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[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]

• 07:00 p.m. Johnny Dollar
  05/24/59 #640 The Cask of Death Matter (CBS) (19:30)
• 07:30 p.m. Dragnet
  06/21/55 #305 Big Grab (AFRS) (24:10)
• 08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  06/07/52 #07 Buffal Killers (Sus.) (CBS) (29:46)
• 08:30 p.m. Great Gildersleeve
  10/17/51 #414 Bronoco almost Forgets About his first date with Marjorie (Kraft) (NBC) (29:44
• 09:00 p.m. Phillip Marlowe
  10/24/48 Heart of Gold (Sus.) (NBC) (29:28)
• 09:30 p.m. Destination Freedom
  10/10/48 Little David - The Story of Joe Louis (Sus.) (NBC/WMAQ) (29:00)
• 10:00 p.m. Lux Radio Theater
  09/30/40 His Girl Firday w/Claudette Colbert & Fred MacMurray (Lux) (CBS) (59:48)

[MaryFromMichigan]

Great line up you have there!
Many of my all time favorites, Johnny Dollar, Gunsmoke, and especially, Lux Radio Theater!
(My collection includes over 500 episodes of Lux!)

Wish I could stay and catch your entire program!

For my money, OTR is the best entertainment out there!

[Vision]

Thanks. If you visit the website tomorrow you’ll be able to listen to tonight’s show. Let me know if you want on the ping list.

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx again, Vision !

February 20, 2011 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

• 7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
  5/24/59 "The Cask of Death Matter" Matter #640 Bob Bailey, Harry Bartell (Harry Branson), Forrest Lewis (Mr. Hurley), Bartlett Robinson, Parley Baer, Marvin Miller (Edward Alden Pouley) ; Writer/Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; Expense Account Total = $101.20 CBS ; Talking about this episode at the end of the show last week, Johnny signed off saying, "Well, I suggest you read the Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe, then, join us, won't you?" Harry "Old Silver Sides" Branson of Philadelphia Mutual Liability and Casualty Company, Walnut Street, Philadelphia, has a case for Johnny involving several of his very important clients. Some of them mysteriously disappeared years ago. At the end of seven years the missing are presumed dead and benefits are released to their beneficiaries. Wilbert Davis of Goshenville, Pennsylvania was the first of eight of these mysterious disappearances and Charles Moody of Kirkwood, New Jersey was the last just about a month ago. All were in their 60s and were either widowers or bachelors. Dollar goes to Kirkwood and speaks with the local policeman, lawyer, and storekeeper Mr. Hurley. He says that Moody just took a bus to Philadelphia and never came back. The beneficiary was nephew in California. Moody willed his wine cellar to a man living in a big mansion in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Edward Alden Pouley. In another town he speaks to a man who gives him details on another missing man, Mr. Frederick Burton, who also had a wine cellar that was willed to Pouley. He also gets the name of another man, Frederick W. Turner, who is still alive and in the same wine connoisseur club, The Order of Epicures. Dollar goes to see Mr. Pouley who is a bit off his rocker. Proud of his initials being the same as Edgar Allen Poe. Johnny has brought a bottle of rare wine, and Pouley says he must have it. He offers Dollar some Amontillado and leads him down a dark, dank passageway. On the way he asks Dollar if he is a mason, and he pulls out a trowel. He admits that he bricked in the other eight men. Johnny overpowers him. (19:30)

• 7:30 p.m. Dragnet
  6/21/55 "The Big Grab" Program #305 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson ; NBC ; Grace Marchand, a six year old girl has been kidnapped off the street. A demand for $50,000 ransom is soon received. homicide 6-Year-Old Girl Kidnapped (AFRS) (24:10)

• 8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  6/7/52 "Buffalo Killers" Program #7 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc), Georgia Ellis, Stan Waxman, John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin, Sam Edwards, Lillian Buyeff, Tom Holland, Mary Lansing ; Writer - Joel Murcott ; Producer/Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Music Composer/Conductor - Rex Koury ; Announcer - Clancey Cassell ; sustained ; CBS ; An albino buffalo skin is the clue to the murder of two buffalo hunters, and their father. Mr. Biggs' two sons are killed in an apparent Arapahoe raid. Their buffalo skins are stolen, including the skin of a rare albino buffalo. However, something is not quite right. The horses and guns were not taken. Matt believes white men, not Indians, were responsible for the killings. He decides to watch the unloading barns, looking for the white buffalo skin. When word leaks out that Matt is looking for the killers, two gunmen, Chuck Kell and Tennessee, stage a phony confrontation to keep Matt from suspecting them. (29:46)

