Posted on 09/29/2013 1:15:50 PM PDT by Vision
Friends, it's Sunday night again and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana.
*tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.
Quite a mix of shows tonight. Don't remember much about Duffy's Tavern, Challenge of the Yukon seems semi-new, Line Up is fair, and we're ending with a pretty good Lux- The Front Page is a classic film.
How is everyone? I've got a cold and not loving life.
Challenge/Yukon was out of WXYZ (Like Lone Ranger) in Detroit, iirc.
The dog, "King", it's bark leaves a lot to the imagination to fill in as a sound effect made by a human, in my experience of ~20 epis.
The "Line-Up" title differs from the one given on WAMU.
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2013 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. April 16, 1956. Part 1. CBS net. "The Shepherd Matter". Sustaining. A doctor has increased his life insurance to $100,000, feeling that he may very well be killed. The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, John Dawson (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Roy Rowan (announcer), Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Jeanne Bates, Parley Baer, Lawrence Dobkin, Virginia Gregg, Russell Thorson, Herb Ellis, Barney Phillips. 14:41. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. April 17, 1956. Part 2. CBS net. "The Shepherd Matter". Sustaining. Even the police can't handle this case...with a madman on the loose! The system cue has been deleted, the program is apparently otherwise complete. Bob Bailey, John Dawson (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Roy Rowan (announcer), Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Jeanne Bates, Parley Baer, Lawrence Dobkin, Virginia Gregg, Russell Thorson, Herb Ellis, Barney Phillips. 13:34. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
7:30 Dragnet. December 6, 1951. Program #130. NBC net. "The Big Canary". Sponsored by: Fatima. The mother of sixteen-year-old Roberta Dixon has been murdered. Well written. Barton Yarborough, George Fenneman (announcer), George McCluskey, Hal Gibney (host), Jack Webb, James Moser (writer), Walter Schumann (conductor). 29:29. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. January 1, 1955. CBS net. "The Bottle Man". Sponsored by: L & M. An old drunk named Tom Cassidy is determined to kill a gambler named Bill Clell, for a good reason. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on March 22, 1958. Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Ray Kemper (sound patterns), George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, John Meston (writer), Lawrence Dobkin, Eleanor Tanin, Ralph Moody, Georgia Ellis, Norman Macdonnell (producer, transcriber), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), George Walsh (announcer). 30:23. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:30 Duffy's Tavern. May 4, 1949. NBC net. Sponsored by: Ipana, Vitalis. Archie offers guest Charles Coburn a job as "front man" for the tavern. Ed Gardner, Eddie Green, Charles Coburn. 29:21. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:00 The Challenge Of The Yukon. August 2, 1947. ABC net. "Messenger Of Mercy". Sustaining. A murder and robbery is made more difficult to solve by an epidemic of diptheria! Paul Sutton, El Prowell (announcer), Mildred Merrill (writer). 29:28. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:30 The Line-Up. October 8, 1952. CBS net. "The Teacher's Pet". Sustaining. A narcotics dealer has been murdered. He had been living with a proper schoolteacher under a different name. The program was subsequently broadcast on October 8, 1952 (see cat. #10724). Jaime del Valle (producer, director), Howard McNear, Raymond Burr, Sidney Marshall (writer), Hy Averback, Eddie Dunstedter (composer, conductor), Virginia Gregg, Dan Cubberly (announcer), William Johnstone, Jack Moyles, Herb Butterfield, Benny Rubin, Ted Bliss, Jeanette Nolan. 24:35. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. June 28, 1937. CBS net. "The Front Page". Sponsored by: Lux. The well-known comedy about the newspaper game and the escaped killer hiding in the roll-top desk. Amelia Earhart's appearance is announced as being postponed. The final half minute has been deleted from the closing, the story is unaffected. The female lead was scheduled to be Joan Bennett, but she could not appear due to illness and Josephine Hutchinson was substituted. Walter Winchell, Josephine Hutchinson, James Gleason, Ben Hecht (author), Bud McTaggart, Cecil B. DeMille, Charles MacArthur (author), Eddie Waller, Edward Marr, Frank Nelson (doubles, program opening announcer), Frank Sheridan, Georgia Kane, John Butler, Lou Merrill, Louis Silvers (music director), Matt Mohr, Melville Ruick (announcer), Rolfe Sedan, Ross Forrester, Sidney Lewis, Sidney Newman (doubles), Victor Rodman, John MacSoud (intermission guest: fabric expert for films), Kathleen Howard (intermission guest: fashion editor for Photoplay magazine), Bud McTaggert, Grace Kerns (commercial spokesman), Emily Williams (commercial spokesman), James Eagles (commercial spokesman), Frank Woodruff (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 58:59. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Incomplete.
Vision, take Zicam. It will knock the cold out much earlier than not. At the first sign of scratchy throat or tickle cough, start taking it. Even after the cold is full-blown, Zicam will still help cut it short. Get well soon!
It’s a lovely day here, warm and little humid, but very nice. No news, just the usual Sunday house/yard work. Gonna put a pork tenderloin on the grill.
I did a pork loin this weekend. Will send you a link.
Cool. I'll check out your pork loin link.
Other cities also produced shows. Candy Matson in SF, comes to mind, and Fibber McGee eventually set its production in Chicago.
Obviously, the majority were out of NYC and LA.
It’s weird to hear “Chester” playing the part of a doctor. :-)
I'm looking forward to next week's JD. Somethings about to happen...
HAHAHAHAHA!!! :-)
I love Charles Coburn.
That, and a year or two before he died, his was promoting hydrogen cars, and was on the drive-time program I usually listen to one day.
Credited "Twilight Zone" for breaking his "Chester" typecasting.
He was excellent. Shoot, they all were! I love the Gunsmoke cast.
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