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WAMU ^ | 9/11/11 | 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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[steelyourfaith]

Gunsmoke>

1/3/53 "Westbound" Program #37 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Charles Adams), Georgia Ellis (Miss Kitty Russell), Sam Edwards (Jack Daggett), Barney Phillips, Jim Nusser, John Dehner, Larry Dobkin, Tom Tully (Constable Roark) ; Writer - Les Crutchfield ; Music Composer/Conductor - Rex Koury ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ;Marshal Dillon and Chester go to Abilene to arrest murderer Jack Daggett. Matt is hoping to enlist the aid of his friend, sheriff Wild Bill Hickok. Unfortunately, Hickok is away on business and they must confront a hostile town, as well as a less than sympathetic constable who "is the law" in Hickok's absence. When they finally capture their quarry, Natt and Chester must face down the the two older Daggett brothers, who are determined not to let their brother hang. The script was reused on the broadcast of November 1, 1959.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

[Vision]

Gunsmoke usually had great writing.

[steelyourfaith]

Yes, most notably John Meston, although this episode was written by Les Crutchfield, who wrote a number of early Johnny Dollar episodes, as well as writing for many other programs.

[Vision]

Jack Benny, yes!

[Vision]

Meant to ping you to #20...

[steelyourfaith]

The Jell-O Program Starring Jack Benny
1/15/39. Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Mary Livingstone, Kenny Baker, Phil Harris and His Orchestra, Eddie Anderson, Harry Baldwin, Ed Beloin (writer, performer), Frank Nelson (opening announcer, performer), Blanche Stewart ; Writers - Bill Morrow & Ed Beloin ; Music - Phil Harris and His Orchestra ; NBC Red Network ; Sponsor - Jell-O ; The gang has lunch at the drugstore, with unkind words for Fred Allen on the menu. Kenny Baker mis-reads a line and stops the show! Phil calls Jack "Jackson" for the first time on the air.

[Vision]

You can tell Jack is still developing his chops at this point.

[Vision]

God Bless Guy Kibbee.

[Viking2002]

Evening, Vision. Looks like the Redskins and Ravens had a good day, at the expense of the Giants and Steelers.

"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."

[Dr. Scarpetta]

[steelyourfaith]

The Adventures of Sam Spade
8/1/48 "The Dry Martini Caper" Program #110 Howard Duff (Sam Spade), Lurene Tuttle (Effie Perrine), William Conrad (Gordon Martini/ Ernie), Joseph Kearns (Nesbitt/Hack Hartman) ; Creator - Dashiell Hammett ; Producer/Director - William Spier ; Sponsor - Wildroot Creme Oil Hair Tonic ; CBS, from Hollywood ; 300 pound Gordon Martini, about 50 years old, is the Chairman of the Board of the Martini Trading Company. He was waylaid by a mysterious assailant in his office and hospitalized. He calls Spade and retains him for $100. When Spade arrives at the 1000 Marina Boulevard home of Martini the later is soon shot by a man with a .30 caliber carbine hiding in the backseat of Martini's limo who then escapes in another car, a grey sedan with license number beginning with 5B9. Martini had thought his chauffeur Ernie was in the car. Nile green eyed Netta is Gordon's widow. Netta says that Gordon had drinking problems. Mr. Nesbit is a partner of Martini, and he is juggling the books. Netta thinks that Nesbit or Mary Callahan, company lawyer who fleeced him out of the company, killed Gordon. She has a carbine in her car - and it is a grey sedan. Netta has been fooling around with Ernie. When Spade checks the car out he finds that it is the get away car, and the carbine inside was the one that killed Gordon - plus the dead body of Ernie, killed with a single shot. Spade goes to the Trading Company and finds Nesbit and Callahan trading insults. He finds that the beneficiary of Gordon's insurance policy was changed from his wife to the Martini Trading Company, a corporation of the state of California. Spade is convinced that none of them did the murder, that it was the work of a daring professional hit man. Spade travels to the flea-bitten Atlas Hotel on Third Street near the railroad yards to the room of hitman Hack Hartman - and discovers a $1000 check from the Martini Trading Company, signed by Gordon Martini! Hartman says that the dead Martini was Gordon's twin brother and that he also had to kill the chauffeur. Spade finds Gordon could not have had a twin, and that Gordon closed out the account the day he wrote the check. Spade returns to Netta's and finds out that Gordon's personal booze is merely colored water. He calls Maxie at the morgue and learns that Gordon had a brain tumor and would have been dead in a week or two - his falling down drunk was really just the effects of the tumor. Spade tells Netta that Gordon allowed her and Nesbit and Callahan to each set themselves up with as nice a motive for murder as a jury could ask for. The real joker was that the check he used to pay for his own murder bounced. It proves that he planned his own murder. Gordon has his revenge because the insurance that would have kept the company going won't be paid off because of a self-liquidating clause.

