(((((Early Ping)))))
Posted on 11/02/2014 5:59:32 AM PST 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.
An early thread today as I'll be away but do expect to be back about showtime.
Tonight's lineup looks great. The classics to new shows like Frank Merriwell and Information Please...to a fantastic 10pm hour with the Whistler (it's been too long for one of these) and Mysterious Traveler.
I can hear my windows being pressured by the wind.
How's it going out there...
Sponsored by Dr. West’s Tooth Paste. Looked that up, and came across this link to notes about popular radio premiums. You'd think Dr. West would have the leggy model flashing a white toothy smile.
Sponsor Promotions Popular With Radio Listeners Part II
(The back button goes up to more links on Golden Age advertising - Part I, hits, misses, complaints, etc.)
We had turtles, albeit long after Dr. West's promotion. Mom flushed them because they suddenly "died" when she found out turtles can carry salmonella...
Awww, ‘Johnny Dollar’ the spiritual father of Jim Rockford.
Wouldn’t Thomas Banacek be a closer fit?
Good point — I get hung up on that “golden” expense account vs “two hundred dollars a day....plus expenses”
Hi, Stranger! We’re glad to see you here.
I DESPISE the stupid, no-real-reason-for-it clock change. But, we're lovin' us some Whistler and Mysterious Traveler! And, the Gunsmoke looks good--one I don't remember hearing before.
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2014 J. David Goldin.
7:00 Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. October 25, 1956. Program #9. CBS net. "The Phantom Chase Matter". Sustaining. The conclusion of the story, apparently in nine episodes. Who gets paid off, and why? The answer surprises Johnny! The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Robert Ryf (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Vic Perrin, Lawrence Dobkin, Forrest Lewis, Michael Ann Barrett, Richard Crenna, Don Diamond, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Jack Edwards, Ben Wright. 14:09. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. October 29, 1956. Program #1. CBS net. "The Silent Queen Matter". Sustaining. Who killed Barney Slade, and what is the connection to Mavis Slade, an actress in "silent" movies? The system cue has been deleted. Adrian Gendot (writer), Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Bob Bailey, Chester Stratton, Frank Gerstle, Jack Johnstone (director), John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin, Paul Dubov, Paula Winslowe, Roy Rowan (announcer), Vic Perrin, Virginia Gregg. 14:10. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
7:30 Dragnet. February 1, 1953. Program #189. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Big Strip". A gang of car strippers is running rampant. A sixteen-year-old boy is killed in a crash while resisting arrest. See cat. #47071 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Hal Gibney (announcer), Sarah Selby, Art Gilmore, John Robinson (writer), Walter Schumann (music). 25 minutes. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. January 29, 1956. CBS net. "Bureaucrat". Sponsored by: Chesterfield, L & M. Rex Proctor, a government inspector, comes to Dodge to enforce a strict set of rules on the town. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on March 16, 1957. The system cue is aded live. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Vic Perrin, John Dehner, Harry Bartell, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), George Walsh (announcer). 25:20. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:30 The Life Of Riley. April 10, 1948. Program #9. NBC net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. When Peg joins Babs in taking French lessons, Riley takes a great dislike to the teacher. See cat. #77750 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Alan Lipscott (writer), Irving Brecher (producer), John Brown, Paula Winslowe, Reuben Ship (writer), William Bendix, Ken Niles (announcer), Barbara Eiler. 30:46. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:00 The Adventures Of Frank Merriwell. July 10, 1948. NBC net. "The Mystery Of The Millionaire's Yacht". Sustaining. Frank again solves a baffling crime when a safe on board a yacht explodes and $50,000 is found missing. Elaine Rost, Gene Leonard (narrator), Gilbert Braun (writer), Hal Studer, Jack Kuney (director), Kevin McCarthy, Lawson Zerbe, Mel Brandt (announcer), Nat Polen, Paul Taubman (music), Roc Rogers, Ruth Braun (writer), William Welch (supervisor), Burt L. Standish (creator). 29:25. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:30 Information Please. July 11, 1939. Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question heard is, "Identify the following four well-known persons by their first and middle names." Clifton Fadiman (host), Milton Cross (announcer), John Kieran, Franklin P. Adams, Oscar Levant, Elliot Roosevelt. 26:19. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.
10:00 The Whistler. October 29, 1947. CBS Pacific net. "The Back Door". Sponsored by: Signal Oil. A clever lawyer has an interesting scheme to get rid of his wife who won't give him a divorce. When he's arrested and tried for her murder, he hardly bothers to defend himself...for an unusual reason. The show has a good whistleresque ending! Willard Waterman, Virginia Gregg, Wilbur Hatch (music), George W. Allen (producer), James Earthine (writer). 29:36. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
10:30 The Mysterious Traveler. September 1, 1946. Mutual net. "No One On The Line". Sustaining. A man suspects his wife is cheating on him, so he kills her lover. David Kogan (writer, producer, director), Maurice Tarplin (as "The Traveler"), Robert A. Arthur (writer), Ted Osborne, Mary Jane Higby, Jack Manning, James Van Dyke, Doc Whipple (organist). 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
Hi all, thanks for the link CL.
Ready to relax...
Hi, Vision. What did you do today? That was a very early ping.
We’re having a fire in the back yard in our little fire bowl. It’s the nice thing about the cooler weather. Pork ribs on the grill, laundry in the dryer.
Volunteered at a Church dinner thing.
Nice. Maybe get a grace radio you can bring outside? (:
I did food wished coq au vin this yesterday.
All is well, just want to chill out...
Very good!
We have our Grace radio wired to speakers in and out of the house, so we’re always listening outside.
One day, I have to try some Food Wishes recipes. Time and money, and I’m there!
I haven’t had time to look the recipe up, too busy working right now, but I see the idiot bureaucrat is trying gun control on Dodge.
Tar and feather. Ugh. Really ugly.
Yeah, tar and feather is bad news—we can’t imagine—but the jerk learned his lesson and showed he wasn’t too much of jerk in the end.
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