"The Big Broadcast" Sunday 11/6 7-11pm est Live

"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.' "

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

Early Ping. Hope to make it back here by 7pm.

07:00 p.m. Johnny Dollar
02/05/61 #726 The Who's Who Matter (CBS) (21:28)
07:30 p.m. Dragnet
10/01/49 #18 Tom Laval (Sus.) (NBC) (29:30)
08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
02/28/52 #45 The Trojan War (Sus.) (CBS) (29:42)
08:30 p.m. Stan Freeberg
07/14/57 #01 (Sus.) (CBS) (29:38)
09:00 p.m. Philo Vance
08/31/48 The Coachman Murder (Synd) (26:02)
09:30 p.m. Escape
03/17/50 Three Skeleton Key (Sus.) (CBS) (29:32)
10:00 p.m. We Hold These Truths
12/15/41 (Sus.) (All Networks) (59:56)

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Three Skeleton Key is one of my favorites. Vinnie Price.

Thanx again, Vision !

November 6, 2011 (WARNING: These Raw Notes Contain Spoilers)

7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
2/5/61 "The Who's Who Matter" Matter #726 Robert Readick, Ian Martin (Ted Beckham), Phil Sterling (Al Pinker), Lawson Zerbe (Pat McCracken), Bill Lipton (police officer McKenzie), Rosemary Rice (Carol), Roger DeKoven (police sargeant), Leon Janney (Dollar impersonator) ; Writer - Jack Johnstone ; Producer - Bruno Zirato, Jr. ; Director - Ed Oates (or Ochs) ; Music Supervisor - Ethyl Huber ; Announcer - Art Hannes ; Expense Account Total = $306.25 Someone may be impersonating Johnny Dollar in Dallas/Fort Worth, and he has to handle that case as well as an arson case.(CBS) (21:28)
7:30 p.m.Dragnet
10/1/49 "Tom Laval" Program #18 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Barton Yarborough (Ben Romero), Raymond Burr (Ed Backstrand), ; Writers - James E. "Jim" Moser ; Technical Advice - W.A. Warden, acting Chief of the L.A. Police Department ; NBC ; Sustaining, but an announcement is made that the next program in the series will be sponsored by Fatima cigarettes ; Friday and Romero are working out of burglary division. Thomas Laval admits to being involved in a truck highjacking. While in custody, he jumps out of a window, but Sergeants Friday and Romeo are accused of pushing him to his death. (29:30)
8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
2/28/53 "Trojan War" Program #45 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), Lawrence Dobkin, Tom Tully, Paul DuBov, John Dehner (Mr. Kelvin), Harry Bartell, Louise Lewis Fitch (Helen Marlowe Ford) ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - Les Crutchfield ; Music Composer/Conductor - Rex Koury ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; CBS ; sustaining ; Matt and Chester stop into Delmonico's for a quiet breakfast Inside they greet Kitty. Suddenly Matt recognizes the Pueblo gang, Ed Parks and his younger brother Rio Parks and their companion Chuck Evans who had been terrorizing the Arizona Territory. Kitty tells Matt that those boys are downright mean. She saw them in action last night at the Texas Trail. Matt confronts them in the restaurant but since they have committed no crime in Dodge, Matt can only wait for the inevitable confrontation. Later, Will tells Matt that the stage from Buckeye is over two hours late carrying a cargo of gold dust worth $80,000-100,000. Will says that Houston Jack is riding shotgun. Matt and Chester go out to meet the stagecoach. Several hours out of town they find the empty stage and the body of Houston Jack, shot in the back of the head. The lead horse had been shot. Charlie, the driver, has also been shot dead and the strong box is empty. Matt suspects the Pueblo gang. Evidence suggests that there may have been passengers. There are items in a carpetbag that belong to a woman. The gang must have taken her with them. Matt and Chester go searching and find the remnants of a fire, abandoned about a half hour ago. Nearby they hear a woman moaning. She says that three men robbed the stage and killed the driver and guard. She says that when they left they shot her and laughed. She says that there names were Rio and Chuck. She dies. Matt recognizes her as Helen Marlowe Ford. He knew her a long time ago. She married Bill Ford and moved out to Colorado. Matt never thought he would ever see her again. Matt goes back to town, figuring that that is where the Pueblo gang went. He was right. He greets Mr. Kelvin at the livery stable. Sure enough the horses of the Rio brothers and Evans have been ridden hard. They head to the Texas Trail. Kitty tells them that one of the Pueblo gang, Rio, is there. Matt approaches him while Chester covers him. Matt accuses him of robbing the stage and shooting a woman. He arrests Rio for murder, and locks him up. There are two more gang members to be found. Matt and Chester are walking the streets. Matt sees Ed Parks in Ben's Barbershop. They go in the barbershop and Matt arrests Ed for murder. Ed won't raise his hands. Ben hits Ed over the head with the shaving mug, knocking him out and breaking his mug. Ben knew Parks had a gun under the towel. Matt tells him that he will be compensated for the mug and then takes Ed to jail. Matt and Chester head to Kelvin's Livery Stable. They are in time to find Chuck Evans trying to saddle up to get away. Matt arrests Evans, who pulls a gun and fires, but misses. Matt shoots him dead. The Parks boys will be hanging. Kelvin wants to know who will pay the livery bill. Matt tells him he can sell the three horses. (29:42)
8:30 p.m. The Stan Freberg Show
