"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 7/17 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 7/17/11 | 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
  03/06/60 #681 Moonshine Matter (Multi-Sponsored) (CBS) (24:10)
• 07:30 p.m. Line Up
  10/04/51 Wild Woman Case (Sus,) (CBS) (29:22)
• 08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  11/07/52 #29 Tara (Sus.) (CBS) (29:52)
• 08:30 p.m. Phil Harris/Alive Faye Show
  10/17/48 #03 Phyllis’ Boyfriend (Rexall) (NBC) (29:39)
• 09:00 p.m. Ozzie & Harriet
  02/27/49 The Nelson Bank (Int'l Silver) (NBC) (29:28)
• 09:30 p.m. Richard Diamond
  12/17/49 John Blackwell Case (Sus.) (NBC) (29:28)
• 10:00 p.m. NBC University Theater
  10/31/48 #14 Justice w/Nigel Bruce (Sus.) (NBC) (59:47)

[WXRGina]

Hello, All! Looks like a fairly flat lineup this evening. We’re still looking forward to it, though, as always!

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx again, Vision !

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

• 7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
  3/6/60 "The Moonshine Matter" Matter #681 Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg (Upha Krump), Harry Bartell (Clark Tracy), Ben Wright (Charles Kingsleigh St. Clair), Sam Edwards, Vic Perrin, Ralph Moody (Dave Wupper) ; Writer/Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - John Wald ; Expense Account Total = $340.00 ; Clark Tracy of Providential Assurance Company calls Johnny on a case. Casper Krump has been murdered in Kennett, Missouri and his wife Upha is the beneficiary of a $5000 policy. The local agent is Harvard educated Charles Kingsleigh St. Clair) who doesn't fit in. This is hillbilly country and when Johnny shows up to make the pay out he faces a series of rifles and a killer. Gunshots greet him as his car approaches. The car smashes into a tree. The shooters, Seth and Cas Dingle thought he was the revenuer. They then befriend him when he explains that he is there to give the Krump widow $5000. They warn him to stay away from Dave Wupper, who is jealous of Upha. He meets the 20 year old widow who has four children. Cas Dingle takes Johnny through the 20 Mile Swamp to the shack of Dave Wupper. Wupper kills Cas, and then admits that he had already killed Krump. Johnny manages to take him in. CBS Radio Network (Multi-Sponsored) (24:10)

• 7:30 p.m.Line Up
  10/4/51 "The Wild, Wild Woman Case" (Sus,) (CBS) (29:22) William Johnstone (Lt. Ben Guthrie), Wally Maher (Sgt. Matt Grebb), Howard McNear, Peter Leeds, Hy Averback, Ray Hartman, Herb Butterfield, Jeanette Nolan, Gil Stratton ; Producer/Director - Jaime del Valle ; Writer - E. Jack Neuman ; Music Composer/Conductor - Eddie Dunstedter ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; CBS net ; sustaining ; Jewelry stores have been held up around the country by a man and women. John Tynan seems to have been the robber, but the victim fails to identify him. Irene Oldham is the name of Tynan's accomplice.

• 8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  11/7/52 "Tara" or "Jack Grace" Program #29 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Georgia Ellis (Miss Kitty), Sammie Hill (Tara Hantree), John Dehner (Jack Grace), Ralph Moody (Ben), Joe Du Val (Lawrence Kells), Vivi Janniss (Miss Honeycutt) ; Writer/Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Music Composer/Conductor - Rex Koury ; Announcer - Clancey Cassels ; United States Marshall Matt Dillon buys Chester a $4 gold watch chain with an elk's tooth from Ben. Pretty Tara Hantree enters to see if her handmirror from Boston has arrived. Matt has dinner with Kitty, and she talks about Tara. Matt and Chester had brought Tara back into Dodge City, Kansas, after her father died, and arranged for the wealthy, church going Lawrence and Gretchen Kells family to take her in. Kitty is concerned that 17 year old Tara is hanging around the Texas Trail Saloon, and taking up with Jack Grace. Kitty thinks something is wrong with Grace - empty inside, just mean crazy. When Matt goes to see the Kells he finds Tara and Grace together. Tara is adamant about maintaining her relationship with Grace. Matt and Chester go to the social which is supposed to be run by the Kells. Chester's date is Miss Honeycutt. Matt leaves with Kitty to go to the Kells house. The house is dark. Matt is suspicious because he didn't pass the Kells on the way, and they weren't at the social. Inside, he finds both of the Kells shot dead. He sends Kitty for Doc and Chester. As he looks around he finds Tara crying. She says that Kells confronted Grace, telling him to leave, and then Grace shot both of them - and then he hit her and left. Matt takes after Grace in the night on his swift buckskin horse. He guesses that Grace is headed for Abilene, Kansas, rather than back to Texas. Matt finds Grace and gets him to drop his weapons. Later Grace asks if he can light-up. When Grace goes for a derringer up his sleeve Matt shoots him dead. Matt sees Tara off on board the stagecoach for St. Louis. (Sus.) (CBS) (29:52)

