Posted on 02/14/2016 2:07:49 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.
Longtime radio personality and The Big Broadcast host Ed Walker passed away early on Oct. 26 at age 83. We invite you to leave your thoughts and remembrances.
Ed Walker spent 65 years on the radio. His last program was unlike any other.
I am LOVING tonight's lineup...this may be the best lineup I've ever seen...Jack Benny celebrating his bday...the new recurring show, and awesome Halls of Ivy (be sure to catch the chorus)...then right into Phil Harris for laughs...and ending with a Lux with Cary Grant and Myrna Loy...simply fantastic!
How's it going? Been a great and cold weekend in Baltimore...7f this morning...
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The Dragnet listed is the same one listed last week, so this may not be the Dragnet we hear tonight.
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2016 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. January 3, 1960. CBS net. "The Hapless Ham Matter". Sponsored by: Winston, 4-Way Cold Tablets, Fitch Shampoo. Johnny gets a phone call from a man...after he was murdered! Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg, Chester Stratton, Lawrence Dobkin, Sam Edwards, Herb Ellis, Ralph Moody, Junius Matthews, Dan Cubberly (announcer), Mona Freeman (4-Way Cold Tablet testimonial). 24:10. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
7:30 Dragnet. May 25, 1954. Program #249. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Big Watch". A market has been robbed of $7000 by Herbert Langley, the clue to the bandit: a cheap broken watch. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander. 25:25. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. May 12, 1957. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "Sheep Dog". Orlin Barkas is wanted for attempted murder. His bible quoting father refuses to surrender him to Marshal Dillon. William Conrad, Les Crutchfield (writer), Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), John Meston (editorial supervisor), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), George Walsh (announcer). 25:58. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:30 The Lucky Strike Program Starring Jack Benny. February 14, 1954. Program #368. CBS net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. It's Jack's birthday. Is it the 39th or the 40th (It was actually his 60th)? AFRS program name: "The Jack Benny Program." The program was February 10, 1954. The script was previously used on the nprogram of February 13, 1949. Jack Benny, Eddie Anderson, Bea Benaderet, Mel Blanc, Bob Crosby, Dennis Day, Jeanette Eymann, Shirley Mitchell, Dick Ryan, Don Wilson, Hilliard Marks (producer, transcriber), Mahlon Merrick (music director). 25 minutes. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:00 Halls of Ivy. 01/20/50 #003 The Gangster's Son (Schlitz) (NBC). Synopsis is missing from the Index.
9:30 The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show. February 13, 1949. NBC net. Sponsored by: Rexall. Alice sings, "Skip To My Lou." Phil sings, "Minnie The Mermaid." It's Valentine's Day, and Alice has been receiving flowers from the mysterious, "Guess Who?" Alice Faye, Anne Whitfield, Bill Forman (announcer), Dick Chevillat (writer), Elliott Lewis, Hal March, Jack Mather, Jeanine Roos, Paul Phillips (producer, director), Phil Harris, Ray Singer (writer), Walter Scharf and His Orchestra, Walter Tetley, Griff Barnett (Rexall druggist). 29:35. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. June 30, 1941. CBS net. "I Love You Again". Sponsored by: Lux. A comedy case of amnesia. Is the hero a con-man or a wealthy manufacturer of pots...or both? The story was produced again on The Lux Radio Theatre on March 29, 1948 (see cat. #6846). Frank McHugh, Cecil B. DeMille, Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Arthur Q. Bryan (doubles), Betty Ventura, George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Sanford Barnett (director), George Oppenheimer (screenwriter), Harry Kurnitz (screenwriter), Leon Gordon (author), Maurine Watkins (author), Kathleen Fitz (commercial spokesman: as "Libby"), Betty Jean Hainey (commercial spokesman), Charles Lederer (screenwriter), Earle Ross (doubles), Ferdinand Munier, Jack Arnold, Jane Morgan, Louis Silvers (music director), Melville Ruick (announcer), Octavus Roy Cohen (author), Rolfe Sedan, Tyler McVey, Lou Merrill, Julie Bannon (commercial spokesman), Dix Davis. 59:23. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
Good lineup!
Last week on Toronto’s Zoomer Radio AM 740 they had Boston Blackie and Burns & Allen (week nights 10-11 EST).
The (current-day) host said that the George and Gracie characters were originally unmarried on the show, but the ratings started going down around 1940-41, so George made them married, and the ratings went back up.
He also said that Connie Stevens may have been great on Hawaiian Eye, but she was awful as the ditzy blonde (Gracie having passed away) on George’s TV show “Wendy and Me.”
Happy Sunday. Was it a good week?
Hey there. Never heard of Zoomer, just checked it out...are you in CA? Is theatre of the mind an hour of OTR each night?
I get AM 740 over the air in NC.
Comes in surprisingly well, although sometimes it’s too static-y or fades in and out too much to follow the show.
It was a fine week until yesterday, Vision. The death of Justice Scalia now presents the horrible possibility that the commies will final kill the Constitution once and for all.
Otherwise, we’re fine. Going to grill some NY strips and potatoes tonight.
How about you? I know you’re frozen up there. Anything good happening? You’re not on Facebook, are you?
They play an hour each week night. The first half hour is detectives or westerns, the second half hour is comedy.
Gerald Mohr as Philip Marlowe is my favorite half-hour detective (not including Johnny Dollar since his shows are a serial).
I’ll try to listen this week via a stream...
The host usually has something interesting to say about the shows when he introduces them.
Life is fine, let not your heart be troubled. If you need some peace read how the Lord was playing around with the mind of Pharaoh as he was persecuting the Israelites among waves of plagues...meaning, God is the master engineer, even when it's brutal, our job is to seek his face and carry on. Life was not meant to be easy.
Keeping extra warm with a duck roasting in the oven. Made Food Wishes/Thomas Jefferson's mac and cheese last night. It's good.
Yes, I know our peace is found in the Bible, through the Holy Spirit, and I certainly do keep my eyes on Him as I stumble along in this world. But there’s no way around the distress of watching your nation fall to enemies within, being powerless to stop it, and knowing the days ahead will be unimaginably dark.
I used to hate Facebook, too (didn’t join until October 2013), and to a degree, I still do, because of their censorship of Christian conservative posts, but it is a very useful tool for networking with fellow patriots.
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
Colossians 3:2
Yes, of course, but reality does not change. America IS going down. That’s simply the truth. God’s deserved judgment IS falling on this horribly sinful nation. Like Rush says, I live in Realville. I can do both: keep my eyes on the Lord for the sake of the peace and sanity He brings, while at the same time understanding the deadly position the United States is in. Ignoring the imminent death of our freedoms and constitutional Republic will not make them go away.
Yeah, “Wendy and Me” never really clicked. I always liked Connie Stevens, and felt she had a fine flair for comedy, but it just didn’t suit her, that kind of limited verbal humor that “Wendy and Me” seemed to imprison her in.
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