"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 1/5 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 1/5/19 | Freak SJW Murray Horwitz

[Vision]

Friends it's Sunday night again and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana.

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Info *tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.

[Vision]

The Big Broadcast is a Sunday night tradition for families throughout the WAMU listening area.

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.

Saying Goodbye To Ed Walker

Ed Walker spent 65 years on the radio. His last program was unlike any other.

[Vision]

Happy Sunday Night...Classic Radio Time...

[Vision]

7 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
“The Mojave Red Matter, Part 1” (Original air date July 13, 1958. CBS network) (Running time 21:33)

7:30 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
“The Mojave Red Matter, Part 21” (Original air date July 20, 1958. CBS network) (Running time 21:20)

7:45 p.m. Biography in Sound, “Science Fiction” excerpts (Original air date December 4, 1956. NBC network.)

8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
“Twelfth Night” (Original air date December 25, 1955. CBS network.) (Running time 22:14)

8:25 p.m. Dragnet
“The Big Kid” (Original air date November 10, 1953. NBC network) (Running time 24:36)

8:55 p.m. X Minus One
“Nightfall” (Original air date December 7, 1955. NBC network.) (Running time 28:51)

9:25 p.m. Maxwell House Coffee Time
(Original air date March 24, 1949, NBC network.) (Running time 29:09)

10:00 p.m. Columbia Presents Shakespeare
“Twelfth Night” at the 1937 Shakespeare Festival (Original air date August 30, 1937, CBS network.) (Running time 59:48)

[Vision]

Happy first Sunday of 2020 all!

It’s a mixed bag tonight with scifi and Christmas shows...have hope for the Maxwell House Coffee Time...

How are you?

[WXRGina]

Happy Sunday 2020, Vision!

[Viking2002]

Hey, gang. Back in AL at 10:30 last night, but still as sick as a dog. Might be pneumonia, got a doc appt. Tuesday morning. Coughing up some blood from my throat/lungs - throat is pure hamburger. May or may not be back tonight. Hope you’re doing OK. Vision, my end of the state up there is going to be socked in with snow most of the week.

[Vision]

Hi Gina. Have a good week?

[Vision]

Good God man, get to the doctor!

[\/\/ayne]

As an Asimov fan the radio version of "Nightfall" cracks me up. From what I hear the movie is unwatchable (not "so bad it's funny") so I didn't watch it.

Right now I am hooked on Speed Gibson again after only four years. Suffering wangdoodles!

[Vision]

Thanks for the heads up on Nightfall.

What do you like about Speed Gibson? Kids show right?

[WXRGina]

Oh, bummer! Get well soon, Viking!

[WXRGina]

Hi, Vision. Yes, it was a good week. We saw the Clint Eastwood film, “Richard Jewell” at the movie theater yesterday. It was good, very much worth seeing.

You doing okay?

[Vision]

Yes, back to work tomorrow. It’s been a great holiday. Was in bed by 10:30pm NYE.

[Viking2002]

Been hearing that a good bit. (I appreciate the sincerities - allow me to exchange the sentiment.) Even Mom (Mrs. ex-42 Year RN) has been riding my tuckus about it. I’ll schlep to the E.R. if it gets worse in the next 48 hours. I currently have a belt of some vintage Bushmill’s in a custom shot glass my sister picked up for me during a business trip to Dublin last September. My throat is coated very nicely at the moment. Funny, I don’t remember Irish whiskey tasting this good in the past. *chuckle*

[dp0622]

You’re lucky I don’t know where you live.

I’d call 911 on you from a burner phone!

Let me know what happens tuesday!

[Viking2002]

I wuzz in the Hillbilly Highlands of Western Maryland. I izz in the post-apocalyptic zombie lowlands of eastern AL/Western GA (although you can't tell from which intellectual state of either biological animation). I eventually plan on being in the Blue Ridge Mountains of West Virginia that our late 70's Americana tourbadour John Dnever sang of.

[WXRGina]

Yes, back to work tomorrow. It’s been a great holiday. Was in bed by 10:30pm NYE.

Excellent! 10:30 is LATE to us! :-) Hope you have a good week.

[\/\/ayne]

Speed Gibson is for teenagers so it's clean (but more violent than one of the posters at the time claimed!) Obviously the producers felt the show should have teaching moments so they explain about local customs in China, Tibet, Africa and other places they go. This gives you a picture of what things were like there in 1938! The writing combines humor with thrills in a great way.

ISP Agent Clint Barlowe is played by Howard McNear (Floyd the Barber from Mayberry) and sometimes you hear that special drawl come out.

[Vision]

I’ll give it another try. I love Howard McNear.

[Vision]

Howard was born in Los Angeles and was a California guy but comes across as authentically southern. Moreso after his stroke.