Posted on 10/12/2014 1:54:14 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.
We have a great lineup tonight with the king, Jack Benny...Chase & Sanborn Hour should be interesting with O’Sullivan...and a great 10pm hour with Molle Mystery Theater and, turn the lights out for, Inner Sanctum.
How's it going? The Orioles have turned my sports world upside down.
I bought a cd-set of “Shadow” radio shows recently. It’s strange considering how many old OTR items I’ve listened to over the years, yet I’m just really not that familiar with this famous, iconic radio show. Had a couple of poorly-sounding, poorly-recorded cassette tapes of the show thirty years ago, and I can’t say they inspired me to seek out more examples. But I blame it on the bad audio, which can inhibit enjoyment of such fare.
So it just seemed time I ought to give the show a new listen. After all, over the years, I’ve read some of the old pulp stories, seen the serial and one of the Monogram movies, and even used to buy some of the DC “Shadow” comics in the 1970s.
I always liked Maureen O’Sullivan. Never really quite ‘met’ her, but I did open a car door for her once. I often think about that when I run across one of her old films on tv.
Looks like a good lineup with some mysteries. It's about time for Ed to break out the Halloween stuff, but it looks like he'll wait till after next week.
These brief syopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2014 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. October 17, 1956. Program #331. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Phantom Chase Matter". Episode #3. The murder of Freddy Quintana. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Lawrence Dobkin, Forrest Lewis, Vic Perrin, Robert Ryf (writer), Michael Ann Barrett, Richard Crenna, Don Diamond, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Jack Edwards, Ben Wright. 13:38. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. October 18, 1956. Program #332. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Phantom Chase Matter". Episode #4. A woman in the picture. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Lawrence Dobkin, Forrest Lewis, Vic Perrin, Robert Ryf (writer), Michael Ann Barrett, Richard Crenna, Don Diamond, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Jack Edwards, Ben Wright. 13:37. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.
7:30 Dragnet. January 11, 1953. Program #186. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Big Small". A little old lady check forger is plaguing the city, but there's more to the old lady than meets the eye. See cat. #47069 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Hal Gibney (announcer). 25 minutes. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. January 8, 1956. CBS net. "Doc's Revenge". Sponsored by: Chesterfield, L & M. Clem Maddow is found shot in the back...shortly after his life was threatened by Doc Adams. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on June 9, 1956. The system cue is added live. William Conrad, John Dunkel (writer), George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), Parley Baer, Howard McNear, Georgia Ellis, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), George Walsh (announcer). 25:29. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
8:30 The Jell-O Program Starring Jack Benny. October 16, 1938. Red net. Sponsored by: Jell-O. The last Jack Benny show originating from the old NBC Hollywood studios. The moving men are taking out the furniture...while Jack is still on the air! Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris and His Orchestra, Kenny Baker, Andy Devine, Eddie Anderson, Don Wilson, Ed Beloin (writer, performer), Elliott Lewis, Bill Morrow (writer). 29:27. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:00 The Chase and Sanborn Hour. January 29, 1939. Red net. Sponsored by: Chase and Sanborn Coffee. The program begins with Nelson Eddy singing, "Marching On Parade." Charlie's planning on a "small game hunt," catching rats in Dugan's alley. Dorothy sings, "Ain't Misbehavin'." Maureen O'Sullivan sppears in, "The Other Road, " by Robert Newman. Maureen tries to teach Gaelic to Charlie. Bergen sings...sort of. Don Ameche (host), Robert Armbruster and His Orchestra, Edgar Bergen, Nelson Eddy, Dorothy Lamour, Wendell Niles (announcer), Maureen O'Sullivan (guest), Sterling Holloway (guest), Robert Newman (writer). 59:33. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:30 The Molle Mystery Theatre. May 21, 1948. NBC net. "Solo Performance". Sponsored by: Molle, Double Danderine. A good story about an actor who kills a producer and then imitates his voice all day to give himself an alibi. Everett Sloane, Elizabeth Morgan, Bernard Lenrow (host, as "Geoffrey Barnes"), Dan Seymour (announcer). 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 Inner Sanctum. July 20, 1952. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Listener". Old Mrs. Richards is being threatened by her nephew, but she has a surprise up her sleeve...and in her fireplace poker. The character played by Agnes Moorehead even has trouble with a telephone operator! A good story. The script was previously used on "Inner Sanctum" on October 7, 1946. Agnes Moorehead, Mason Adams, Paul McGrath (host). 26:08. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
Hi, Viking! You’re early this evening! :-) Good to see you.
The Orioles can only blames themselves. They're playing so poorly. Our top guys aren't producing like they have all season. The Royals are playing fantastic baseball. It's shocking to see a team collapse like this.
The Shadow is awesome. I imagine that is one of the more original and iconic OTR shows. Lamont Cranston, man about town fighting the bad guys...
So what’s the story about her?
Hi Gina. How you feeling?
No story. It was just a big event she attended, with a lot of former MGM stars, from the old days. I worked at the event, in a very, very small capacity. But she (O’Sullivan) had met up with Luise Rainer there, who had flown in from Europe, and they left together, chatting about old times. I walked down with them and opened the car-door, as their driver rode up.
Terribly minor and mundane anecdote, I’m afraid!
Now it looks like an abandoned plant nursery out there.
lol
How’d she strike you, in person?
Well, she was already quite elderly, and she just seemed as though she could be “anybody’s grandma.” No airs or anything. Indeed, it’s kind of surprising, but out of the many dozens of old-time movie folk (whose primes were in the 1920s/30s/40s) I met or encountered, none of them ever seemed haughty or egotistical. Dapper, elegant, and dignified (as was the nature of such people of their eras), but never remotely uppity or obnoxious.
The later era movie-folk, from the 1950s-era onward, tend to be a more mixed bag, and usually didn’t have the same dignified comportment.
Hi, Vision. Doing fine. Another nice day, just doing Sunday work.
How about you? Did you have a good week and weekend?
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