"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 1/13 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 1/13/13 | Ed Walker

[Vision]

Friends, it's Sunday night again. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio programs...

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[Vision]

"The Big Broadcast is a Sunday night tradition for families throughout the WAMU listening area. Each week, Big Broadcast host Ed Walker offers listeners priceless recordings of popular radio programs from the '30s, '40s and '50s. Priceless, especially, for a man whose first sentence as a child was, 'Turn the radio on.' "

[Vision]

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

[Vision]

• 07:00 p.m. Johnny Dollar
  12/30/55 Forbes Matter Pt. 5 (Sus.)(CBS)(14:34)
• 07:15 p.m. Johnny Dollar
  01/02/56 Caylin Matter Pt. 1 (Sus.)(CBS)(14:30)
• 07:30 p.m. Dragnet
  01/11/51 #83 Big Jump (NBC)(26:28)
• 08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  04/24/54 #105 Murder Warrant (Sus.)(CBS)(24:32)
• 08:30 p.m. Fibber McGee & Molly
  06/20/39 #210 Fibber's Toothache (Johnson's Wax)(NBC) (29:52)
• 09:00 p.m. Broadway is My Beat
  11/05/49 #8 The Mei Ling Murder Case (Sus.)(CBS)(29:28)
• 09:30 p.m. Box 13
  10/03/48 #7 Short Assignment (Synd)(26:24)
• 10:00 p.m. Dimension X
  06/10/50 #10 The Green Hills of Earth (Sus.)(NBC)(25:10)
• 10:30 p.m. Whistler
  04/22/51 Kind Thought (Singal Oil)(CBS)(29:10)

[Vision]

Hi all, there's no jack benny but we've got a whistler...and the NFL playoff games...

[WXRGina]

Hi, Vision! We just listened to the Atlanta-Seattle game. What an ending!

Did you have a good week?

[WXRGina]

Hello, FRiends!

Looks like a good lineup. The Whistler is always good to hear.

Thanks to J. David Goldin's RadioGOLDINdex for these brief synopses.

7 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. December 30, 1955. Program #5. CBS net. "The Forbes Matter". Sustaining. Conclusion of the story. The expensive but unsuccessful courtship of Betsy Walker. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), John Dawson (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Lillian Buyeff, Parley Baer, Junius Matthews, Howard McNear, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Bob Bruce, Sandra Gould, Jack Edwards, Herb Ellis, James McCallion, John Stevenson. 15:00. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

7:15 PM Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. January 2, 1956. Program #1. CBS net. "The Caylin Matter". Sustaining. Eddie Kaylin has been found dead in a burning car near Los Angeles, with several possibilities and motives. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Gloria Blondell, Byron Kane, Peter Leeds, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Lucille Meredith, Alma Lawton, Howard McNear, Harry Bartell. 14:53. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

7:30 PM Dragnet. January 11, 1951. Program #83. NBC net. "The Big Jump". Sponsored by: Fatima. Walter Harrison is on a thirteenth floor ledge, threatening to jump. Good show! Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough. 29:35. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

8 PM Gunsmoke. April 24, 1954. CBS net. "Murder Warrant". Sustaining. Likeable Lee Prentiss has been shot from ambush. Jake Harbin is not so likeable, but he's a deputy sheriff with a warrant for Prentiss' arrest. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on April 18, 1959. George Walsh (announcer), Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, James Nusser, John Dehner, John Meston (writer), Joseph Du Val, Lawrence Dobkin, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Parley Baer, Rex Koury (composer, performer), Sam Edwards, William Conrad. 24:44. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

8:30 PM Fibber McGee and Molly. June 20, 1939. NBC net. Sponsored by: Johnson's Wax. Fibber takes his bad toothache to Dentist Gildersleeve. He also takes along some memories of childhood. Harold Peary, Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan, Isabel Randolph, Bill Thompson, Harlow Wilcox, Billy Mills and His Orchestra, The Four Notes, Donald Novis, Don Quinn (writer). 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

9 PM Broadway Is My Beat. November 5, 1949. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. Mai Ling sends a telegram that reads "terror follows me." The Kuan Yuen statuette has been stolen, Mai Ling and Ki Lin are both killed. It all sounds like an adaption of an "I Love A Mystery" script. 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.

9:30 PM Box Thirteen. October 3, 1948. Program #7. Mutual net origination, Mayfair syndication. "Short Assignment". Commercials added locally. A meek little detective named George Flit hires Dan Holiday to help prevent a suicide. Alan Ladd, Sylvia Picker, Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor). 27:09. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.

10 PM Dimension X 06/10/50 #10 The Green Hills of Earth (Sus.)(NBC)(25:10). Synopsis is missing from the RadioGOLDINdex.

10:30 PM The Whistler. April 22, 1951. CBS Pacific net. "Kind Thought". Sponsored by: Signal Oil. A crooked businessman plans to kill his partner before he can give the government incriminating evidence against him. He decides to plant a time bomb on the airplane bringing his partner to Washington. Joel Malone (writing), Joseph Kearns, Nancy Cleveland, Bill Bouchey, Monty Margetts, Marvin Miller (announcer), Herb Lytton, Bill Forman, Wilbur Hatch (music), George W. Allen (producer, director). 29:55. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

[Vision]

Hey Gina, I've been reading most of today but took time to watch the last few minutes of the ATL/SEA game. What an ending! Did you hear Baltimore's game yesterday? Unbelievable grudge match. When it ended horns and fireworks were going off in my sleepy neighborhood.

My week was great. Started a new job downtown and it couldn’t have gone better. Weather here today is awful...thick fog all day. I got some grilling in yesterday.

How are you?

[WXRGina]

Hey, congratulations on your new job! That’s great news!

We did hear the Ravens game yesterday. We wondered if you were a Ravens or a Redskins fan. It was a heck of game, too.

We’ve had fog and cloudiness for several days now, and we’re expecting more rain over the next few days.

The week was okay—not too eventful, but we have to go to bed early tonight to get up early in the morning. I may have to listen to The Whistler another evening.

[Vision]

I grew up on the skins but live about 10min from Ravens stadium.

What’s going on tomorrow?

[WXRGina]

A funeral. Keith’s nephew died, natural causes. He was in his thirties. It’s very sad.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Hi everyone...
Feeling a lot better, thank God. So many people sick around here...

[Dr. Scarpetta]

So sorry to hear about Keith’s nephew. My sincere condolences...

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Congrats on your new job & Baltimore ‘s win.

[Vision]

Prayers sent.

[Vision]

Thanks. Glad you’re feeling better. Are you covered in fog there?

[Dr. Scarpetta]

There’s no visibility here at all because of the fog!

[WXRGina]

Thanks to you both!

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Lance Armstrong is scheduled to be interviewed by Oprah on Thurs night. I have Directv, & I don’t believe I get her network.

Can’t imagine what he’s going to say after all the lies he told in the past.

[Vision]

Yes. If I say what I really feel it wouldn't be appropriate for this thread.

Armstrong and Oprah. Disgusting.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Reading Tyler Hamilton’s book was a revelation. Have to say I was shocked about what went on in cycling...