"The Big Broadcast" Sunday Night 8/1 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
09/29/57 #556 Doubtful Dairy Matter (AFRS)(25:00)
07:30 p.m. Dragnet
Dragnet: 12/14/54 #278 Big Lens (AFRS)(24:36)
08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
12/25/60 #455 Minnie (CBS)(19:02)
08:30 p.m. Halls of Ivy
01/27/50 Charter Day Ceremonies (Schlitz Beer)(NBC)(29:26)
09:00 p.m. Tales of the Texas Rangers
12/10/50 #22 The Lucky Dollar (Sus.)(NBC)(29:50)
09:30 p.m. Sam Spade 07/10/49 #159 The Queen Bee Caper (Wildroot Cream Oil)(CBS)(28:18)
10:00 p.m. Dimension X
07/14/50 #15 The Man in the Moon (Wheaties)(NBC)(29:46)
10:30 p.m. Suspense 07/15/48 Summer Night w/Ida Lapino (Auto-Lite)(CBS)(29:18)

Thanx again, Vision !

August 1, 2010 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
9/29/57 "The Doubtful Dairy Matter" Matter #556 Bob Bailey, Paul Dubov, Will Wright, John Dehner (Herb Carlberg), Parley Baer, Forrest Lewis ; Writer/Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; Expense Account Total = $418.00 ; United States Armed Forces Radio & TV Service ; An old, old racket comes to life and nearly costs Dollar his life. Aram Amenian's dairy ranch compound silo goes up in flames, and the $56,000 insurance will buy a new and better one. Who benefits? (AFRS)(25:00)
7:30 p.m. Dragnet
Dragnet: 12/14/54 "The Big Lens" Program# 278 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson ; Two men force their way into Mrs. Alston's car, kidnap, rob her and beat her up, leaving contact lenses behind as a clue. (AFRS)(24:36)
8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
12/25/60 "Minnie" Program #455 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), John Dehner, Virginia Gregg, Vic Perrin ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - John Meston (Story) ; Radio Adaption - Norman Macdonnell ; Music Composed and Conducted - Rex Koury ; Announcer - George Walsh ; Aired on television 4/15/61 ; Minnie, the wife of a jealous buffalo hunter, arrives in town nursing a suspicious gunshot wound. Doc treats her and immediately becomes her romantic prey. The triangle is which Doc is unwittingly involved, is left for Chester to manage, since Matt is out of town. (CBS)(19:02)
8:30 p.m. Halls of Ivy
1/27/50 "Charter Day Ceremonies" (29:26) Ronald Colman (Dr. William Toddhunter Hall), Benita Hume Colman (Victoria Cromwell Hall), Peter Leeds, Herb Butterfield, Gloria Gordon, Henry Blair ; Creator/Writer - Don Quinn ; Music Composer/Conductor - Henry Russell, Announcer - Ken Carpenter Hy Averback ; Director - Nat Wolff ; Writer - Walter Brown Neuman ; Sponsor - Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; NBC ; It's "Charter Day" at Ivy College, and then there's Dr. Wellman's nose!
9:00 p.m. Tales of the Texas Rangers
12/10/50 "The Lucky Dollar" Program #22 Joel McCrea (Ranger Jace Pearson), Barney Phillips (Press Compton), Tony Barrett, Lou Krugman, Nestor Paiva, Peggy Webber, Herb Butterfield, Byron Kane, Wilms Herbert ; Creator/Producer/Director - Stacey Keach, Sr. ; Announcer - Hal Gibney ; NBC ; Based on events of August 14, 1945. A store-keeper is murdered by a robber who shuts off the electricity inside the store. A special kind of dollar leads the Rangers to a young Mexican girl and a "Dandy" suspect. A "Texas Ranger Prayer" premium is offered. Joe Berry is counting the day's receipts when the lights go out. When Berry goes out to check the breaker switch he is attacked and knocked out by a man. The man then goes to the cash register, shooting Berry's wife Clara to death. The man gets away with $45, including the first dollar Berry ever made, his "lucky dollar", which was stuck to the register by adhesive tape. When Berry revives he calls Sheriff Jennings. The latter calls Ranger Jace Pearson. Pearson notices that a corner of the "lucky dollar" was torn and left behind. According to Captain Stinson's report the bullets turn out to be .32 caliber. A man by the name of Juan Ramos tries to pass a bill at the bank that looks like the torn "lucky dollar". The bank teller calls the authorities. It is the "lucky dollar". Ramos is an odd job man, and his most recent job was for Mr. Larson. Larson got the bill from a young Mexican girl who put it as a down payment on a red silk dress. Pearson and Sheriff Jennings wait for the girl's return. Her name is Chita Marcellus and she works on the Compton Farm. Pearson and Jennings go to see Press Compton. Compton says he pays his workers with new bills, and then calls Chita's brother Carlos. Carlos says that maybe she got the dollar from Donald "Dandy" Byrd. Carlos takes them to Byrd's truck. Sam tells them Byrd is in town at "The Cotton Gin". A man name Collins says that Byrd got a phone call from a Mexican girl after which he left. Later, Carlos tells Pearson that Chita left on a bus. Pearson and Carlos track the bus for 18 miles. They watch Chita go into a cheap cantina. They watch for over an hour and then Carlos sees Byrd. When Pearson enters the cantina, Byrd pulls his gun and uses Chita as a shield. Shots ring out. Byrd surrenders. (Sus.)(NBC)(29:50)