• 8:30 p.m. Phil Harris/Alive Faye Show
  10/17/48 "Phyllis’ Boyfriend" Program #3 Phil Harris & Alice Faye, Elliot Lewis (Frankie Remley), Walter Tetley (Julius Abbrusio), Robert North (Willie Faye), Jeanine Roos (Little Alice), Anne Whitfield (Phyllis), Gale Gordon ; Producer/Director - Paul Phillips ; Writers - Ray Singer & Dick Chevillat ; Music - Walter Scharf and His Music ; Announcer - Bill Forman ; Sponsor - Rexall ; NBC ; Phil's daughter Alice (aged five) becomes engaged. Phil sings, "The Jabberwocky," Alice sings, "Love Somebody But I Won't Say Who." (29:39)

• 9:00 p.m. Ozzie & Harriet
  2/27/49 "The Nelson Bank" Season 5 Episode #22 Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Hilliard, John Brown, Tommy Bernard, Henry Blair, Hans Conried, Alan Reed ; Announcer - Verne Smith ; Music Composer/Conductor - Billy May ; From Hollywood ; Sponsor - International Silver Company, creators of 1847 Rogers Brothers International Sterling Silver Plate ; NBC ; The Ozzie National Bank gets in trouble when the $17 on deposit disappears. (29:28)

• 9:30 p.m. Richard Diamond
  12/17/49 "John Blackwell Case" Episode #35 Dick Powell (Richard Diamond), Virginia Gregg (Helen Asher), Ed Begley (Lieutenant Walt Levinson), Wilms Herbert (Desk Sergeant Otis), Hans Conreid (Vladimir) ; Music - Frank Worth ; Writer/Director - Blake Edwards ; Announcer - Eddie King ; aka "Yo Yo (No One Was Murdered)" ; NBC ; sustained ; John Blackwell wants to hire Diamond for his professional advice on how to commit a murder. Diamond thinks Blackwell is nuts, and is phoning the cops when he has a gun pulled on him and he is locked in the closet. When he gets out a midget named "Big Man", who is employed by Blackwell, comes in and pulls a gun on Diamond. When Helen Asher comes in the office Diamond distracts Big Man and drops him with a punch. When Big Man revives he is able to run away. Diamond and Otis visit Vladimir the artist to have a composite drawing made of John Blackwell. Dick Powell sings "I Only Have Eyes For You". (29:28)

• 10:00 p.m. NBC University Theater
  10/31/48 "Justice" Program #14 Nigel Bruce, Alma Lawton, Ben Wright, Crauford Kent, Dan O'Herlihy, Donald Morrison, Eric Snowden, Hugh Thomas, John Hoyt, Ramsay Hill, Raymond Lawrence, Tom McKee ; Author - John Galsworthy ; Writer - George Lefferts ; Music Composer/Conductor - Henry Russell ; Intermission Commentator - James Hilton ; sustaining ; NBC ; A portrait of an 81-pound forgery, and the British system of justice at the turn of the century. (59:47)

[Vision]

Hi Gina, how are you two?

Tonight has potential. Can't remember the last time two 1 hour programs ran from 9pm on.

[Vision]

Hey Steel, thanks, this Richard Diamond is a new one to me.

[steelyourfaith]

It’s a good one. Heard it before, V.

[WXRGina]

Hi, Vision and SteelYourFaith!

I didn’t notice two 1 hour programs. I need to check again. Does that mean maybe the lineup will not be as reported by WAMU?

[steelyourfaith]

Hey Gina.

[Vision]

I didn’t notice two 1 hour programs. I need to check again. Does that mean maybe the lineup will not be as reported by WAMU?

Ha, that's because I'm off. I was looking too quickly and thought RD and NBC Theater were both 1 hour programs.

[WXRGina]

Yea! News about Dragnet is forthcoming...

[Vision]

Be sociable, have a Pepsi? Bizarre commercial.

[WXRGina]

Yes, it was. It was difficult to understand what the girl was saying.

[Vision]

There you go...no more lineup.

You know, there are MANY old time radio shows. Why go back to dragnet again???

He really doesn't do justice to what is available.

[steelyourfaith]

I too wonder why Ed doesn’t offer more variety. Much of Old Time Radio is in the public domain.

[WXRGina]

Mr. Walker probably got an “earful” from Dragnet fans. We love Dragnet, but you’re right—there are plenty of great old time radio shows.

I have always encountered the same thing in commercial music radio. People complain that we don’t play all the great music made in, for instance, the “oldies” or “classic rock” formats.

I’m the first to agree with that. Radio “consultants” claim the public does not want more variety. The wizards of smart claim the public wants repetition of a small number of songs. I heartily disagree.

[WXRGina]

We would like to hear more mystery or “scary” shows...

[steelyourfaith]

Me too. Love mystery and scary. And multi-episode adventure series, like those written by Carlton E. Morse. There’s some pretty clever comedy out there as well.

[Vision]

“She got a taste of the gutter once and she liked it.”

Great writing.