Posted on 06/07/2015 1:50:48 PM PDT 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:
We've got some Lucille Ball in My Favorite Husband...a D-Day show...Sleep No More which looks fun...and closing strong with a Suspense...
It's a good lineup...how are things in your world?
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2015 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. March 9, 1958. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Wayward Moth Matter." A secret rocket fuel lab, hidden in the Everglades, is the scene of a mysterious explosion. Was it sabotage? Bob Bailey. 25:35. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
7:30 Dragnet. October 20, 1953. Program #218. NBC net. "The Big Paint." Sponsored by: Chesterfield, Fatima. An ex-con tips the cops to Manny Phillips, wanted in connection with a gang of car-strippers. A can of ultra-violet flourescent paint helps. The Chesterfield commercials contain health claims for the product. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, George Fenneman (announcer), Hal Gibney (announcer), John Robinson (writer), Walter Schumann (music), Vic Perrin, Jack Kruschen, Bud Tollefson (sound effects), Wayne Kenworthy (sound effects), William H. Parker (constant), Jack Donahoe (technical advisor), Marty Wynn (technical consultant), Van Spracer (technical consultant). 29:36. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. August 12, 1956. CBS net. "Snakebite." Sponsored by: L & M. Gorman and Hicks arrive in Dodge and promptly kill Pony Thompson's dog. Gorman is then found knifed in the back. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on December 20, 1958. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, Joseph Kearns, Vic Perrin, Lawrence Dobkin, John Meston (writer), George Walsh (announcer). 24:40. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:30 My Favorite Husband 01/28/49 Absolute Truth (Jello) (CBS) (25:18). Synopsis is missing from the Index.
9:00 CBS Reports. June 6, 1964. CBS-TV net audio, on 16 mm. film. D-Day Plus Twenty Years. Commercials deleted. Walter Cronkite interviews General Eisenhower on location in England and France. A program of memories of the Allied invasion of Normandy on the 20th anniversary of the battle. The program was repeated in edited form on June 5, 1979, on the 35th anniversary of D-Day (see cat. #18915). Dwight Eisenhower, Walter Cronkite. 79:16. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Incomplete.
10:00 Sleep No More. December 5, 1956. NBC net. "Over The Hill" "The Man In The Black Hat." Sustaining. Part of the final public service announcement has been deleted. Nelson Olmsted, Ben Grauer (announcer), Michael Fessier (author of both stories), Kenneth MacGregor (director). 23:58. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.
10:30 Suspense. March 6, 1948. CBS net. "In A Lonely Place." Sustaining. A horror tale of a strangler on the loose, who kills once a month. The story is told in the first person. The story would subsequently be used on, "The Philip Morris Playhouse On Broadway" on March 1952 (see cat. #93258). Robert Montgomery (performer, producer, host), Lurene Tuttle, William Johnstone (announcer), Anton M. Leader (director), Lucien Moraweck (composer), Lud Gluskin (conductor), Irving Ravetch (adaptor). 61:38. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
CBS Reports. June 6, 1964. CBS-TV net audio, on 16 mm. film. D-Day Plus Twenty Years. Commercials deleted. Walter Cronkite interviews General Eisenhower on location in England and France.
Pretty cool.
Ed says Sleep No More has never been run before...and that Suspense will be an hour...
Yes, we thought Ed might honor D-Day, and we’re glad he will with what should be a good show.
We’re doing well. It’s hot and muggy here. How are you? Did you have a good week?
That was excellent! American Pharoah! What a name!
I love this “June Night” song!
Gunsmoke!
Love the swanee river...
This is a very good D-Day program!
Yea, it’s the real deal.
Not sure how he’s going to fit in Sleep No More and an a hour long Suspense.
Great opening for Sleep No More...
I think Ed’s wrong about the Suspense being an hour. The D-Day show was billed on the Index as being 79 minutes long. I think he was just misinformed.
This show is unusual. All told by one person, like it’s a memory.
Ed was right. “Suspense” IS an hour long. Whoo-hoo!
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