"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 8/14 7-11pm est

"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.' "

1 posted on 08/14/2011 2:56:43 PM PDT by Vision

To: .30Carbine; Arthur McGowan; BluesDuke; Calvin Locke; Cold Heat; Country Eagle; Fantasywriter; ...

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

2 posted on 08/14/2011 2:57:15 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)

07:00 p.m. Charlie McCarthy
01/19/47 10th Anniversary Show (NBC) (29:03) (Chase & Sanborn)
07:30 p.m. Dragnet
#61 08/10/50 The Big Actor (NBC) (26:51)
08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
#205 03/11/56 Bringing Down Father (CBS) (21:23)
08:30 p.m. Fat Man
11/17/51 The Nightmare Murders (ABC) (29:30) (Buick)
09:00 p.m. Suspense
05/31/45 August Heat w/Ronald Colman
10:00 p.m. Lux Radio Theater
01/04/54 The Day the Earth Stood Still (CBS) (59:55) (Lux)

3 posted on 08/14/2011 2:57:49 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)

I'm confused...no JD? What!

But Suspense and Lux make it a good night...

4 posted on 08/14/2011 2:58:59 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)

I’m suspecting that Ed is running an old show, given that the Dragnet and Gunsmoke episodes are out of the sequence he wad on -— although Ed has another 9:30 mystery show for us.

5 posted on 08/14/2011 3:11:13 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)

Thanx again, Vision !

August 14, 2011 (WARNING: These Raw Notes Contain Spoilers)

7:00 p.m. Charlie McCarthy
1/19/47 "10th Anniversary Show" Edgar Bergen, Ray Noble and His Orchestra, Dorothy Lamour, Rudy Vallee, Dorothy Lamour, Pat Patrick, Don Ameche, Nelson Eddy ; Announcer - Ken Carpenter ; Sponsor - Chase and Sanborn Coffee, V-8 Vegetable Juice ; The tenth anniversary program of the program. The program starts with a recreation of how Bergen and McCarthy came to be hired for their first appearance on, "The Rudy Vallee Show. Mortimer Snerd turns down a chance to kiss Dorothy Lamour. Don Ameche appears as Dr. Gazola, the dentist, when Charlie gets a toothache. The show ends early and the closing drags on with repeated playings of the theme. (29:03)
7:30 p.m.Dragnet
8/10/50 "The Big Actor" Program #61 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Barton Yarborough (Ben Romero) ; Writer - James E. "Jim" Moser ; Sponsor - Fatima ; NBC ; Friday and Romero are working out of narcotics division. $10,000 worth of narcotics has been stolen from St. Christopher's Hospital. by an actor. (26:51)
8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
3/11/56 "Bringing Down Father" Program #205 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), Larry Dobkin, Vic Perrin, Billy Idelson ; Writer - John Meston ; Harley Burke is the tough trail boss of the Star M herd. When one of his men is killed, Burke is accused nd jailed. Amndy Gillan, the bitter young son iof the owner of the herd, has been accompanying Burke to learn about the family business. When Kitty tells Matt she overheard Andy talking about how he would do anything to get back at his father, Matt suspects that there is much more to the crime. (CBS) (21:23)
8:30 p.m. The Fat Man
1/17/51 "The Nightmare Murder" Jack Scott Smart (Brad Runyon), Lyle Sudrow (George Dutton) , Gertrude Warner (Joan Cameron), Ed Begley, Mary Patton, Amzie Strickland ; Creator - Dashiell Hammett ; Writer - Harold Swanton ; Director - Clark Andrews ; Producer - Ed Rosenberg ; Music Composer - Mark Winston ; Announcer - Don Lowe ; Sponsor - Buick. ; ABC ; The Fat Man is hired by mystery writer George Dutton to prove that he killed a woman, Lydia Bradshaw. He pays Brad Runyan $100. He remembers a large neon rooster. The girl's uncle says she is alive, and indeed, Lillian shows up. George is a quivering mass of flesh. He admits to Runyan that she is the girl he thought he killed. Runyan refunds $50 but he continues to investigate. (29:30)
9:00 p.m. Suspense
5/31/45 "August Heat" Program #143 Ronald Colman (James Clarence Withencroft), Dennis Hoey (Atkinson) ; Announcer - Joseph Kearns ; Writer - William F. Harvey (1910 short story) ; Radio adaptation - Mel Dinelli ; Producer/Director - William Spier ; Sponsor - Roma Wines, Fresno, California ; Pitchman - Truman Bradley & Elsa Maxwell ; Music Composer - Lucien Moraweck ; Music Conductor - Lud Gluskin ; As if in a trance forty year old Englishman James Clarence Withencroft sketches the picture of a huge, elephantine man who is about to be sentenced by a judge. Later, in a walk James comes across the sketch come to life, a man who is chiseling a marble gravestone. The man's name is Atkinson, and he has just chiseled James' name into the gravestone with the correct date of birth and the date of death as that very day. The two men have never met before. Predictions of the future are starting to come true.
9:30 p.m. ?????
10:00 p.m. Lux Radio Theater
1/4/54 "The Day the Earth Stood Still" Narrator - Paul Frees ; Michael Rennie (Klaatu), Jean Peters (Helen Benson), Herb Butterfield, Lamont Johnson, Tudor Owen, Billy Gray (Bobby Benson), Edith Evanson, William Conrad, Tyler McVey (Brady), Robert Griffin, Tom Brown, Frederick Shields, Marvin Bryan, Shepard Menken , Alastair Duncan, Steven Roberts, Ottola Nesmith, Edward Marr ; Host - Irving Cummings ; Announcer - Ken Carpenter ;, Screenwriter - Edmund North ; Author - Henry Bates ; Radio Adaptation - Milton Geiger ; Director - Earl Ebi ; Musical Director - Rudy Schrager ; Sound Effects - Charlie Forsyth ; Sponsor - Lever Brothers, makers of Lux ; CBS ; An alien from space gives mankind a final chance to achieve world peace. The program was subsequently produced on The Lux Video Theatre on May 3, 1956. Director Earl Ebi has been quoted as saying that this is "one of the most interesting and unusual shows we've done in a long time." (59:55)

