"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 1/30 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 1/30/11 | 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
  06/29/58 #595 Ugly Pattern Matter (AFRS) (24:02)

• 07:30p Dragnet
  05/31/55 #302 Big Sisters (NBC) (26:08)

• 08:00p Gunsmoke
  05/10/52 #03 Jailscoe (Sus.) (CBS) (29:08)

• 08:30p Fibber McGee & Molly
  03/19/40 Dog License (Johnson's Wax) (NBC) (29:28)

• 09:00p Eddie Cantor
  01/30/47 w/Jack Benny, Ralph Edwards, Margaret Whiting (Pabst) (NBC) (29:30)

• 09:30p Suspense
  10/13/57 The Well Dressed Corpse (CBS) (19:02)

• 10:00p Ford Theater 05/09/48 The Front Page (Ford) (NBC) (59:34)

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx again, Vision !

January 30, 2011 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

• 7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
  6/29/58 "The Ugly Pattern Matter" Matter #595 Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg (Miss Gregg), Les Tremayne (Barry Winters), Forrest Lewis (Hanley Thomas), Herb Vigran (Sgt. Dennis), Junius Mathews (building superintendent), Frank Gerstle (Charles Hart) ; Writer/Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; Expense Account Total - $101.00 ; CBS origination ; Armed Forces Radio & TV Service ;In Danbury, Connecticut, one of nine executives of the Simplex Fishing Tackle Company is being murdered every Wednesday, with clock-like regularity! Additionally, they are being murdered in alphabetical order, as well as in ascending order of salary. All of them are covered by a group life insurance policy. (24:02)

• 7:30 p.m. Dragnet
  5/31/55 "The Big Sisters" Program #302 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson ; NBC ; Friday and Smith are working out of v division. An old lady named Miss Dunbetter has been robbed of $300 from her apartment ...or has she? (26:08)

• 8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  5/10/52 "Jaliscoe Pete" Program #3 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc), Harry Bartell (Ben Roark), Lou Krugman, Barney Phillips (Catocsa), Georgia Ellis (Miss Kitty), Jack Kruschen, Vivi Janiss (Mrs. Thompson), Johnny McGovern (Thompson's son) ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - Les Crutchfield ; Music Composer/Conductor - Rex Koury ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; CBS ; Homesteader Will Thompson's house near Mulberry Creek is burned to the ground and his family is massacred. Their son manages to reach Dillon's office and inform the Marshal before he dies of a gunshot to the back. Matt and Chester go out to investigate. The attack is made to look as if Indians are responsible, because Will Thompson has been scalped. They find Mrs. Thompson barely alive, having been savagely kicked. She says that the attackers dragged off her 17 year old daughter, Mary. Mrs. Thompson dies after telling Matt that the attacker left a Mexican silver spur. Chester finds Mary's body. However, the real evidence points to Jaliscoe Pete, a cowboy who wears Mexican silver spurs. The man in question, Jaliscoe Pete, and his three accomplices work for Ben Roark. Matt goes into Dodge and looks for Jaliscoe Pete. Miss Kitty tells Matt that Ben Roark is gambling. Roark resists, but warns Ben not to draw on him because he isn't fast enough. Colonel Blake thinks it was the Indians, but Matt asks for 24 hours before the army asks. The cattle-ranchers hate the homesteaders for bringing plows and fences into the wide open country. Ezra Hawkins, who represents the homesteaders in the county, warns Matt of an impending range war if justice is not served in the Thompson case. They are interrupted when Red Dudley leads a group of rowdy, gun firing, range riders, "The Curly Wolves" into Dodge. Matt shoots Dudley's gun out of his hand and puts him in jail. Later, Chester brings in Jaliscoe Pete, who has been shot to death in the back and scalped. He has only one spur, and Dillon has the mate to it. Doc says the scalping is not as slick and clean as what he has seen Indians do. Later, Miss Kitty tells Matt that Jaliscoe Pete was in her saloon last night, leaving with three friends from the Pecos Country - including Red Dudley and Tulsa Jim. Doc interrupts them to tell Matt that Ben Roark and about 30 cattle ranchers have caught an Indian named Catocsa and plan to string him up. Ezra Hawkins shows up with 100 armed homesteaders. He says that the Indian has been working for them, tracking down fence cutters. Back at the jail, Chester is tied up and Fred Dudley has been sprung by some Circle Bar B boys who were all in with Pete on the Thompson killings, and then they killed Pete, too. Matt and Chester go after them. In the gun fight Matt kills Red and his boys. PSA for Political Convention Handbook, courtesy of Time. Promo for Tarzan, "Jungle Legacy" episode tonight. Promo for Broadway is My Beat, every Saturday. (29:08)

• 8:30 p.m. Fibber McGee & Molly
  "Dog License" Program #240 Jim Jordan (Fibber McGee), Marian Jordan (Molly McGee), Bill Thompson Isabel Randolph (Abigail Uppington), Gale Gordon , Harold Peary (Mr. Gildersleeve) ; Music - Billy Mills and His Orchestra, The King's Men ; Writer - Don Quinn ; Sponsor - Johnson Wax and self-polishing Glo-Coat ; Pitchman - Harlow Wilcox ; NBC ; Sponsor - Johnson's Wax ;NBC ; Fibber gets a notice that he must buy a dog license, but he has no dog! (29:28)

