"The Big Broadcast" Sunday 2/19 7-11pm est Live

WAMU ^ | 2/19/12 | 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
  09/24/61 #759 The Double Barraled Matter (Multi-Sponsored) (CBS) (24:58)
• 07:30 p.m. Dragnet
  02/23/50 #037 The Big Grifter (NBC) (26:24)
• 08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  05/16/53 #056 The Big Con (Sus.) (CBS) (29:48)
• 08:30 p.m. Destination Freedom
  10/17/48 #17 The Boy Who Was Traded for A Horse (Geo. Washington Carver)  (Sus.) (NBC) (29:32)
• 09:00 p.m. Halls of Ivy
  03/31/50 Chamber Music Knockwurst Spciety (Schlitz Beer) (NBC) (29:22)
• 09:30 p.m. Boston Blackie
  06/11/46 #061 The Disappearing Plane (Synd) (25:20)
• 10:00 p.m. Lux Radio Theater
  11/17/47 #590 Nobody Lives Forever w/Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan (Lux) (CBS) (59:40)

[Vision]

Ronald Reagan at 10pm!

Not to mention the "Chamber Music Knockwurst Spciety by Schlitz Beer"...whatever that is.

[logitech]

42911. The Halls Of Ivy. March 31, 1950. NBC net. Sponsored by: Schlitz Beer. Will Dr. Hall be invited to join the “Ivy Chamber Music and Knockwurst Society” to play the Piffleflute? The program may be dated April 7, 1950. Alan Reed, Benita Hume, Cliff Arquette, Don Quinn (creator, writer), Frank Martin (announcer), Gloria Gordon, Henry Russell (composer, conductor), Ken Carpenter (announcer), Nat Wolff (director), Ronald Colman, Walter Newman (writer). 29:31.

Sounds interesting.

[WXRGina]

Hi, Vision!

We’re headed to see some friends for about an hour and a half, but we intend on being back home for our appointment listening!

[Vision]

See you tonight.

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx again, Vision !

February 19, 2012 (WARNING: These Raw Notes Contain Spoilers)

• 7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
  9/24/61 "The Double Barreled Matter" Matter #759 Mandel Kramer, Santos Ortega (Charles Hastings "Chick" Warner), Elizabeth Lawrence (Trudy Warner), Court Benson (Phil Easterday), Carl Frank (Al Milford), Robert Dryden (Pete Fuller) ; Writer - Jack Johnstone ; Producer/Director - Bruno Zirato, Jr. ; Musical Supervisor - Ethyl Huber ; Announcer - Art Hannes ; Expense Account Total = $760 ; CBS ; Phil Easterday of Mono Guarantee of San Diego invites Johnny to investigate a series of seven burglaries over two months at the home of Charles Warner - although nothing was ever taken and warner refuses to tell the police. Warner's wife, 25 years old , tall and blonde Trudy says that the burglaries always occur after her husband returns from hunting trips to the Imperial Valley, near the Mexican border. He always stays at the Blue Bird motor Court. A quick call to reporter Pete Fuller of the Chicago Sun-Times reveals that "Chick" Warner was involved in drugs when he was in Chicago. Johnny gets hunting gear and travels to the Blue Bird Motor Court where he hooks up with Warner, age 50, tall, lean, grey haired and eyed. He invites himself to go out hunting with Warner the next day. Also in the hunting party will be another stranger, Al Milford, 35 years old and shifty-looking. Milford turns out to be a government agent who is trying to figure out how Warner is smuggling heroin from Mexico into the U.S. Warner shoots Milford with one barrel of his shotgun and then threatens Dollar - who has just figured out that it is in the other barrel of the shotgun that Warner hides the heroin. NW - One of the rottenest rackets in the world, but a story with a real twist in the end. Commercial for Mentholatum Deep Heat Rub, CBS news promo for weekday line up of Arthur Godfrey, Garry Moore, Art Linkletter, Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney. (24:58)

• 7:30 p.m.Dragnet
  2/23/50 "The Big Grifter" Program #37 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Barton Yarborough (Ben Romero) ; Writer - James E. "Jim" Moser ; Sponsor - Fatima Cigarettes ; Working out of Bunco detail, Friday and Romero are assigned to the case of Charles "Gentleman" Wallace who has a long history of being a confidence man, a grifter. A born con-man, he has taken advantage of two used-car dealers, and many others. (NBC) (26:24)

• 8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  5/16/53 "The Big Con" Program #56 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), Lawrence Dobkin, Harry Bartell (Mr. Papp), Ralph Moody, James Nusser, Joe Cranston, Peter Leeds, Paul DuBov ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - John Meston ; Music Composer/Conductor - Rex Koury ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; CBS ; Rebroadcast on 11/13/60. ; Aired on television 5/3/8. ; Bank President Mr. Papp is duped into loaning Mr. Hook $20,000 for his poker hand at the Texas Trail Saloon, four aces and a ten. Unfortunately for Mr. Papp the pot goes to a straight heart flush. Unable to recover the money, the distraught banker commits suicide. Since there is no proof that confidence man Hook and his two accomplices got the money by trickery, Matt bluffs them into running. Unfortunately they take Doc Adams hostage. (29:48)

• 8:30 p.m. Destination Freedom
  10/17/48 "The Boy Who Was Traded For A Horse" Program #17 Arthur Peterson, Fred Pinkard, George Kluge, Gladys Williams, Hope Summers, Ken Griffin, Oscar Brown Jr., ; Produced in co-operation with The Chicago Defender. ; Music Conductor - Bobby Christian ; Music Composer - Emil Soderstrom ; Organist - Elwyn Owen ; Producer - Homer Hecht ; Announcer - Hugh Downs ; Writer - Richard Durham ; Sustaining ; NBC ; The story of George Washington Carver, the great scientist of agriculture. (29:32)