[Vision]

Hey Viking. I caught a little of the Raven’s today, don’t like driving downtown before a game.

Is this Redskins QB as good as he looked at the start?

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Howard Duff

[steelyourfaith]

I look forward to accessing the link tomorrow, Gina. Any rain yet?

[Viking2002]

Well, in college, he won the SEC Championship for the Florida Gators in '00 and was a Heisman runner-up, and he took the Bears to the Super Bowl in '06. But he can be streaky and is prone to fumbling or throwing INT's. When he's hot, he's about as good as anyone out there. When he's cold, he can be the opponent's best friend. But Mike Shanahan is all business, so he'll either start being more consistent, or he'll be benched for John Beck in a heartbeat.

"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."

[steelyourfaith]

Broadway is my Beat
8/18/49 "Silks Bergen" Episode #23 Larry Thor (Detective Lieutenant Danny Clover), Charles Calvert (Detective Sergeant Gino Tartaglia), Hans Conreid (Gil Sherry), Jack Kruschen ; Producer/Director - Gordon T. Hughes ; Musical Direction - Lud Gluskin ; Writers - Morton Fine & David Friedkin ; In a haberdashery shop Silks Bergen, a jockey with a deep voice, introduces Danny Clover to Joe Murdoch. Silks also has a key to a locker #147 at La Guardia airplane terminal which he gives to Danny. Silks claims it contains a parcel with some of his riding silks in it. Later a woman hands Danny a $100 bill that she claims he drops. Her name is Belle Ames. She says that Marty wants to talk to him. Danny smells a bribe. The bill has a 42nd Street address written on it, room #16 of a Hotel. Inside is Marty and two of his gunsels, Tinker and Dolly. Marty wants to know what Silks told him. When Danny doesn't talk the boys bet him unconscious. When he wakes up Gil Sherry is waiting for him, along with the corpse of Silks Bergen., his chest full of bullets Danny manages to knock Gil out and then he calls the police to pick him up. Danny then goes to La Guardia and retrieves the package in locker #147. It is filled with $100,000 in large bills. Tartaglia says that there are no reports of stolen money in that amount, no reports of Silks winning a large bet, etc. Danny visits Gil Sherry in his jail cell but gets no , other than a lead to Palagos' Shooting Gallery via a roll of tickets in Sherry's belongings. Next Danny questions the ex-bookie Palagos to ask him if he knows how Silks got the money. Danny learns that Joey Murdoch has been fished out of the East River. When Clover is on the street, Marty orders him into his car at gunpoint. He takes him to a wharf side building at #8 West 63rd where Belle is waiting. Danny tells Belle that the key to the locker was on his key ring when Marty had him. Belle shoots Marty. Palagos shows up and shoots Belle. He tells Danny to call to have the money delivered. The bald headed Tartaglia shows up with a suitcase containing the money. Palagos says he is going to shoot them anyway. Before he shoots, Palagos wants a look at the money. It is nothing but newspaper. Palagos freaks out and D

[steelyourfaith]

Palagos freaks out and Danny takes him out. The money had been stolen from Palagos by Silks.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

[WXRGina]

SteelYourFaith, here on the MS Gulf Coast, we had at least 12 inches of rain last week when Tropical Storm Lee moved through here. But, I’m still praying for rain for my home state of Texas. They desperately need the rain. In West Texas, my 85-year-old granddad’s wells have gone dry on his lands, and the fat catfish in his tank on one of his properties have died after his well pump burned up due to lack of well water.