Posted on 03/20/2016 1:58:37 PM PDT 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.
Happy Sunday! The first day of Spring and it’s cold and wet with flakes...
It’s a good evening of standards...Life of Riley...a high point with Halls of Ivy...spy stories with a Man Called X...and ending perfectly with a Lux from ‘38...
How goes it?
7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. May 15, 1960. CBS net. "The Mystery Gal Matter". Sponsored by: Pepsi Cola, Camel, Kellogg's Cereals, Utica Club Beer (local spot). "Andy The Actor" is on the loose, along with a woman with an uncanny voice. Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg, Peter Leeds, Jerry Hausner, Parley Baer, John Wald (announcer). 24:59. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
7:30 Dragnet. July 6, 1954. Program #255. NBC net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "The Big Search". Bunny Moran, a thirteen year old girl has disappeared, her cocker spaniel has been beaten to death. An unusual kidnap story. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, George Fenneman (announcer). 25:28. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. 09/13/52 #12 Buffalo Hunter (Sus.) (CBS) (29:44). The WAMU people got the date wrong for this episode (this is last week's Gunsmoke's date, "Home Surgery"), and I'm not going to wade through hundreds to find it, although I know we've heard this one before.
8:30 The Life Of Riley. September 13, 1947. NBC net. Sponsored by: Prell Shampoo, Ivory Snow. Riley sticks his nose into Babs' social life. Will she be going out with Leonard or Bruce? Alan Lipscott (writer), Barbara Eiler, Gil Stratton, Irvin Lee, Irving Brecher (creator, producer), Jack Brecher (writer), John Brown, Ken Carpenter (announcer), Ken Christy, Lou Kosloff (music), Paula Winslowe, Reuben Ship (writer), Sandra Gould, Don Bernard (director). 29:45. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:00 The Halls Of Ivy. March 10, 1950. NBC net. Sponsored by: Schlitz Beer. Mrs. Hall's old theatrical partner invites her to play the lead in a new Broadway production. The system cue has been deleted. Ronald Colman, Benita Hume, Ken Carpenter (announcer), Joseph Kearns, Janet Waldo, Gloria Gordon, Walter Brown Neuman (writer), Don Quinn (creator, writer), Nat Wolff (director), Henry Russell (composer, conductor). 29:27. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.
9:30 The Man Called X. April 24, 1947. CBS net. Sponsored by: Frigidaire (commercials deleted). The Acme Oil Company is the victim of sabotage in the Middle East. Ken Thurston flies to Kuwait and then a boat to investigate. Herbert Marshall, Leon Belasco, Jack Johnstone (director), Johnny Green (composer, conductor), Wendell Niles (announcer). 27:34. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Otherwise complete.
10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. March 7, 1938. CBS net. "Poppy". Sponsored by: Lux. A story about a circus charlatan and his beautiful daughter. W. C. Fields, Anne Shirley, John Payne, Cecil B. DeMille, Gretchen Thomas, Helena Grant, Lou Merrill, Louis Silvers (music director), Melville Ruick (announcer), Skeets Gallagher, W. L. Thorn, Virginia Van Upp (screenwriter), Waldemar Young (screenwriter), Dorothy Donnelly (author), Margaret Graham (intermission guest: with the L. G. Barnes Circus), Frank Nelson (doubles, program opening announcer), Vangie Beilby (doubles), Dink Trout (doubles), Forrest Taylor (doubles), Ross Forrester, George Webb, Virginia McMullin (commercial spokesman), Justina Wayne (commercial spokesman), Frank Woodruff (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 60:17. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
With my Mom! :-) She flew in from Texas yesterday, so we’re all here hanging out. She’ll be here till Wednesday. We’ll be tuned in, and I’ll check in with the thread, but we may be doing more visiting than listening. We’re here, though.
How about you? You said it’s cold and sorta snowish. It’s sunny but windy here. How are you doing?
Nice, sounds like fun. All is good, nothing huge to report...
No news is good news. :-)
Good night, Vision! Lord willing, we’ll be back to normal operations next Big Broadcast. :-)
Night Gina, it’s an interesting lux...
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