"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 12/19 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...

Early ping since I'll be traveling around tonight. If someone could bump it a few times that will be helpful. Looks like there is a Christmas Eve broadcast too.

07:00 p.m. Johnny Dollar
12/16/56 #518 The Missing Mouse Matter (Sus.)(CBS)(29:48)
07:30 p.m. Dragnet
12/22/53 #227 Big Little Jesus (NBC)(28:14)
08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
12/20/59 Beeker's Barn (Multiple Sonsors)(CBS)(29:10)
08:30 p.m. Our Miss Brooks
12/25/49 Magic Christmas Tree (Colgate)(CBS)(29:42)
09:00 p.m. Nick Carter
12/25/43 Nick Carter's Christmas Adventure (Sus.)(MBS)(29:36)
09:30 p.m. Cavalcade of America
12/24/45 Names on the Land (Dupont)(NBC)(29:34)
10:00 p.m. Radio Reader's Digest 12/19/46 Room for a Stranger w/Frank Sinatra (Hallmark)(CBS)(29:38)
10:30 p.m. Grand Central Station 12/24/49 Miracle for Christmas (Pillsbury)(CBS)(29:42)

Thanks! I like that guy with the action-packed expense account....Johnny Dollar.

Thanx again, Vision !

December 19, 2010 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
12/16/56 "The Missing Mouse Matter" (Sus.)(CBS) Matter #518(29:48) Bob Bailey, Mary Jane Croft, Howard McNear, Parley Baer, G. Stanley Jones (George Reed), Bill James, Lawrence Dobkin, Richard Beals (Bobby Nieves) ; Writer - Charles B. Smith ; Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Musical Supervisor - Amerigo Marino ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly; Expense Account Total = not given ; CBS Radio Network ; One cute tiny little (singing) mouse almost scares a big insurance company (Floyd's of England) out of business. A $50,000 singing mouse named Gulliver has been kidnapped. Kepp your eye on the cat! A delightful Christmas show!
7:30 p.m. Dragnet
12/22/53 "Big Little Jesus" (NBC)(28:14) Program # 227 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - Richard Breen ; Christmas Story . Working the day shift out of burglary division, Friday and Smith are assigned to find a statue of baby Jesus stolen from the oldest church in Los Angeles dating from 1781, The Old Mission Church at Sunset Boulevard and Main. They meet at the Church with Father Rojas and get the details. Next, they go to a pawn shop run by Mr. Flavin. Then they meet with alter boy Joe Heffernan. He gives them a lead on Claude Stroop. Jesus is finally returnned by a little Mexican boy who had taken him for a ride in his brand new red wagon.
8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
12/20/59 "Beeker's Barn" (Multiple Sonsors)(CBS)(29:10) Program #402 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Ralph Moody (Jethro Beeker), Vic Perrin (Will Ross), Virginia Gregg (Harmony Ross) ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - Les Crutchfield ; Editorial Supervision - John Meston ; Music Composer/Conductor - Rex Koury ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; Sound Patterns - Tom Hanley & Bill James ; The weather is freezing and the snow is falling around Dodge City as America grows west in the 1870s. Miss Kitty invites Matt and Chester for a drink. Jethro Beeker comes to Matt demanding that he arrest a couple who have taken over his barn. He claims that they entered during a blizzard and shot at him. It turns out that the "couple" happens to be his 21 year old daughter Harmony and her husband Will Ross. Jethro disowned Harmony when she married Will two years ago and Jethro wants Matt to treat them "like any other criminals". Matt reluctantly goes to evict the young couple. Will says they were on their way to Dodge when they sought shelter from the weather in the barn. He is determined to keep his pregnant wife sheltered during the snow storm. She is expecting any minute. Matt sends Chester to get Doc. Doc arrives in time to help in the delivery of a baby boy. Jethro is still adamant about having the couple thrown off his property, but he melts when it finally sinks in that he now has a grandson. He shakes hands with Will. It is 4 A.M. when Matt, Chester and Doc leave for the Long Branch where Matt is sure that Kitty is waiting to share that drink with them.
8:30 p.m. Our Miss Brooks
12/25/49 "Magic Christmas Tree" (Colgate)(CBS)(29:42) Program #75 Eve Arden, Jane Morgan (Mrs. Margaret Davis), Richard Crenna (Walter Denton), Gale Gordon (Osgood Conklin), Gloria McMillan (Harriet Conklin), Jeff Chandler (Mr. Boynton) ; Writer - Al Lewis; Connie Spends Christmas Eve Alone. A Quiet Christmas At Home. Surprise Guests On Christmas Eve. ; Connie is reading "The Night Before Christmas" to Mrs. Davis' cat, Minerva, when someone is at the door. Miss Brooks buys a "Magic" Christmas Tree from a young urchin door-to-door salesman. Connie has mistletoe all over her residence when Osgood, Martha and Harriet Conklin, plus Walter Denton and Mr. Boynton show up. When Walter touches the Christmas tree something happens, and he tells Harriet she needs to be more like Miss Brooks. The tree seems to glow. When Mr. Conklin touches the tree he becomes fun-loving and happy go lucky. When Mr. Boynton touches the tree he becomes very amorous toward Connie. Then Connie wakes up. The doorbell rings, and the whole scene begins to play out again, people are saying exactly what they said in Connie's dream. She has Mr. Boynton touch the tree - nothing happens. Then the door bell rings again and it is the urchin selling Magic Christmas Trees. Connie buys for trees for $2.
