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[Vision]

Friends, it's Sunday night again and tonight is Halloween! 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...

Folks, an early ping on Halloween! Wanted to give you a heads up that tonight has some special shows.

I'll let steelyourfaith say it best..."Many consider “The Thing on the Fourble Board” the scariest OTR show of all time, and of course Orson Welles’ “War of the Worlds” is a classic. “Three Skeleton Key” and “The House in Cypress Canyon” are excellent too. It’s going to be a great night beginning at 8:30 for turning the lights out and listening by the ...computer (for those of us in fly over country :-)."

Happy Halloween! And God Bless America!

[Vision]

• 07:00 p.m. Johnny Dollar
  04/20/58 #585 Wayward Trout Matter (AFRS)(24:10)
• 07:30 p.m. Dragnet
  03/22/55 #292 Big Talk (AFRS)(24:18)
• 08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  04/23/61 #472 Father and Son (CBS)(19:26)
• 08:30 p.m. Escape
  03/17/50 Three Skeleton Key (Sus.)(CBS)(29:32)
• 09:00 p.m. Quiet Please
  08/09/48 The Thing on the Fourble Board (Sus.)(MBS)(24:30)
• 09:30 p.m. Suspense
  12/05/46 The House in Cypress Canyon w/Robert Taylor(Roma Wines)(CBS)(29:50)
• 10:00 p.m. Mercury Theater
  10/30/38 #017 War of the Worlds (Sus.)(CBS)(59:34

[steelyourfaith]

LOL. If I might re-edit my comment, "Many consider 'The Thing on the Fourble Board' among the top ten creepiest OTR shows of all time."

Thanx again, Vision !

October 31, 2010 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

• 7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
  4/20/58 "The Wayward Trout Matter"(24:10) Matter #585 Bob Bailey, Eleanor Audley, Larry Dobkin, Barney Phillips (Buster Favor), Edgar Barrier, Junius Mathews, Russell Thorson, Alan Reed ; Writer/ Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; Expense Account Total - $815.00 ; Johnny's old friend Buster Favor (see "The Yours Truly Matter" of 7/21/57) returns. A dead fish always floats, or does it? Armed Forces Radio & TV Service Pennsylvania flag described

• 7:30 p.m. Dragnet
  3/22/55 "The Big Talk" (AFRS)(24:18) Program #292 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson ; Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson ; Friday and Smith are working out of robbery detail. A watch salesman is robbed. A drunken woman provides the clue to a series of robberies, beatings and a murder that took place outside of different bars. The main suspect has a good alibi...Sergeant Friday!

• 8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  4/23/61 "Father and Son" (19:26) Program #472 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), Vic Perrin, Harry Bartell, Ralph Moody, Lillian Buyeff (Reyna) ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writers - Vic Perrin & Harry Bartell ; Editorial Supervision - John Meston ; Music Composer/Conductor - Rex Koury ; Announcer - George Walsh ; CBS ; Zachery Wilkins wants to show his son Buford how to be a man. His methods include torturing and raping Reyna a young Indian bride, and beating her husband Adam nearly to death. Matt and Chester rescue Reyna from a wagon they thought to be abandoned. Back in Dodge she tells how her husband was setting up camp when the men arrived. Reyna had offered them some coffee and they took what they wanted. When Adam tried to protect her, they beat him to the ground. She heard a shot and passed out, and when she revived Adam was nowhere to be found. Soon thereafter, Buford is found scalped.

• 8:30 p.m. Escape
  3/17/50 "Three Skeleton Key" (Sus.)(CBS)(29:32) Episode #114 Vincent Price (Jean), Harry Bartell (Auguste), Jeff Corey (Louie) ; Producer/Director - William N. Robson ; Writer - George Toudouze ; Adaptation - James Poe ; Sound Effects - Cliff Thorsness, Gus Bayz, Jack Sixsmith ; Control Panel Engineer - Harry Esman ; Music - Del Castillo ; Radio and Television Life Magazine has awarded the sound effects on the show "Best Of The Year." ; Jean, Louie, and Auguste operate a lighthouse on Three Skeleton Key off the steaming coast of French Guiana. A three-mast ship is heading to the reefs where it will break up. Why doesn't it change course? Is it the crewless "Flying Dutchman"? With the telescope they see that the deck of the ship is teeming with rats! The ship hits the reefs and breaks up. The rats swim to the Key and then head for the lighthouse. They are ravenously hungry as they compress against the glass. The rats are blinded when the lighthouse's rotating light shines on them. They fall 110 feet to the surf below where the sharks get them. After midnight the men discover that the rats are eating the wood away in an effort to get to them. After nailing a sheet of tin reinforcement they hear gnawing at the wooden trap door. They head for the galley which has an iron door. Louie gets bit on the hand. They have no food or water. Later, Auguste has a wrench in his hand and is tapping gently on the window, asking the rats if they would like to come in. The last wick they have access to for the lighthouse light burns out. Suddenly the rats are silent. Looking out a banana boat is seen, which, because the lighthouse light is out, ends up getting too close to land. The sound of a coronet coming from the boat suddenly stops. The rats have boarded. At sea there is now another boat without a human crew. Louie died of blood poisoning, and Auguste was sent to an insane asylum where he never recovered.

