"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 4/28 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 4/28/13 | Ed Walker

[Vision]

Friends, it's Sunday night again. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana.

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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
  02-14-15/56 Qui Bono Matter Pts.2-3 (Sus.) (CBS) (27:22)
• 07:30 p.m. Dragnet
  06/07/51 #104 Big Imposter (NBC) (25:58)
• 08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  07/26/54 #119 How To Catch A Marshal (CBS) (26:52)
• 08:30 p.m. Father Knows Best
  09/18/52 Weekend Activity  (Post 40% Brand Flakes) (NBC) (29:38)
• 09:00 p.m. Broadway is My Beat
  12/03/49 #12 The Sherman Gates Murder Case (Sus.) (CBS) (29:28)
• 09:30 p.m. Frontier Gentlemen
  04/06/48 #10 Powder River Kid (AFRS) (23:36)
• 10:00 p.m. Lux Radio Theater
  11/18/46 S.O.S.     (Lux) (CBS) (59:50)

[WXRGina]

Hello, FRiends! Happy Sunday.

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

7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. February 14, 1956. Part 2. CBS net. "The Qui Bono Matter". Sustaining. Beauty is as beauty does. An idol is found to be made out of flesh and blood. The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), D. J. Thompson, Byron Kane, Howard McNear, Mary Jane Croft, Forrest Lewis, Russell Thorson, Dal McKinnon, Sam Edwards, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor). 13:52. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.

7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. February 15, 1956. Part 3. CBS net. "The Qui Bono Matter". Sustaining. The net tightens, a rat runs for cover, and the whole thing blows wide open. The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), D. J. Thompson, Byron Kane, Howard McNear, Mary Jane Croft, Forrest Lewis, Russell Thorson, Dal McKinnon, Sam Edwards, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor). 13:48. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.

7:30 Dragnet. June 7, 1951. Program #104. NBC net. "The Big Imposter". Sponsored by: Fatima. Jimmy Sherman, a ten-year-old boy has disappeared. The boy's grandfather has collapsed after his blue jeans were found by the reservoir. Later, the boy is found safe near Dayton Ohio, but is it the same boy? Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough, George Fenneman (announcer). 29:32. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

8:00 Gunsmoke. July 26, 1954. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "Matt For Murder (How To Catch A Marshal)". Red Samples accuses Marshal Dillon of murdering his partner. Wild Bill Hickok is sent for to arrest Dillon so he can stand trial. A good story. See cat. #61528 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on September 13, 1958. Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, James Nusser, Vic Perrin, John Dehner, John Meston (writer), William Conrad, Parley Baer, George Walsh (announcer). 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

8:30 Father Knows Best. September 18, 1952. NBC net. Sponsored by: Post Cereals, Postum. There's a convention of insurance underwriters in Chicago at the same time that all three kids are going to be away for the weekend. This is not as easy as it sounds! Robert Young, Norma Jean Nilsson, Jean Vander Pyl, Ted Donaldson, Paul West (writer), Bill Forman (announcer), Rhoda Williams, Ben Gershwin (writer). 29:34. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

9:00 Broadway Is My Beat. December 3, 1949. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. Sherman Gates is found poisoned in the loge of a movie theatre, which leads to a murdered photographer. See cat. #92716 for a network recording of this broadcast Elliott Lewis (producer, director), Alexander Courage (composer), Larry Thor, Charles Calvert, Paul Dubov, Junius Matthews, Mary Jane Croft, Elliott Lewis (producer, director), Morton Fine (writer), David Friedkin (writer), Alexander Courage (composer), Wilbur Hatch (conductor), Herbert Rawlinson, Joyce McCluskey, Joe Forte. 30:27. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

9:30 Frontier Gentleman. April 6, 1958. CBS net. "The Powder River Kid". Sustaining. The Powder River Kid has been shot, gangrene has set in and he doesn't have long to live. What about the reward? John Dehner, Joseph Kearns, Paula Winslowe, Lawrence Dobkin, Barney Phillips, Antony Ellis (producer, director), Wilbur Hatch (composer, conductor), John Wald (announcer). 24:55. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. November 18, 1946. CBS net. "O.S.S.". Sponsored by: Lux, Spry. Espionage, sabotage and action in occupied France during the war. Fred MacKaye (director), Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Richard Maibaum (screenwriter), Thomas Hanlon (second announcer), Joseph Kearns, Louis Silvers (music director), Richard Benedict, Robert Coute, Rolfe Sedan (doubles), Truda Marson (doubles), Doris Singleton (commercial spokesman: as "Libby"), Lucille Barkley (intermission guest), Norman Field (doubles), William Keighley (host), Charles Seel, Ed Emerson (doubles), Gale Gordon, George Neise (doubles), George Sorel (doubles), Henry Roland, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Howard Jeffrey, Jay Novello, John Milton Kennedy (announcer), Noreen Gammill (doubles). 59:24. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

[tsowellfan]

Thanks for the ping!

I was just listening to the Jack Benny Program. A REAL Conservative!

[Vision]

Evening all. Unfortunately we have Father Knows Best tonight but the Lux will make up for it and Broadway is My Beat and Father Knows Best look fun.

Hope everyones week was good.

[tsowellfan]

Jack Benny Program.

http://archive.org/details/JackBenny1

[Vision]

Hey Gina, what's up? What's grilling?

Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake on Lux, very cool.

[WXRGina]

Hi, Vision! The grill is cool tonight. Last night it was pork tenderloin, which was excellent. We’ll probably have the leftovers of it tonight.

Lux will be good, and Broadway is My Beat—we like that, too.

What’s shakin’ with you?

[Vision]

Hey. I love Jack Benny, literally. I listen to him most mornings at 7am on antioch. It’s almost sad to realize nobody has been funny like that for 60 years...especially looking at the garbage around today...but we still have him. Mary Livingston had the worlds most attractive laugh. I’m also in love with her. (:

[Mears]

“Hey. I love Jack Benny, literally”

=

I remember listening to his radio show waaaay back when.

I loved it when the allegedly “frugal” Mr Benny was heard walking to his vault. Sounds of footsteps then the creaky door opening. Very funny.

.

[tsowellfan]

Today I listened to Jack Benny Buys His Maxwell. When he told the cast he bought a new car the asked “You mean you finally got rid of the Stanley Steamer?”

[jjotto]

I’m pretty sure Jack Benny was a Democrat.

[tsowellfan]

I wonder if any of his family still live in that mansion of his in Beverly Hills or if it had been sold.

[Vision]

Oh everything is under control. Can't get enough of that hanging chicken and am about to grill up a steak in a while.

One note, I'm going to be traveling next weekend (for 8 days) without internet access. You make the call. I'll post an early thread and you can host it or we can skip it for the week.

[Vision]

Yea, that cheap theme was priceless.

[Vision]

There's one website that says he was a well known Republican.

[WXRGina]

Vision, I’ll be happy to host the thread, but without you, it may be kinda quiet...

[jjotto]

Maybe later in life, I hope. He was a big fan of FDR and JFK, but certainly may have changed his mind like Reagan.

[Vision]

Do you think it would be better if you posted it on Sunday?