Posted on 08/30/2015 1:46:23 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:
Evening all...it’s nice and hot outside and my scooter is still not working ):
Nice lineup tonight...can’t remember much about Fort Laramie...Nero Wolfe is good...Phil Harris is among OTR’s best...and ending with MGM Theater with William Powell, Basil Rathbone, and Hedy Lamaar...WHAT A CAST...
How you doing?
7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. June 8, 1958. Program #412. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Wayward River Matter". A rampaging river at flood crest, and a man who tries to profit from it. Bob Bailey, Chester Stratton, Parley Baer. 25 minutes. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
7:30 Dragnet. January 19, 1954. Program #231. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Big Bill". A little old lady named Bertha Gillespie (a tea room operator and Scrabble champ) has mysteriously disappeared. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander. 25:31. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. November 10, 1956. CBS net. "Crowbait Bob". Sponsored by: L & M. The program was scheduled to be broadcast on November 4th, but was pre-empted by a United Nations broadcast. Crowbait Bob is dying. The old penniless geezer leaves a will, giving everything he owns to Kitty! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on March 26, 1960. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, Georgia Ellis, Ralph Moody, Lawrence Dobkin, Virginia Gregg, Les Crutchfield (writer), George Walsh (announcer). 25:21. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:30 Fort Laramie. January 29, 1956. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "Boatwright's Story". Captain Quince takes out a patrol to stop the sale of Henry rifles to Yellow Knife. See cat. #54485 for a network version of this broadcast. Raymond Burr, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), John Meston (writer), Jack Moyles, Lou Krugman, Vic Perrin, Bill James (sound patterns), Ray Kemper (sound patterns), Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Harry Bartell, Bob Sweeney, Sam Edwards, Jan Arvan, Joe Cranston. 25 minutes. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:00 The New Adventures Of Nero Wolfe. October 27, 1950. NBC net. "The Case Of The Careworn Cuff". Sustaining. A man with one shirt cuff more worn than the other pays Wolfe $1000 to drop Dorothy Spencer as a client, even though Wolfe never heard of her. "Mr. Porter" is promptly found murdered. Sydney Greenstreet, Rex Stout (creator), Peter Leeds, J. Donald Wilson (producer, director), Don Stanley (announcer), Lamont Johnson, William Johnstone, Wilms Herbert, Jane Webb. 29:29. Audio condition: Good. Complete.
9:30 The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show. February 20, 1949. NBC net. Sponsored by: Rexall. Alice sings, "You Was." Remley moves into the Harris' guest room; Phil is called to jury duty! Alice Faye, Anne Whitfield, Bill Forman (announcer), Dick Chevillat (writer), Elliott Lewis, Jeanine Roos, Phil Harris, Ray Singer (writer), Robert North, Walter Scharf and His Orchestra, Griff Barnett (Rexall druggist). 29:21. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 The MGM Theatre Of The Air. December 23, 1949. Program #14. MGM syndication. "Crossroads". Commercials added locally. A well-done story of blackmail and amnesia. Rex Harrison, Howard Dietz (host), Welborn Kelly (adaptor), Eric Dressler, Ed Stokes (announcer), Marx B. Loeb (director), Joel Herron (composer, copnductor), Raymond Cass, Joan Wetmore. 55:51. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Otherwise complete.
Hi Vision. Thanks for your faithful ping list posts here, but I don’t need to be pinged on this anymore, so please take my name off.
Thanks and God bless.
Tonight I'm curious if you'll enjoy Phil Harris...
Sure, hope you’re well.
Hi, Vision. I don’t care one way or another about Phil Harris, really. The comedies are okay. I guess my favorite of the comedies (that I’ve heard) is “Our Miss Brooks.”
Sorry to hear your scooter is still down. Why can’t it be fixed? Waiting on parts?
After some nice, mild weather earlier in the week, it’s now back to hot and humid.
Great, Vision. God is good and despite FR’s unfortunate banishment of my pastor, Joel Osteen, he along with Joseph Prince continue to help me learn how to live a victorious Christian life.
Hope all is well with you and yours.
Waiting on parts, still chasing the problem but am hopeful.
Were you worried about the hurricane?
Yes, we’ll be listening to Phil and everything else, unless distracted by something. :-)
I hope you figure out the scooter problem soon. It’s the pits to have something not working.
No, we were not worried about the storm. They had it barely developing into tropical storm status, but there was almost no chance it was headed our way. We were hoping it would come our way as a low pressure system and bring us some rain. I suppose that could still happen, depending on which way that low moves.
Thanks for the reminder. Will tune in tonight.
Great, glad to have you.
Fort Laramie is a poor man’s Gunsmoke. It makes sense why it only lasted a season.
Phil Harris!
I had a hard time following the Fort Laramie. I thought the leader guy was a bad guy trying to set up the Indian dude, but I couldn’t follow. Maybe doing the laundry got in the way of my attention.
Yes, Gunsmoke is much better.
Phil was at Harvard going for a “fud.” lol
I can’t believe it, of all the MGM theaters ed picks one he’s played before.
Night Gina, Have a great week.
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