• 8:30 p.m. Great Gildersleeve
  10/17/51 "Anniversary of Bronco & Marjorie's First Date" Program #414 Willard Waterman (Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve), Walter Tetley (Leroy Forrester), Mary Lee Robb (Marjorie Forrester Thompson), Dick Crenna (Bronco Thompson), Lillian Randolph (Birdie Lee Coggins), Earle Ross (Judge Horace Hooker), Dick Legrand (Peavey), Lee Keel ; Sponsor - Velveeta Cheese from Kraft Foods Company ; Writers - John Elliotte & Andy White ; Show is partially transcribed. ; Musical Composition - Jack Meakin ; Announcer - John "Bud" Hiestand ; NBC ; Linda and Ronnie are the twins of Bronco and Marjorie Thompson. It is the first anniversary of Bronco and Marjorie's first date, at a college dance also attended by Gildy and Miss Milford who went along as chaperons. Gildy sets out to find Bronco to remind him. Bronoco almost Forgets About his first date with Marjorie. (29:44)

• 9:00 p.m. The New Adventures of Phillip Marlowe
  10/24/48 "The Heart of Gold" Program #5 Gerald Mohr (Phillip Marlowe), Jack Moyles, Ben Wright, Jeff Corey, Gloria Blondell, John Dehner.; Creator - Raymond Chandler; Producer/Director - Norman Macdonnell; Music Conceived and Conducted -Richard Aurandt ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; sustained ; NBC ; A $50 bill in advance and a heart-shaped locket lead to an apparent suicide and an old secret. (29:28)

• 9:30 p.m. Destination Freedom
  10/10/48 "Little David - The Story of Joe Louis" Jack Moss, Janice Kingslow, Les Spears, Oscar Brown Jr., Studs Terkel, Fred Pinkard, Harry Elders ; Announcers - Charles Mountain & Hugh Downs ; Producer - Homer Hecht ; Writer - Richard Durham ; Music - Bobby Christian ; Organist - Elwyn Owen ; NBC ; WMAQ, Chicago : Sustaining ; Produced in co-operation with The Chicago Defender. The story of Joe Louis, the heavyweight boxing champion. Well done. (29:00)

• 10:00 p.m. Lux Radio Theater
  9/30/40 "His Girl Friday" Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Jack Carson, Arthur Q. Bryan, Cecil B. DeMille, Charles Seel, Chester Clute, Edward Marr, Hal Girard, Edwin Max, Kathryn Keys, Lou Merrill, Sherman Nichols, Tony Hughes, Verna Felton, Warren Ashe, Hal Gerarde (triples) ; Intermission Guest - Kolma Flake (western fashion editor for Motion Picture magazine) ; Announcer - Melville Ruick ; Commercial spokesman - Julie Bannon ; Director - Sanford Barnett ; Authors - Charles MacArthur & Ben Hecht ; Screenwriter - Charles Lederer ; Radio Adaptation - George Wells ; Sound Effects - Charlie Forsyth ; Music director - Louis Silvers ; Sponsor - Lux (Scarlet O'Hara brooch premium) ; CBS ; A story based on "The Front Page," by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Hildy Johnson becomes a woman in this version of a mile-a-minute comedy about the newspaper game, complicated by that escaped killer in the desk! (59:48)

[WXRGina]

Hello, everyone!

I’m ready for this! After a week of insane civil war in America, I need a break.

[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."

[steelyourfaith]

Hey WXRGina. I'll drink to that !

Actually, I'm kinda jazzed that the House of Reps Tea Party people are doing what they were sent to do, cutting various budget items that clearly were left wing sacred cows ... plus Walker in Wisconsin is holding firm to rein in the $3.6b state budget deficit, beginning with the unsustainable government worker pensions. A great week for the Republic, all in all.

[don-o]

Hello everybody

Speaking of Lux, XM is playing one with Judy Garland as an aspiring actress - cannot even call the name of it. But, she was just an amazing talent.

I see Ed is keeping to the chronological order for Gunsmoke. Episode 7 tonight.

Hopefully, the fund raising is finished.

[WXRGina]

Oh, me, too!

We see how the spoiled, parasitic brats react to the prospect of joining the rest of “Real America”!

[Vision]

Hi, NPR just finished a half hour on “racial purity.” I’d rather hang myself than listen to that. And it’s taxpayer funded.

[WXRGina]

Maybe not for long! :-)

[steelyourfaith]

And it’s taxpayer funded.

Ha !
Not for long, I reckon.
House Cuts Govt Funding for Public Broadcasting (Ba-bye Big Bird!)

Evening, Vision.

[MaryFromMichigan]

Please add my name to your ping list.
:)

[steelyourfaith]

FWIW, Dragnet’s “Ray Pinker in the crime lab” (portrayed in this episode by Olan Soulé), was an actual person in the LAPD crime lab at the time of these productions, along with
Lee Jones who is also occasionally mentioned in Dragnet broadcasts.

[Vision]

That’s fantastic.

[WXRGina]

Really good stories tonight!

[Vision]

Gunsmoke is my favorite so far.

[Vision]

Did that just end on...paraphrased...indian killing makes a man hungry? If so, can you imagine that being said today. Ha!