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WAMU ^ | 4/17/11 | 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]

• 07:00 p.m. Johnny Dollar
  10/18/59 #661 The Double Indentity Matter (CBS) (17:18)
• 07:30 p.m. Dragnet
  08/30/55 #315 Big Fellow (NBC) (24:00)
• 08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  08/16/52 #17 The Lynching (Sus.) (CBS) (29:32)
• 08:30 p.m. Sam Spade
  09/19/48 The Hot Hundered Grand Caper (Wildroot) (CBS) (29:32)
• 09:00 p.m. Nick Carter
  07/22/45 The Make Believe Murder (Lin-X) (MBS) (39:36
• 09:30 p.m. Mr. District Attorney
  09/12/52 Case of the Desert Killer (Synd) (26:34)
• 10:00 p.m. This is Edward R. Murrow
  04/30/65 w/Robert Trout (Sus.) (CBS) (43:36)
• 10:30 p.m. Vic & Sade
  01/23/43 Phone Call from the Hinks (Crisco)

[kjo]

If this is NPR trying to get into the right’s good graces, it’s not going to work.

We know that NPR is merely Air America with taxpayer dollars.

[kjo]

If this is NPR trying to get into the right’s good graces, it’s not going to work.

We know that NPR is merely Air America with taxpayer dollars.

[WXRGina]

This is nothing of the sort. This is a very long-running program hosted by a legend in the radio world, Mr. Ed Walker.

This may be the one piece of Americana present on public radio. I do not hold the rest of their programming against Mr. Ed—no way.

[WXRGina]

Hello Friends! I’m ready for our stories. It sounds like a bunch of good detective mysteries this time around!

[Vision]

The show has been around for 50+ years.

[Vision]

Hi Gina, yea I'm ready for some quality programs after a few weeks of theme shows. I'll be around off and on tonight with a 7:30pm appointment downtown, but will be listening.

Everything good?

[WXRGina]

Yes, all is well here—no news is good news.

Are you back home after being away on business? Were you in the Big Apple or another part of NY?

[Vision]

Good.

Yes back home. Was in lower Manhattan. It's inspiring to walk around the stock exchange, the tops of those skyscrapers hidden by fog or low clouds, on the way into work. I was there 3 days and the NY state and NYC tax on my hotel room was $120.

[kjo]

So has CPB/NPR...if this individual is good enough it would survive in the private market.

No more public dollars for liberal radio!

[WXRGina]

Wowee! I wouldn’t live in New York if someone paid me to!

I got an email today with photographs of the 1930 constuction of the Empire State Building. Just looking at those pictures made me dizzy with the height of them, not to mention the scaryness of no rails or anything to “protect” the workers!

[Vision]

This thread is not the venue to fight the war on NPR. Hope you enjoy the shows.

[Vision]

They were men that did what needed to be done.

[steelyourfaith]

No more public dollars for liberal radio!

No argument there.

Meanwhile, until NPR is defunded, it's nice to see that there is some local NPR programming that doesn't promote a political agenda, and this is one.

These are Old Time Radio broadcasts from the !930's to 1960s hosted weekly on Sunday nights by Ed Walker on WAMU, Washington DC. Ed is somewhat of a legend himself in Old Time Radio, as a member of the Joy Boys comedy team. Here is a sample of the group's work: "Round Table of Knowledge - Pumpkin".

[WXRGina]

Yes! That’s from the group of photos. Breathtaking!

[little jeremiah]

YIKES! Seeing that makes me shudder with fear. A very, very special group of men. I read a few times that some members of a particular Indian tribe were really good at that height work. A northern tribe, wish I could remember. Just seemed to have good heads for heights, I guess.

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx again, Vision !

