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WAMU ^ | 8/8/10 | 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]

• 07:00 p.m. Johnny Dollar
  10/06/57 #557 Bum Steer Matter (AFRS) (25:08)
• 07:30 p.m. Dragnet
  12/28/54 #280 Big Underground (AFRS) (24:30
• 08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  01/08/60 #457 Old Faces (Multi-Sponsored) (CBS) (22:50)
• 08:30 p.m. Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show
  11/13/49 Phil Decides to Do Some Repairs (Rexall) (NBC) (29:52)
• 09:00 p.m. Box 13
  05/29/41 #41 The Treasure of Hang Lee (Synd) (26:32)
• 09:30 p.m. Let's Pretend Jack and the Beanstalk
• 10:00 p.m. Mercury Theater
  07/18/38 Treasure Island (Sus.) (CBS) (62:26)

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx again, Vision !

August 8, 2010 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

• 7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
  10/06/57 "Bum Steer Matter" (AFRS) (25:08) Matter #557 Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg, Jean Tatum, Will Wright, Jack Edwards, Howard McNear, Sam Edwards, Forrest Lewis ; Writer/Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; Expense Account Total = $618.50 ; United States Armed Forces Radio & TV Service ; Dollar gets into cattle country again, Craig, Colorado, and a Hereford steer solves a case for him. Who murdered Jake Denham and made it appear to be due to galloping anthrax?

• 7:30 p.m. Dragnet
  12/28/54 "The Big Underground" (AFRS) (24:30) Program# 280 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson ; Paul Dereaux is the prime suspect in a series of burglaries and car thefts. burglary Used Car Lot Robbed

• 8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  1/8/61 "Old Faces" (Multi-Sponsored) (CBS) (22:50) Program #457 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), Harry Bartell, Vic Perrin, Jeanne Bates, John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin, ; Producer/Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - John Meston (Story) ; Radio Adaption - Frank Paris ; Music Composed and Conducted - Rex Koury ; Announcer - George Walsh ; ; The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on March 18, 1961. ; Georgia Ellis plays a second role in addition to "Kitty" in this episode. ; Tilda Cook, a pretty young bride, fails in her efforts to hide her checkered past from her husband Tom. Ed Ivers, a Dodge City cattleman, recognizes Tilda as an entertainer from the Memphis Queen Riverboat and makes insulting remarks, forcing her naive husband to challenge the ex-gunman to a showdown. Tom Cook challenges Ed Ivers to a gunfight after Ivers insults Tilda.

• 8:30 p.m. Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show
  11/13/49 "Phil Decides to Do Some Repairs" (29:52) Phil Harris & Alice Faye, Elliot Lewis (Frankie Remley), Walter Tetley (Julius Abbrusio), Robert North (Willie Faye), Jeanine Roos (Little Alice), Anne Whitfield (Phyllis), Hal March, ; Producer/Director - Paul Phillips ;  Writers - Ray Singer & Dick Chevillat ; Music - Walter Scharf and his Orchestra ;  Announcer - Bill Forman ; Sponsor - Rexall ; NBC ;  Phil sings "The Old Master Painter" Phil decides to become an engineer and is given a big job to tackle...changing a light bulb! The house gets re-wired!

• 09:00 p.m. Box 13
  5/29/41 "The Treasure of Hang Lee" Program #41 Alan Ladd (Dan Holiday), Sylvia Picker (Suzy) ; Syndicated by Mayfair Productions ; Holiday gets a letter to go to the Quan Hi Shop in Chinatown, reject the first two pieces of jade and then to buy the Hang Lee jade in the window. Doing as instructed, Dan meets Mr. Quan. Quan says that the Hang Lee jade is a one-third piece of what was originally a larger piece. Quan says that it is not for sale. It has mysterious writing on it, which when translated along with the other two pieces would reveal a fabulous treasure. Quan insists that Holiday take the jade with out charge. Holiday returns home with the Hang Lee. Then a man, identifying himself as the one who sent the letter, calls to tell Dan to bring the jade to 721 South Ferry Street, Room #6. Just outside his door he runs into Greta Loring and a revolver. She claims that Dan killed her father when she was a little girl, and then changed his name from Benson. She bases this on the fact that he knew about the Hang Lee jade. She demands the jade from Dan. She grabs the jade, takes a shot at Dan, only putting a hole through his coat, loses the gun, but makes her getaway with the Hang Lee piece. Dan goes on to keep his appointment at 721 South Ferry Street. The man pulls a gun on Dan and is surprised to learn that Greta Loring has the jade. He knocks Dan out with a crack over the head. Holiday revives to find Mr. Quan over him. There is a dead man named David Fisher, stabbed in the back, who Quan has been seeking for ten years. Quan says that the man Dan came to see was Benson. Quan has a gun. Dan traces Greta's address through her gun registration. She is surprised that Fisher is dead. Quan has followed Holiday. Quan says that Greta's father, Benson and Fisher killed a Taoist priest, his father, to get the Hang Lee jade. Quan has been trying to trap his father's murderers. The door buzzer sounds. Quan confiscates all the guns. It is Benson with a gun. Benson uses Holiday for a shield. He demands the jade. As Benson tries to back out, Quan kills him with a shot, but is mortally wounded himself. Quan asks Holiday to retrieve the other two pieces of Hang Lee from Benson's pocket, and to put the three together. Quan says that the true treasure of Hang Lee was in the words of the proverb that is revealed, "Happy is the man who is contented with his lot."

• 9:30 p.m. Let's Pretend
  10/26/46 "Jack and the Beanstalk" "Jack and The Beanstalk". Sybil Trent, Bill Adams, Betty Jane Tyler, Jack Grimes, Patricia Ryan, Arthur Anderson, Gwen Davies, Miriam Wolfe, Albert Aley, David Anderson ; Music Composer/Conductor - Maurice Brown ; Writer/Director - Nila Mack ; Sponsor - Cream Of Wheat ; CBS ;

• 10:00 p.m. Mercury Theatre
  7/18/38 "Treasure Island" (Sus.) (CBS) (62:26) Host - Orson Welles ; Narrator - Ray Collins ; Agnes Moorehead, Arthur Anderson, Dan Seymour, George Coulouris ; Author - Robert Louis Stevenson ; Music Composer/Conductor - Bernard Herrmann ; An excellent adaptation of the classic adventure tale. Second show of the series.

[Vision]

Hey.

I’m disappointed there’s no suspense or mystery tonight...

[steelyourfaith]

Yeah, and Ed substitutes a nursery rhyme? What’s up with that?

[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."

[Vision]

Evening.

[don-o]

I’m listening to some Project 21 (black conservative website) right now. The highlight for me tonight looks like the Mercury Theatre “Treasure Island. Cool!!

Thanks for the ping, Vision

[Vision]

Sure, I’m looking forward to that too.

[Vision]

Well now you know.

Looks like he changed up the schedule.

[steelyourfaith]

Broadcasting JITB now I hear.

[Vision]

He interviewed Arthur Anderson who has a new book out and was the giant in the Beanstock.