"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 1/16 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 1/16/11 | 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]

• 07:00p Johnny Dollar
  06/15/58 #593 Delectable Damsel Matter (AFRS)(24:22)

• 07:30p Dragnet
  05/17/55 #300 Big Squeaker (AFRS)(24:30)

• 08:00p Gunsmoke
  06/11/49 Audition Show #1 w/Rye Billsbury as "Mark" Dillion (28:56)

• 08:30p Command Performance
  03/01/42 #01 MC: Eddie Cantor w/Bea Wain. Danny Kaye, & Dinah Shore (AFRS)(29:22)

• 09:00p Crime Club
  03/20/47 #17 Dead Man Control (Sus.)(MBS)(29:00)

• 09:30p Radio City Playhouse
  03/14/49 Weather Ahead (Sus.)(NBC)(29:46)

• 10:00p Lux Radio Theater 07/05/37 #140 Beau Brummel w/Robert Montgomery, Madge Evans (Lux)(CBS)(59:44)

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx again, Vision !

January 16, 2011 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

• 7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
  6/15/58 "Delectable Damsel Matter"(24:22) Matter #593 Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg, Chet Stratton, Barney Phillips, Jack Moyles, Frank Gerstle ; Writer/ Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; Expense Account Total - $230.00 ; Armed Forces Radio & TV Service A beautiful woman has tons of money and a missing fortune in gems. A beautiful woman has tons of money and a missing fortune in gems.

• 7:30 p.m. Dragnet
  5/17/55 "The Big Squealer" Program # 300 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson ; AFRTS rebroadcast; NBC origination ; Friday and Smith are working out of juvenile division. A high school boy is found beaten and knifed in an alley...and the teenage victim is very reluctant to say who did it. (24:30)

• 8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  6/11/49 "Mark Dillon Goes to Gouge Eye" Audition Show #1 Michael Rye, a.k.a. Rye Billsbury (Mark Dillon) ; Writers - Morton Fine & David Friedkin ; Mark Dillon has been United States Marshall in Dodge City for four months. He is approached by 50 year old Abigail Cantwarias to go to the town of Gouge Eye where her husband, Raphael Ramon Jose Cantwarias, is the owner of "The White Buffalo", a gambling casino in Gouge Eye. Someone has been stealing from her husband and she fears for his life. He agrees to go. Upon arrival he is met by a pasty-faced man and giggling and mute Harold, whose tongue was cut out by Indians. The giggling man knocks Dillon out. When he revives Dillon goes to The White Buffalo where he meets a young woman named Tamar and then Cantwarias. Next he meets Greg Hagen, the croupier. Rumor has it that the wheel is rigged - and he may be double-crossing the house. Dillon watches the action of the roulette wheel, as a couple of men play. One is a pasty faced man in a by the name of Booth, whose voice is familiar to Dillon as the man who accosted him when he first entered Gouge Eye. Outside, Dillon squares off against Drew and Harold. He hits Harold, but Drew wounds him in the shoulder. When Dillon wakes up he is in a cottonwood clearing with Tamar, who is singing and Raphael Cantwarias, dead a with bullet wound in his forehead. Tamar said that Cantwarias was her protector. Abigail Cantwarias shows up and lifts her husband into her donkey cart. On the way back to Gouge Eye Abigail sheds only one tear. She takes Dillon back to a tar paper shack where Greg, a former physician whose license was revoked, takes the bullet out of Dillon. When the Marshall finally wakes up he hears Greg telling Tamar that he had killed Cantwarias.

