"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 12/27 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 12/27/15 | Ed Walker

[Vision]

Friends, it's Sunday night again and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana.

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[Vision]

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.'

[Vision]

Happy Sunday Night...Classic Radio Time...

[Vision]

• 07:00p Johnny Dollar
  08/16/59 #652 The Night in Paris Matter (CBS) (18:34)
• 07:30p Dragnet
  04/06/54 #242 Big Saw (NBC) (26:20)
• 08:00p Gunsmoke
  01/20/57 #251 Woman Called Mary (CBS) (19:29)
• 08:30p Father Knows Best
  02/04/54 Telephone Mix-up (Sus.) (NBC) (29:30)
• 09:00p Philip Marlowe
  10/10/48 The Panama Hat (Sus.) (CBS) (29:28)
• 09:30p Tales of the Texas Rangers
  11/04/51 #51 Helping Hand (Sus.) (NBC) (29:54)
• 10:00p Suspense
  06/27/46 Return Trip (Roma Wines) (CBS) (29:46)
• 10:30p Whistler
  01/07/51 Hit & Run (Signal Oil) (CBS) (29:50)

[Vision]

Happy Holiday Week all...

We start off slow tonight with FNB...warming up with Philip Marlowe and Tales of the Texas Rangers...and then hit a wonderful hour with Suspense followed up by the Whistler...

How was Christmas?

[WXRGina]

Hello, FRiends! Thanks, Vision!

We're back to regular programming, and we have a Suspense and a Whistler!

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

7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. August 16, 1959. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Night In Paris Matter". Johnny flies to Paris to meet "The Grey Cat" and recover the Olney Diamonds. Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg, Tony Barrett, Forrest Lewis, Bill James. 25 minutes. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.

7:30 Dragnet. April 6, 1954. Program #242. NBC net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "The Big Saw". A pair of bank robbers are identified by one of the customers in the bank. The trail leads to a car rental agency. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, George Fenneman (announcer). 25:51. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

8:00 Gunsmoke. January 27, 1957. CBS net. "Woman Named Mary". Commercials deleted. Buffalo Mary has been beaten up and robed by Reb Sutter. Marshal Dillon administers an unusual brand of justice. William Conrad, Les Crutchfield (writer), Virginia Gregg, Vic Perrin, Parley Baer, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), John Meston (editorial supervisor), Howard McNear, Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), George Walsh (announcer). 19:47. Audio condition: Good to very good. Incomplete.

8:30 Father Knows Best. 02/04/54 Telephone Mix-up (Sus.) (NBC) (29:30). Synopsis is missing from the Index.

9:00 The Adventures Of Philip Marlowe. October 10, 1948. CBS net. "The Panama Hat." Sustaining. Marlowe becomes involved with a gambling debt, an attempted murder, a kidnapping, a red-headed Dragon Lady, and the mysterious man in the Panama hat. William Lally, Gerald Mohr, Jacqueline DeWitt, Jeff Corey, Lou Krugman, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Raymond Chandler (creator), Richard Aurandt (music), Roy Rowan (announcer), Shepard Menken, Wilms Herbert. 29:44. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

9:30 Tales Of The Texas Rangers. November 4, 1951. NBC net. "Helping Hand". Sustaining. In November, 1950, a stranded motorist gets "help" from two tow-truck drivers who try to extort $15 from him. Extortion soons turns to murder. Joel McCrea, Stacy Keach (producer, director), Hal Gibney (announcer), Lillian Buyeff, Tony Barrett, Herb Vigran, Lou Krugman, William Conrad, Ken Christy, M. T. Lone Wolf Gonzaullas (technical advisor), Joel Murcott (adaptor), Monty Fraser (sound effects). 29:53. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

10:00 Suspense. June 27, 1946. CBS net, KQW, San Jose aircheck. "Return Trip". Sponsored by: Roma Wines. Four people are trapped in a snowbound bus. One of them is a homicidal maniac, but which one? Elliott Reid, Cathy Lewis, Raymond Lawrence, Wally Maher, Joseph Kearns (announcer), Maurice Zimm (writer), William Spier (producer, director), Truman Bradley (commercial spokesman), Lucien Moraweck (composer), Lud Gluskin (conductor). 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

10:30 The Whistler. January 7, 1951. CBS net origination, rebroadcast on WRVR-FM, New York. "Hit and Run". Participating sponsors. A man running away with a married woman has an auto accident...and kills the woman's husband! Syndicated rebroadcast date: March 10, 1975. See cat. #50709 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Bill Forman (announcer), Ed Begley, George W. Allen (producer), Gerald Mohr, Herb Lytton, Joseph Cochran (writer), Lurene Tuttle, Marvin Miller, Wilbur Hatch (music). 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

[Vision]

Hey there. I listened to the Christmas eve show on the way home. Pretty good. That's the best duffys tavern. And love Barrymore as scrooge...

[WXRGina]

Yeah, those were great ones that I don’t mind hearing again. Barrymore rocks as Scrooge!

I can’t believe it’s already going to be Monday.

We’re looking forward to next Saturday when Donald Trump does a rally here. We like Ted Cruz best, but it’ll still be very cool to see Trump in person. Can’t wait to meet Onyx then, too. :-)

[Vision]

Cool, you need to give us a report.

[WXRGina]

Sure will! :-)

[WXRGina]

This isn’t the Dragnet they posted on the schedule.

[Vision]

But Kitty’s in it (:

[WXRGina]

Yeah! I thought I heard her voice when I was passing through the kitchen into the laundry room! :-)

[Vision]

Kinda of a boring GS.

[WXRGina]

And, now it’s Father Knows Best. Meh.

[Vision]

There are 1000’s of shows to run and they run this often...

[Vision]

And that was a weird FNB. The daughter making a joke sexy call to her dad.

[WXRGina]

I liked the Gunsmoke much better.

[Vision]

Ok...lights out...

[WXRGina]

‘Night, Vision!

[Vision]

Night Gina