April 17, 2011 (WARNING: These Raw Notes Contain Spoilers)

• 7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
  10/18/59 "The Double Identity Matter" Matter #661 Bob Bailey, Joan Banks (Betty Lewis), Lillian Buyeff (girl), Herb Vigran (Lieutenant Randy Singer), G. Stanley Jones (Conroy) ; Writer/Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; CBS; Expense Account Total = $20.00 ; Two beautiful girls - one of them a sweetheart, and one of them a killer. Betty Lewis calls to say she is home from her month long vacation to the Poconos, Atlantic City and New York, and she wants to know when he is going to ask her to marry him. They make a date for the evening. Then Lieutenant Randy Singer calls and asks for Johnny to come to NYC to help him. Johnny submits his expense account to Pat McCracken at the Universal Adjustment Bureau. Dollar goes to the 18th Precinct and Randy tells him about the apparent "suicide" by sleeping pills death of four men: Don R. Lee Brownfield ($40,000 insurance), Franklin P. Osbourne ($30,000 insurance), Peter William Gearheart ($50,000 insurance), and William Earl Chadwick ($25,000 insurance). All were old men recently married to beautiful young women - the same girl using a different name. Singer has traced her to 11325 East Maple Drive, Hartford, and goes by the name of Betty Lewis! Singer found that none of the men had a prescription for sleeping pills, but he found who was supplying them and a note from Betty Lewis asking the boy to be ready to make some more. Conroy busts in and tells Singer that the newspaper is waiting outside, and the chief, too. Johnny returns to his place and Betty is waiting for him. Dollars fire escape window has been jimmied open - just like the lock on her mailbox - and his desk rifled. In the mud around her mailbox was high heel foot prints - has somebody been using her mailbox while she was away. Johnny hangs around Betty's mailbox. A package was delivered. When no body picks it up, he checks it out. A woman drives up and demands why he is poking around in her mail. When he says he needs it as evidence to pin four murders on her. She shoots at him, but misses. He overpowers her and takes her to police headquarters. (Commercials for Camel Cigarettes, Stu Erwin for Grove Laboratories' Four-Way Cold Tablets , Grove Laboratories' Fitch Dandruff Shampoo, Ex-Lax ; Promo for Suspense, where fate stacks the cards against a jittery gamble, next on the CBS network) (17:18)

• 7:30 p.m. Dragnet
  8/30/55 "The Big Fellow" Program #315 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith), Virginia Gregg, Herb Ellis, Victor Rodman, Bert Holland ; Writer - John Robinson ; Music - Walter Schumann ; Announcers - George Fenneman & Hal Gibney ; NBC network origination ; AFRTS rebroadcast ; Friday and Smith are working out of robbery . The Merton Brothers, dope fiends, hold-up robbers, and generally nasty people have arrived in town looking for action. (24:00)

• 8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  8/16/52 "The Lynching" Program #17 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc), John Dehner, Paul DuBov, Tom Tully (Hank Ashford), Ralph Moody, Lee Miller, Joan Danton (Mrs. Stewart) ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - John Meston ; Music Composer/Conductor - Rex Koury ; Announcer - ?? ; CBS ; sustained ; A case of mistaken identity leads to the killing of an innocent man. Billy Saxton is lynched by a party led by Cam Powell for supposedly having shot Ken's brother Jobe Powell, who was shot in the back. Rhys Stewart objected to the lynching. Matt finds Saxton's body and accuses Cam. Chester relates that his cousin was lynched for cattle rustling. Matt starts his investigation at the Texas Trail because he heard that Billy was there the previous night. Kitty is upset over the lynching of "such a nice kid". She has been warned by Cam Powell not to talk to Matt, but that doesn't stop her. She tells Matt that Rhys Stewart got himself very drunk after the lynching. Hank Ashford, a cook at the Long Branch, is the one who accused Billy of the murder of Jobe. He rooms in #310 of the fancy Dodge House. Hank had taken Billy's gun when the lynch party grabbed him. Matt goes to Hank's room and discovers that Billy's gun is clean and fully loaded. Matt hauls Hank to the jail. Cam comes looking to bail out Hank, but Matt says that Hank is not under arrest. Hank admits shooting Jobe then draws on Matt. Matt guns Hank down and then arrests Cam in the murder of Billy Saxton. (29:32)