• 9:00 p.m. "The Eddie Cantor Pabst Blue Ribbon Show."
  1/30/47 Eddie Cantor, Harry Von Zell, Jack Benny, Peter Lind Hayes, Ralph Edwards, Margaret Whiting, Cookie Fairchild and His Orchestra, The Sportsmen ; NBC ; Sponsored by: Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer ; It's Eddie's fifty-fifth birthday. He wants to borrow a half-million dollars from guest Jack Benny so he can start a new network; it's to be called "NBC" ("Nothing But Cantor"). The Sportsmen sing a Pabst commercial to the tune of, "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes." Ralph Edwards gets squirted with a seltzer bottle and eggs cracked on his head. Eddie gets a cake-in-the-face. (29:30)

• 9:30 p.m. Suspense
  10/13/57 "Well-Dressed Corpse" Program #719 Margaret Whiting (Ruth Franklin), John Dehner ; Producer/Director/Host - William N. Robson ; Announcer - George Walsh ; Writers - John Michael Hayes & E. Jack Neuman ; The story was previously produced on "Suspense" on January 18, 1951 ; CBNS ; Ruth Franklin, voted as the best-dressed woman meets the best-dressed man and decides right away that she is going to marrry him. When she proposes she finds out that he is already engaged. Angered, she shoots him and then puts out a search to kill his fiance. Love hath no pity for the wounded heart. (19:02)

• 10:00 p.m. Ford Theater
  5/9/48 "The Front Page" John Larkin, Everett Sloane, Ed Begley, Karl Swenson, Carl Eastman, Ted Osborne, Mary Patton, Mitzi Gould, Dan Ocko ; Announcer - Kenneth Banghart ; Host - Howard Lindsay ; Writers - Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur ; Radio Adaptation - Gilbert Seldes ; NBC ; Sponsor - Ford, Mercury ; The classic comedy about the rough and tumble Chicago newspaper game and the escaped murderer in the rolltop desk. Good radio. (59:34)

[Vision]

Hey. Suspense ping!

[don-o]

Warmed up and ready to go.

[Vision]

Aye Aye don-o. You like anything tonight? The Cantor show will be interesting...

[don-o]

Looks like a nice lineup. I am a big Jack Benny Fan.

[WXRGina]

Yea! Hello, everyone!

[Vision]

Hi Gina, I was hoping for Johnny Dollar and the Sandbar Sonata Matter tonight...but no luck.

[Vision]

John W. Minick

Date of birth: 14-Jun-08
Date of death: Killed in Action - 21-Nov-44
Place of Birth: Wall, Pennsylvania
Home of record: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Status: KIA




The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pride in presenting the Medal of Honor (Posthumously) to Staff Sergeant John W. Minick, United States Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his own life, above and beyond the call of duty, while serving with Company I, 3d Battalion, 121st Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry Division in action involving actual conflict with the enemy on 21 November 1944, near Hurtgen, Germany. Staff Sergeant Minick's battalion was halted in its advance by extensive minefields, exposing troops to heavy concentrations of enemy artillery and mortar fire. Further delay in the advance would result in numerous casualties and a movement through the minefield was essential. Voluntarily, Staff Sergeant Minick led four men through hazardous barbed wire and debris, finally making his way through the minefield for a distance of 300 yards. When an enemy machinegun opened fire, he signaled his men to take covered positions, edged his way alone toward the flank of the weapon and opened fire, killing two members of the guncrew and capturing three others. Moving forward again, he encountered and engaged single-handedly an entire company killing 20 Germans and capturing 20, and enabling his platoon to capture the remainder of the hostile group. Again moving ahead and spearheading his battalion's advance, he again encountered machinegun fire. Crawling forward toward the weapon, he reached a point from which he knocked the weapon out of action. Still another minefield had to be crossed. Undeterred, Staff Sergeant Minick advanced forward alone through constant enemy fire and while thus moving, detonated a mine and was instantly killed.

[WXRGina]

Hi Gina, I was hoping for Johnny Dollar and the Sandbar Sonata Matter tonight...but no luck.

HA!!! :-) This was a good one, though. I loved the way the bad guy fell right into Johnny's bluff trap!

[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."

[Vision]

Hey. How are things? You missed a nasty snowstorm Wed night.

[steelyourfaith]

Hey. Suspense ping!

Tales Well Calculated to Keep You In Suspense

[Viking2002]

I hear there may be more heading through up there. It's fixing to rain down here all week, and I'm hunkered down with a nasty case of the flu tonight.

"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."

[RedCell]

Great thread, thank you for posting. If anyone is interested, there’s an app you can get called Shoutcast and there are many channels that stream old time radio. I listen to it every night. Some of the recordings leave commercials in and these range from peddling cigarettes to Pepsi to some good old fashioned patriotic stuff.

Some of my favorite stations that you may also enjoy are “Audio Noir”, “OTR Mystery” and “AM 1710 Antioch OTR”.

Cheers everyone and happy listening!

[Vision]

Thanks. I’ll look for Shoutcast. Would you like on the ping list?

[RedCell]

Yes, please. Thanks.

[steelyourfaith]

SHOUTcast Old Time Radio Thanx for this.