"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 12/30 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 12/30/12 | 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...

(((((Early Ping)))))

[Vision]

• 07:00 p.m. Johnny Dollar
  12/26-27/55 Forbes Matter 1-2 (Sus.) (CBS) (27:28)
• 07:30 p.m. Dragnet
  12/14/50 #079 Big Break (NBC) (25:58)  
• 08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  04/03/54 #102 Mr. & Mrs. Amber (CBS) (24:42) 
• 08:30 p.m. Our Miss Brooks
  06/29/49 Why is Everyone Arguing? (Colgate) (CBS) (29:16)
• 09:00 p.m. Fat Man
  1947 Murder Plays Hide and Seek (Pepto-Bismol) (ABC) (27:18) 
• 09:30 p.m. Suspense
  01/18/45 #126 To Find Help  w/Frank Sinatra and Agnes Morehead (Auto-Lite) (CBS) (24:34)
• 10:00 p.m. Lux Radio Theater
  09/09/40 #272 Manhattan Melodrama w/William Powell, Myrna Loy (Lux) (CBS) (59:52)

[Vision]

Evening all. Boy a suspense and a lux (with William Powell and Myrna Loy). A good night ahead...

I'll be back later after a family dinner...

[WXRGina]

Hello, FRiends! It's the last Big Broadcast of the year, and we have a Suspense with Sinatra and Agnes Moorehead.

Thanks to J. David Goldin's RadioGOLDINdex for these brief synopses.

7 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. December 26, 1955. Part 1. CBS net. "The Forbes Matter". Sustaining. Sheldon Forbes, the book-keeper of a New York fashion company has obviously been an embezzler. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), John Dawson (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Lillian Buyeff, Parley Baer, Junius Matthews, Howard McNear, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Bob Bruce, Sandra Gould, Jack Edwards, Herb Ellis, James McCallion, John Stevenson. 15:05. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

7:15 PM Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. December 27, 1955. Program #2. CBS net. "The Forbes Matter". Sustaining. What makes a man steal? Johnny tries to come up with an answer. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), John Dawson (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Lillian Buyeff, Parley Baer, Junius Matthews, Howard McNear, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Bob Bruce, Sandra Gould, Jack Edwards, Herb Ellis, James McCallion, John Stevenson. 15:16. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

7:30 PM Dragnet. December 14, 1950. Program #79. NBC net. "The Big Break". Sponsored by: Fatima, Chesterfield. After a shoot-out, George Hoffman is arrested but escapes at his arraignment by climbing down the side of a building! After joining the army, Hoffman borrows $5 from Friday and Romero. Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough, Bob Hope (Chesterfield commercial), Bing Crosby (Chesterfield commercial). 29:23. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.

8 PM Gunsmoke. April 3, 1954. CBS net. "Mr. and Mrs. Amber". Sustaining. After Neil Amber is caught stealing seeds from the General Store, Pete Fletcher (a wealthy rancher), accuses Amber's wife of stealing one of his calves. The script was used again on February 21, 1960 (see cat. #52930) and the Gunsmoke television series on August 4, 1956. William Conrad, Howard McNear, John Dehner, Ralph Moody, Lawrence Dobkin, Harry Bartell, James Nusser, Helen Kleeb, Frances Drew, Georgia Ellis, John Meston (writer), Norman Macdonnell (director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), George Walsh (announcer). 24:40. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

8:30 PM Our Miss Brooks 06/29/49 Why is Everyone Arguing? (Colgate) (CBS) (29:16). Synopsis is missing from RadioGOLDINdex.

9 PM The Fat Man. January 2, 1948. ABC net. "Murder Plays Hide and Seek". Sponsored by: Pepto Bismol. Double murder starts with a corpse in a cab. The second stiff had the same initials..."C. H."! The middle commercial has been deleted. J. Scott Smart, Clark Andrews (director), Lawrence Klee (writer), Bernard Green (music director), Helen Flint, Joe Harding, Charles Irving (announcer), Dashiell Hammett (creator). 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Otherwise complete.

9:30 PM Suspense. January 18, 1945. CBS net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "To Find Help". An old woman is terrorized in her own house by a homicidal maniac. The story was subsequently produced on "Suspense" on January 6, 1949 (see cat. #49786). Frank Sinatra, Agnes Moorehead, Mel Dinelli (writer), John McIntire, Wally Maher, William Johnstone, Joseph Kearns ("The Man In Black"), William Spier (producer, director), Lucien Moraweck (composer), Lud Gluskin (conductor). 25 minutes. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

10 PM The Lux Radio Theatre. September 9, 1940. CBS net. "Manhattan Melodrama". Sponsored by: Lux ("Scarlet O'Hara" brooch premium). A gangster classic about two boyhood friends who take different paths, one to the Governor's office, the other to the electric chair. The first show of the season. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Don Ameche, Cecil B. DeMille, George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Lois Collier (commercial spokesman), Nancy Leach (commercial spokesman), Sanford Barnett (director), Bobby Winkler, Bud McAllister, Byron Shores, Earle Ross, Edward Marr, Franklyn Parker, Kane Whitman, Jim Bannon, Joseph Pope, Lou Merrill, Louis Silvers (music director), Melville Ruick (announcer), Ruth Rickaby, Tommy Lane, Tony Hughes, Tristram Coffin, Wally Maher, Oliver T. Marsh (screenwriter), H. P. Garrett (screenwriter), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (screenwriter), Arthur Caesar (author). 59:43. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

[Vision]

My God, somehow I missed seeing Frank in there...

Hey Gina. How was Christmas?

[WXRGina]

Hi, Vision. Christmas was fine. We managed to dodge all the tornadoes that were popping up all around us.

How was yours?

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Happy New Year everyone!

[WXRGina]

Happy New Year, Doc! I would post a lovely, sparkling bottle of bubbly for us all, but I don’t have one. :-)

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Asti Spumante is very good. Let’s have some of that!

[WXRGina]

Yes, let’s! It’s good.

[Vision]

It was fun. Family are healthy and healthy. Did you get anything good?

[Vision]

Happy new year ladies? I had some spumante yesterday? Sweet.

Any plans for new years eve? Me, no.

...suspense!

[Vision]

It’s amazing how young Sinatra is here...

[Dr. Scarpetta]

We’re going out with a group of friends from Lion’s Club tomorrow night,
Dinner & nice live music...
Will probably be home before midnight...

[Vision]

Nice.

Are you still reading The Secret Race?

[WXRGina]

Yes, Sinatra was a creepy creep!

[WXRGina]

It was fun. Family are healthy and healthy. Did you get anything good?

Excellent! Healthy family and a fun time is a great blessing.

We have everything we need for Christmas; we're blessed beyond measure to be saved and forgiven by Jesus.

We have plans to lay fairly low on Amateur Night 2012, other than a brief, after-work visit with some of our friends, and we'll also be having lunch on New Year's Day with some of our friend-neighbors. Everyone has to eat the black-eyed peas, cabbage and roast for the "good luck and prosperity" food tradition. :-)

[Vision]

Good. I agree about new year's eve.

How did your fatty turn out? (from last week if I remember correctly)

I'm heading to the radio...night Gina...

[WXRGina]

The fatty was excellent! We realized we could have cooked it a little less, since it had lean ground beef instead of sausage, it was not as moist, but it was still massively good!