7/14/57 (Program 1 of 15) Stan Freberg, June Foray, Daws Butler, Peter Leeds ; Music - Billy May Orchestra ; Vocalist - Peggy Taylor ; Jud Conlon Rhythmaires ; Writer - Stan Freberg ; Producer/Writer - Keith Barnum ; Announcer - Bud Sewell; Replacement show for Jack Benny, Sunday evenings at 7:30. "The Tuned Sheep." "Incident At Los Varoces" (The El Sodom vs. The Rancho Gomorrah). . It was early in 1960, ten years ago. The rivalry between the El Sodom and the Rancho Gomorrah was heating up. (Sus.) (CBS) (29:38)
9:00 p.m. Philo Vance, Detective
8/31/48 "The Coachman Murder Case" Jackson Beck (Philo Vance), Joan Alexander (Ellen Deering), George Petrie (District Attorney Markham) ; Creator - S. S. Van Dine ; Frederick Ziv Syndication ; Grace returns home from the train station about 9:15 AM where she runs into David Douglas who was just arriving to interview her millionaire sportsman husband, Jonathan Morton Zachary, about fishing for his magazine. Together they walk to the pool where they find Jonathan floating dead in the pool. Meanwhile, Philo Vance gets a call from District Attorney Markham at a theater where he and Ellen Deering are attending a play. At the pool, Sergeant Heath takes charge of the investigation. Zachary had a fishing knife in his heart. A fishing rod was found at the side of the pool attached by a coachman-fly-hook to the dead man's clothes. Zachary had a shiny, brand new key in his pocket which did not fit any lock at his residence. Grace Zachary was once engaged to David Douglas. George Hastings, assistant to Mr. Zachary, is Philo's third suspect. Hastings intends on taking over Zachary's rayon firm. Meanwhile, Heath and Markham go to pick up David Douglas. After they knock on the door they hear a shot. They break the door down and find Douglas dead in his apartment, the gun still in his hand. William Bartlett enters the scene. He was the man whom Zachary was planning to merge their competing rayon firms, although he claims never to have met Zachary. Vance has learned that Grace arrived home earlier than she had originally stated. She admits that she came home at about 8:00 and saw her husband's body. Vance says that Douglas committed suicide to take the suspicion off of her. Philo gathers all the interested parties and goes through his theory of how the Zachary murder occurred. Next, Vance and Heath drive to Bartlett's hunting lodge. The key found on Zachary doesn't work on the front door. A local locksmith says that he just replaced the lock at the hunting lodge. The locksmith gives Vance the old lock. Vance surmises that Bartlett had tried to hook and reel in the body to retrieve the shiny key which would have proven that the two knew each other - but he had to stop when he heard Mrs. Zachary arriving. Heath springs this theory on Bartlett who confesses, thinking that someone had seen him. Later, Vance tells Ellen that his suspicions were raised when he noticed that Bartlett knew where the kitchen was at the Zachary residence, even though he was never supposed to have been there. (Synd) (26:02)
9:30 p.m. Escape
3/17/50 "Three Skeleton Key" Episode #114 Vincent Price (Jean), Harry Bartell (Auguste), Jeff Corey (Louie) ; Producer/Director - William N. Robson ; Writer - George Toudouze ; Adaptation - James Poe ; Sound Effects - Cliff Thorsness, Gus Bayz, Jack Sixsmith ; Control Panel Engineer - Harry Esman ; Music - Del Castillo ; Radio and Television Life Magazine has awarded the sound effects on the show "Best Of The Year." ; CBS ; Sustained ; Jean, Louie, and Auguste operate a lighthouse on Three Skeleton Key off the steaming coast of French Guiana. A three-mast ship is heading to the reefs where it will break up. Why doesn't it change course? Is it the crewless "Flying Dutchman"? With the telescope they see that the deck of the ship is teeming with rats! The ship hits the reefs and breaks up. The rats swim to the Key and then head for the lighthouse. They are ravenously hungry as they compress against the glass. The rats are blinded when the lighthouse's rotating light shines on them. They fall 110 feet to the surf below where the sharks get them. After midnight the men discover that the rats are eating the wood away in an effort to get to them. After nailing a sheet of tin reinforcement they hear gnawing at the wooden trap door. They head for the galley which has an iron door. Louie gets bit on the hand. They have no food or water. Later, Auguste has a wrench in his hand and is tapping gently on the window, asking the rats if they would like to come in. The last wick they have access to for the lighthouse light burns out. Suddenly the rats are silent. Looking out a banana boat is seen, which, because the lighthouse light is out, ends up getting too close to land. The sound of a coronet coming from the boat suddenly stops. The rats have boarded. At sea there is now another boat without a human crew. Louie died of blood poisoning, and Auguste was sent to an insane asylum where he never recovered. (Sus.) (CBS) (29:32)
10:00 p.m. We Hold These Truths
12/15/41 A "Bill Of Rights Day" broadcast Narrators - Jimmy Stewart & Orson Welles ; Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Bob Burns, Walter Huston, Marjorie Main, Edward G. Robinson, Rudy Vallee, Elliott Lewis, Dane Clark, Franklin Roosevelt (from Washington, D. C.) ; Writer/Producer/Director - Norman Corwin ; Music Composer - Bernard Herrmann ; Music - Leopold Stokowski and His Symphony Orchestra ; Sustaining. ; All Network pool feed ; Script was used again 50 years later , 1991,for a new broadcast. ; The story of the first Ten Amendments to the Constitution is told, 150 years after they were enacted. A superb production in the Corwin tradition. (59:56)

