Happy Easter!
Posted on 03/31/2013 1:29:43 PM PDT by Vision
Friends, it's Sunday night again. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio programs...
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I say it every year, I LOVE this Jack Benny episode...don't miss...
Happy Easter to you as well my “Big Broadcast” friend and thank you for the reminder.
Thanks to J. David Goldin's RadioGOLDINdex for these brief synopses.
7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. January 30, 1956. Program #1. CBS net. "The Flight Six Matter". Sustaining. A girl so beautiful, that men are willing to kill for her. Johnny's in Mexico, investigating a deliberate plane sabotage. The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Edgar Barrier, Russell Thorson, Jack Moyles, Ben Wright, Don Diamond, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor). 14:16. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. January 31, 1956. Program #2. CBS net. "The Flight Six Matter". Sustaining. A fighting girl and a lucky break, then murder cancels the score. The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Edgar Barrier, Russell Thorson, Jack Moyles, Ben Wright, Don Diamond, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor). 13:57. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.
7:30 Dragnet. May 17, 1951. Program #101. NBC net. "The Big Blast". Sponsored by: Fatima. The program begins, "Fatima is proud to present its Academy Award winning radio show" (the motion picture "Academy" never gave awards for radio programs!). Josephine Stevens has been murdered with a shotgun, as her seven-year-old boy watched! A well- written, good show! Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough. 29:30. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. July 5, 1954. CBS net. "Hack Prine". Sponsored by: Chesterfield, L & M Cigarettes. A professional gunman, who is an old friend of Marshal Dillon's, is hired by a coward and an enemy of Dillon's to gun down the Marshall. The first show sponsored by Chesterfield. The script was used as the pilot of the Gunsmoke television series and was used as the program of April 28, 1956. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin, Vic Perrin, Harry Bartell, John Meston (writer), George Walsh (announcer). 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:30 Jack Benny 04/17/49 Walking in the Easter Parade (CBS) (26:06) Synopis is missing from the Index.
9:00 Our Miss Brooks. April 9, 1950. CBS net. "Tint-Tomorrow Soap Powder". Sponsored by: Colgate Toothpaste, Lustre-Creme Shampoo, Palmolive Soap. The story of Walter's new invention: "Tint-Tomorrow," a revolutionary Easter egg dye. There's going to be a very colorful Easter parade! Eve Arden, Al Lewis (writer, director), Jane Morgan, Gloria McMillan, Richard Crenna, Gale Gordon, Jeff Chandler, Wilbur Hatch (composer), Larry Berns (producer), Lester White (writer), Maurice Carlton (conductor), Bob Lemond (announcer). 29:36. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:30 The Abbott and Costello Show. April 17, 1947. NBC net. Sponsored by: Camels, Prince Albert Pipe Tobacco. The opening routine is about girls. Costello is going to play baseball with the New York Yankees. This leads to the famous, "Who's On First" routine. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Skinnay Ennis and His Orchestra, Michael Roy (announcer), John Brown, Elvia Allman, Will Osborne and His Orchestra, Nat Wolff (producer, director), Marilyn Maxwell, Bert Cordon (sound effects), John Pawlick (engineer). 29:17. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 Biographies In Sound. April 10, 1956. NBC net. "Mr. Baseball, The Story Of Connie Mack". Sponsored by: Sustaining, Kools. The story of the long Major League career of the owner and manager of the Philadelphia Athletics. Howard Emke tells a great story about the 1929 World Series. A brief portion has been deleted near the end of the program. The program is preceded by a newscast by Kenneth Banghart, sponsored by Kool. Lindsey Nelson (narrator), Red Smith, Andy Cokely, Mickey Cochran, Mrs. Eddie Collins, Jack Barry, Connie Mack, Jimmy Foxx, Howard Emke, Ford Frick, Will Harridge, Robert Cenedella (writer), George Voutsas (director). 57:52. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.
Evening varon...
One night this week I woke about 4am and couldn't sleep so I put on antioch and caught the beginning of Suspense. It was a story of a couple driving out on Long Island and they heard on the radio...here's the kicker...that an elderly woman with a butcher knife had hacked up a few people and was loose. A police chase was underway. Well, they passed police checks and of course began to run low on gas...the image of an elderly lady with a butcher knife was too much and I had to turn the radio off I was completely unnerved. It was an amazing Suspense. Some day I'll search that episode out and listen again. Whew.
Wow! I want to hear that one. I’ll see if I can find the air date and see if it’s on the Archive site.
I hope your week was good, other than the insomnia.
We’re okay here. Slow-smoking a pork butt, but just brought it in to finish it in the oven—storms are just about to hit us.
Antioch has a list of episodes they play, but only for the previous, current and next day.
Not to interject, but yes we love having the Archive site for listening to just about any show ever aired. That’s what I was saying—right now, I’m searching the synopses on RadioGOLDINdex to see if I can find that episode, but it’s like the needle in the haystack thing with around 900 episodes.
The best information I have is antioch plays episodes close to their air date in history. So originally the show had to have played the last week of March.
No problem. I didn’t see your post. I think you posted while I was composing my post. :)
I looked at the OTRR.org website, but didn’t see synopses of the episodes, just lists of titles.
And, I would imagine they stick to the later episodes that might have better audio quality...
It remains to be seen if she’s “safe.” The game could be deadly! :-)
I think I found it! Ep title is “On a Country Road”. I listened to a few minutes of it, and it sounds like what you described, Vision. I have to leave the house for a bit, but I’ll listen to it all when I get back.
Gina, thanks for that link.
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