"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 1/26 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 1/26/14 | Ed Walker

[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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[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]

• 07:00p Johnny Dollar
  05/29-30/56 Matter of Reasonable Doubt Pts. 2-3 (Sus.) (CBS) (27:05)
• 07:30p Dragnet
  03/27/52  #146 Big Rose (Sus.) (NBC) (26:08)    
• 08:00p Gunsmoke
  04/16/55 #157 Gypsum Hills Fued (Sus.) (CBS) (25:24)    
• 08:30p My Favorite Husband 
  03/03/50 Women's Rights Pt. 1 (Jello) (CBS) (29:28)
• 09:00p Sam Spade
  10/05/47 The Adam Figg Caper (Wildroot) (CBS) (25:20)
• 09:30p FBI in Peace and War
  08/02/51 Unfinished Business (Wheaties/Wildroot) (CBS) (29:48)
• 10:00p Mercury Theater
  09/25/38 #12 The Immortal Sherlock Holmes (Sus.) (CBS) (56:10)

[Vision]

Good evening all. We’re covered in snow here and this week it’s not expected to get above freezing!

One week to Superbowl, who do you like? I’m picking Denver as it seems to be Manning’s year; however Seattle is a slightly better team.

Tonight’s lineup? Ok. Will be interested to see what Women’s Rights are in My Favorite Husband. Sam Spade is solid, never heard of FBI in Peace and War, and Gina will be happy with an hour long Sherlock Holmes...

[WXRGina]

Hello, FRiends! Thanks, Vision!

We have an Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre on the Air Sherlock Holmes story! :-)

These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2014 J. David Goldin:

7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. May 29, 1956. Part 2. CBS net. "The Matter Of Reasonable Doubt". Sustaining. The dead past speaks in a musty morgue, or tries to! The system cue have been deleted. Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Bob Bailey, Carl Fortina (music supervisor), Forrest Lewis, Inge Adams, Jack Johnstone (director), Jean Tatum, Jeanette Nolan, Les Crutchfield (writer), Paul Richards, Richard Crenna, Roy Rowan (announcer), Susan Whitney. 14:5. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.

7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. May 30, 1956. Part 3. CBS net. "The Matter Of Reasonable Doubt". Sustaining. A worried old lady shows her metal, a gambler shows his hand, and the game gets tense and exciting. The system cue has been deleted. Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Bob Bailey, Carl Fortina (music supervisor), Forrest Lewis, Inge Adams, Jack Johnstone (director), Jean Tatum, Jeanette Nolan, Les Crutchfield (writer), Paul Richards, Richard Crenna, Roy Rowan (announcer), Susan Whitney. 13:3. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.

7:30 Dragnet. March 27, 1952. Program #146. NBC net. "The Big Rose". Sponsored by: Fatima. Rose Baker has disappeared, leaving behind her boyfriend and four children. Barney Phillips, George Fenneman (announcer), Hal Gibney (host), Jack Webb, James Moser (writer), Vic Perrin, Virginia Gregg, Walter Schumann (conductor). 29:3. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

8:00 Gunsmoke. April 16, 1955. CBS net. "The Gypsum Hill Feud". Sponsored by: L & M, Chesterfield. Marshall Dillon is almost shot when he gets involved in the feud between the Peavy's and the Cades. A good story. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on December 27, 1958. A network, sponsored version of cat. #17295. George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), John Dehner, John Meston (writer), Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Parley Baer, Ray Kemper (sound patterns), Rex Koury (composer, performer), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Vic Perrin, Vivi Janis, William Conrad, George Walsh (announcer). 29:4. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

8:30 My Favorite Husband 3/03/50 Women's Rights Pt. 1 (Jello) (CBS) (29:28). March 1950 episodes are missing from the RadioGOLDINdex. The show stars Lucille Ball, Richard Denning, Gale Gordon and others.

