Posted on 05/21/2017 2:21:22 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.
7 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
“The Fathom Five Matter” Part 3 (CBS, Original air date February 29, 1956)(Running time 14:45)
7:15 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
“The Fathom Five Matter” Part 4 (CBS, Original air date March 1, 1956)(Running time 14:45)
7:30 p.m. The Lucky Strike Program Starring Jack Benny
“Dennis and the Psychiatrist” (CBS, Original air date November 28, 1954)(Running time 25:42)
8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
“The Wolfer” (CBS, Original air date January 11, 1959)(Running time 24:44)
8:20 p.m. Personally, It’s Off The Record
“Fats Waller” (CBS, Original air date September 23, 1943)(Running time 11:07)
8:30 p.m. Dragnet
Program #64 “The Big Check” (NBC, Original air date August 31, 1950)(Running time 26:44)
9:00 p.m. Richard Diamond, Private Detective
“The Enigma of Big Ed” (ABC, Original air date April 4, 1952)(Running time 25:32)
9:30 p.m. Hall Of Fantasy
“The Night the Fog Rolled In” (Mutual, Original air date March 23, 1953)(Running time 24:42)
10:00 p.m. Theatre Five
“Outside Time” (Mutual, Original air date September 1, 1964)(Running time 20:51)
10:30 p.m. CBS Mystery Theater
“The Waiting Room” (CBS, Original air date September 5, 1977)(Running time 42:33)
Tonight's lineup is lovely...Jack Benny...never heard of Personally, It's Off the Record...the best B-level detective show Richard Diamond...Hall of Fantasy can be freaky...never heard of Theatre Five...and ending well with CBS Mystery Theater...
How you doing? Next weekend is Memorial Day, incredible...
Philo Vance sounds just like Mr. Peabody.
Hi, Vision!
We finally downloaded Adblock Plus. Why didn’t we do that before?! It makes browsing pop-up nest websites MUCH better. You have to download a version for each browser you use, though. https://adblockplus.org/
How’s your weekend? You’re right—I can’t believe it’s ALREADY Memorial Day, almost.
Mr. Peabody of Mr. Peabody and Sherman? Don’t think I agree.
It's been relaxing but a little cool and cloudy. No chance for a Triple Crown this year unfortunately. Went ultra lazy with cooking this weekend, about to get some takeout crabcakes. Some criminal jackass electronically swiped my debit card and took out $2k in 2 days. This is the second time this year I've been hit with fraud via electronic means.
Not only the sound of the voice and way of talking, but the same condescending way of explaining things to one’s mental inferior, Philo to the police inspector, Mr. Peabody to Sherman.
I was so struck by it this week, I had to check that Philo was not voiced by Bill Scott (Mr. Peabody).
It makes me wonder if Philo was not an inspiriation for the Mr. Peabody character, much as Jeff Regan seems to be for Nick Danger.
I love the back-and-forth between Jeff Regan and Inspector Hellman.
Oh, man, THAT SUCKS! I’m sorry to hear that, and I hope you are able to get that money re-credited to your account.
We’ve had it happen, too. I watch our bank accounts online daily, because of that. Once several years ago, I also had someone hack into my Amazon account and try to charge an 800-dollar camera on my debit card that Amazon automatically saves on your account when you make a purchase. Fortunately, the sale was rejected since there wasn’t that much money in the account. Since then I immediately delete my card after every purchase I make on Amazon.
I had never heard of CBS Radio Mystery Theater, ran 1974-1982.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Radio_Mystery_Theater
Cool, to ‘82. Must have been the last OTR program.
Love Fats Waller with. Ain’t Misbehavin’
I’ve never heard of “Personally, It’s Off The Record.”
It must refer to performances replicating popular music records.
Another show I never heard of until this week was “2000 Plus.” It was a science fiction/fantasy series like X Minus One.
The episode I heard was unique in that it left the story hanging. It featured a duplicating ray that duplicated a police detective — made a perfect copy and both thought they were the real guy. But it ended with the Egyptian servant of the guy who built the ray saying that the only living thing they ever duplicated before was a dog, and one of the dogs suffered a horrible death one month afterwards.
But you never learned which detective was going to die the horrible death.
True story. :-/
A lot of OTR programs will leave the listener hanging, Gunsmoke for instance. It can be a powerful technique by forcing the listener into a moment of soul searching but I guess it didn't’ work for your story.
Re “200 Plus”: And you never learned which detective was the copy and which was the original.
Did you catch Murray just now saying and emphasizing: “...our MANNED space program, as it used to be called...” WHAT A STUPID THING TO SAY!!! I can’t take his social justice warrior crap!
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