9:30 p.m. Sam Spade
7/10/49 "The Queen Bee Caper" Program #159 Howard Duff (Sam Spade), Lurene Tuttle (Effie Perrine), Verna Felton (Ursula Cavanaugh) ; Producer/Director William Spier ; Writers - Bud Tallman & Gil Doud ; Music - Lud Gluskin, Pierre & Rene Garrriguene ; Announcer - Dick Joy ; Sponsor - Wildroot Creme Oil ; CBS ; Miss Elizabeth Colley is the principal of Miss Wiginson's School for Girls, Sea Clift drive, San Francisco. Gloria Thomas is a chemistry teacher and assistant to Miss Colley. Colley has contacted Sam help her get rid of Miss Thomas, claiming that she is a thief. Colley then admits that the school's benefactress, a former classmate of her's, Ursula Cavanaugh is the one who really wants Thomas removed. Spade visits Cavanaugh. He learns that her nephew Gerald Long is sweet on Gloria. Albert Piggott, the bee keeper, was fired. Ursula Cavanaugh is found dead of apparent bee stings - formic acid. Piggott is also later found dead of bee stings - but he had been stung so many times over the years that he was immune. A hypodermic needle and laboratory formic acid is found. Elizabeth Colley admits both murders.(28:18)
10:00 p.m. Dimension X
7/14/50 "The Man in the Moon" Episode #15 Luis Van Rooten (Henry), Santos Ortega (Wade), Raymond Edward Johnson, Joe DeSantis, Larry Haines ; Original Story - George Lefferrts ; Host - Norman Rose ; Producer - Van Woodward ; Director - Edward King ; Announcers - Robert Warren & Arthur Gary ; Sponsor - Wheaties ; Commercial Spokesman - Frank Martin ; NBC ; (29:46) A colony on the far side of the moon is planning an invasion of the Earth. The script was subsequently used on "X Minus One" on May 29, 1955, and on "Future Tense" during July, 1976. The "X Minus One" program was rebroadcast on "Monitor" during April, 1974.
10:30 p.m. Suspense
7/15/48 "Summer Night" Program #298 Ida Lupino (Anna McCullough), Lawrence Dobkin (Charles), Joseph Kearns ; Announcer - Paul Frees ; Writer - Ray Bradbury ; Radio Adaptation - Robert L. Richards ; Director - Anton Morris Leader ; Music Composer - Lucien Morawek ; Music Conductor - Lud Gluskin ; Sponsor - Auto-Lite ; Commercial Spokesman - Jerry Hausner & William Johnstone ; A good story about a spinster all alone in a large old house, and a mad "Lipstick Killer' on the loose, who draws an orange colored lipstick cross on the foreheads of the victims. A good story about a mad "Lipstick Killer" on the loose and a spinster all alone in a big house. Anna decides to murder an old friend, Helen, and make it appear as if it were the work of the "Lipstick Killer" who is on the run from the police. Helen had married and divorced Charles, the man whom Anna loved. Anna lures Helen outside and murders her around 2:00 AM. Soon afterwards Anna runs into Charles and she invites him back to her house. Charles says that Anna had him committed and he has escaped. Charles has a tube of orange lipstick her wants to give to Helen, who had had him committed. (CBS)(29:18)

Do you know how painful it is for someone like to to see where America was, and to where it has fallen via a medium like this?

My only hope is the inevitable resurgence.

After the Reckoning.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

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."

I’m all about the suspense.

Everybody has to pick up the pieces and move forward.

Evening. Finally cooling a bit here.

Uh oh, listen live isn’t working for me.

Working now...

Johnny D - Nothing like just beating a confession out of the bad guys.

Exactly.

Oh, how I wish that were true down here. 98 again today, heat index 106. The forecast sounds like a broken record for the foreseeable future. I was joking a few weeks ago that we're selling the house and moving to Snowshoe, WV. Today they barely broke 60 up there and had a light rain most of the day.

Call it my midlife crisis. It's no longer as much of a joke.

"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."