Posted on 11/01/2015 2:01:48 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:
Well folks, what can be said. Ed's left us. We're in transition. But the Big Broadcast and Ed's spirit lives on. A good and fairly typical lineup tonight...the standards...Our Miss Brooks...Nightbeat...This Is Your FBI is good...and ending with a Lux from ‘42.
How you doing?
So begins a new era of the Big Broadcast. We'll miss Ed each Sunday.
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2015 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. May 31, 1959. CBS net. "The Big H Matter". Commercials deleted. Johnny receives a call for help from "Helen Dehner!" Bob Bailey, Peggy Webber, Bartlett Robinson, Russell Thorson, Virginia Gregg, Joseph Kearns, Dan Cubberly (announcer), Jack Johnstone (writer, producer, director). 19:53. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Otherwise complete.
7:30 Dragnet. March 9, 1954. Program #238. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Big Cup". Ethel Lawrence has been viciously beaten to death in her house. The evidence points overwhelmingly towards her husband. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, George Fenneman (announcer). 25:32. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. December 30, 1956. CBS net. "Hound Dog". Sponsored by: L & M. The old and blind hound dog owned by Karpas Daig has been shot and killed. Even though Karpas can't see too well himself, he's determined to get revenge. A good story. The system cue is added live. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Les Crutchfield (writer), John Dehner, Vic Perrin, Dick Beals, Howard McNear, Georgia Ellis, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), John Meston (editorial supervisor), George Walsh (announcer), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns). 25:10. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
8:30 Our Miss Brooks. July 10, 1949. CBS net. "Christmas In July". Sponsored by: Palmolive Soap, Lustre-Creme Shampoo, Palmolive Shave Cream. Mrs. Davis gets a telegram, but no-one wants to open it! This naturally leads to Christmas in the Spring! Eve Arden, Jane Morgan, Richard Crenna, Gloria McMillan, Gale Gordon, Joseph Kearns, Jerry Hausner, Peter Leeds, Larry Berns (producer, Al Lewis (writer, director), Verne Smith (announcer), Bob Lemond (announcer), Wilbur Hatch (music). 29:24. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:00 Night Beat. July 31, 1950. NBC net. Sponsored by: Wheaties. Randy Stone dials his phone at random and speaks to a woman about to be murdered by her insane husband. Barbara Dupar, William Lally (announcer), Frank Lovejoy, Frank Worth (composer, conductor), Jay Novello, Katherine Card, Larry Marcus (writer), Lurene Tuttle, Peter Leeds, Warren Lewis (director). 29:41. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:30 This Is Your FBI. February 23, 1951. ABC net. "The Canvas-Backed Frame-Up". Sponsored by: The Equitable Life Assurance Society. A $50,000 jewel theft has taken place. The FBI traces the job to a has-been prize fighter who doesn't mind losing for a price. The system cue is added live. Stacy Harris, William Woodson (narrator), Walter Catlett, Richard Crenna, Marlo Dryer, Wally Maher, John Sheehan, Sid Goodwin (director), Frederick Steiner (composer, conductor), Jerry Devine (producer), Jerry D. Lewis (writer). 29:27. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. September 21, 1942. CBS net. "How Green Was My Valley". Sponsored by: Lux (Rainbow Garden Tulip Bulb premium), Vimms. Life and death in the coal mines of Wales. The story was produced again on The Lux Radio Theatre on March 31, 1947 and also on September 28, 1954 (see cat. #10532). Maureen O'Hara, Roddy McDowall, Cecil B. DeMille, Richard Llewellyn (author), Sanford Barnett (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Claire Verdera, Esta Mason (doubles), Fred MacKaye, Frederic Worlock, Gale Gordon (narrator), Gloria Gordon (doubles), Herbert Evans, John Milton Kennedy (announcer), Joseph Kearns, Kemball Cooper (doubles), Louis Silvers (music director), Norman Field, Paul Langton, Sara Allgood, Stephen Muller, Stuart Robertson, Joe Pennario, Barbara Jean Wong, Antonio Oland, Billy Roy, Tudor Williams (doubles, chorus), Robert Bradford (chorus), Jon Williams (chorus), Stewart Bair (chorus), Richard Davis (chorus), Allan Watson (chorus), David J. Reed (chorus), Eddie Davis (chorus), Cyril Clare (chorus), John Clay Thomas (chorus), Will Louis (chorus), Reese Williams (chorus), Walter Pidgeon, Donald Crisp, Enrico Ricardi (choral coach), Betty Jean Hainey (commercial spokesman), Janet Waldo (commercial spokesman), Sandra Coles (commercial spokesman), Arthur Gillmore (commercial spokesman), Philip Dunne (screenwriter). 59:23. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
Who is hosting? It would be nice to get everyone’s take on the transition... I am no longer in the market.
How’s things?
I’m glad Rob is filling in but fingers crossed on the replacement.
Hi, Vision. It’s nice and wet here. We’ve had over 2 1/4 inches of rain this weekend. It looks like it will let up here in a bit, so we can grill some hamburgers.
Yeah, I also wonder who in the world they will find to replace Ed.
How’re you doing?
Hi, Viking! I don’t even know what it is that you’re cooking, but with peppercorn cream sauce, I’ll bet it’s YUM!
Sounds like a dream...
German soul food sounds really good.
Good lineup tonight. I hope they keep things the same.
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