the format of how they offer the shows this week and I noticed it wasn’t working earlier today.

[MinuteGal]

Phooey, the radio show comes on at midnite to 1 AM in my WBBM area.

I wouldn't tune in that late to hear a play-by-play of the Chicago Bears against the Twelve Apostles.

I listened to classic radio for many, many years when it was on during the day (Saturday) in the Chicago area.

Bummer.

Leni

[Vision]

Phooey, the radio show comes on at midnite to 1 AM in my WBBM area.

Are you talking about the big broadcast? You can listen live at the link in the thread.

[Viking2002]

Evening, Vision.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

[MinuteGal]

Thanks for the info. I missed that somehow.

Leni

[Vision]

Evening. Hoya de Monterrey churchill tonight.

[Vision]

I’m looking forward to Mysterious Traveler at 9:30.

[Viking2002]

That sounds like a good one......I'm just a little too heat-stewed from yard work to enjoy anything other than lots of something ice cold and wet this evening.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."