• 9:00 p.m. Quiet Please
  8/9/48 "The Thing on the Fourble Board" (24:30)

  Ernest Chappel

  Script for "The Thing on the Fourble Board" * A fourble is a length of pipe assembled from four, shorter lengths of pipe (usually approximately 90 feet in length). The fourble evolved from the double (two-lengths of pipe), and tribble (three lengths of pipe) used in earlier years of oil rigging. As technology and materials improved the standard length of most drilling sections became the fourble--or four-joint sections. * A fourble board is a length of board, approximately 40 inches wide, used to elevate and stabilize a fourble of pipe before it's lowered down onto the section most recently drilled into the well. It also serves as something of a catwalk on drilling rigs, but is a temporary structure only, designed primarily to stabilize and raise a length or lengths of pipe.

  Ernest Chappel (the roughneck), Dan Sutter (Billy Gruenwald), Pat O'Malley (Ted), Cecil Roy ; Producer/Writer/Director -Wyllis Cooper ; Performer/Director/Transcriber - Daniel Sutter ; Music - Albert Buhrman ; Sound Effects - Albert April ; Mutual Broadcasting System ; Sustaining ; Possibly dated September 18, 1948. The story was subsequently produced on "Audion Theatre" on October 13, 1990. ; A former roughneck oil driller tells the tale of an invisible creature from beneath the earth's surface which climbs up an oil well pipe to emerge from his well. The creature from the prehistoric earth kills the workers until only Chappel remains. The creature becomes visible when paint is tossed on it, revealing a human/insect combination that unhinges the narrator. The most famous episode of the series is a great absurdist horror tale that builds artfully from the homey and workaday to the weird and chilling -- but it gives only a glimpse, however excellent, of the diverse treasures to be found elsewhere in Wyllis Cooper's fantasy universe. "The Thing on the Fourble Board" is one of radio horror's greatest gems ... Suffice it to say, the episode is commonly on many OTR fan's top ten list of best radio horror shows.

• 9:30 p.m. Suspense
  12/5/46 "The House In Cypress Canyon" (29:50) Program #222 Robert Taylor (James A. Woods), Howard Duff (detective Sam), Hans Conreid (real estate agent Jerry, unearthly wailer), Cathy Lewis (Ellen Woods), Joseph Kearns (policeman), Paul Frees (Dr. Wesley), Jim Backus (police dispatcher, Polanski murder scene on-looker), Wally Maher (policeman); Original Writer - Robert L. Richards ; Producer/Editor/Director - William A. Spier ; Music Composition - Lucien Moraweck ; Music Conductor - Lud Gluskin ; Announcer - Joseph Kearns ; Pitchman - Ken Niles ; Sponsor - Roma Wines ; CBS ; The Cypress Canyon houses have been built at a slow pace because of the war. Real estate agent Jerry tells detective Sam that he found a manuscript in a shoebox on a beam in the house at #2256 Cypress Canyon long before it was finished. The manuscript reads as follows. Thirty five year old chemical engineer James A. Woods and his school-teacher wife of seven years, Ellen, from Indiana have just rented a recently completed two bedroom house at #2256 Cypress Canyon, after meeting in the rain with a real estate agent. Soon after the Woods move in they hear a horrible, unearthly, wailing cry which seems to be coming from somewhere within the house - perhaps from the locked closet with the solid door in the little alcove off of the den that they have been unable to open. They then see blood oozing out from under the unopenable closet door. Ellen touches the blood. When they return with two Los Angeles policemen the blood is gone, and the closet door is no longer locked. The cops find the closet empty and with solid walls and no trap doors. Ellen is constantly scrubbing her hand that touched the blood. After midnight James wakes up and discovers that Ellen is gone. He opens the closet door, Ellen is inside, disheveled and crazed and then she sinks her teeth into his forearm, and then collapses into a deep, heavy, drug-like sleep. Later she wakes up and has no recollection of what transpired during the night. James consults Dr. Wesley who states that there is a very rapid onset of infection. When James returns home Ellen is gone. On the police shortwave James hears that milkman Frank Polanski has been found in the 4000 block of Laurel Canyon with his throat torn out, as though by the fangs of some wild animal. Jim goes to the scene. An on-looker describes what he found. One of the policeman who had been to the Woods home is also there. When James returns home he hears the wailing cries coming from the closet again and he is going to open it. The manuscript ends. Attached to it is a newspaper clipping. It reports that James Woods and wife Ellen are thought to have been involved in a suicide-murder, with Ellen having been blasted by a shotgun with signs of a struggle as James' body was ripped and lacerated. Jerry tells Sam he can't figure out the manuscript because the house at #2256 is just now finished. Jerry puts out the "For Rent" sign. Someone knocks at the door. It is raining. The man identifies himself as James A. Woods and introduces his wife Ellen.

