Posted on 06/05/2016 2:47:56 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 folks...
Every so often a show is run that deeply effects me emotionally. And of all the classic films and radio I’ve been exposed to there is one that gives me chills every time I think of it, and that is Dodsworth. I have a signed picture of Walter Huston. Dodsworth, at least the movie is the greatest piece of Americana that exists IMO and tonight we’re ending the show with Lux’s Dodsworth. I think they may have played it before but let’s hope for the original cast and some of the awesome dialog about America and capitalism. Since this is from ‘37 it should be...
So, we’ve got a lineup for the ages tonight...Burns and Allen (and Allen is probably still running for the Presidency under the “Surprise Party”)...Halls of Ivy...Richard Diamond, the detective with the wonderful intro theme...and then ending...with Lux and Dodsworth...
I’m disappointed there doesn’t seem to be a D-Day show...
How’s it going out there?
It looks like it may be a fundraising night. And, we have a D-Day broadcast from Burns & Allen, but it's not a D-Day-themed show, I don't think.
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2016 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. April 23, 1961. CBS net. "The Rat Pack Matter." Sustaining. A "message" drama about a gang of juvenile delinquents terrorizing a small town. The opening is slightly upcut, the system cue has been deleted. Bruno Zirato Jr. (producer, director), Dan MacDonald (announcer), Gertrude Warner, Jack Grimes, Jack Johnstone (director), Phil Meader, Robert Dryden, Robert Readick, Roger De Koven, William Redfield. 24:32. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.
7:30 Dragnet. September 28, 1954. Program #267. NBC net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "The Big Bible." Carl Hamlin has committed suicide... or has he? There's something fishy about the gun found in his dead hand. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander. 25 minutes. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. October 6, 1957. CBS net. "The Rooks." Commercials deleted. While Matt Dillon is sick in bed, the Rook brothers are shooting up the town...until they finally kill a man in cold blood. William Conrad, Marian Clark (writer), John Dehner, James Nusser, Vic Perrin, Harry Bartell, Barney Phillips, Don Diamond, Lawrence Dobkin, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, Georgia Ellis, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), John Meston (editorial supervisor), George Walsh (announcer). 19:41. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Incomplete.
8:30 The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show. June 6, 1944. CBS net. Sponsored by: Swan Soap. George thinks he's been chosen Kansas City's favorite singer. 9:00 P. M. George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bill Goodwin, Jimmy Cash, Felix Mills and His Orchestra, The Swantet, Dinah Shore, Ray Erlenborn (sound effects), Mel Blanc, Elvia Allman, Frank Nelson (doubles), Joseph Kearns. 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:00 The Halls Of Ivy. January 24, 1951. NBC net. Sponsored by: Schlitz Beer. The wife of a wealthy alumnus bequeaths a painting by Goya to Ivy. It may be worth $100,000! The show features a beautiful flashback sequence. Very well-written! Ronald Colman (performer, writer), Benita Hume, Ken Carpenter (announcer), Don Quinn (creator), Herb Butterfield, Henry Russell (composer, conductor), Nat Wolff (director). 29:33. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:30 Richard Diamond, Private Detective. January 15, 1950. NBC net. Sustaining. The program moves to Sundays at 7:30 P. M. Mr. Victor, a powerful publisher, is going to tackle the numbers racket, but his beautiful daughter complicates matters. Dick sings, "Time On My Hands" after the story. Blake Edwards (writer), Dick Powell, Ed Begley, Edward King (announcer), Frank Worth (music director), Hy Averback, Jeanne Bates, Lawrence Dobkin, Paul Dubov, Russell Hughes (writer), Stan Waxman, Virginia Gregg, Wilms Herbert. 29:25. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.
10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. October 4, 1937. CBS net. "Dodsworth". Sponsored by: Lux. The script was used previously on Lux on April 12, 1937. A Midwestern businessman retires and tours Europe with his wife. The voyage ends in an unexpected way. Walter Huston, Nan Sunderland, Barbara Kent, Barbara O'Neil, Cecil B. DeMille, Frank Nelson (performer, program opening announcer), Gretchen Thomas, Harlan Briggs, Hugh Huntley, James Eagles (doubles), Lou Merrill (triples), Louis Silvers (music director), Margaret Brayton, Martha Wentworth (triples), Melville Ruick (announcer), Pedro De Cordoba, Sinclair Lewis (author), Sidney Howard (screenwriter), Arthur M. Levy (intermission guest: hair stylist and wardrobe manager for Twentieth Century Fox), Margaret Brayton (doubles), Jerrie Gail (performer, commercial spokesman), Beverly Cravens (commercial spokesman), Frank Woodruff (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 59:35. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
Was it a good week?
The new host of the BB is Murray Horwitz...a recorded interview coming up...I think this is him...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Horwitz
No, Vision, it doesn’t sound like the Burns & Allen is a D-Day-themed show, but maybe they mention it.
That new host’s bio sounds like he’s probably a liberal. We’ll see. I hope he loved Ed Walker and will stay true to how Ed ran the show. I’ll be glad to hear good speech, though, regardless.
We’re doing fine here. How about you?
Gunsmoke!
YUM!!!
Did you ever try binding a snakeskin around your head? HAHAHAHA!!!
Kitty: Matt, you look weak as a woman...
Great writing on Gunsmoke, as always!
Ok, this is good. If you like Irish Cream I recommend:
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/220449/irish-cream-ice-cream/
Oh, man! That sounds delicious!
Dang. My Dodsworth picture went away.
I still find it funny Halls of Ivy was sponsored by Schlitz Beer.
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