Hey there BB fans, how’s your Sunday going? All is well in OTR land and we have a good show tonight...
Our Miss Brooks is always fun...then Suspense!...some sci-fi with X Minus One...and Lux!
Looking forward to it...
Finally, we have a "Suspense" and an "X Minus One." We love the mysteries and creepier shows. We have conflicting titles on the "Dragnet" show. It's either "Big Bop," according to WAMU, or "Big Bob," according to the Index. And, the "Lux" has an unusual description of the show as, "A portrait in bitchiness..."
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2015 J. David Goldin.
7:00 Pm Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. September 29, 1957. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Doubtful Dairy Matter." A silo burns on the farm of an important dairyman...a guy with pull! Bob Bailey, Paul Dubov, Will Wright, Harry Bartell, Parley Baer, John Dehner, Forrest Lewis, Dan Cubberly (announcer), Jack Johnstone (writer, producer, director). 25:47. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
7:30 Dragnet. September 1, 1953. Program #211. NBC net. "The Big Bob." Commercials deleted. A robber has held up a check cashing service of $1500. After several more robberies, one of his victims is killed during the crime. The program closing has been deleted after the credits. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Walter Schumann (music), Hal Gibney (announcer), Victor Rodman, John Robinson (writer), Lillian Buyeff, Harry Bartell. 27:07. Audio condition: Very good. Incomplete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. June 24, 1956. CBS net. "Sunday Supplement.". Sponsored by: Chesterfield, L & M. Two newspaper writers come to Dodge to write of the West. The evidence of an Indian uprising points to them as the robbers of a Fox Clan totem. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on February 8, 1958. The system cue has been deleted. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, John Meston (writer), John Dehner, Harry Bartell, Joseph Kearns, Lou Krugman, Ralph Moody, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), George Walsh (announcer). 25:19. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
8:30 Our Miss Brooks. July 24, 1949. CBS net. "Mrs. Davis' Pensacola Popovers." Sponsored by: Palmolive Soap, Lustre-Creme Shampoo. Mrs. Davis has baked a batch of her wicked "Pensacola Popovers," which nurse Brooks feeds to Mr. Boynton. Eve Arden, Jane Morgan, Richard Crenna, Jeff Chandler, Verne Smith (announcer), Gale Gordon, Gloria McMillan, Wilbur Hatch (music), Larry Berns (producer), Al Lewis (writer, director). 29:40. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:00 Suspense. October 26, 1950. CBS net. "Too Hot To Live." Sponsored by: Auto-Lite. A drifting soldier finds himself on the run from a charge of murder...with no shoes! The story was subsequently produced on "Suspense" on June 29, 1954 (see cat. #73030) and April 12, 1959 (see cat. #16448). Richard Widmark, Hy Averback, Harry Bartell, Paul Frees, Howard McNear, Joseph Kearns (announcer), Sam Rolfe (writer), Elliott Lewis (producer, director), Harlow Wilcox (commercial spokesman), Bert Holland (commercial spokesman), Walter Tetley (commercial spokesman), Lucien Moraweck (composer), Lud Gluskin (conductor). 29:42. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:30 X Minus One. February 1, 1956. NBC net. "The Cave Of Night." Sustaining. The plight of an astronaut trapped in space. There's a surprise ending. James E. Gunn (author), Alexander Scourby, Joe DeSantis, Grant Richards, Luis Van Rooten, Charles Carroll, John Moore, Bob Hastings, Ernest Kinoy (adaptor), William Welch (producer), Daniel Sutter (director), Fred Collins (announcer). 25:32. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.
10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. May 29, 1944. CBS net. "Old Acquaintance." Sponsored by: Lux, Spry. Childhood friends become personal and professional rivals. A portrait in bitchiness, with a happy-bittersweet ending. The story was produced on The Lux Video Theatre on November 29, 1956. See cat. #92650 for a recording of the rehearsal. Alexis Smith, Miriam Hopkins, Otto Kruger, Cecil B. DeMille, Bea Benaderet, Bob Bailey, Charlotte Treadway, Gloria Fisher, John Milton Kennedy (announcer), Louis Silvers (music director), Jean Martel (commercial spokesman), Doris Singleton (commercial spokesman), John Van Druten (author, screenwriter), Lenore Coffee (screenwriter), Fred MacKaye (director), Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Donna Atwood (intermission guest: famous figure skater). 59:40. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.