6 posted on 08/14/2011 3:21:32 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)

To: steelyourfaith; Vision

Hello, Friends!

We were also surprised Johnny Dollar is a no-show, but he’s back next week, according to the WAMU schedule.

7 posted on 08/14/2011 3:26:32 PM PDT by WXRGina

Wasn’t there an old movie titled something like “The Big Broadcast?” W.C. Fields. An early TV broadcasting of a bicycle race? As I recall it was hilarious!

8 posted on 08/14/2011 3:36:30 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)

To: steelyourfaith

Hey, it must be a very old show. Can’t remember how long it’s been without JD.

9 posted on 08/14/2011 4:15:12 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)

10 posted on 08/14/2011 4:16:20 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: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

11 posted on 08/14/2011 4:16:58 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)

Hey, Gina. Whacha cookin’ tonite?

12 posted on 08/14/2011 4:18:47 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)

To: WXRGina; steelyourfaith

Ok, tonight's schedule is completely off. Ed's running a show in tribute to the end of WWII- which is 66 year's today..

13 posted on 08/14/2011 4:20:11 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: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Hey Doc! Nice to see you here.

Back in the 1930s there were a series of yearly "The Big Broadcast of 193_" movies. Comedies. In one Bob hope did a duet with some lady on the tune that became his theme song, "Thanks for the Memories".

14 posted on 08/14/2011 4:21:49 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)

To: steelyourfaith

Hello, SteelYourFaith!

We’re not cooking anything right now. I cooked all day yesterday for our friends (an almost 80-year-old couple we have drinks and dinner with every Saturday evening). Keith smoked a couple of chickens, and I made my “famous” baked beans and delicious classic potato salad.

Tonight, it may be a doctored DiGiorno pizza in the oven. :-)

15 posted on 08/14/2011 4:23:22 PM PDT by WXRGina

Just tuned in. Is that Johnny Dollar after all?

16 posted on 08/14/2011 4:24:40 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)

Strange deviation, though.

We were looking forward to the lineup with Suspense and the other shows. Oh, well.

17 posted on 08/14/2011 4:24:53 PM PDT by WXRGina

To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Hello, again, Doc! :-)

18 posted on 08/14/2011 4:26:18 PM PDT by WXRGina

To: steelyourfaith

Hiya!
I’ve been around, but spending a lot of time on The Steel Guitar Forum.
Best,
Bogie

19 posted on 08/14/2011 4:38:08 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)

Hiya!
I’ve been around, but spending a lot of time on The Steel Guitar Forum.
Best,
Bogie

Interesting system glitch! The system is telling me that neither you nor steelyourfaith exist! Only when I try to answer you both at the same time. Odd!

20 posted on 08/14/2011 4:40:27 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)

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