9:00 p.m. Nick Carter
12/25/43 "Nick Carter's Christmas Adventure" (Sus.)(MBS)(29:36) Lon Clark (Nick Carter), Helen Choate (Patsy Bowen), John Kane (Scubby Wilson) ; Director - Jock MacGregor ; Writer - Humphrey Davis ; Music - Lew White ; First Show - 4/11/43 ; Nick Carter and his assistant, Scubby Wilson, go to the home of Ben Rasper to ask for a contribution to his Christmas fund for the underprivileged children's party at Lincoln Hall. Mr. Rasper declines, and seems to hate Christmas. Carter decides to find out why Rasper hates Christmas with the idea of trying to do something about it. Fighter "Chris the Kid" O'Day pays a visit to Rasper, sent by Carter. Then, ex-wife Nina stops in to see Ben Rasper and wish him a Merry Christmas, adding that son Jimmy is full of life, while Ben looks tired. A flashback shows that Ben was more interested in business than his family, causing Nina to walk out on a previous Christmas. Old Fred Anderson, retired from the police force, is next to stop in to see Ben with some wine from Nick Carter. In flashback we learn that Ben is no longer at the fight arena, because they have decided to give Davis his job. He runs into Anderson, and says that he is going after the big money for himself. Back in the present Anderson asks him what the big money that he now has means to him. Anderson says that Nina and Jimmy will be at Carter's party. Rasper shows up at the party. Nick sends Patsy Bowen over to make him welcome. Nick tells officer Reilly to let Rasper give the present to his son, Jimmy.
9:30 p.m. Cavalcade of America
12/24/45 "Names on the Land" (Dupont)(NBC)(29:34) Frank Morgan ; Producer/Director - Jack Zoller ; Author - George R. Stewart ; Radio Adaptation - Peter Lyon & Jane Lyon ; Music Composer/Conductor - Robert Armbruster ; Announcer - Tom Collins ; Sponsor - DuPont ; Commercial Spokesman - Gayne Whitman ; The production uses the "Wright Sonovox." ; The broadcast originates from Hollywood. ; A mythical tour of American towns whose names are odd, historical, funny, beautiful, or memorable. A great radio show, spoken in verse.
10:00 p.m. Radio Reader's Digest
12/19/46 "Room for a Stranger" w/Frank Sinatra (Hallmark)(CBS)(29:38) Host - Richard Kollmar, Frank Sinatra (Lieutenant Joel Scott) ; Abnnouncer - Tom Shirley ; Writer - Robert Sloane ; Director - Marx B. Loeb ; Music Composer - Jack Miller ;Sponsor - Hallmark Cards ; It is December 24, 1943. Just back from the Pacific, a lonely Navy flier, Lieutenant Joel Scott, is scheduled to have his leg operated on at Great Lakes Naval Station. He has an opportunity to be re-united with his girl, Sue, on Christmas is in the small Illinois town of Rockford Junction. They have trouble finding anything open, only to find that the town has been preparing to throw them a party. Frank Sinatra sings "Silent Night" accompanied by the Jack Miller Orchestra.
10:30 p.m. Grand Central Station
12/24/49 "Miracle for Christmas" (Pillsbury)(CBS)(29:42) "Miracle for Christmas" Mason Adams (Mac), Ralph Clanton (Dr. Mason), Gilbert Mack (young father), Walter Grusay (Dr. Garrett), Madeleine Pierce (baby) ; Writer - Jay Bennett ; Music - Lew White & Burley Mills ; Narrator - Ken Roberts; from New York City ; Sponsor - Pillsbury Mills of Minneapolis' Best Enriched Flour ; Sixth consecutive holiday broadcast of this show. Dr. Mason from Albany arrives at the hospital and is led into Dr. Garrett's office. Garrett had received word that Mason has died in an automobile accident. Mason says that it must have been a mistake. Mason then goes around providing miracle cures, driven in an ambulance by cynical Mac on Christmas eve. At one point, Mac's beloved wife Ellie is in a coma, dying. Mac's faith is restored when Ellie recovers.

Good Sunday, All!

As our country and military shudders at the hands of an insane and desperate lame duck Congress, we have a really fine four hours of escape ahead of us, back to when “the chrome was thick and the women were straight,” as Michael Savage would say.

Me too. One of my favorites.

Hey there. Gettin’ in the Christmas mood yet?

Yes!

You’re home safely! :-) The stories have been great!

Glad to hear it. I’m going to retire to the radio for the last two shows.

Night Gina. Will listen to the rest of the shows later in the week.

Goodnight, Vision.

Evening, Vision.

Props to cripplecreek for the graphics!

Viking, I love your Christmas ornament! :-)

'Viking, I love your Christmas ornament! :-)'

Why, thank you!

Props to cripplecreek for the graphics!

When I grow up, I want to be able to do graphics just like you. What software are you using?

Props to cripplecreek for the graphics!