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"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.' "

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Happy Sunday Night...Classic Radio Time...

Early (((((ping)))))

I'm traveling for business this afternoon, hope to make the show tonight. Could use a fill in host.

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Celebrating the IRS and income taxes this week.

Thanx again, Vision !

April 10, 2011 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

• 7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
  8/23/59 "The Embarcadero Matter" Matter #653 Bob Bailey, Forrest Lewis (Le Chat Gris), Vic Perrin, G. Stanley Jones (George Reed), Tony Barrett, Frank Gerstle (Frankie Gerstle) ; Writer/Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; Expense Account Total = $1174.00 ; A foggy night on the Embarcadero . In the shadows ... a killer! George Reed of Floyd's of England calls Johnny while he is still in Paris and asks him to locate the priceless Chellini Medallion, which was stolen from the Louvre. "Le Chat Gris" says that it is aboard the ship Klemperhall, hidden in a case of wine, bound for San Francisco where former New York City fence Frankie Gerstle will pick it up. In San Francisco Johnny gets a room at his favorite hotel, the Huntington on Nob Hill. He runs into Smokey Sullivan on the street. Smokey has been going straight but he knows that there is a lot of smuggling going on down at the Embarcadero. Together they track the Medallion to Pier 93, where they first find a night watchman with a bullet in his head. Johnny heads into the warehouse looking for the case of wine containing the Medallion. Inside Johnny trades bullets with Gerstle. When Johnny runs out of bullets Smokey shoots Frankie dead with the watchman's gun. (CBS) (18:50)

• 7:30 p.m. Dragnet
  8/16/55 "The Big Beer" Program #313 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson ; NBC ; Friday and Smith are working out of homicide detail. A night watchman, Clyde, has been stabbed to death in a downtown appliance store. A night watchmen in a store discovers a dead body. Fourteen beer bottles and some bright red hairs provide the only clues. Gladys Markham Maddock is found guilty. (25:06)

• 8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  8/9/52 "The Kentucky Tolmans" Program #16 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc), Joseph Kearns, Junius Matthews, Harry Bartell, Lou Krugman, Peter Leeds, Virginia Gregg ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; ; Writer - Herb Purdum ; Music Composer/Conductor - Rex Koury ; Announcer - George Walsh ; The Tolmans from Kentucky include a good lookin' mountain gal, a drinking old father with a secret, and a son willing to kill to get at it. (Sus.) (CBS) (29:42)

• 8:30 p.m. The Adventures Of Archie Andrews
  3/10/51 "Mailing the Income Tax" Bob Hastings (Archie Andrews), Harlan Stone (Jughead Jones), Rosemary Rice (Betty Cooper), Nat Polen, Donald Bayh, Alice Yourman, Arthur Kohl, Gloria Mann, Wendell Holmes, ; Producer/Director - Kenneth MacGregor ; Writer - Carl Jampel ; Organist - Felix McGuire ; Announcer - Dick Dudley ; NBC ; Sustaining ; Archie mails the family's income tax return. Now, how to get that letter back and save $50. (Sus.) (NBC) (29:05)

• 9:00 p.m. Fibber McGee & Molly
  1/4/44 "Fibber Figures Out his Income Taxes" Jim Jordan (Fibber McGee), Marian Jordan (Molly McGee), Ransom Sherman (Simond Wellington), Marlin Hurt (Beulah, the maid), Arthur Q. Bryan (Doc Gamble), Billy Mills Orchestra with the King's Men ; Writer - Don Quinn ; Announcer - Harlow Wilcox ; Sponsor - Johnson's Wax ; (Johnson's Wax) (NBC) (27:25)

• 9:30 p.m. Burns & Allen
  1/15/48 "Gracie Does George's Income Taxes" George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bill Goodwin, Clarence Nash (Herman the Duck), Elvia Allman (Tootsie Sagwell), Bea Benaderet (Blanche Morton), Hal March (Harry Morton), Marvin Miller (Mr. Brown), Gale Gordon, Elliott Lewis ; Music - Harry Lubin Orchestra, Meredith Wilson and the Maxwell House Orchestra, Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, The Smoothies Three ; Jimmy Cash (vocalist), Paul Whiteman and his Music, ; Announcer - Jimmy Wallington, William Horace "Bill" Goodwin, Bud Hiestand, Tobe Reed ; Sponsor - Maxwell House Coffee ; NBC ; (29:49)

• 10:00 p.m. Duffy's Tavern
  3/7/44 Archie Fills Out his Taxes (Minute Rub/Sal Hepatica) (Blue) Ed "Archie" Gardner, F. Chase Taylor (Col. Stoopnagle), Eddie Green (Eddie the Waiter), Charlie Cantor (Clifton Finnegan), Florence Halop (Miss Duffy), Benay Venuta, ; Creator - Abe Burrows ; Blue net origination ; Music - Peter Van Steeden and His Orchestra ; Announcer - Dan Seymour ; Sponsor - Minit-Rub, Sal Hepatica ; Archie is working on his income tax return, when in walks Colonel Stoopnagle. He has just invented "The Reducinagle," which reduces one's income tax by eighty-percent! . (28:42)

• 10:30 p.m. The Adventures Of Ozzie and Harriet
  3/13/49 Income Tax Problems" Season 5 Episode 23 Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Hilliard, David Nelson, Ricky Nelson, Janet Waldo, Marvin Miller, Joseph Kearns ; Announcer -Verne Smith, ; From Hollywood ; Sponsor - International Silver Company, creators of 1847 Rogers Brothers International Sterling Silver Plate ; NBC ; Ozzie has trouble deciding how to make out his income tax, Harriet can't decide on a blue or a gray suit. (29:30)

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