• 8:30 p.m. Command Performance
  3/1/42 "Program #1" Eddie Cantor (Master of Ceremonies), Bea Wain., Danny Kaye, Dinah Shore, Merle Oberon, Bert Gordon ("The Mad Russian"), Don Dunphy, Bill Corum, Joe Louis, Buddy Baer, Frankie Fulham (referee) ; Announcer - Harry Von Zell Music - Cookie Fairchild and His Orchestra, The Ambassadors ; AFRS ; The date above is the recording date. The program was broadcast March 8, 1942, the transcription was distributed in April, 1942. The first tune is, "Chattanooga Choo Choo." The program originates from New York City and includes a recording of Don Dunphy and Bill Corum describing the Joe Louis-Buddy Baer fight. The fight took place January 9, 1941, Louis knocked out Baer in the first round. The program features Western Union boys and a singing telegram. The system cue is not heard. (29:22)

• 9:00 p.m. Crime Club
  3/20/47 "Dead Man Control" Program #17 Ted Osborne, Alice Frost, Elspeth Eric ; Writer - Helen Riley ; Mutual Broadcasting System ; Sustaining ; A millionaire is killed while opening his wall safe. A large diamond is found missing, but is found again too soon. (29:00)

• 9:30 p.m. Radio City Playhouse
  3/14/49 "Weather Ahead" Program #30 Joe DeSantis, Robert Clark, Donald Curtis ; Host/Director - Harry W. Junkin ; Announcer - Bob Warren ; Writer - Bill Demling (as William Devlin) ; NBC Supervisor - Richard P. McDonough ; Music Composer/Conductor - Roy Shield ; NBC Network ;Sustaining ; The program is referred to as, "Attraction #29). (29:46)

• 10:00 p.m. Lux Radio Theater
  7/5/37 "Beau Brummel" Program #140 Robert Montgomery, Madge Evans, Leo G. Carroll, Bramwell Fletcher, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart, Edwin Maxwell, Ralph Kellard, Doris Lloyd (doubles), Lou Merrill, Wallis Roberts, Frederick Sewell, John Lake, Frank Nelson (performer, commercial spokesman), Phyllis Coghlan (doubles), James Eagles, Margaret Brayton (doubles, commercial spokesman), Ross Forrester, Jerrie Gail, Marion Dennis ; Host - Cecil B. DeMille ; Announcer - Melville Ruick ; Opening Announcer - Frank Nelson ; Intermission guest - Dorothy Davenport (as "Mrs. Wallace Reid") ; Playwright - Clyde Fitch ; Radio Adaptation - George Wells ; Director - Frank Woodruff ; Music Director - Louis Silvers ; Sound Effects - Charlie Forsyth ; CBS Network ; Sponsor - Lux ; (59:44)

[Vision]

Hey. What do you think of the lineup?

[WXRGina]

Here we go! Good evening, Friends!

[Vision]

Hi Gina. How’s the gulf coast?

[WXRGina]

We’re finally warming back up a little!

I’m sorry about the Ravens. :-(

[WXRGina]

Oh, MAN! God bless our brave troops, past and present!

[Vision]

Thanks. I’m not much of a pro football guy. But this area is CRAZY about the ravens. I’m sure the area is slipping into a cultural depression.

[WXRGina]

Yeah, they probably are. I was kinda bummed that the Saints got back in their old game. HA!

[Vision]

It's amazing how different the format is for the early Gunsmokes.

[WXRGina]

Completely different!

[Vision]

These are great songs and are sung beautifully.

What happened to this country?

[WXRGina]

Oh, we were thinking the same thing, Vision. I get teary-eyed hearing them talk to the boys over there. My goodness! I’m so sad for our country now.

[Vision]

Sad because America’s current culture is cheap trash and rotten?

[WXRGina]

Rotten to the core, Vision. Only a miracle of God can save us from the bottomless pit. And if America goes, the whole world goes.

[WXRGina]

“Weather Ahead” was the most intense show we’ve ever heard! We were agonizing about that plane landing, and we hoped to have a resolution, but at least the plane didn’t crash.

I know it’s about time for you to sign off, Vision. Have a good night!

[Vision]

It was intense.

I am starting to crash and will head to the radio. Night!

Don’t give up hope on the culture.

[WXRGina]

Vision, we will never give up and never give in.

God bless you.