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1 posted on 05/01/2011 2:35:49 PM PDT by Vision

To: Arthur McGowan; BluesDuke; Cold Heat; Country Eagle; Fantasywriter; Ghost of Philip Marlowe; ...

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

2 posted on 05/01/2011 2:36:47 PM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)

07:00 p.m. Johnny Dollar
11/01/59 #663 The Hand of Providential Matter (18:34) (CBS)
07:30 p.m. Dragnet
09/20/55 #318 Big Close (NBC) (25:04)
08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
08/30/52 #19 The Juniper Tree (Sus.) (CBS) (29:42)
08:30 p.m. Father Knows Best
06/22/50 A New Housekeeper (Maxwell House) (CBS) (29:30)
09:00 p.m. Philo Vance
04/18/50 #93 The Golden Key Murder Case (Synd) (26:22)
09:30 p.m. Fort Laramie
04/22/56 #13 The New Recruit (Sus.) (CBS) (29:46)
10:00 p.m. Lux Radio Theater
02/03/47 National Velvet w/Elizabeth Taylor (Lux) (CBS) (59:58)

3 posted on 05/01/2011 2:37:19 PM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)

We’re ready! Hello, Friends!

4 posted on 05/01/2011 3:14:49 PM PDT by WXRGina

Evening. These weeks are flying by...

5 posted on 05/01/2011 3:35:13 PM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)

Isn’t that the truth?!

6 posted on 05/01/2011 3:40:01 PM PDT by WXRGina

Welcome home, Sgt. Shue. Rest in peace, at last.

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7 posted on 05/01/2011 3:41:21 PM PDT by WXRGina

Last week Ed intro-ed the Dragnet episode "The Big Ruling" but actually played the episode titled "The Big Pipe" originally broadcast as Episode #236 on 2/23/54, and rebroadcast as Episode #378 on 1/29/57.

"The Big Ruling" is an interesting episode, kinda like Perry Mason losing a case (I think there was ONE TV case Perry lost), wherein Friday & Smith bust a crook --- or so it seemed.

If you have a chance to listen "The Big Ruling" is available online HERE complete with Chesterfield cigarette commercials, which touted that the cigarettes were made with the Accu-Ray technology. Marvelous marketing.

Dragnet
9/6/55 "The Big Ruling" Program #316
Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith), Virginia Gregg, Jack Kruschen, Herb Ellis (Sam Arthur Free), Vic Raudman (DA Dan Lauren) ; Writer - Frank Burt; Sponsor - Chesterfield Cigarettes, made the modern way with Accu-Ray, invented by young Bert Chope, the president of Industrial Nucleonics, wherby a stream of electrons passes through and analyzes a product as it is being made, L&M Filter Cigarettes ; NBC network origination ; Technical Advisor - William H. Parker, L.A. Chief of Police, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sgt. Marty Wynn, Sgt. Vance Brasher ; Announcers - George Fenneman, Hal Gibney ; Scripted for TV with original TV air date of 1/19/56. ; Friday and Smith are working out of narcotics, A heroin supply has reached the city. This episode focuses on the frustrating legal limitations placed upon police officers when dealing with known criminals. Searching for a huge shipment of heroin, Friday and Smith confer with informant and former user Candy Delmon. The officers search and detain Sam Arthur Free, a dope pusher specializing in hooking kids. Free is caught with narcotics on him, but he has been "searched illegally." Though the detectives manage to build a strong case against Freed, deputy DA Dan Lauren throws out the evidence because the suspect was neither placed under arrest nor asked permission to be searched, there being no search warrant, the exclusionary ruling. As a knee-jerk reaction to the California State Supreme Court's recent "Charles Cahan" decision, the controversial TV episode was severely criticized by certain citizen's-rights pressure groups (though, according to Dragnet historian Michael Hayde, no one protested the earlier radio version). Gunsmoke to debut on TV Saturday night 9/10/55.

8 posted on 05/01/2011 3:57:38 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)

Thanx again, Vision !