Three Skeleton Key is one of my favorites. Vinnie Price.

That is a creepy one!

Hello, SteelYourFaith!

It’s the crummy, time-change season. Dark at 5 PM is the pits!

Thanks for the ping.

Dark at 5 PM is the pits!

I don't like it either.

You said it!!!
No fan of DST here, Gina.

Re: Daylight Saving Time

I keep wondering why we don’t just split the difference by half an hour and leave it alone!
:-)

Now-a-days, what with all the digital appliances, it sure is a royal-pain-in-the-butt twice-a-year. If memory serves me right, DST was suspended for a year or two about 20+ years ago.

And, at least a couple of states do not recognize the time change.

Now that our clocks have changed, I feel like WINTER is around the corner. After that Halloween snowstorm last week, I dread it. There are still so many people in the area without power.

One of my favorites.

Evening all!

I miss Bob Bailey already...this is going to take time getting used to.

Bob Readick had the Johnny Dollar role when I first discovered the show while playing with the radio dial as a youngster. Mandel Kramer succeeded Bob, and brought a little more warmth to the character.

I hope the power in your area is restored soon.

We can certainly relate—down here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. After Katrina wiped out most of our coastline, we were without power for a couple of weeks, and much longer in other areas.

I miss Bob Bailey already...this is going to take time getting used to.

We miss Bob Bailey, too, and I don't like the new music within the program--it doesn't "fit." At least they kept the main Johnny Dollar theme music.