Posted on 01/11/2015 2:02:32 PM PST by Vision
Friends, it's Sunday night again and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana.
Info *tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.
Official OTR blog of "The Big Broadcast" thread:
Kind of an understated lineup tonight...Fort Laramie should be fun....My Favorite Husband is good...Nightbeat....and ending with NBC University Theater.
How's it going?
The NBC University Theatre show looks good, a recounting of the last days of the ill-fated Julius Caesar, who by the way, did NOT say, "Et tu, Brute?" That misconception was popularized by a fictional Latin quote in Shakespeare's, "Julius Caesar." These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2015 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. November 25, 1956. CBS net. "The Royal Street Matter". Sustaining. A New Orleans antique shop has had a fire, but the owner refuses to file a claim! Why? Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg, Forrest Lewis, Lou Merrill, Lawrence Dobkin, Frank Gerstle, Dan Cubberly (announcer). 30:01. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
7:30 Dragnet. March 15, 1953. Program #195. NBC net. "The Big Impossible". Sponsored by: Chesterfield. Bernie Hanson has been identified as the head of a team robbing markets, but Hanson has a good alibi. He is hospitalized and cannot leave his bed! The Chesterfield commercials make health claims for the product. Ben Alexander, George Fenneman (announcer), Hal Gibney (host), Herb Ellis, Jack Webb, John Robinson (writer), Victor Rodman, Walter Schumann (conductor). 29:33. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. March 18, 1956. CBS net. "The Man Who Would Be Marshal". Sponsored by: Chesterfield, L & M. Emmett Egan comes to Dodge to become Marshal...and is willing to pay $50,000 to matt Dillon for the job! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on June 15, 1957. The system cue is added live. William Conrad, John Meston (writer), John Dehner, James Nusser, Harry Bartell, Howard McNear, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), George Walsh (announcer). 25:41. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.
8:30 Fort Laramie. February 19, 1956. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "Boredom". Private Soothey is bored with garrison duty. He has a plan for getting a little action out of the Indians. The Cheyenne oblige. The program was recorded February 16, 1956 and is also known as, "Unknown Disease At Fort." Vivi Janis, Raymond Burr, Joe Cranston, Les Crutchfield (writer), Parley Baer, Sam Edwards, Jack Kruschen, Howard Culver. 25 minutes. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:00 My Favorite Husband. November 13, 1948. CBS net origination, AFN rebroadcast. Mrs. Cugat changes identities with her maid Katie so Katie can impress her old boyfriend, Roscoe Miller. The program may be dated November 6, 1948. Lucille Ball, Richard Denning, Dave Scofield (AFN producer), Bea Benaderet, Hans Conried, Brad Scott (AFN announcer), Florence Halop, Herb Vigran, Isabel Scott Rorick (creator). 23:54. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.
9:30 Night Beat. May 15, 1950. NBC net. Sponsored by: Wheaties, Crust-Quik. Did a night watchman named Tony Graham, who walks with a cane, set a series of warehouse fires? His father seems to be a bad luck symbol too! The system cue has been deleted. Frank Lovejoy, Warren Lewis (producer, director), Joel Hunt (writer), Frank Worth (music), Junius Matthews, Frank Martin (commercial spokesman), Frank Gerstle, Larry Marcus (editor), Sarah Selby, Paul McVey, Sam Edwards. 29:25. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
10:00 The NBC University Theatre. January 15, 1950. NBC net. "The Ides Of March". Sustaining. A dramatic, well-written and literate look at the last days of Julius Caesar. The story was previously used on "The NBC University Theatre" on July 2, 1949 (see cat. #42900). Andrew C. Love (director), Ben Wright, Brainard Duffield (adaptor), Don Stanley (announcer), Doris Singleton, Edward Weeks (intermission commentator), Emerson Crocker (adaptor), Georgia Backus, Eda Reiss Merin, James Nusser, Jan Arvan, Lawrence Dobkin, Lynn Allen, Maya Gregory, Parley Baer, Thornton Wilder (author), Whitfield Connor. 59:46. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
Hi Gina, how’s it gong?
Hi, Vision! It’s going fine—been a heck of a week, though. I got the homo-radical blitzkrieg in response to a column I wrote, even had some death threats (screen shots of some of them here: http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/miller/150109). Godless, degenerate freaks.
How was your week? I know it’s cold there!
Crap. My week was fine then. I’m amazed at how vapidly hateful people are. Stay strong.
Have you been listening to football?
Yeah, I listened to most of the Dallas game. Bummer. Now, we’re listening to Indy/Denver on the radio.
The weather is decent enough—cloudy, cool and dampish—that we’re going to grill some hamburgers, and I’ll cut up some potatoes for french fries. I guess you’re not grilling because of the weather.
This isn’t the first time the homo-trolls have attacked on my Facebook page, but it is certainly the largest volume I’ve seen to date. Vicious little devils, they are.
Good! :-) All’s well...
Re: Godless, degenerate freaks.
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It has been posited that if you are drawing flak you must be over the target. So ‘Bombs Away!’, two percent of the population is a small target.........
Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! :-)
And “Overkill” is certainly dead.....
HA! Yep!
I’m a little late!
Now listening to Johnny Dollar.
Thank goodness, I’ll be on time for the start of DRAGNET!
What was the guy doing in his factory; why he didn’t want the insurance money? Did I miss it?
Dragnet just starting!!
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