Posted on 08/25/2013 2:12:31 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.
*tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.
How is everyone?
I wonder how many episodes of “Aldrich Family” exist. I have that particular one on my cd-set. Seems to be only a limited number of them out there circulating. The resulting “Henry Aldrich” movie series with Jimmy Lydon is quite good (much better than MGM’s cloying “Andy Hardy” series). Wish if they were re-mastered and officially made available on dvd.
So, we don't know what's airing in the last hour, because of the Escape mistake--surely a mistake. And the "Lone Ranger" episode sounds like the one we heard last week.
These brief synopses are used by permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2013 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. March 30, 1956. Part 5. CBS net. "The LaMarr Matter". Sustaining. The conclusion of the story. A switch to make your head spin! The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Jack Johnstone (writer, producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Harry Bartell, Eric Snowden, Lawrence Dobkin, Howard McNear, John Dehner, Jean Tatum, Joseph Kearns, Paul Richards, Jack Moyles, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor). 13:48. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. April 2, 1956. Part 1. CBS net. "The Salt City Matter". Sustaining. Johnny is hired to find the notorious Ed Julian, and to keep him safe. The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, John Dawson (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Roy Rowan (announcer), Barbara Fuller, Dick Ryan, Junius Matthews, Tony Barrett, Jean Tatum, Barbara Eiler, Lawrence Dobkin, Barney Phillips, Jack Edwards, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor). 14:17. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
7:30 Dragnet. November 1, 1951. Program #125. NBC net. "The Big Lease". Sponsored by: Fatima. Chester Dillon has disappeared; a portrait of foul play gradually becomes evident. Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough, George Fenneman (announcer). 29:28. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. November 20, 1954. CBS net. "How To Kill A Woman". Sponsored by: L & M. The stage has been robbed and a passenger murdered in cold blood. Suspicion falls on Nate Pilcher, a friend of Jesse Daggett. William Conrad, Parley Baer, John Meston (writer), Clayton Post, Lawrence Dobkin, Vic Perrin, Norman Macdonnell (director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Ray Kemper (sound patterns), George Walsh (announcer). 30:05. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:30 The Lone Ranger. December 21, 1942. Program #1547/760. Syndicated. "Mr. Martin"/"Law Of The Apex". Music fill for local commercial insert. Dan finds a wounded Blackfoot Indian near the Canadian border. It's a plan to legally steal a valuable copper mine...with "the law of the Apex." The Ranger suspects that there's something unusual about 14-year-old Dan. The Indians go on the warpath. At the end of the show, Tonto makes a comment that seems to re-write the history of how he met the Lone Ranger. Brace Beemer, John Todd, Al Hodge (?), Fran Striker (writer), George W. Trendle (creator, producer). 29:14. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.
9:00 The Aldrich Family. February 20, 1940. NBC net. Sponsored by: Jell-O. Will Henry raise rabbits or pigeons? And what about the dogs, snakes, etc.? Ezra Stone, Jackie Kelk, Harry Von Zell (announcer). 29:27. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:30 Screen Directors' Playhouse. April 5, 1951. NBC net. "The Damned Don't Cry". Sponsored by: Anacin, RCA, Chesterfield. A woman claws her way up to the top levels of a crime syndicate. The perfect Joan Crawford vehicle. Joan Crawford, Frank Lovejoy, Paul Frees, Eddie Fields, Ken Christy, Sidney Miller, Irene Winston, Eleanor Audley, Tony Barrett, Vincent Sherman (guest screen director), Jimmy Wallington (announcer), Bing Crosby (Chesterfield commercial), Bob Hope (Chesterfield commercial), Jack Rubin (adaptor), Howard Wiley (producer), Bill Cairn (director). 59:25. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 Escape. January 14, 1948. CBS net. "Leinengen Vs. The Ants". Sustaining. East coast version. A determined man battles even more determined insects in the tropical jungles. The script was produced on the program subsequently on May 23, 1948 (see cat. #16723) and on August 4, 1949 (see cat. #3576). The story was also produced on "Suspense" on August 22, 1956 (?), August 25, 1957 (see cat. #61898) and on November 29, 1959. See cat. #65839 for the West coast version of this program. Carl Stephenson (author), William N. Robson (producer, director), Robert Ryf (adaptor), William Conrad, Cy Feuer (music conceiver, conductor), Lou Merrill. 29:22. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
You don't like Andy Hardy?
Hey Gina, the synopses look great. What’s going on down there? I spent he weekend passing the state motorcycle class and am glad that is over. Put a beef roast on the rotisserie last night...love that thing. And one of my favorite moves was on TCM last night. You need to netflix The Lady Eve sometime when you want to have fun.
Well, my problem with the “Andy Hardy” (Mickey Rooney) series is that I find the films too cutesy and calculated, and dripping with that glossy MGM artiface. Oh, they’re tolerable, in a way. But cloying.
The “Henry Aldrich” films were from Paramount, and more B-movie-ish, but they were far less pretentious, and seemed to more vividly capture the sort of early-1940s teen culture, as well as the atmospherics of their time. That’s something I personally place a bit more value in, when it comes to judging films.
But I have run into a few people that just didn’t care at all for the Henry Aldrich films, finding the whole character to be screechy and a dullard. Different tastes, ultimately.
That all sounds good, except the bike class. A roast beast really sounds good! We’re doing a big pork loin roast today. We’ve had lots of rain this week, besides that last 6-inch flood. Still damp. Otherwise, all’s well. I’ll make a note of that movie.
9:30 PM The New Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes. September 17, 1945. Mutual net. "The Case Of The Out-Of-Date Murder". Sponsored by: Petri Wines. Holmes discovers the mummified body of Sir George Clavering, killed in 1777, deep in a hidden cave. Holmes' ability with bird calls uncovers a modern murderer. The story is based on, "The Adventure Of Wisteria Lodge." Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Harry Bartell (announcer), Denis Green (writer), Anthony Boucher (writer), Arthur Conan Doyle (author), Edna Best (producer). 29:31. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
Thanks for the ping!
Almost missed it!
:)
Well, I believe both “Andy Hardy” and “Henry Aldrich” had their origins in stage-plays. And that in the “Hardy” one, the character of Andy wasn’t originally the focal point.
I don’t know how many episodes you have, but here are 97-
http://archive.org/details/TheAldrichFamily
Ah, good. That’s better than I was thinking. I was afraid it was a long-running series with perhaps only two or three dozen circulating episodes.
I don’t dabble much in OTR, although I used to buy cassettes a lot, back in the 1980s. And there always seemed to be a few series that sounded intriguing, yet were so limited in examples that they were a bit hard to gauge. Like “Village Store.” Or, the “Judy Canova Show.”
How's everything up north?
Basically Hollywood was the opposite of what it is today; they were probably Republicans.
Finally getting some summer type weather.
Going to be around 90 for a few days.
Glad to see Dragnet, Gunsmoke and Johnny Dollar.
Doesn’t get any better.
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