"The Big Broadcast" Sunday Night 8/22 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...

Early ping but I hope to catch some of the show later this evening.

07:00 p.m. Johnny Dollar
10/20/57 #559 Mary Grace Matter (AFRS) (21:10)
07:30 p.m. Dragnet
01/11/55 #282 Big Complex (AFRS) (24:40)
08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
01/22/60 #459 Hard Virtue (Multi-Sponsored) (CBS) (24:20)
08:30 p.m. Fibber McGee & Molly
10/31/39 Wistful Vista Auto Show (Johnson's Wax) (NBC) (29:36) (Grapenuts)
09:00 p.m. Our Miss Brooks
06/12/49 Wishing Well (Colgate) (CBS) (29:30)
09:30 p.m. Sherlock Holmes 06/02/47 The Red Headed League (Kremel Hair Tonic) (ABC) (29:32)
10:00 p.m. Cavalcade of America 06/21/43 #336 The Unsinkable Marblehead (Dupont) (NBC) (29:38)
10:30 p.m. Whistler 09/10/44 Local Storm (Signal Oil) (CBS) (29:14)

The Whistler is on tonight. Sweet!

Vision, is it possible to get this streaming on the net? I bet my Dad would like to listen to it. Especially Fibber MCGee and Molly.

That’s great. I’m addicted to Sirius radio classics channel, all these shows 24/7 - love Johnny Dollar, lights out, whistler, x minus one - shows I had never heard until recently!

Thanx again, Vision !

August 22, 2010 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

Nexy week, I'm off to DC for Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor. Not sure when I'll be back.

07:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
10/20/57 "Mary Grace Matter" (AFRS) (21:10) Bob Bailey, Paula Winslowe, Jean Tatum, Vic Perrin (Ben Perrin), Les Tremayne (Doctor), Frank Nelson (Charlie Walker), Byron Kane ; Writer/Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer -Dan Cubberly ; Expense Account Total = "The rest is on me. I want it that way - understand? - for old time's sake." ; Sgt. Randy Singer, 18th Precinct, NYC Police, calls Johnny. A tall, beautiful, brunette, girl that Johnny has dated, Mary Grace Marshall , has been killed in New York City, and with her a big part of Dollar's heart. She was a fashion designer. Mid Eastern Life and Casualty, Hartford, and agent Ben Perrin, is billed for Dollar's case. Randy says that Mary Grace was killed late Sunday night, and according top the coroner it occurred at the time of Dollar's date with her - and Johnny is the prime suspect! Randy, who is investigating, has Johnny's lighter which was found at the spot. Mrs. Walker, wife of the superintendent, found the body after hearing screaming. Dollar talks to Mrs. Walker. He smells a peculiar odor. Her husband is bedridden, but has pictures of bathing beauties, including Mary Grace, on the wall, and a smell of booze. The physician gets everyone to leave Charlie Walker's room.
7:30 p.m. Dragnet
1/11/55 "The Big Complex" (AFRS) (24:40) Program# 282 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson ; A Junior High School has been vandalized three times...and each time the cafeteria has been particularly hard hit. juvenile Junior High School Vandalized
8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
1/22/61 "Hard Virtue" (Multi-Sponsored) (CBS) (24:20) Program #459 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), Jeanne Bates, Vic Perrin, John Dehner, Harry Bartell ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - John Meston (Story) ; Radio Adaption - Norman Macdonnell ; Music Composed and Conducted - Rex Koury ; Announcer - George Walsh ; Doan's Pills, Kellogg's All-Bran ;Aired on television May 6, 1961. ; Lovely Millie Coe and her hot-tempered husband Andy arrive in Dodge. Andy attempts to sell their wagon, for they are penniless and without work. Before he can transact the deal, however, the wagon is accidentally wrecked by Ed Fallon. Andy flies off the handle, but Millie calms him down. To make amends, Fallon gives them $20 for the wagon and offers Andy a job. The gesture seems genuine, until Millie realizes that Fallon is really interested in her.
8:30 p.m. Fibber McGee & Molly
10/31/39 "Wistful Vista Auto Show" (Johnson's Wax) (NBC) (29:36) (Grapenuts) Program #220 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) ; Music - Billy Mills and His Orchestra, Donald Novis, The Paul Taylor Choristers ; Writer - Don Quinn ; Sponsor - Johnson's Wax ; NBC ; . Fibber and Molly attend the Wistful Vista Auto Show. Look at all those beautiful new models with no running boards!
9:00 p.m. Our Miss Brooks
6/12/49 "Wishing Well School Dance" (CBS) (29:30) Program #48 Eve Arden (Connie Brooks), Jane Morgan (Mrs. Margaret Davis), Leonard Smith (Stretch Snodgrass), Dick Crenna (Walter Denton), Gloria McMillan (Harriet Conklin), Gale Gordon (Osgood Conklin), Jeff Chandler (Phillip Boynton) ; Writer/Director - Al Lewis ; Producer - Larry Berns ; Musical Director - Wilbur Hatch ; Announcer - Bob LeMond ; Pitchman - Verne Smith ; Sponsor - Palmolive Soap, Lustre Creme Shampoo (♩ ♫ Dream Girl, Dream Girl, Beautiful Lustre Creme Girl ♬ ♪ ), Palmolive Lather Shaving Creme ; AKA - "Lock Of Connie's Hair" ; CBS ;Connie is telling Mrs. Davis about Harriet Conklin has the idea of a having Wishing Well School Dance at Madison High, and everyone wants a lock of Miss Brooks' hair.
9:30 p.m. The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
6/02/47 "The Red Headed League" (Kremel Hair Tonic) (ABC) (29:32) Tom Conway (Sherlock Holmes), Nigel Bruce (Dr. Watson) ; Announcer - Joseph Bell ; Producer - Tom McKnight ; Music Composer/Conductor - Alex Steinert ; Radio Adaptation - Anthony Boucher & Denis Green ; Author - Arthur Conan Doyle ; Sponsor - Kreml Hair Tonic, Kreml Shampoo ; What is the red-headed league, and why is it so important that the owner of a pawn shop belong to it? .
10:00 p.m. Cavalcade of America
6/21/43 "The Unsinkable Marblehead "(Dupont) (NBC Red network) (29:38) Program #336 Narrator/Performer - Dean Jagger, Arlene Francis (doubles), Sarah Fussell, Carl Frank (doubles), Ted Jewett (doubles), Jackie Kelk, Paul Stewart (doubles), Will Geer (doubles), Ian Martin (doubles), Everett Sloane (doubles), Alfred Shirley (doubles), Virginia Routh, Edwin Jerome (doubles), Frank Readick (doubles), Dwight Weist (doubles) ; Announcer - Bud Collyer ; Writer - Charles Freeman ; Producer/Director - Homer Fickett ; Music Conductor - Donald Voorhees ; Music Composer - Arden Cornwell ; Sponsor - DuPont ; A good adventure about the cruiser "Marblehead," which was severely damaged in action in the Java Sea, but which made it back to her home port.
10:30 p.m. Whistler
9/10/44 "Local Storm" (Signal Oil) (CBS) (29:14) Episode# 121 Bill Forman (The Whistler) ; Announcer - Bill Pennell ; Writer - James Sussex ; Director/Producer - George W. Allen; Music Compose/Conductor - Wilbur Hatch ; Sponsor - Signal Motor Oil ; CBS ; An announcement is made that the program is switching to Mondays next week ; Mrs. Wentworth, an old lady in rural England, is threatened by a killer...or is she? A clever story with several twists. Stone Cross, a village in Devon, southwest England, is the home of old, invalided, wheel chair ridden Mrs. Wentworth who moved there from London. Dr. Brooks, who gives her massages for her heart condition, is one of her few acquaintances. Mrs. Wentworth is not satisfied with Dr. Brooks' cure and threatens to cut him out of her will. Olive is her maid. Mrs. Lynn, the vicker's wife, is her only other acquaintance and Mrs. Lynn has just been murdered by strangulation. Just as Mrs. Wentworth is listening to the BBC's report on the murder and a description of the killer a storm interrupts the broadcast. Olive wants to leave, and Mrs. Wentworth begs her to stay and then threatens to disinherit her if she does leave. Olive leaves. Soon, a man sneaks into her house. Mrs. Wentworth attempts to make phone calls but with no success. The man is George, Olive's husband and Mrs. Wentworth's gardener and formerly the vickery gardener. After first winning over her confidence, George then makes threatening moves toward Mrs. Wentworth. She gets up and runs toward the cottage. In the cottage is Dr. Brooks and Olive. It was a strategy to prove to Mrs. Wentworth that she needn't be wheel chair bound, that she can walk and there is nothing at all wrong with her. Mrs. Wentworth is angry and orders everyone out. As they are about to leave the police constable and Scotland Yard show up. They arrest George for the murder of the vicker's wife. Mrs. Wentworth dies of fright. The police arrest the doctor too, although he was innocent. He did not know that George really was the strangler. However, because he inherited a tidy sum from Mrs. Wentworth he was found guilty by a jury.

They’re great and it’s amazing how bad entertainment is nowadays.

Nexy week, I'm off to DC for Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor. Not sure when I'll be back.

I will be there myself. If you're still in DC Sunday night you can listen to the big broadcast at 88.5fm.

This particular 8/22/10 Big Broadcast will typically be available beginning tomorrow to listen to whenever he might like during the next week by clicking on the "Audio archive" in the middle of this webpage.

Many hundreds of Fibber McGee & Molly shows can be listened to for free by navigatig from this webpage.

You’re kinda early today aren’t you?

That’s great. I’m addicted to Sirius radio classics channel

DItto. Big disappointment to have to endure the stoopid comercials - but, otherwise, it's great!

What is that can sitting on the radio?

Playing Ray Bradbury’s “The Martian Chronicles” on Dimension X right now. Just superb.

Did you not see the listen live link?

Yes, had a family thing to go to.

Kinda looks like a can of beer.

Night all, off to listen to the radio.