"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday Night 9/26 7-11pm est

"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
03/16/58 #580 Salkoff Sequel Matter (AFRS)(24:56)
07:30 p.m. Dragnet
02/15/55 #287 Big Hat (AFRS)(23:48)
08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
03/19/61 (08/09/54) #467 Joe Phy (CBS)(26:32)
08:30 p.m. My Favorte Husband 01/13/50 Liz Teaches Iris to Drive (Jello)(CBS)(29:34)
09:00 p.m. Box 13
1948 #03 Blackmail is Murder (Synd)(26:55)
09:30 p.m. Whistler
12/19/43 Death Demands a Payment (CBS)(29:42)
10:00 p.m. Lux Radio Theater
03/02/39 It Happened On Night w/Clark Gable (Lux)(CBS)(59:42)

Present. Man alive the FR clock is now eight minutes fast.

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."

Hi. Yea it’s been strange for a while now.

Hey there.

Was down in Miami this week for business. Really enjoyed it.

Thanx again, Vision !

September 26, 2010 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
3/16/58 "The Salkoff Sequel Matter" Matter #580 (24:56) Bob Bailey, Herb Ellis, Vic Perrin (Earl Poreman), Harry Bartell, Jack Kruschen, Lou Merrill, Stacy Harris ; Writer/Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; Expense Account Total - "forget it" ; Armed Forces Radio Service & TV ; "Next week, well, I thought my job in Florida was all done. Far from it. It had just begun. Join us, won't you?" Sarasota. Leon Salkoff, an ex-Nazi chemist working on a secret rocket fuel in the Florida swamps, has disappeared. Was he abducted by his former countrymen? No! It was two "cold warriors" from you-know-where! This is the story of how Johnny Dollar helped to launch the "Explorer" satellite.
7:30 p.m. Dragnet
2/15/55 #287 "The Big Hat" (AFRS)(23:48) Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson ; A robber has calmly stolen $80,000 in uncut diamonds. Meanwhile a woman is murdered by her jealous husband.
8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
3/19/61 "Joe Phy" (CBS)(26:32) Program #467 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), Ralph Moody, Vic Perrin, John Dehner, ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - John Meston ; Music Composer/Conductor - Rex Koury ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; Sponsored by: Pepsi, Buick, Kellogg's cereals. ; The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on January 4, 1958. ; Matt and Chester journey to v in seach of outlaw Casey Post. When they arrive they discover that the town is run by a touch, phony "Marshal" Joe Phy who runs the town with an iron fist. Matt is concerned that Post will not return o Elkader as long as Phy is in charge and devises a scheme to eliminate Phy, aided by an old-timer nmed Cicero Grimes. .
8:30 p.m. My Favorite Husband
1/13/50 "Liz Teaches Iris to Drive" (Jello)(CBS)(29:34)

Richard Denning and Lucille
Ball as George and Liz Cooper
in "My Favorite Husband"

Lucille Ball (Liz Cooper), Richard Denning (George Cooper), Ruth Perrott (Katie, the maid), Gale Gordon (Rudolph Atterbury), Bea Benaderet (Iris Atterbury), Frank Nelson ; Characters Created by Isabel Scott Rorick ; Sponsor - Jell-O ; Announcer - Bob LeMond ; Producer/Director - Jess Oppenheimer ; Writers - Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. ; Music Composer - Marlin Skiles ; Music Conductor - Wilbur Hatch ; CBS ; AFRTS rebroadcast ; The Atterburys have bought a new car, but Rudolph refuses to teach Iris how to drive. But Liz readily volunteers to be Iris's driving instructor. Liz gives Iris a two hour driving lesson before her first "solo"...and you can still hear the chrome crumbling.
9:00 p.m. Box 13
9/5/48 "Blackmail is Murder" (Synd)(26:55) Program #3 Alan Ladd (Dan Holiday), Sylvia Picker (Suzy) ; Writer/Director - Ted Hediger ; Music Composer/Conductor - Rudy Schrager ; Production Supervisor - Vern Carstensen ; A Mayfair Production ; "Agatha Marsh Case", "Bullets and Old Lace"" ; Dan is looking for a story idea in the Star-Times want ads. Suzy tells him there is a special delivery letter in Box 13 for him. The letter asks him to come to room #718 of the Bradford Hotel. The sender, Agatha Marsh, says that she is in terrible trouble! Dan goes to her room. She is an old lady from Muncie, Indiana, who is on vacation. She finds a dead man lying on her hotel floor, who has been shot at close range. Agatha wants Dan to help her get rid of the body. The corpse is Michael O'Brien. Dan helps her take the body to a broom closet in the hall. Lt. Kling of the homicide bureau shows up at room #718, saying that some crackpot called to say that there was a dead man in this room. He investigates, finds nothing, and leaves. Agatha admits that she called Kling to throw him off any trail. She was placed in the hotel room that was supposed to have been given to Tony Bascari, the town's biggest racketeer. Why didn't Bascari take O'Brien out of the room when he killed him? She was supposed to be in room #817. Is she telling the truth? At 2 AM she calls Dan, and says that she accused Bascari of murder, and that someone is trying her door. Dan heads over. The room is cleaned out except for a paper airplane. Did they take her to the airport? He goes to the airport and sees Agatha, with a hood who has a hand in his pocket. Dan tells the hood that Bascari sent him to charge of Agatha. Agatha sticks him with a pin and she and dan get away. Dan takes her to Kling, and after she leaves Kling tells him that she wanted to prefer charges against him for kidnapping her from the plane. Back at the hotel, the body is missing. Agatha has a gun with a silencer. She takes a shot at Dan as Kling enters the room. She had killed O'Brien, a perfect stranger, just like in "Arsenic and Old Lace". She is batty as a loon.
9:30 p.m. Whistler
12/19/43 "Death Demands a Payment" (CBS)(29:42) Episode #83 Announcer - Bill Pennell ; Writer/Director - J. Donald Wilson ; Music Composer/Conductor - Wilbur Hatch ; Sponsor - Signal Oil ; CBS Pacific net ; A couple stops at a strange house during a storm and meets a strange old lady and her even stranger son. They turn out to have been dead for ten years! The story has a good surprise ending. The story was used on the first show of the series, May 16, 1942, with a different title.
10:00 p.m. Lux Radio Theater
3/19/39 "It Happened On Night" (Lux)(CBS)(59:42) Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Cecil B. DeMille, Chester Clute (doubles), Eddie Waller, Frank Nelson (performer, program opening announcer), John Gibson, Lou Merrill,, Marion Aye, Roscoe Karns, Walter Connolly, Walter Tetley, ; Intermission Guest - Harold Burnham ; Commercial Spokesman - Betty Jean Hainey, Marilyn Stuart , Elia Braca & Miami Campbell ; Author - Samuel Hopkins Adams ; Screenwriter - Robert Riskin ; Radio Adaptation - George Wells ; Director - Frank Woodruff ; Music Director - Louis Silvers ; Sound Effects - Charlie Forsyth ; Sponsor - Lux Soap ; A rehearsal recording. The famous Depression-era comedy about the reporter and the heiress on a cross country bus. There are no audience or sound effects, but the music cues and commercials are heard. The recording ends during a discussion between DeMille and Gable about who has the next line.

Hello. Love how you inserted the graphic. Enjoy. I'm liking the 9-10pm hour.

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