May 1, 2011 (WARNING: These Raw Notes Contain Spoilers)

7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
11/1/59 "The Hand of Providential Matter" Matter #663 Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg (landlady), Edgar Barrier (Ernest L. Whiteman), Junius Mathews (Elwood Sprague), Jerry Hausner (Sergeant Ed Wilson), Larry Dobkin (Pat McCracken), ; Writer/ Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; Expense Account Total = "I may as well forget the expense account for a change, but the important thing was is to have some small part in wiping out this dirty racket." ; CBS ; Earnest L. Whiteman of a new company, Providential Assurance Company, Hartford, calls Dollar about a case of embezzlement of over $200,000. At the Providential office Johnny meets Providential's owner Elwood Sprague. The money was embezzled from Providential. It is believed that bookkeeper Tom Hauser stole the money, and now he has disappeared. Johnny goes to Hauser's apartment. His landlady said that he left late the previous evening. Johnny goes to his apartment and he hears Hauser talking on the phone! Dollar tries to slip into the room, but he is knocked unconscious. When he revives the landlady says she has seen no one. Sergeant Ed Wilson calls Johnny with the news that the recovered prints show Hauser is a safe-cracker and murderer with a number of aliases. Pat McCracken, Universal Adjustment Bureau, calls Dollar for a case and tells him that Providential may be an illegal outfit. Sprague calls and asks Johnny to meet his at the Guilford Hotel. Johnny complies. Sprague admits that they were running a scam, intending to run off with the premiums. Whiteman interrupts them with a gun, intending to murder them and admitting that he killed Hauser. Pat McCracken and Ed Wilson slip up from behind Whiteman and disarm him. Promo for Suspense, next , the nerve tingling progress of a man hurled into space. (18:34)
7:30 p.m. Dragnet
9/20/55 "The Big Close" Program #318 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith), Vic Perrin, Helen Kleeb, Lillian Buyeff, Stacy Harris, ; Writer - John Robinson ; NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast ; Technical Advisor - William H. Parker, L.A. Chief of Police, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sgt. Marty Wynn, Sgt. Vance Brasher ; Announcers - George Fenneman & Hal Gibney ; Music - Walter Schumann ; Program #318 is the final original script and the last episode sponsored by Chesterfield. It is also the last of the "new" shows. Although the show would continue on the air until February 26, 1957, the remaining broadcasts would be all re-runs. ; Scripted for TV with original TV air date of 3/7/57. ; Friday and Smith are working out of homicide. The body of a man is found in a Sepulveda motel, only a few days after he registered. The corpse was that of a "ladies man" in town on "sales business". Friday and Smith suspect that the dead man had given a phony name to the desk clerk--and that, contrary to evidence of suicide, he was actually murdered. It soon develops that the victim had recently been seen in the company of a flashy blonde, even though he was married to another woman. In addition, it turns out he was telling the truth about being a salesman: trouble is, his merchandise consisted of illegal narcotics. (25:04)
8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
8/30/52 "The Juniper Tree" Program #19 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc), Vivi Janiss, Paul DuBov, Bill Lally, John Dehner (Jim Stanley), Michael Ann Barrett ; Writer - Herb Purdum ; Music Composer/Conductor - Rex Koury ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; sustained ; CBS ; Matt responds to a complaint by Mingo of the Cherokee Palace. Upstairs Brandy, who runs the dance hall girls, has been tending to Jim Stanley, who Mingo claims stole money from his roulette wheel. Mingo has two witnesses to back him up. Matt has to arrest Stanley. Matt questions the witnesses and determines that they are lying. While in jail Stanley is paid a visit by Dixie, Mingo's girl. Later, Stanley breaks jail, having sawed through the bars. Dixie had to have supplied the saw blades. Matt chases down Stanley and finds out that he and Dixie are now married. As Matt is talking to Stanley a bullet hits Stanley and he goes down. Dixie thinks Stanley is dead and shows no remorse, only thinking about sole ownership of Stanley's ranch. When Stanley revives, Dixie runs off. It was Mingo who shot Stanley and Matt took him out. (29:42)
8:30 p.m. Father Knows Best
6/22/50 "A New Housekeeper" Robert Young (Jim Anderson), Ted Donaldson (Bud Anderson), Rhoda Williams (Betty Anderson), Dorothy Lovett/Jean Vander Pyl (Margaret), Helen Strom/Norma Jean Nilsson (Kathleen Louise "Kathy"); Writers - Paul West & Roswell Rogers ; Creator - Ed James ; Announcer - Bill Forman ; Sponsor - Maxwell House ; Transcribed in Hollywood ; CBS (29:30)
9:00 p.m. Philo Vance
4/18/50 "The Golden Key Murder Case" Episode #93 Jackson Beck (Philo Vance), Joan Alexander (Ellen Deering), George Petrie (District Attorney F. H. Markham) ; Creator - S. S. Van Dine ; Organist - Henry Sylvern ; Director - Jeanne K. Harrison ; Producer - Frederick W. Ziv ; Ziv Syndication ; After Vance receives a mysterious key in the mail, he discovers a dead man sitting at his desk...with an identical golden key in his hand. (26:22)
9:30 p.m. Fort Laramie
4/22/56 "The New Recruit" Episode #13 Raymond Burr (Lee Quince, captain of cavalry at Fort Laramie, Wyoming frontier), Vic Perrin (Sgt. Gorce), Lawrence Dobkin, Harry Bartell (Lt. Seiberts), Jack Moyles (Maj. Daggett), Sam Edwards, Lou Krugman, John Dehner, Paul Dubov, James Nusser ; Producer/Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Music - Amerigo Marino ; Writer - E. Jack Neuman ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; Sound Patterns - Bill James & Ray Kemper ; The system cue has been deleted. ; The program was recorded March 29, 1956.; Sustaining ; CBS ; The story of a man who was in the army...but never really a soldier, who re-enlists, but for a strange reason. (29:46)
10:00 p.m. Lux Radio Theater
2/3/47 "National Velvet" Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Janet Scott, Norman Field, Charles Seel, Truda Marson (doubles), Lois Boniston, John McGovern, Alec Harford, Jack Edwards Jr., Herbert Rawlinson, George Neise (doubles), Jerry Barnes (as a dog) ; Host - William Keighley (speaking from New York City) ; Announcers - John Milton Kennedy & Thomas Hanlon ; Intermission Guest - Dorothy Patrick : Commercial Spokeswoman "Libby Collins" - Doris Singleton : Screenwriters - Theodore Reeves & Helen Deutsch ; Author - Enid Bagnold ; Radio Adaptation - Sanford Barnett ; Director - Fred MacKaye ; Musical Director - Louis Silvers ; Sound Effects - Charlie Forsyth ; Sponsor - Lever Brothers, makers of Lux and Spry ; CBS ; The story of a young girl in love with her horse and with a dream of winning the Grand National with him. (59:58)

