"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 7/24 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 7/24/11 | 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
  03/20/60 #683 Saturday Night Matter (Multi-Sponsored) (CBS) (23:16)
• 07:30 p.m. Dragnet
  06/10/49 #002 Nickled Plated Gun (Sus.) (NBC) (29:28)
• 08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  11/14/52 #030 The Square Triangle (Sus.) (CBS) (29:52)
• 08:30 p.m. Our Miss Brooks
  11/14/48 Babysitting (Colgate) (CBS) (29:10)
• 09:00 p.m. Great Scenes from Great Plays
  11/05/48 #05 Little Women (Synd) (29:02) Synd
• 09:30 p.m. Big Show
  03/11/51 #19 w/Bob Burns, Smith & Dale, Evelyn Knight, Billy Jimmy Durante, Eddie Jackson (Multi-Sponsored) (NBC) (1:28:14)

[Vision]

A mystery 10 o’clock hour tonight...

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx again, Vision !

July 24, 2011 (WARNING: These Raw Notes Contain Spoilers)

• 7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
  3/20/60 "The Saturday Night Matter" Matter #683 Bob Bailey, Bartlett Robinson (Peter H. Fillmore), James McCallion (Albert Barry), Forrest Lewis (Sergeant Keesley), Russell Thorson (Lieutenant Dick Spidel) ; Writer/ Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - John Wald ; Expense Account Total = $301.01 ; Peter H. Fillmore, of Surety Mutual Insurance, Limited, Denver, calls Johnny to investigate a string of eight supermarket robberies in Colorado - and what a racket! They follow a pattern. All occur on Saturday nights, when there is a lot of cash, and as the stores were about to close. Two masked gunmen, one tall and the other short, have perpetrated the crimes. The first was in Denver, the largest city in the state, and the next seven were in order of the next largest cities. The next one to be hit will be either Wheatridge, or Grand Junction. They are virtually identical in size. In the most recent census they were only separated by 7 people in population. Fillmore is waiting the current statistics. Johnny talks to Sergeant Keesley in Wheatridge who tells him to see Lieutenant Dick Spidel in Grand Junction. On the way to Grand Junction, Johnny is run off the road and winds up hospitalized. When he awakes Lieutenant Spidel is present. Johnny confronts Fillmore's assistant, Albert Barry, as being the mastermind - he sold all the policies to the grocery stores, getting the commissions, and then taking a cut from the robberies. Barry pulls a gun on Dollar, but Sergeant Keesley who was awaiting outside the door enters and gets the drop on Albert. (Commercials for Pepsi, Winston, Stu Erwin for Grove Laboratories' Four-Way Cold Tablets for 29¢, and Fitch Dandruff Remover Shampoo, Fritos.) CBS Radio Network,(Multi-Sponsored) (23:16)

• 7:30 p.m.Dragnet
  6/10/49 "Fast Trigger Gun" Program #2 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Barton Yarborough (Ben Romero), Frank Lovejoy (Emerson) ; Writer - Robert Ryf ; NBC ; This program does not use the familiar "Dragnet" theme music. Tuesday, March 25. Friday and Romero are working the night watch out of homicide detail. Ed Backstrand is chief of detectives. Two police officers, Williams and Emerson, have been shot at 1245 Esat Doheny Street, The Trap Door Cafe. A nickel plate .44 caliber Smith and Wesson was used to shoot the two cops and a lot more people. The police make extensive use of "I. B. M. machines" and a tape recorder to solve the case.(Sus.) (NBC) (29:28)

• 8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  11/14/52 "The Square Triangle" Program #30 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), Lillian Buyeff (Eva Morley), Harry Bartell, Lawrence Dobkin, Jack Krushen ; Writer - Les Crutchfield ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Music Composer/Conductor - Rex Koury ; Announcer - Clancey Cassels ; Matt and Chester are walking at night on Front Street when they meet pretty Miss Eva Morley, a femme fatale. She is looking for Red Lawson, who works for her husband Al. Bartender Jesse Wells tells Matt that Red Lawson has knifed Al Morley to death in the back. $10,000 that Al was carrying is gone. Matt tracks Lawson and then shoots him when he runs. He has the money, but Matt asks him, "Was she worth it?" As he is dying Lawson denies that he killed Al. Matt accuses Jesse of killing Al. The next night Matt and Chester are walking again and run into Eva Morley again. Matt sends Chester on to the Texas trail and then makes arrangements to meet Eva at 10:00. Matt asks Kitty to tell Jesse to go to Miss Morley's at 9:45. Matt tells her he has a killer that he can't touch so he is going to try to get the killer to touch him. When Matt goes to Eva's he finds Jesse. Jesse gets jealous and admits that he killed Al for Eva. Jesse pulls a gun. As he is trying to make a getaway he gets shot dead by Chester and Matt. Three men die because of Eva, and there is nothing Matt can do about her. (Sus.) (CBS) (29:52)

