"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 9/7 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 9/7/14 | Ed Walker

[Vision]

Friends it's Sunday night again, and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another four 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]

• 07:00p Johnny Dollar
  10/03-04/56 The Picture Postcard Matter Pts. 3-4 (Sus.) (CBS) (27:18)
• 07:30p Dragnet
  11/30/52 #180 Big Shirt (NBC) (26:20)
• 08:00p Gunsmoke
  11/20/55 #189 Dutch George (CBS) (20:56)
• 08:30p Life of Riley
  10/06/45 Riley Won't Let Babs See Simon (Teel) (NBC) (29:24)
• 09:00p Academy Award Theater
  04/06/46 #02 Kitty Foyle w/Ginger Rogers (Squibb) (CBS) (29:42)
• 09:30p Dr. Kildare
  02/15/50 #03 Dr. Robert Lane (MGM/Synd) (27:54)
• 10:00p NBC University Theater
  02/05/50 #74 The Track of the Cat (Sus.) (NBC) (59:32)

[Vision]

Hi All, another busy weekend here and lots to do before 7pm...we have an evening of drama tonight...

How are things going?

[WXRGina]

Hello, FRiends! Thanks, Vision!

These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2014 J. David Goldin.

7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. October 3, 1956. Program #321. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Picture Postcard Matter". Episode #3. Johnny nearly skis off a cliff after being shot at on the mountainside. Bob Bailey, Robert Ryf (writer). 15 minutes. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. October 4, 1956. Program #322. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Picture Postcard Matter". Episode #4. Bruner, the last lead to the missing diamonds, is murdered. Bob Bailey, Robert Ryf (writer). 15 minutes. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

7:30 Dragnet. November 30, 1952. Program #180. NBC net. "The Big Shirt". Sponsored by: Chesterfield. The co-owner of a pawn shop named Mark Williams has been found murdered in the back room. A laundry mark on a shirt provides a clue. Ben Alexander, George Fenneman (announcer), Hal Gibney (host), Jack Webb, John Robinson (writer), Olan Soule, Victor Rodman, Walter Schumann (conductor). 29:26. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

8:00 Gunsmoke. November 20, 1955. CBS net. "Dutch George". Sponsored by: Chesterfield, L & M. Dutch George, who is the biggest horse thief in the West, has returned to Dodge. He seems to be up to his old tricks! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on June 30, 1956. Howard McNear plays a bartender as well as the role of "Doc." William Conrad, John Dehner, Vic Perrin, James Nusser, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), John Dunkel (writer), Howard McNear, George Walsh (announcer). 25:35. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

8:30 The Life Of Riley. October 6, 1945. NBC net. Sponsored by: Teel. Riley refuses to allow Babs to see her boyfriend, Simon. William Bendix, Ken Carpenter (announcer), John Brown, Paula Winslowe, Don Bernard (director), Lou Kosloff (music). . Audio condition: Unknown quality. Unknown Completeness.

9:00 Academy Award Theatre. April 6, 1946. CBS net. "Kitty Foyle". Sponsored by: Squibb. The famous rags-to riches story of mainline Philadelphia and poor-but-proud Kitty. The program may be dated April 9, 1946. Ginger Rogers. 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

9:30 The Story Of Doctor Kildare. February 15, 1950. Program #19. MGM syndication. Commercials added locally. A Kentucky gentleman is becoming parlyzed, and there seems to be no known cause! Colonel Beauregard has, "familar periodic paralysis." The closing theme has been deleted. Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Walter Schumann (composer, conductor), Dick Joy (announcer), William Conrad, Jane Webb, Les Crutchfield (writer), William P. Rousseau (director), Virginia Gregg, Ted Osborne, Max Brand (creator), Raymond Katz (producer). 27:10. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.

10:00 The NBC University Theatre. February 5, 1950. NBC net. "The Track Of The Cat". Sustaining. A story of family conflict, complicated by a murderous black panther. Andrew C. Love (director), Andrew C. Love (President and Editor of The New Republic and New York correspondent of The Manchester Guardian), Don Randolph, Don Stanley (announcer), George Lefferts (writer), John Dehner, Lee Millar Jr., Lynn Milland, Lynn Whitney, Noreen Gammill, Ralph Moody, Steven Chase, Walter Van Tilber Clark (author). 59:26. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

[Huskrrrr]

Ready to put my feet up and return to yesteryear.

[Vision]

Thanks Gina, how’s your weekend?

[Vision]

Me too. Good to see you.

[WXRGina]

Hi, Vision. Weekend’s been good. I had to work at the radio station this afternoon, so it put me off my Sunday laundry schedule. All’s well, though. We have pork ribs on the grill and are enjoying watching the hummingbirds war over our three feeders. I give them fresh “nectar” every other day, so they’re happy.

How about you? Are you having a very good weekend?

[bsf53]

Thanks for the summaries, Gina. Hope you’re doing well. I just finished cooking a new tomato sauce recipe, with eggplant, beef sausage and Kielbasa, rather than my usual sweet Italian sausage and peppers. Not bad for a first attempt by an Irishman.

[WXRGina]

YUMMMM!!!! I wish you were cooking for us here tonight, Brian! :-)

[Vision]

Damn junkies.

[WXRGina]

Yep!

[Vision]

Cool. There was a humming bird passing by the other day, I've not tried feeding them.

I've been doing yard work, seeding, and prepping a door for painting. Freakin’ locked myself out of the house yesterday at 7:30am. Nuts. Great response time on the locksmith, but they bait and switched on the price.

Finally it's time to relax.

[WXRGina]

Hide-a-key is our friend.

[Vision]

Early Sinatra Ping!

[Vision]

Was that Sinatra?

BING PING!

[WXRGina]

Whoo-hoo! :-)

[Vision]

I love Ginger Rogers.

[Viking2002]

Evening, folks. Just tuning in............