Posted on 02/09/2014 2:00:13 PM PST 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.
When I went to WAMU's site, there was a pop-up ad to donate. This may be a fundraiser night. We'll see. Looks like a great lineup, though--a good Whistler (creepy, but with a twist ending), a Lux and detective shows!
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2014 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. June 4, 1956. Part 1. CBS net. "The Indestructable Mike Matter". Sustaining. The most amazing character, with at least nine lives! The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director, writer), Howard McNear, Alan Reed, Roy Glenn, Lawrence Dobkin, Harry Bartell, Herb Vigran, Amerigo Moreno (musical supervisor), Carl Fortina (musical supervisor). 13:3. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. June 5, 1956. Program #2. CBS net. "The Indestructable Mike Matter". Sustaining. Proof that life is a tenacious thing, even in the broken body of a Bowery bum. The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director, writer), Howard McNear, Alan Reed, Roy Glenn, Lawrence Dobkin, Harry Bartell, Herb Vigran, Amerigo Moreno (musical supervisor), Carl Fortina (musical supervisor). 13:1. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.
7:30 Dragnet. April 10, 1952. Program #148. NBC net. "The Big Show". Sponsored by: Fatima. A seven-week-old baby has been abandoned in the Los Angeles bus station...or has it? Radio-TV Mirror awards Dragnet "Best Program Of It's Type" and Jack Webb "Best Radio Actor." Jack Webb, Barney Phillips, George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), Hal Gibney (announcer), Helen Kleeb, James Moser (wrtier), Walter Schumann (music), Virginia Gregg, Harry Bartell. 29:2. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. April 30, 1955. CBS net. "Reward For Matt". Sponsored by: L & M, Chesterfield. Mrs. Hornby gets pretty mad when Marshal Dillon kills her husband. She offers $1000 to anyone who kills Dillon! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on January 28, 1956. This is a network, sponsored version of cat. #17297. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, Jeanette Nolan, Sam Edwards, Helen Kleeb, John Meston (writer), George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), George Walsh (announcer). 29:5. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:30 The Adventures Of Sam Spade, Detective. November 9, 1947. CBS net. "The Bow Window Caper". Sponsored by: Wildroot Cream-Oil. A woman with only one month to live is found murdered. Howard Duff, Dashiell Hammett (creator), Lurene Tuttle. 1/2 hou. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:00 Michael Shayne 06/25/49 #08 Generous Killer (Synd) (26:42). Synopsis is missing from the Index.
9:30 The Whistler. September 10, 1944. CBS Pacific net. "Local Storm". Sponsored by: Signal Oil. Mrs. Wentworth, an old lady in rural England, is threatened by a killer...or is she? A clever story with several twists. An announcement is made that the program is switching to Mondays next week. George W. Allen (producer, director), James Sussex (writer), Wilbur Hatch (composer, conductor), Bill Pennell (announcer). 29:4. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. November 28, 1949. CBS net. "Key Largo". Sponsored by: Lux, Spry. An excellent vehicle for Edward G. Robinson's casting as a typical gangster. Johnny Rocco is returning to the United States to start his rackets once again. The intermission guest is seventeen-year-old Debbie Reynolds. Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, Dan Seymour, Debbie Reynolds (intermission guest), Edmond O'Brien, William Keighley (host), John Milton Kennedy (announcer), Louis Silvers (music director), Maxwell Anderson (author), Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Frances Robinson, Herb Butterfield, William Johnstone, Howard McNear, Edward Marr, Harry Lewis, Paul Dubov, Frank Richards, Jay Novello, Lou Krugman, Don Diamond, Dorothy Lovett (commercial spokesman: as "Libby"), Richard Brooks (screenwriter), John Huston (screenwriter), Fred MacKaye (director), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 60:1. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
Hi Gina, how you been?
This was a rib weekend...
Hey, Vision. Doing fine, enjoying the nicer weather. Chicken on the grill tonight. Pork tenderloin last night. Good stuff!
Maybe a fundraiser night, if the pop-up ad at WAMU is any indication...
| Free Republic 1st Quarter Fundraising Target: $85,000 | Receipts & Pledges to-date: $39,722 | |||
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| Woo hoo!! And the first 46% is in!! Thank you all very much!! | ||||
Speaking of which, I always get a kick of the time, when the thread was new, FR made their fundraising post here and you just weren't having it. I'm smiling about that now, so funny.
Yes, I remember one time saying I had already given, no need to tell us, but that was before I “got it” that they go on many/most threads posting the general plea for Free Republic donations.
No I’m not laughing about that, it was the way you said it. What a hoot. It’s all good.
HA! I wish I could remember what I said! :-)
I love Howard McNear...
Oh, me, too. He rocks!
“There’s two things I like, Johnny, solitude and crowds of people!”
What a hoot!
Awwwwww! That was such a great ending to Dragnet! What a big man that Captain was to take that baby boy as his own!
This fund raising guy gets worse every time. He doesn’t know what he's doing.
Shoot this woman too...
Yeah, this woman is evil-crazy.
I like Ed much more than the other guy, bless his heart.
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