So tonight is the first night with the new host Murray Horwitz...I'm concerned and will keep an open mind, but don't understand changing the lineup around...a better late then never tribute to DDay and Ed Walker at 7:30pm, not sure why to place it there though...gone are the Halls of Ivy...Burns and Allen (GracieAllen must not have been a flippantly chosen name)...I'm happy to see Jack Benny...and ending classical with Lux and All My Sons...
How's it going out there...
What an awful Muslim jihadi cloud it is that hangs over our nation today. Prayers up for the families and friends of those massacred in Orlando.
Break a leg, Murray!
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2016 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. June 4, 1961. CBS net. "The Stock In Trade Matter." Sustaining. Murder in Memphis...the killer is broken with the help of a broker. The system cue has been deleted. Art Hannes (announcer), Bruno Zirato Jr. (producer, director), Ethel Huber (music supervisor), Jack Johnstone (director), Joan Lorring, Mandel Kramer, Ralph Bell, Robert Dryden, Robert Readick, Wendell Holmes. 24:38. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.
7:30 Tribute to Ed Walker and Remembering D-Day.
8:00 Gunsmoke. October 13, 1957. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Margin." Flagg Miller is sure Grody Beck has been stealing his cattle. When he is released from jail due to lack of evidence, Miller plans to take the law into his own hands. The public service announcements have been deleted. William Conrad, Les Crutchfield (writer), Parley Baer, Vic Perrin, John Dehner, Howard McNear, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Ray Kemper (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), George Walsh (announcer). 20:42. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.
8:30 The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show. October 28, 1940. [I don't know if this is the show they're airing tonight. They synopsis doesn't sound like what she wrote on the WAMU lineup] NBC net. Sponsored by: Spam, Hormel Chili Con Carne. George has a date with the glamorous Fifi. Who is this Fifi? George Burns, Gracie Allen, Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, The Smoothies, Bud Hiestand (announcer). 28:50. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.
9:00 Dragnet. October 5, 1954. Program #268. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Big Handsome Bandit." A tavern has been robbed and a couple shot. One of the crooks has been shot and rats on the other two. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander. 25:21. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:30 The Lucky Strike Program Starring Jack Benny. September 11, 1949. CBS net. Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first show of the season. A bus tour through Beverly Hills. This is a network, sponsored version of cat. #18056. The Sportsmen sing a commercial to the tune of, "Hello Beautiful." Jack doesn't have anything to say until 21:20 into the show! Phil refers to "The Brown Derby" as, "The Big Derby." Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Frank Nelson, Bea Benaderet, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Verna Felton, Phil Harris, Eddie Anderson, Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Verna Felton, Bud Hiestand (commercial spokesman), Joseph Kearns, L. A. Speed Riggs (tobacco auctioneer), Del Sharbutt (commercial spokesman), Doris Singleton, The Sportsmen, Herb Vigran, Mahlon Merrick (music director), Milt Josefsberg (writer), Sam Perrin (writer), George Balzer (writer), John Tackaberry (writer), Hilliard Marks (producer), Dorothy Dandridge (?). 29:34. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. May 1, 1950. CBS net. "All My Sons." Sponsored by: Lux. A good drama about a factory owner whose partner is in prison for shipping defective parts during the war. Ann Pearce, Burt Lancaster, Edward Arnold, Scott Brady, William Keighley (host), John Milton Kennedy (announcer), Louis Silvers (music director), Norma Varden, Edward Marr, Georgia Ellis, Herb Butterfield, William Johnstone, Lawrence Dobkin, Cy Kendall, Lillian Buyeff, Dorothy Lovett (commercial spokesman: as "Libby"), Joan Reynolds (intermission guest), Chester Erskine (screenwriter), Arthur Miller (author), Fred MacKaye (director), Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 59:41. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
“All My Sons”. What an awful story.