"The Big Broadcast" Sunday 11/20 7-11pm est Live

WAMU ^ | 11/20/11 | 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
  03/12/61 #731 The Ring of Death Matter (Multi-Sponsored) (CBS) (22:30)
• 07:30 p.m. Dragnet
  12/01/49 #27 Spring Street Gang (NBC) (26:56)
• 08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  03/14/53 #47 Cyclone (Sus.) (CBS) (29:42)
• 08:30 p.m. Lum & Abner
  Chester the Turkey
• 08:45 p.m. Vic & Sade
  11/20/41 Rush Humiliated On Thanksgiving (NBC) (14:50)
• 09:00 p.m. Great Gildersleeve
  11/16/41 #012 Thanksgiving (Kraft) (NBC) (29:46)
• 09:30 p.m. Aldrich Family
  11/23/52 The Last Turkey (Sus.) (NBC) (27:28)
• 10:00 p.m. Dr. Christian
  11/22/39 Prelude to Thanksgiving (Vaseoline) (CBS) (28:36)
• 10:30 p.m. Family Theater
  11/27/47 Home for Thanksgiving (Sus.) (MBS) (29:02)

[WXRGina]

Time to give thanks...

Hello, Friends!

[logitech]

Hello. Happy Thanksgiving!

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx again, Vision !

November 20, 2011 (WARNING: These Raw Notes Contain Spoilers)

• 7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
  3/12/61 "The Ring of Death Matter" Matter #731 Robert Readick, Robert Dryden (Antonio "Touchy Tony" Tarantino), Joan Lorring (Angie Tarantino), Ralph Camargo (Raul Martinez), Mandel Kramer (Don Pinkley), Danny Ocko (Jose) ; Writer - Jack Johnstone ; Producer/Director - Bruno Zirato, Jr. ; Music Supervisor - Ethyl Huber ; Announcer - Art Hannes ; Expense Account Total = $389.00 ; Johnny Travels from New Orleans to a small town in Mexico in order to try to distinguish whether or not a professional boxer was given an honest opinion from a doctor who told him to give up fighting. A case involving a prize fight in which the only prize to be won is death. (Multi-Sponsored) (CBS) (22:30)

• 7:30 p.m.Dragnet
  12/1/49 "Spring Street Gang" Program #27 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 ; juvenile Organized Gang and CrimesNBC net. Sponsored by: Fatima, Grainger Pipe Tobacco. A gang of juveniles is hanging out on Spring Street. One of the gang members has been wounded, another is shot by a night watchman while committing a robbery. (26:56)

• 8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  3/14/53 "Cyclone" Program #47 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), Vivi Janiss (Mrs. Wade), Harry Bartell, Lawrence Dobkin, Joe Cranston, Jerry Hausner ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - Les Crutchfield ; Music Composer/Conductor - Rex Koury ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; Matt and Chester enter the Texas Trail and greet Miss Kitty. All of the hands from the Cyclone Ranch are at the bar. Matt suspects foul play when Old man Bartlett's Foreman, Ed, tells him that the Cyclone Ranch has been sold to a stranger from Texas named Jed Wade. Although Ed did not actually see the Bartletts leave, he was told that they had left the country. Wade paid off all of Bartletts hands and then laid them off because he brought his own hands. Everybody knows that Bartlett put half of his life into that ranch, so it seems unlikely that he would sell. He even said that he planned to live the rest of his life there. Matt decides to do some digging around, and he unearths more than he bargained for. Matt finds out that there has been no bill of sale recorded on the Cyclone Ranch. Chester has been checking around at the stage depot, etc., and no one has seen the Bartletts leave. Matt and Chester go out to the Cyclone. They first meet Jed's belligerent partner, Dallas, and then Jed's friendly mother, Mrs. Wade. She never met the previous owners. She wants to make sure though that Jed hasn't gotten in trouble again. Jed shows up and chases his mother away. Matt wants to see the bill of sale signed by Old Man Bartlett. Jed produces the document. Dillon wants to take it into town and check the signature. Back in town, Matt and Chester run into Doc, who has a bill of sale from Old Man Bartlett for a horse that he bought last fall. The signature is the same. Matt can't escape the thought that Old Man Bartlett was forced to sign the bill of sale. Matt and Chester go back out to the Cyclone. The coyotes are howling. They appear to be digging by the river bank. At that spot Matt and Chester continue the digging and find the dead bodies of the Bartletts. Shots then ring out. Matt and Chester return fire and score a fatal hit on Dallas. Matt and Chester go on to the house looking for Jed. They meet Mrs. Wade who directs them to the barn. Matt tells Jed that he is under arrest. Jed knocks over the lantern and grabs his gun. The hay quickly catches fire, and the barn collapses on Jed, killing him. (Kansas Governor Edward F. Arn addresses the radio audience.) (Sus.) (CBS) (29:42)

• 8:30 p.m. Lum & Abner
  "Thanksgiving Special, Chester theTurkey" Chester Lauck (Lum Edwards), Norris Goff (Abner Peabody) ; Announcer - Lou Crosby ; Lum's turkey, Chester, is going to be served up for Thanksgiving.

