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"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 12/20 7-11pm est
WAMU ^ | 12/20/15 | Ed Walker

Posted on 12/20/2015 2:06:10 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.

Listen Live

Info *tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.

Official OTR blog of "The Big Broadcast" thread:

http://kallmansalley.com/


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The Big Broadcast is a Sunday night tradition for families throughout the WAMU listening area. Each week, Big Broadcast host Ed Walker offers listeners priceless recordings of popular radio programs from the '30s, '40s and '50s. Priceless, especially, for a man whose first sentence as a child was, 'Turn the radio on.'
1 posted on 12/20/2015 2:06:10 PM PST by Vision
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To: 4everontheRight; Arthur McGowan; BluesDuke; boxlunch; bsf53; Calvin Locke; citizen; Cold Heat; ...
Happy Sunday Night...Classic Radio Time...




2 posted on 12/20/2015 2:07:36 PM PST by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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3 posted on 12/20/2015 2:08:35 PM PST by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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To: Vision

Evening all...and Merry Christmas to you and yours!

Love the highlights in tonight’s lineup...they’re mixing up the first half hour...but then we have one of the greatest OTR programs rarely played on the BB: The Six Shooter and love this sappy story line of Britt Ponset’s Christmas Carol...we go weak for an hour with Father Knows Best and Red Skelton...Great Gildersleeve...and a Christmas Suspense! Pretty cool.

How’s it going? Is the shopping done yet?


4 posted on 12/20/2015 2:09:39 PM PST by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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To: Vision
Merry Christmas, FRiends! Thanks, Vision!

These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2015 J. David Goldin.

7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. December 23, 1955. Program #5. CBS net. "The Nick Shurn Matter". Sustaining. Conclusion of the story. The showdown...victory and then disaster. A visitor turns out to be be death! Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Jack Kruschen, Ken Christy, Amerigo Moreno (musical supervisor), Sam Edwards, Peggy Webber, Don Diamond, Ben Wright, Barney Phillips. 15:13. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

7:15 The Couple Next Door. 12/23/58 Picking Out a Christmas Tree (Sus.) (CBS). Synopsis is missing from the Index.

7:30 Dragnet. July 28, 1949. Program #8. NBC net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. Juanita Laskey has been reported missing by her mother. The story takes place at Christmas, despite the July broadcast date (which is subject to correction). Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough, Raymond Burr. 30:37. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.

8:00 Gunsmoke. December 20, 1959. CBS net origination, AFRTS Christmas Show Library. "Beeker's Barn". A young couple take shelter in her estranged father's barn, just before she has a baby! A rebroadcast of the script first used on the program of December 23, 1956 (see cat. #54844). William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, Ralph Moody, Vic Perrin, Virginia Gregg, Les Crutchfield (writer), George Walsh (announcer). 24:56. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

8:30 The Six-Shooter. December 20, 1953. NBC net. Sustaining. The story of "A Christmas Carol" is retold with a western motif. Jimmy Stewart, Basil Adlam (music), Frank Burt (creator, writer), Hal Gibney (announcer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Dick Beals, Howard McNear, Will Wright, Eleanor Audley, Tyler McVey. 29:28. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

9:00 Father Knows Best. December 24, 1953. NBC net. Sponsored by: Post 40% Bran Flakes, Sanka, Post Wheat Meal. It's Christmas eve and the family has unique ideas to celebrate it. Ted Donaldson, Jean Vander Pyl, Helen Strohm, Jeanette Nolan, Herb Butterfield, Ed James (creator), Paul West (writer), Robert Young, Rhoda Williams, Roz Rogers (writer), Bill Forman (announcer). 29:33. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.

9:30 The Red Skelton Show. 12/24/50 Junior's Christmas Party (Tide) (CBS). Synopsis is missing from the Index.

10:00 The Great Gildersleeve. December 24, 1944. NBC net. Sponsored by: Kraft Parkay. An old-fashioned Christmas at the water commissioner's. Harold Peary gets caught with the mike open just before the chimes. Arthur Q. Bryan, Bea Benaderet, Claude Sweeten (music), Earle Ross, Harold Peary, John Whedon (writer), Ken Carpenter (announcer), Ken Christy, Lillian Randolph, Louise Erickson, Richard LeGrand, Sam Moore (writer), Shirley Mitchell (?), Walter Tetley. 29:22. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

10:30 Suspense. December 21, 1953. CBS net. "'Twas The Night Before Christmas". Sponsored by: Auto-Lite. The parents of a little girl aren't coming back for Christmas. They were on a plane reported missing over the Atlantic. A well-written story, good radio. The story was previously produced on "Suspense" on "December 24, 1951. Greer Garson, Harry Bartell, Herb Butterfield, Charles Calvert, John Ramsay Hill, Joseph Kearns, Mary Lansing, Howard McNear, Sidney Miller, Irene Tedrow, Anne Whitfield, Larry Thor (announcer), Morton Fine (writer), David Friedkin (writer), Elliott Lewis (producer, director), Harlow Wilcox (commercial spokesman), Lud Gluskin (conductor(, Lucien Moraweck (composer), Roger Wagner (choral director), John McGovern. 29:45. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

5 posted on 12/20/2015 2:37:23 PM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: WXRGina
Merry Christmas! All ready?
6 posted on 12/20/2015 2:41:10 PM PST by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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To: WXRGina

I’m amazed of how poorly some JD shows can end. 5 episodes to have it all end in 30 seconds, anti climatic and hollow. Meh.


7 posted on 12/20/2015 4:18:51 PM PST by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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To: Vision; WXRGina

Sing with Bing Ping


8 posted on 12/20/2015 4:20:24 PM PST by logitech
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To: logitech

That’s right...but we got shorted on Bing...


9 posted on 12/20/2015 4:23:30 PM PST by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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To: Vision

This The Couple Next Door is terrible...15 minutes of family whining on somebody calling someone else the wrong name...


10 posted on 12/20/2015 4:25:41 PM PST by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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To: Vision

Hi, Vision! I’m just now sitting down! Been extra busy because I added a round of chocolate chip cookie baking this afternoon. So, between that and laundry, etc., I’ve been shakin’ and bakin’!

Merry Christmas to you, too! Ours will probably be low key. Our wedding anniversary is on Christmas Eve, so we might try to figure out something nice to do. Do you have big plans this week?


11 posted on 12/20/2015 4:40:17 PM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Vision

HAHAHAHA!!! Keith and I said the same thing about the Couple show. Very lame!


12 posted on 12/20/2015 4:42:47 PM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Vision

Just a crummy commercial


13 posted on 12/20/2015 4:43:54 PM PST by logitech
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To: WXRGina
The cookies sound great right about now...

Happy Anniversary.

I'll be heading down to Williamsburg for a few days, will be back for next week's BB.

14 posted on 12/20/2015 4:47:18 PM PST by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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To: Vision

Gunsmoke!


15 posted on 12/20/2015 5:01:14 PM PST by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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To: Vision

Thanks, Vision! I hope you have a great time, too!


16 posted on 12/20/2015 5:10:40 PM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: logitech; WXRGina

Bing Ping!


17 posted on 12/20/2015 5:23:42 PM PST by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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To: Vision

Yay, Bing! :-) After my favorite Gunsmoke of all time!


18 posted on 12/20/2015 5:26:02 PM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Vision

The Six Shooter...Jimmy Stewart time!


19 posted on 12/20/2015 5:26:29 PM PST by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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To: WXRGina

That is a good GS.

The score of the Six Shooter gets me right in the heart...


20 posted on 12/20/2015 5:28:00 PM PST by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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