Posted on 08/10/2014 2:02:57 PM PDT by Vision
Friends it's Sunday night again, and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another four hours of classic radio Americana.
*tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.
How's the weekend going? Been up to a lot of tasks around here and am ready for a good evening.
We have a solid lineup. There isn't a weak show and we end with a Lux! I'm not the biggest Tracy fan but the man was an iconic star- so it should be great. I'm ready to see how this JD ends.
I used to bank at WAMU. Then it was taken over by Chase. Now I bank there.
Looks like a decent lineup. We have a Lux. Ed skips over a Johnny Dollar matter and goes to the one after the next one in succession. We have an "Our Miss Brooks," and earlier this past week, I just happened to have re-wathced the 1978 film remake of the musical "Grease," in which Eve Arden plays the principal of Rydell High.
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2014 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. September 14, 1956. Program #5. CBS net. "The Confidential Matter". Sustaining. Fate plays a devil's tune, collects a payment long overdue, and the music ends in a scream! The conclusion of the story, the system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Hugh Brundage (announcer), Virginia Gregg, Jack Edwards, Russell Thorson, Shirley Mitchell, Stacy Harris, Bob Miller, Harry Bartell, Vic Perrin, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Frank Gerstle. 14:00. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. September 25, 1956. Program #1. CBS net. "The Meg's Palace Matter". Sustaining. Johnny is hired by "Byron Kane" of the Intracoastal Maritime and Life Company to investigate a restaurant in Cod Harbor, Massachusetts, which is run by "Meg." One of Meg's competitors is called "Tony Fortino" (after one of the music supervisors on the program). Thirty seconds or so are missing from the middle of the program, and the system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Jack Johnstone (writer, producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Jack Kruschen, Byron Kane, Forrest Lewis, Stan Jones, Bert Holland, Austin Green, Bob Bruce, Harry Bartell, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Carl Fortina (music supervisor). 14:10. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.
7:30 Dragnet. November 2, 1952. Program #176. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Big Light". Henry Wilson, a movie director, has been killed at the studio. A 250 pound lamp had fallen on him. See cat. #47055 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Whitfield Connor, Jack Kruschen, Hal Gibney (announcer), John Robinson (writer), Walter Schumann (music). 25 minutes. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. October 23, 1955. CBS net. "Brush At Elkader". Sponsored by: L & M, Chesterfield. Ben Williams has been murdered by Lou Shippen. Matt has to travel to the very tough town of Elkader to bring him back...not an easy job! The system cue is added live. The script was used on the program subsequently on November 16, 1958 (see cat. #42146) and on the Gunsmoke television series on September 15, 1956. William Conrad, John Meston (writer), James Nusser, Harry Bartell, Vic Perrin, Paul Dubov, Lawrence Dobkin, Howard McNear, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), George Walsh (announcer). 25:18. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
8:30 Our Miss Brooks. March 27, 1949. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "Clay City High Tries To Poach Miss Brooks". An attempt is made to steal Miss Brooks to Clay City High School with a "secret weapon." Mr. Boynton tries a "Sam Spade" technique to keep her at Madison. Frank Nelson plays the part of Mr. Brill, the competing principal. See cat. #49756 for a network, sponsored, quality upgrade version of this broadcast. The script was reused on the program of March 24, 1957. Eve Arden, Frank Nelson, Jane Morgan, Richard Crenna, Gloria McMillan, Gale Gordon, Jeff Chandler, Gerald Mohr, Larry Berns (producer), Al Lewis (writer, director), Wilbur Hatch (music). 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.
9:00 This Is Your FBI. January 21, 1949. ABC net. "The Slap-Stick Holdup". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assurance Society. The FBI tries to clear an innocent man accused of armed robbery. Stacy Harris, William Woodson (narrator), Frederick Steiner (composer, conductor), Jerry D. Lewis (writer), Jerry Devine (producer), Larry Keating (announcer), Sid Goodwin (director). 29:12. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:30 Night Watch. July 10, 1954. CBS net. Sustaining. The first call is about a liquor store hold-up. The clerk is attacked by a man with a hammer. A marijuana leaf is found in a man's jacket pocket when he takes the coat in to be dry cleaned. Donn Reed (police recorder), Sterling Tracy (producer), Jim Headlock (producer), Ron Perkins (technical advisor). 27:43. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.
10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. January 4, 1937. CBS net, KNX, Los Angeles aircheck. "Men In White". Sponsored by: Lux. A young doctor learns the hard way what a life dedicated to medicine really means. Spencer Tracy, Virginia Bruce, Frances Farmer, Cecil B. DeMille, Edith Head (intermission guest: costume designer for Paramount), Frank Reicher, Louis Silvers (music director), Melville Ruick (announcer), Paul Guilfoyle, Victor G. Heiser (intermission guest: physician, author), Crauford Kent, Thomas Mills, Kenneth Hansen, Brent Sargent, Lou Merrill, Ross Forrester, Frank Nelson (doubles, program opening announcer), Dorothy Gray, David Kerman (doubles), Margaret Brayton, Sarah Selby (performer, commercial spokesman), Mary Jane Higby, Doris Louray, William Royal (commercial spokesman), Sidney S. Kingsley (author), Frank Woodruff (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 59:11. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
Hey Gina, Grease is a classic. I never knew that was Eve Arden. She was great.
Too much stuff to do a a decent cook this weekend.
All is good?
Yes, all’s well, Vision. It sounds like you’ve been very busy again. We got a nice rain yesterday evening, almost an inch and a half. Our grass was getting dry from the heat.
If you have Netflix, you should pull up Grease and watch it again. Eve Arden is a lovely lady. She was getting older by then, but her classic voice is unmistakable. When I first watched the picture back then, I didn’t know who she was. That was before my OTR days (I was only about 11 or 12!). :-) Here’s a short clip with her as Principal McGee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUNq34kNR0M
Huh?
I think Ed mentioned another show at 9:30pm.
So a woman’s charms drove him insane...
That was a sad ending. All over a lousy broad.
Jinx, almost! :-)
I don’t know what WAMU is. It use to be Washington mutual bank.
I assume it is a radio station of some sort.
A mans’s got to be careful.
Kind of a weak DN.
“Remember, the U.N. works for YOU!” Wow, what crap.
That was a short Gunsmoke.
Agreed. And why start Our Miss Brooks at 8:19pm?
Oh well...
I think your undergraduate body is wonderful...
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