• 8:45 p.m. Vic & Sade
  11/20/41 "Rush Humiliated On Thanksgiving" Art Van Harvey (Victor Gook), Billy Idelson (Russell "Rush" Gook), Clarence Hartzell (Uncle Fletcher Rush) ; Writer/Creator - Paul Rhymer ; Announcer - Ed Herlihy ; NBC Red network ; Sponsor - Crisco. Nicer Scott has been telling everyone that Rush Gook eats with a baby's knife and fork. Rush is humiliated and angry. Stuff happens! The organ themes, bridges and system cue have been deleted. (14:50)

• 9:00 p.m. The Great Gildersleeve
  11/16/41 "Thanksgiving" Program #12 Harold "Hal" Peary (Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve), Lurene Tuttle (Marjorie Forrester), Walter Tetley (Leroy Forrester), Earle Ross (Judge Horace Hooker), Hans Conried, Jim Bannon, Lillian Randolph (Birdie Lee Coggins) ; Composer/Conductor - William Randolph ; Sponsor - Kraft Parkay ; It's Thanksgiving, and Gildersleeve is trying to invite some soldiers to share his turkey. (29:46)

• 9:30 p.m. Aldrich Family
  11/23/52 "The Last Turkey" Bobby Ellis (Henry Aldrich), Jack Grimes (Homer Brown), House Jameson (Sam Aldrich), Katharine Raht (Alice Aldrich) ; Creator/Writer - Clifford Goldsmith ; Music - Jack Miller ; Announcers - Dick Dudley & Bob MacKenzie ; Sponsor - Jello ; NBC ; Sustaining ; Henry and Homer Battle for the Last Turkey. It's Thanksgiving time and there's only one turkey left. Both the Aldrich and Brown families want it. (27:28)

• 10:00 p.m. Dr. Christian
  11/22/39 Prelude to Thanksgiving" CBS net. "Prelude To Thanksgiving". Jean Hersholt (Dr. Christian), Rosemary De Camp (Judy Price) ; Announcer - Art Gilmore ; Sponsor - Vaseline Petroleum Jelly, Hair Tonic, and Lip Ice, The series is also known as, "The Vaseline Program." ; CBS ;(CBS) (28:36)

• 10:30 p.m. Family Theater
  11/27/47 "Home For Thanksgiving" Charles Boyer (host), Joan Leslie, Paul Henreid ; Announcer - Tony La Frano ; Writer - True Boardman ; Director - David Young ; Music - Max Terr ; Mutual network ; Sustaining ; An American woman and her Austrian husband return to the city where he grew up. Arriving on Thanksgiving, they find only ruins. A fine Thanksgiving story. The script was subequently used on "Family Theatre" on February 4, 1953. (29:02)

[Calvin Locke]

Bummer. No Sam Spade.

The Thanksgiving epi I remember opens with a "Tom Turkey" hiring Spade or some other Seamus to protect him as Thanksgiving approaches.

[Vision]

Mild warning: I’m on vacation and tasting a few beer now, and will be moving on to bourbon later.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I invite you to read this around the table this year...

http://wilstar.com/holidays/wash_thanks.html

[Vision]

Also, I’ll be traveling and won’t have a chance to post a thread on Thanksgiving.

[Vision]

George Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation

Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me to "recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:"

Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.

And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.

Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the 3d day of October, A.D. 1789.

[thecodont]

Excellent, thanks for posting this.

[Vision]

Nice memory!

This is all I know...

http://wamu.org/programs/the_big_broadcast/11/11/24/the_big_broadcast_thanksgiving_special

[Vision]

Sure, Happy Thanksgiving. Are you on the ping list?

[WXRGina]

Thank you, Vision, for the President Washington! What a marvelous American he was.

Keith and I are right there with you on our evening beers. :-)

[WXRGina]

Thanks, as always, SteelYourFaith, for the synopses!

[WXRGina]

GREAT Statler tune! Whatever happened, indeed!

[Vision]

Isn't it amazing, boarding on sick, that Americans don't know these basic facts of our history?

My liberal aunt teaches elementary school American history. She thinks “separation of church and state” is in the Constitution- her head will probably explode when I whip this out.

[golux]

Will you please add me to your pinglist? WAMU’s Hot Jazz on Saturday nights and classic radio on Sundays are among the best reasons for living or working in the DC area. And, by the way, I have absolutely no idea who their engineers are (I think the tower is in NW DC at Wisconsin and Jenifer or thereabouts) but never have I heard a clearer, stronger signal - from way offshore (off Annapolis) to well west of the Shenendoah Valley. Those guys have tuned that stick like a Stradivarius. I always wanted to congratulate them, or him (or her!)!

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[logitech]

I think George Washington was the last good President.