Posted on 07/19/2015 2:09:19 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:
Another solid lineup tonight...Benny (the stolen violin, probably hilarious)...Texas Rangers...Broadway is My Beat...and ending with Lux!
How's it shaking?
It looks like there's an error on the "Johnny Dollar" episode. Ed played this one a few weeks back.
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2015 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM Eastern War Time. [May not be the show that airs tonight] Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. March 16, 1958. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Selkoff Sequel Matter." Leon Selkoff, an ex-Nazi working on a secret rocket fuel in the Florida swamps, has disappeared. Was he abducted by his former countrymen? No! It was two "cold warriors" from you-know-where! This is the story of how Johnny Dollar helped to launch the "Explorer" satellite. Bob Bailey, Jack Johnstone (writer, producer, director), Herb Ellis, Lou Merrill, Stacy Harris, Dan Cubberly (anouncer), Jack Kruschen, Vic Perrin, Harry Bartell. 25:40. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
7:30 Dragnet. December 1, 1953. Program #224. NBC net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "The Big Odd." A furniture truck has been hijacked and the driver kidnapped. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander. 25:41. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. September 23, 1956. CBS net. "Box O'Rocks." Sponsored by: L & M. Packy Roundtree doesn't attend his own funeral out at Boot Hill, even though his coffin is only filled with rocks! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on December 5, 1959. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Ralph Moody, Paul Dubov, Joseph Kearns, Les Crutchfield (writer), George Walsh (announcer). 25:07. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:30 The Jell-O Program Starring Jack Benny. February 7, 1937. Red net, KFI, Los Angeles aircheck. Sponsored by: Jell-O. The Benny-Allen feud continues as Jack prepares to play "The Bee," but Jack's violin has been stolen! Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Mary Livingstone, Kenny Baker, Phil Harris and His Orchestra, Andy Devine, Harry Baldwin (doubles), Ed Beloin (writer, performer), Verna Felton, Joe Franz, Bill Morrow (writer, performer), Blanche Stewart (doubles). 29:11. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:00 Tales Of The Texas Rangers. July 20, 1952. NBC net. "Round Trip." Sustaining. When a friendly newspaper delivery man is murdered, the Rangers follow the killer's trail all the way to Brazil! Joel McCrea, M. T. Lone Wolf Gonzaullas (technical advisor), Hal Gibney (announcer), Charles E. Israel (writer), Stacy Keach (producer, director). 29:23. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:30 Broadway Is My Beat. August 11, 1949. CBS net. Sustaining. Scandal reporter Jed Stacy has received a prophesy in the mail...Jane Darnell will be found murdered tonight. Larry Thor, Charles Calvert, Gordon T. Hughes (producer, director), Morton Fine (writer), David Friedkin (writer), Lud Gluskin (music director), Gerald Mohr, Howard McNear. 29:15. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. September 14, 1936. CBS net. "Quality Street." Sponsored by: Lux. An aging schoolteacher pretends that she's her younger neice to win the heart of a returning soldier. Ten seconds of silence are observed at the end of the show, in honor of Irving Thalberg (MGM Vice President), who had died that day. Harriet Sterling (performer, commercial spokeswoman), Ralph Kellard (performer, commercial spokesman), Anthony Stanford (director), Harold Bucquet (intermission guest; screen test director for Warner Brothers), Mervyn LeRoy (intermission guest), James M. Barrie (author), Louis Silvers (music director), Melville Ruick (announcer), Frank Woodruff (director), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Ross Forrester (performer, commercial spokesman), Charles Emerson, Mildred Quigley, Doris Louray, Ynez Seabury (performer, commercial spokeswoman), Valentine Sidney, Kathleen Lockhart, Brian Aherne, Cecil B. DeMille (host), Noel Kennedy, Frank Nelson, James Eagles, Elspeth Dudgeon, Ruth Chatterton. 59:29. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
What’s up??? Boston is lovely BTW.
The Lux is from ‘36, sweet.
It’s hot on the MS coast. Thunderstorms on the way.
Jack Benny! YAY!
Hi, Vision! I’ll bet Boston really is beautiful. It’s just the culture there that’s a sewer.
We have some bad thunderstorms around us right now—boom-booming a LOT. We might get some rain shortly.
Otherwise, a usual Sunday. Are you back home now?
The storms move through pretty quickly. Burgers tonight.
http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=LIX&product=NCR&overlay=11101111&loop=yes
Howdy, Houmatt! :-D
Cool.
HAHAHAHAHA!!! :-)
Gunsmoke!
Well Damn. Don’t go around shootin’ guys in the legs.
That should be a given. :-)
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