Happy Sunday radio fans...what you up to this weekend?
A really interesting lineup tonight...Richard Diamond is fun...I’m curious about Frank Race and a solid 10pm hour- anything with the title “The Hunted” has to be good...and ending strong with Lights Out (don’t forget to buy Ironized Yeast).
A good evening is ahead...
It's a good-looking lineup.
These brief synopses are used with permission from the © 2014 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. August 1, 1956. Program #286. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Sea Legs Matter". Episode #3. A dead man wrecks an airplane. Bob Bailey, Jack Johnstone (writer, producer, director), Roy Rowan (announcer), Harry Bartell, Lawrence Dobkin, Virginia Gregg, Parley Baer, Don Diamond, Russell Thorson, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor). 14:54. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. August 2, 1956. Program #286. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Sea Legs Matter". Episode #4. A Spaniard with a knife, a lady with a gun. Bob Bailey, Jack Johnstone (writer, producer, director), Roy Rowan (announcer), Harry Bartell, Lawrence Dobkin, Virginia Gregg, Parley Baer, Don Diamond, Russell Thorson, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor). 14:52. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
7:30 Dragnet. August 28, 1952. Program #166. NBC net. "The Big Test". Sponsored by: Fatima. Bruce Hamilton reports that his friend Kevin has been murdered in Mexico by bandits. He tells a wild story. Jack Webb, Herb Ellis, Sarah Selby, Hal Gibney (announcer), George Fenneman (announcer), Edwin Bruce, John Robinson (writer), Walter Schumann (music). 29:29. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. August 20, 1955. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "Indian Scout". Amos Cartwright is half-breed Comanche hated by both his tribe and the Whites...and with good reason! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on March 31, 1956. See cat. #61894 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, Lawrence Dobkin, Harry Bartell, Barney Phillips, Joseph Kearns, John Dunkel (writer), Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Ray Kemper (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), George Walsh (announcer). 25:48. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:30 The Great Gildersleeve. April 23, 1947. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. Gildy is going with young Miss Piper, which causes a bloody nose for Leroy and other complications. See cat. #49694 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Earle Ross, Harold Peary, Jack Meakin (music), Janet Waldo, John Laing (announcer), John Whedon (writer), Lillian Randolph, Louise Erickson, Sam Moore (writer), Shirley Mitchell (?), Walter Tetley. 29:46. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:00 Richard Diamond, Private Detective. May 15, 1949. NBC net. Sustaining. Ralph Chase hires Diamond about a problem with his step-daughter, but gangster Murray Lang takes a shot at him first. Chase's two step-children both hate him. Dick Powell sings, "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm." Betty Moran, Blake Edwards (writer), David Baskerville (music director), Dick Powell, Ed Begley, Edward King (announcer), Jack Edwards, Jay Novello, Tol Avery, Virginia Gregg, William P. Rousseau (director), Wilms Herbert. 29:34. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:30 The Adventures Of Frank Race. June 19, 1949. Program #8. Broadcasters Program Syndicate syndication. "The Airborne Adventure". Commercials added locally. Frank is hired to deliver a set of plans for a new airplane. The plans are worth $1,000,000. Tom Collins, Paul Dubov, Tony Barrett, Buckley Angel (writer, director), Joel Murcott (writer, director), Bruce Eells (producer), Ivan Ditmars (organist), Art Gilmore (announcer), Jeanne Bates, Parley Baer, Frank Lovejoy, D. J. Thompson, Tom Holland. 26:41. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.
10:00 Four Star Playhouse. August 14, 1949. NBC net. "The Hunted". Sustaining. An interesting story about a man helping a damsel in distress, who turns out to be a kleptomaniac. The relationship soon turns to murder. Robert Cummings, Maurice Beaudine Jr. (writer), Lurene Tuttle, William Conrad, Milton Geiger (adaptor), Wilms Herbert, Albert Harris (composer, conductor), Lawrence Dobkin, Warren Lewis (director), Edward King (announcer). 29:54. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
10:30 Lights Out. March 23, 1943. CBS net origination, syndicated. "The Flame". Commercials deleted. A fire worshipper meets "The Flame," the female spirit of fire! A story told by a dead man! Excellent radio writing. Syndicated as, "The Devil and Mr. O." See cat. #88890 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Arch Oboler (writer, host). 22:51. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.
A very spooky Lights Out this week. Thanks Ed!
Paging, Brian! Step into the Big Broadcast thread! Your presence is requested! :-)