9:00 The Adventures Of Sam Spade, Detective. October 5, 1947. CBS net. "The Adam Figg Caper". Sponsored by: Wildroot Cream-Oil. Sam is hired to protect an old, sick, very wealthy man. There are lots of gunshots and screams in the night. Howard Duff cracks up when an "office robot" given to him by Effie, fails to work. Howard Duff, William Spier (producer, director), Dashiell Hammett (creator), Lurene Tuttle, Robert Tallman (writer), Gil Doud (writer), Dick Joy (announcer), Lud Gluskin (music director), Elspeth Eric, Louis Pelletier (writer), Jack Finke (writer), Hugh Holder (announcer). 24:4. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

9:30 The FBI In Peace and War. August 2, 1951. CBS net. "Unfinished Business". Sponsored by: Wheaties, Wildroot Cream-Oil. Eddie took the rap for Joe after a bank job. He was paid $100,000 to do it. Now that he's out of stir, Joe wants the loot back. Martin Blaine, Don Briggs, Ed Begley, Frank Readick, Frederick L. Collins (creator), Betty Mandeville (producer, director). 1/2 hou. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

10:00 The Mercury Theatre. September 25, 1938. CBS net. "The Immortal Sherlock Holmes". Sustaining. Holmes vs. Moriarty once again. With news bulletins of the European war crisis. Orson Welles, Ray Collins, Edgar Barrier, Eustace Wyatt, Bernard Herrmann (composer, conductor), Arthur Conan Doyle (creator), Mary Taylor, Brenda Forbes, Morgan Farley, Richard Wilson, Alfred Shirley, William Allen, Arthur Anderson, Frank Gallop (announcer). 1 hou. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

[WXRGina]

Yes, indeed! Love me some Sherlock Holmes! :-)

You’re frozen in, Vision! I guess that means no barbecuing tonight. We even have snow possible (”wintry mix”) in our forecast for late Tuesday! Even though it happens once in a great while, freezing precipitation is not common down here.

We’re going for Denver, too, just because Seattle beat the Saints twice, and we want them to lose!

[Vision]

Hey Gina, yea, am living on freezer bbq this weekend which is pretty darn good. You?

Anything new to report?

[WXRGina]

There’s not much new here, Vision. Typical Sunday, laundry, house cleaning, etc. One different thing though: we went to an oyster festival today over at Pass Christian harbor. It was lame. We didn’t eat anything, just looked around a little at the “arts and crafts” booths and carnival rides. They had a stage set up, and this southern rock-type band was playing at a volume so loud, you had to yell into each others’ ear to be heard. They were pretty crummy, too, and we wished they would stop playing.

We’re just ready for this arctic air to take a hike. Maybe after this next wave, we’ll get back up to average temperatures.

[Viking2002]

Evening.

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[WXRGina]

Hi, Viking! How YOU doin?! :-)

[Viking2002]

Hanging in there. Probably won't be at the keyboard too long. The wife and I got hit with the worst head colds in years, so I'm probably going to go curl up in bed and try to entertain myself with the Pro Bowl.

[WXRGina]

Oh, bummer! Get well soon, Viking and Mrs. Viking!

[Vision]

There are some good one liners in this, lol: 6 brandies..."Then this should be a refreshing novel experience..."

Well you tried to have a good time at the festival, that's what's important.

[Vision]

Hey, what's new? It's darn cold up here. Out west must be terrible.

[WXRGina]

Yeah, we went there to see our elderly friends who were enjoying the food. Tom and Mary are 80-81, and their friend Doris is 91. We met them there briefly.

[Vision]

I had a cold coming on this week, tried zicam, and I think it worked. Apparently there are other pre cold remedies also, but give them a try. Gina's already hip to this.

[WXRGina]

Yes, Zicam rocks, and so does Airborne. Taken in conjunction, they will greatly reduce the severity and duration of a cold, even if you don’t start taking them until after the cold has set in.

[Viking2002]

Yeah, I made a quick run to the store for cat food, but forgot about cold meds because my firewood guys were here unloading a new cord on the porch and wanted paid. I'm sure there's something in the bathroom closet somewhere, but this bug went from zero to sixty in about 12 hours. It blindsided us and dug in deep. Really nasty. I know it's cold up there - I usually get my daily e-mail update from Cumberland. LOL The bottom is going to drop out down here tomorrow night again, and we're under a rare winter storm watch for Tuesday - a few inches of snow on top of up to a quarter inch of ice. It'll be a good time to stay in and burn some of that wood.

[Viking2002]

I'll definitely take that under advisement, assuming one of us can get out of bed tomorrow. The missus didn't get out of bed today until almost two this afternoon, and she's usually up before the sun. Even then, she made a beeline for the sofa and has been buried under a pile of blankets. Needless to say, we didn't attend church this morning.