"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 5/5 7-11 PM EST

WAMU ^ | May 5, 2013 | Ed Walker

[WXRGina]

Vision is out today, so I'm posting the thread. I'm sorry I don't have his Big Broadcast ping list.

Here's the listen live link.

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

7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. February 16, 1956. Part 4. CBS net. "The Qui Bono Matter". Sustaining. A tense interview, a sudden attack by a dangerous opponent, and a complete surrender. 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). 14:10. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.

7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. February 17, 1956. Part 5. CBS net. "The Qui Bono Matter". Sustaining. The conclusion of the story. One slip of fate, then the avalanche and a hair raising windup. 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). 14:13. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.

7:30 Dragnet. June 14, 1951. Program #105. NBC net. "The Big Building". Sponsored by: Fatima. A dentist named Dr. Robert Marston reports that his wife Louise, a wealthy society woman, is missing. Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough, George Fenneman (announcer). 29:38. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

8:00 Gunsmoke. August 2, 1954. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "No Indians". Matt commits cold blooded murder four times to kill off members of a gang scalping settlers and blaming the Pawnees. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on December 8, 1956. See cat. #54828 for a network, quality upgrade version of this broadcast. The story was repeated on March 26, 1961. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, Lawrence Dobkin, Joseph Kearns, Harry Bartell, Vic Perrin, John Dehner, John Meston (writer), Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), George Walsh (announcer). 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.

8:30 The Man Called X. June 19, 1947. CBS net. Sponsored by: Frigidaire. While in Cairo on the trail of pirates on the Red Sea, Ken Thurston is killed by three silver bullets. Herbert Marshall, Leon Belasco, J. Richard Kennedy (originator), Wendell Niles (announcer), Jack Johnstone (director), Sidney Marshall (writer), Johnny Green (composer, conductor). 29:33. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

9:00 The Lady Esther Screen Guild Theatre. March 22, 1943. CBS net. "For Me and My Gal". Sponsored by: Lady Esther. A musical triangle on the old vaudeville circuit. Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Dick Powell, Truman Bradley (announcer), Wilbur Hatch (arranger, conductor). 29:32. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

9:30 The Cavalcade Of America. March 21, 1950. NBC net. "I, Mary Peabody". Commercials deleted. The story of the Peabody sisters of Salem, Massachusetts, and Mary's love for Horace Mann. Elizabeth Taylor, Arthur Arent (adaptor), Donald Voorhees (music director), Ted Pearson (announcer), Susan Douglas, Anne Seymour, Richard Waring, Irene Hubbard, Louise Tharp (author), Roger Pryor (producer), Jack Zoller (director), Arden Cornwell (composer). 27:07. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Otherwise complete.

10:00 The Theatre Guild On The Air. December 23, 1945. ABC net, KECA, Los Angeles aircheck. "Little Women". Sponsored by: United States Steel. The classic about the ladies of the March Family during the Civil War. The series is also known as, "The United States Steel Hour." Armina Marshall (executive producer), Elliott Reid, Erik Barnouw (adaptor), Frances Reid, George Hicks, George Kondolf (producer), Harold Levey (composer, conductor), Homer Fickett (director), John Lodge (narrator), Judith Parrish, Katharine Hepburn, Lawrence Langner (supervisor), Louisa May Alcott (author), Norman Brokenshire (announcer), Oskar Homolka, Susan Douglas, Theresa Helburn (co-director of the radio department). 59:25. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

[WXRGina]

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PING! I posted the thread anyway, Vision, even though I didn’t have your full Big Broadcast ping list.

We’re here anyway and look forward to seeing you back here next Sunday, Lord willing.

[WXRGina]

As I predicted, it’s been very quiet here without you, Vision. You’ll definitely have to listen to the first three shows at least. We had a great, unpredictable twist to the ending of Johnny Dollar, the Dragnet was good, and we hardly ever see Marshal Dillon as mad as he was in this episode.

I hope your time this week was a really good one! Tell us all about it when you can.