• 9:00 p.m. Halls of Ivy
  3/31/50 "Chamber Music Knockwurst Society" Ronald Colman (Dr. William Toddhunter Hall), Benita Hume Colman (Victoria Cromwell Hall), Alan Reed, Cliff Arquette, Gloria Gordon ; Creator/Writer - Don Quinn ; Music Composer/Conductor - Henry Russell, Announcer - Ken Carpenter & Frank Martin ; Director - Nat Wolff ; Writer - Walter Newman ; Sponsor - Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; NBC ; Will Dr. Hall be invited to join the "Ivy Chamber Music and Knockwurst Society" to play the Piffleflute? (29:22)

• 9:30 p.m. Boston Blackie
  6/11/46  "The Disappearing Plane"  Program #61 Dick Kollmar (Boston Blackie), Maurice Tarplin (Inspector Faraday), Jan Miner (Mary Wesley) ; Creator - Jack Boyle ;  Inspector Faraday gets a call from Blackie who is out of town.  Faraday, at Blackie's request, is holding John Barnes in the Bradley killing.  Blackie has located the murder weapon which is registered to Barnes.  Gus Johnson gets a call from Johnny Barnes about getting rid of the gun in Boston.  However, Johnson says that the gun was swiped by Boston Blackie.  Johnson says that Blackie airmailed the gun to Faraday.  Barnes has a plan.  Mary Wesley and Shorty go to the airport to pick up Blackie returning on Cross Nation Airways flight #68.  The plane is late for gate #3.  The plane has vanished into thin air.  The manifest claims that 20 of 21 passengers cancelled reservations at the last moment.  Only Boston Blackie was a passenger.  Five hours go by, but then Blackie calls Mary who is paged to the airport information desk.  He is okay, having taken the train when the Cross Nation Airways cancelled the flight.  Shorty calls Blackie with some information that he has uncovered.  From Gus Johnson's girlfriend, Blondie White, Shorty has learned that Gus is in the hospital with a broken leg.  Gus has not been with Barnes long, and prior to joining up with Barnes Gus had done some stunt flying.  Gus has 11 arrests and three convictions.  At 4:00 PM Blackie and Mary go to the hospital.  They find Gus dead with  a knife in his heart.  Gus' other visitors were  a blonde woman  in the morning and a man at 3:00 PM.  Blackie talks to Blondie.  He learns that she is afraid of Barnes, and infers that he killed Gus.  In the presence of Barnes and Blackie Faraday revealed that he has determined that Johnson, dressed as a policeman got the names of the passengers on the plane, and then contacted them that the flight was cancelled.  He then used Blackie's ticket and took the flight.  He then killed the hostess, pilot and co-pilot and then parachuted off, sending the plane out into the ocean.  Barnes thinks the gun is lost with the plane.  However, Blackie had never mailed it.  He kept it on his person all the time.  Blackie had mailed his own gun.  The gun will nail Barnes for the murder of Bradley and will send him to the chair.   (Synd) (25:20)

• 10:00 p.m. Lux Radio Theater
  11/17/47 "Nobody Lives Forever" Program #590 Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan, William Conrad, William Johnstone, Jeff Chandler (billed as "Ira Grossel"), Herb Butterfield, Frances Robinson, Edward Marr, Edwin Cooper, Edwin Max, Tyler McVey, Herbert Rawlinson ; Host - William Keighley (speaking from New York City) ; Announcer - John Milton Kennedy ; Intermission Guest - Dorothy Malone : Commercial Spokeswoman "Libby Collins" - Dorothy Lovett :Screenwriter - W. R. Burnett ; Author - Shirley Smith ; Radio Adaptation - Sanford Barnett ; Director - Fred MacKaye ; Musical Director - Louis Silvers ; Sound Effects - Charlie Forsyth ; Sponsor - Lever Brothers, makers of Lux, Pepsodent ; CBS ; A con-man returns from the war, but falls for the perfect victim. Ronald Reagan recalls his radio days as a sportscaster and recreates a play-by-play. (59:40)

[Vision]

Hi steel, hope you've been practicing your piffleflute.

[steelyourfaith]

Hi Vision. Yeah, “piffleflute” is a new one for me.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Thanks for the ping. Good evening...

[steelyourfaith]

Mandel Kramer, one of my favorite Johnny Dollar portrayals.

[WXRGina]

Hi, Guys!

This Johnny Dollar is a strange one, so far. :-)

[Vision]

Evening Doc. All is peaceful in Baltimore. Are you getting some snow?

[Vision]

He’s good. You can’t like him more than BB?

[Vision]

The audio was a little hard to understand. What did you think was strange?

[Vision]

While you’re here...next Sunday I’ll be traveling for business. I can get a thread up but doubt I can be here to host it. Can you two take over?

[steelyourfaith]

No, Bob Bailey IS Johnny Dollar, but I like Kramer.

The actors who played Johnny were
Dick Powell 1 audition program (12/7/48)
Charles Russell 37 programs, including 1 audition (1/7/49-1/14/50)
Edmond O'Brien 104 programs, including 6 repeats (2/3/50-9/3/52)
John Lund 95 prorgams, including 8 repeats & 2 auditions (11/24/52-9/54)
Gerald Mohr 1 audition program (8/29/55)
Bob Bailey 556 programs, including 72 repeats & 1 audition (10/3/55-11/27/60)
Bob Readick 29 programs (12/4/60-6/18/61)
Mandel Kramer 66 programs (6/25/61-9/30/62)

[Vision]

While you’re here...next Sunday I’ll be traveling for business. I can get a thread up but doubt I can be there to host it. Can you two take over?

[Vision]

but I like Kramer.

Can you describe why?