• 8:30 p.m. Our Miss Brooks
  11/14/48 "Baby Sitting for Three" Program #18 Eve Arden (Connie Brooks), Jane Morgan (Mrs. Margaret Davis), Gale Gordon (Osgood Conklin), Gloria McMillan (Harriet Conklin), Richard Crenna (Walter Denton), Jeff Chandler (Mr. Philip Boynton), Tommy Cook, Sandra Gould (Tommy Garson), Bobby Ellis, Jeff Silver ; Writer/Director - Al Lewis; Producer - Larry Berns ; Musical Director - Wilbur Hatch ; Pitchman - Verne Smith ; Sponsor - Palmolive Soap, Lustre Creme Shampoo & Colgate Tooth Powder (Contest) ; It is Sunday and Connie goes to visit Eddie Garson who has been absent all week. He lives at 225 Park Street which is the same street on which Mr. Boynton lives. Connie learns that 14 year old Eddie has had to babysit his three younger brothers ("I'm hungry." "I'm thirsty." "Waaaaaa.") Mike, Danny, and Tommy while his mother has been in the Clay City Hospital and his father is on the road as a traveling salesman. Connie agrees to look after the three youngsters while Eddie visits his mother - then it turns into an overnight job and Connie has to have Mrs. Davis call in sick for her. Walter and Harriet drop by and get the idea that Connie and Mr. Boynton are secretly married and have children. Osgood Conklin, the school principal, gets wind of it and shows up at 225 Park Street and ends up taking over the babysitter duty. (Colgate) (CBS) (29:10)

• 9:00 p.m. Great Scenes from Great Plays
  11/5/48 "Little Women" Program #6 Joan Caulfield, Betty Caulfield, Stefan Schnabel ; Host - Walter Hampden ; Author - Louisa May Alcott ; Producer - The H. B. Humphrey Company, Inc. ; Syndication - National Council Of The Protestant Episcopal Church ; Mutual Network origination ; (29:02)

• 9:30 p.m. Big Show
  3/11/51 Pfrogram #19 Bing Crosby, Bob Burns, Bob Hope, Celeste Holm, Bob Burns, Joe Smith (of "Smith and Dale"), Charles Dale (of "Smith and Dale"), Evelyn Knight, Billy Eckstine, Jimmy Durante, Eddie Jackson, Jack Pearl, Cliff Hall, Tallulah Bankhead, Goodman Ace, Jean Courtney ; Announcer - Ed Herlihy ; Narrator - Frank Wilson ; Author - O. McIntyre ; Producer/Ddirector - Dee Englebach ; Writers - Morton Green & Selma Diamond ; Music - Meredith Willson and His Orchestra ; Sponsor - Anacin, RCA, Chesterfield ; NBC Network ; Evelyn Knight sings, "I Remember The Cornfields." Billy Eckstine sings, "If." Bob Burns tells stories about his home back in Van Buren, Arkansas, and briefly plays his bazooka. Smith and Dale do the Dr. Kronkeit routine with Jean Courtney as the nurse. It's still funny! Jimmy Durante and Eddie Jackson sing, "Bill Bailey." Jack Pearl and Cliff Hall appear as, "Baron Munchausen" and "Sharlie." Tallulah reads a very touching essay about a dog, written by O. McIntyre. (1:28:14)

[WXRGina]

Hi, guys!

Our awful drought finally broke. We’ve had around 10 inches in the past week or so here on the Coast. Thank God!
They even lifted the burn ban.

Out in West Texas, where my family lives, they’ve had record heat and no rain FOREVER. They broke the record last week for number of consecutive days above 100 degrees. My 85-year-old granddad was telling me on the phone that a preacher was visiting him and said the heat and drought were terrible, and the preacher wondered when it would ever rain. My granddad told him, “It’ll rain at the end of this dry spell.”

My Papaw’s hoot!

[steelyourfaith]

LOL, sage words from your Papaw.

Funny, over here we've had had buckets of rain, nearly daily, for weeks on end. My monthly water bill is way down.

Last program tonight is a variety show running an hour and a half long.

[steelyourfaith]

FWIW, last week Ed played the Richard Diamond Episode #39 “George Victor’s Daughter” (originally broadcast 1/14/50) which he misidentified as Episode #35 “John Blackwell Case”.

[WXRGina]

It seems like it’s feast or famine! :-)

[Vision]

Hey you two. Glad to hear about the rain. I spent and am currently watering everything- as everything green outside wants to go brown.

I think the 9:30pm slot is actually 1 1/2 hour Big Show. I love the Big Show. Actually bought the entire series. I haven't listened to them all but one in particular, that I heard on the Big Broadcast years ago, has some of the most beautiful radio I've ever heard.

If you would like that particular Big Show, mail me your email addresses and I'll send that episode to you.

[WXRGina]

I’ll take it! I’ll FReepmail my e-dress, which I should’ve done before, anyway.

This Frank song is fabulous!

[Vision]

Ahh. Love how you know these details.

[Vision]

I’ll have it to you later tonight.

[WXRGina]

Thanks! :-)

[Vision]

“...and executed next week.”

Oh to live in a time of justice.

[WXRGina]

The ACLU wasn’t yet so rabid back then...

[Viking2002]

Evening, Vision.

[Vision]

Hi Viking, how’s life? You enjoying that Alabama heat?

[Vision]

Tallulah Bankhead

[WXRGina]

She’s SUCH a JADED DAH-ling!!!

Beautiful lady, too. :-)