• 10:00 p.m. Mercury Theater
  10/30/38 "The War of the Worlds" (Sus.)(59:34)    Program #17 Orson Welles (Professor Richard Pearson) ;  Writer - H.G. Wells ; Adaptation - Howard Koch ; Producer - Orson Welles ;  CBS ;  The radio broadcast of dance music from New York City by the Raymond Rocello Orchestra is interrupted.  Orange explosions are seen on Mars.  Later, the Grover's Mill, New Jersey, 22 miles from Trenton, farm of Mr. Wilmet is one of the sites of the landing of Martian space craft.  Professor Richard Pearson, Princeton Astronomer, and radio reporter Carl Phillips investigate.  Made of curious yellow-white metal, the cylindrical craft is about 30 yards in diameter, half-buried in a pit created by the landing.  A humming sound comes from within the object.  A hatch opens.  Tentacles emerge from the craft, and then the Martian becomes visible.  People approach with a white flag.  A "heat ray" from the Martians burns the approaching people to death. Forty people in all are killed, including Carl Phillips.  Later 7000 soldiers are decimated with only 120 survivors.  Eight bomber planes are useless against the invaders.  More and more machines are arriving all over the country from Mars. The shows format then shifts from a radio broadcast to Professor Pearson's personal observations.  Pearson meets up with a lone National Guard soldier.  Pearson then ventures on to a deserted New York City.  At Central Park he sees abandoned Martian machines.  Further observation showed that scavenger birds were picking apart the bodies of the dead Martians - killed by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their immune systems were unprepared.

[Vision]

Hey.

Love that flashing warning. Never knew about that html code.

I'm spending the day watching Halloween movies.

[johngrace]

Hi Vision - I bought Sirius radio in 2005 because I was a Truck driver. Well they have an old time radio show channel. This channel was great. I am moving so i put the reciever in the boxes. But i have the Iphone apps which does not have that channel. I miss it. Thanks for alert!

[Vision]

Hope you enjoy it. Let me know if you want on the ping list.

[don-o]

I have a vague memory of hearing “War of the World” on my transistor radio late at night. I alerted my Dad that the Martians were invading. This would have been around 1960.

[don-o]

I bought an XM radio to listen to Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio. I mostly listen to the Classic Radio station and the trucker station.

If I need a good scare I listen to the leftoid station - especially Mile Malloy - arguably one of the sickest puppies to ever sit behind a microphone.

[Vision]

Wow.

What did he say?

[don-o]

No strong memory - I expect he told me to simmer down. That it wasn’t real. I expect I returned to my room to await destruction.

[Vision]

Never forget. Sadao Munemori

[WXRGina]

God bless our troops!

[Vision]

Happy Halloween.

[steelyourfaith]

MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT

PRIVATE FIRST CLASS SADAO S. MUNEMORI

Unit: Company A, 100th Infantry Battalion (Separate), U.S. Army

Place of heroic deed: Near Seravezza, Italy

Date of heroic deed: April 5, 1945

CITATION

He fought with great gallantry and intrepidity near Seravezza, Italy. When his unit was pinned down by grazing fire from the enemy's strong mountain defense and command of the squad devolved on him with the wounding of its regular leader, he made frontal, 1-man attacks through direct fire and knocked out 2 machine guns with grenades. Withdrawing under murderous fire and showers of grenades from other enemy emplacements, he had nearly reached a shell crater occupied by 2 of his men when an unexploded grenade bounced on his helmet and rolled toward his helpless comrades. He arose into the withering fire, dived for the missile and smothered its blast with his body. By his swift, supremely heroic action Pfc. Munemori saved 2 of his men at the cost of his own life and did much to clear the path for his company's victorious advance.

[WXRGina]

Happy Halloween to you, too! I love the scary stories!!!

[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."

[johngrace]

The worlds series on same time tonight. But yes please put me on ping. Bless your heart.

[johngrace]

When I first got sirius there was a Dj who now has a talk show. He is progressive( Roll The Eyes). He introduced Country music by saying Hello Fellow Fornicators! He is nuts acting! But they have libs and cons on the radio spectrum. I listen to consvertave talk or Christian radio( 2 Catholic channels or 2 indy christian) Or music.

Oh Don-o there is orthdox radio apps for smartphone. I download it. its called ancient faith radio. You might like.

[johngrace]

http://ancientfaith.com/