Posted on 05/08/2016 2:50:34 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.
Evening all, life is wonderful in Baltimore as long as you ignore the revolting stupidity coming from the Federal government...which we forget in this thread...its just been a day of news perversion...
It’s a Gina special, a detective lineup tonight...Fat Man, which we don’t hear much of...the regular high point of Halls of Ivy...Mr. Keen, looks to be a detective show that I’ve not heard before, fun!...and ending with as big of a drama as you get, NBC U Theater w/The Grapes of Wrath, they’ll probably leave off the breastfeeding...
How goes it?
Ed always played Mother's Day show, but Rob's not doing that. It looks like a good lineup, though.
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 4, 1961. CBS net. "The Who's Who Matter." Sponsored by: Commanders. Two Johnny Dollars investigating insurance fraud in Texas prove to be one too many! The system cue has been deleted. Art Hannes (announcer), Bill Lipton, Bruno Zirato Jr. (producer, director), Ed Oates (director), Ethel Huber (music supervisor), Ian Martin, Jack Johnstone (director), Lawson Zerbe, Leon Janney, Phil Sterling, Robert Readick, Roger De Koven, Rosemary Rice. 24:28. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
7:30 Dragnet. August 24, 1954. Program #262. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Big Shock". A "tunnel burglar" is digging through a sewer line and into a bank vault. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, George Fenneman (announcer). 25 minutes. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. September 1, 1957. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "Jobe's Son." After four years away from home, Tad Harley returns home to his sick, old father Jobe. Tad was a difficult boy and has gotten worse. The announcer gives Les Crutchfield credit as writer, John Meston credit as editorial supervisor. The closing credits may be added from another program. The public service announcements have been deleted. William Conrad, Howard McNear, Marian Clark (writer), Vic Perrin, John Dehner, Parley Baer, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Les Crutchfield (writer), John Meston (editorial supervisor), Ray Kemper (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), George Walsh (announcer). 21:17. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
8:30 The Fat Man. October 3, 1947. ABC net. "A Window For Murder." Sponsored by: Pepto Bismol. A killing in a Greenwich Village apartment house, and a crazy old lady with a ball of string and a knife. J. Scott Smart, Bernard Green (music director), Dashiell Hammett (creator). 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:00 The Halls Of Ivy. May 31, 1950. NBC net. Sponsored by: Schlitz Beer. Ivy College is about to receive a $250,000 gift from George Sexton, but Dr. Hall has been delayed by a baby sitting assignment. Benita Hume, Cameron Blake (writer), Charles Seel, Don Quinn (creator, writer), Henry Russell (composer, conductor), Herb Butterfield, Herb Vigran, Jean Vander Pyl, Jeffrey Silver, John McGovern, Ken Carpenter (announcer), Nat Wolff (director), Ronald Colman, Willard Waterman. 29:20. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:30 Mr. Keen, Tracer Of Lost Persons. August 10, 1951. NBC net. "The Abandoned Well Murder Case." Sponsored by: Anacin, RCA Victor, Chesterfield. A wealthy old man has been shot and thrown down a well... whodunit? Frank Hummert (originator, producer), Anne Hummert (originator, producer), Phillip Clarke, Bing Crosby (Chesterfield), Ken Carpenter (Chesterfield announcer), Richard Leonard (director), Jean Carroll (dialogue), Jack Costello (announcer). 30:00. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 The NBC University Theatre. January 9, 1949. NBC net. "The Grapes Of Wrath." Sustaining. The classic drama of the Depression, the Okies and their search for the promised land in California. Albert Harris (composer, conductor), Andrew C. Love (director), Clarke Gordon, Don Diamond (producer, host), Don Stanley (announcer), Earl Lee, Gwen Delano, Howard McNear, J. Donald Adams (intermission commentator), Jane Darwell, Jerry Farber, John Dehner, John Steinbeck (author), June Martell, Lawrence Dobkin, Lou Krugman, Parley Baer, Richard E. Davis (adaptor), Steven Chase, Theodore Von Eltz, Tom Charlesworth, Tony Barrett, Wally Maher. 59:49. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
Hey, Vision! All’s well here, a nice day. How about you? Anything new?
Very cool! The cherry tomato should be a good one. Those plants, if they do well, make LOTS of fruit. And the grass loves the rain, of course.
If you’re going to keep them in pots, I would recommend bigger pots, because pepper plants get big (as do tomato plants, for that matter). Onions and eggplants, I don’t know much about. And, you have to plant the tomato plants deep, covering most of the stalk, depending on how tall it is.
“Her film career began to SPUTHER in the FORTHIES.” It’s really, really hard to listen to this guy with his awful speech impediment! I can hardly stand the way he pronounces his words. “MURTHER,” instead of MURDER. “MATHER,” instead of MATTER. “THIRTHY,” instead of THIRTY. I can’t believe no one has coached him on this.
I don't like how he stepped all over the opening theme.
Cool, that’s great, I’m happy for you.
Outstanding, Viking! That’s great news! And, it’s good to see you. :-)
Oh, I missed him doing that. We were a minute or so late getting the stream going.
THE FAT MAN...
by pepto bismol no less...
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