• 8:30 p.m. Sam Spade
  9/19/48 "The Hot Hundred Grand Caper" Program #117 Howard Duff (Sam Spade), Lurene Tuttle (Effie Perrine), Sadie Thompson (Lorraine Kilcourse), Joseph Kearns (Leonard Kilcourse) ; Producer/Director - William Spier ; Writers - Bud Tallman & Gil Doud ; Creator - Dashiell Hammett ; Music - Lud Gluskin, conductor, & Rene Garrriguene, composer ; Announcer - Dick Joy ; Sponsor - Wildroot Creme Oil in the new 25¢ bottle, or professional barber's treatment ; CBNS ; Lorraine Kilcourse hires Spade about her much older husband, Leonard. She thinks Leonard is paying blackmail to someone. She wants Sam to trail him and see what he does with the money that he has been withdrawing from their joint bank account. The Kilcourse residence is at 1316 Clarendon. Sam follows Leonard to Marin County and Ernie Nogales' Racket Club, a gambling joint. Kilcourse buys $100,000 in chips, and proceeds to bet $25,000 per spin of the roulette wheel. It looked to Spade as if Kilcourse was trying to lose the money. Sam goes to Mrs. Kilcourse's apartment where he first meets Lorraine's brother Tommy Lane. Sam initially threatens to quit. Lorraine says that Leonard is paying off Nogales to keep him from going after her brother, who ratted on Nogales for a rigged roulette wheel in Vegas. However, actually it was Lorraine who ratted on Nogales. Sam agrees to go back and see if he can figure how the wheel is rigged. Sam wins big - $100,000. Nogales looks happy. In the parking lot Sam sees five suspicious-looking cigar smoking characters waiting in a car. He releases the brake on Lorraine Kilcourse's Plymouth, which is soon riddled with machine gun fire from the car with the suspicious-looking characters. Spade busts into Nogales' office with his heater drawn. Evidently, Spade was mistaken for Tommy Lane and the money he just won was marked money from a payroll job. Spade hands the money over to Leonard Kilcourse. Sam recognized that Lorraine was not Kilcourse's wife. (29:32)

• 9:00 p.m. Nick Carter, Master Detective
  7/22/45 "The Make Believe Murder" Lon Clark (Nick Carter), Helen Choate (Patsy Bowen), Charlotte Manson (Patsy Bowen), John Kane (Scubby Wilson), Ed Latimer (Sergeant "Matty" Mathison), Humphrey Davis (Waldo) ; Script/Producer/Director - Jock MacGregor ; Writer - George Gordon Peggy Mayer Jim Parsons ; Original Music - Lew White (organist) Henry Sylvern ; Brought to you by - WOR, Mutual ; Announcer - Bob Martin ; Sponsor - Lin-X waxes and cleaning products ; Copyright - Street & Smith Publications, Inc. ; Nick has been invited to join the exclusive "Alphabet Club," where a mock murder turns into two real ones! Good story. (39:36)

• 9:30 p.m. Mr. District Attorney
  9/12/52 "The Case Of The Desert Killer" David Brian (Paul Garrett) ; Writer - Robert Shaw ; Producer/Director - Edward A. Byron ; Originator - Phillips H. Lord ; Music - Peter Van Steeden ; Sponsor - Ipana, Sal Hepatica, Sentry Hair Cream ; Ziv Syndication (1952 only); Commercials added locally. ; A spinster is found dead in the desert, shortly after withdrawing $10,000 in cash from her bank account. She was a "religious nut," believed in flying saucers and joined, "The Disciples Of The Entire Universe." The date is approximate. Excellent. (26:34)

• 10:00 p.m. This is Edward R. Murrow
  4/30/65 CBS Radio. Narrated by Robert Trout. Includes famous broadcasts by Edward Roscoe Murrow. This production was first broadcast three days after the famous World War II radio newsman's death. (Sus.) (CBS) (43:36)

• 10:30 p.m. Vic & Sade
  1/23/43 "Telephone Call from the Hinks" Art Van Harvey (Victor Gook), Bernadine Flynn (Sade Gook), Billy Idelson (Russell "Rush" Gook) Clarence Hartzell (Uncle Fletcher Rush) ; Writer/Creator - Paul Rhymer ; Sponsor - Crisco ; Pitchman - Ed Roberts ; This program has also been dated as 8/20/42. ; The Hinks call long distance to share the news of Birty and Dirty's initiation into the Sacred Stars Of The Milky Way. Robert and Slobert, Stupid and Cupid, Birty and Dirty ... they do like to talk.

[Vision]

Evening. How’s life?