9 posted on 05/01/2011 4:00:15 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)

God Bless Sgt. 1st Class Donald Monroe Shue

10 posted on 05/01/2011 4:11:13 PM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)

To: steelyourfaith

Hi, cool thanks I’ll take a listen.

11 posted on 05/01/2011 4:13:46 PM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)

Just to think of his Dad, who had to give permission for him to sign up because he was under 18. And, then his boy doesn’t come home...

The story says his Dad died two years after he went missing.

12 posted on 05/01/2011 4:13:54 PM PDT by WXRGina

13 posted on 05/01/2011 4:20:06 PM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)

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."

14 posted on 05/01/2011 5:05:02 PM PDT by Viking2002 (RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!!!!!)

Hello. Glad you’re still alive.

15 posted on 05/01/2011 5:07:15 PM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)

16 posted on 05/01/2011 5:09:01 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)

We got our deck shuffled a little - three twisters came within about 15 miles of here, and one in our county caused nine fatalities. But we're still here. The wind and lightning was something to behold.

17 posted on 05/01/2011 5:10:37 PM PDT by Viking2002 (RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!!!!!)

To: steelyourfaith

That’s really, really fine, SteelYourFaith!

18 posted on 05/01/2011 5:12:11 PM PDT by WXRGina

Stephen Foster composition I reckon. :)

19 posted on 05/01/2011 5:16:59 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)

Glad to hear it. There were tornadoes in central/northern VA and western MD to Montgomery county but no where as bad as Alabama got it.

20 posted on 05/01/2011 5:27:39 PM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)

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