Posted on 02/21/2016 2:33:40 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 remember as a little kid listening to “Johnny Dollar” on the radio. I loved it.
Happy Sunday night and post SC primary wishes...
Lots of variety tonight...he’s sneaking in a Vic and Sade before Gunsmoke...then B level but enjoyable Gangbushers...the awesome 9pm Halls of Ivy...the indulgent and worldly detective Nero Wolfe...and a regular last hour Escape going into a new show (for me) Columbia Presents Corwin which looks fun if I understand it correctly...
How’s it? Feburary is almost over, 1/6 of 2016 is almost gone and this is all moving too fast...
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2016 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. February 21, 1960. CBS net. "The Alvin's Alfred Matter". Sponsored by: Pepsi, Ex-Lax, 4-Way Cold Tablets (Mel Torme), Fitch Shampoo. An eccentric, wealthy old man enlists Johnny's aid to help recover his abducted dog! The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg, Mel Torme (4-Way Cold Tablets), G. Stanley Jones, Howard McNear, Frank Gerstle, John Wald (announcer). 24:44. Audio condition: Very good. Complete as above.
7:30 Dragnet. June 8, 1954. Program #251. NBC net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "The Big Student". Louis Rote is captured after a string of bank robberies, but breaks out of jail after just a few months. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, George Fenneman (announcer). 25:34. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
7:50 Vic and Sade. July 6, 1944. NBC net. Sponsored by: Ivory Flakes. Vic, "The Exalted Big Dipper" of "The Sacred Stars Of The Milky Way" has brought the sacred ritual home. Russell has seen the ritual, Sade has written on the envelope! Paul Rhymer (writer), Art Van Harvey, Bernardine Flynn, David Whitehouse, Ed Herlihy (announcer), Margaret MacDonald (commercial spokesman). 14:26. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:05 Gunsmoke. May 19, 1957. CBS net. "One Night Stand". Commercials deleted. Ben Argo arrives in Dodge with $15,000 in gold and two men after him. When one of the men is shot dead by Argo, Marshal Dillon smells a rat. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Les Crutchfield (writer), Georgia Ellis, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), Rex Koury (composer), George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), John Meston (editorial supervisor), Lawrence Dobkin, John Dehner, Harry Bartell, George Walsh (announcer). 22:48. Audio condition: Very good. Incomplete.
8:30 Gangbusters. December 11, 1948. ABC net. "The Case Of The Bandit (Throneberry) Brothers". Sustaining. "Gangbusters Nationwide Clues" have been deleted. Stanley Niss (writer), Phillips H. Lord (producer), William Sweets (director), Ralph Bell, Art Carney, Don Gardiner (announcer). 23:12. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Incomplete.
9:00 The Halls Of Ivy. February 3, 1950. NBC net. Sponsored by: Schlitz Beer. Chester Bromley, the famed Shakespearean scholar, is coming to visit Ivy and perhaps to stay! Benita Hume, Don Quinn (creator, writer), Gloria Gordon, Henry Russell (composer, conductor), Ken Carpenter (announcer), Nat Wolff (director), Ronald Colman, Walter Newman (writer), Willard Waterman, William Johnstone. 29:20. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:30 The Adventures Of Nero Wolfe. January 12, 1951. NBC net. "The Killer Cards". Sustaining. The joint owners of "The Candy Club" sit down to a game of cards. Murder deals a hand, with Archie Goodwin kidnapped as the ante. The final promotional announcement and the system cue have been deleted. Sydney Greenstreet, Rex Stout (creator), Gerald Mohr, William Johnstone, Don Stanley (announcer), Edwin Fadiman (producer), Betty Lou Gerson, Jay Novello, Howard McNear, Barney Phillips. 28:50. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Incomplete.
10:00 Escape. April 7, 1950. CBS net. "The Ambassador Of Poker". Sustaining. A good adventure yarn about a Virginia gentleman adept at cards, who matches wits with a motley band of Chinese cutthroats and war lords. Elliott Reid, William Conrad, John Dehner, Lucille Meredith, Benson Fong, Ben Wright, William N. Robson (producer, director), Achmed Abidar (? author), John Dunkel (adaptor), Richard Loo, Ramsay Hill, Rick Vallin, Ivan Ditmars (music). 29:25. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:30 Columbia Presents Corwin. May 16, 1944. Program #11. CBS net, WBNS, Columbus aircheck. "New York, A Tapestry For Radio". Sustaining. A description of the world's greatest city at war. The second program of a trilogy about three cities. Martin Gabel (narrator), Norman Corwin (writer, producer, director), Frederick Steiner (composer), Lyn Murray (conductor), Minerva Pious, Hester Sondergaard, Donna Keith, Paul Mann, Richard Huey, Kermit Murdock, Sam Raskin, Sid Cassell, Walter Burke, Edward Cullen. 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
How’s it going?
Is Columbia Presents Corwin a news piece?
Yes, it looks like a war-time documentary.
We’re doing fine, enjoying the warmer weather, and rain is on the way for the week.
What’s shakin’ with you?
They should have put that in the 9:30 or 10pm slot.
Another week, all is good. Purchased a ticket to Italy in August am looking forward to that.
Wow, Italy! Is that just a vacation, or is it business? Are you going alone?
What is hooper dip for upside down cake?
Gunsmoke!
I have no idea. Weird. :-)
Well, that sounds like a great trip to Italy. It's a ways away, but it'll be here before we know it.
Halls of Ivy!
Hope you liked the detective show gina. Enjoy escape. Night.
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