Posted on 06/15/2014 2:22:49 PM PDT by Vision
Friends it's Sunday night again, and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another four hours of classic radio Americana.
*tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.
We have a Father's day show of course and OTR doesn't really do family stories well so tonight's lineup could be a little weak. I'm most interested in Lux...what say you?
Naturally, it's an all Father's Day lineup after our usual three.
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2014 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. August 3, 1956. Program #287. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Sea Legs Matter". Episode #5, the end of the story. Bob Bailey, Jack Johnstone (writer, producer, director), Roy Rowan (announcer), Harry Bartell, Lawrence Dobkin, Virginia Gregg, Parley Baer, Don Diamond, Russell Thorson, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor). 15:00. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. August 24, 1956. Program #294. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Cranesburg Matter". Episode #1. A meeting with a pearl thief, and another one planned. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Howard McNear, Forrest Lewis, Paul Richards, Mary Jane Croft, Virginia Gregg, James McCallion, Russell Thorson, Shirley Mitchell, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor). 15 minutes. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
7:30 Dragnet. September 4, 1952. Program #167. NBC net. "The Big Ray". Sponsored by: Fatima. Alfred Prater has died of a heart attack. His mother-in-law says, "good riddance" to a drunken bum. His young son tips the cops to poisoned milk. George Fenneman (announcer), Hal Gibney (host), Herb Ellis, Jack Webb, John Robinson (writer), June Whitley, Sammy Ogg, Virginia Gregg, Walter Schumann (conductor). 29:33. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. August 27, 1955. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "Doc Quits". The last show of the season. Doctor Betchell comes to practice in Dodge and gives Doc Adams a bit of competition. So much in fact, that Doc Adams quits! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on February 21, 1959. See cat. #61895 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, Lawrence Dobkin, James Nusser, Anne Morrison, Frank Cady, John Meston (writer), Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), George Walsh (announcer). 25:30. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:30 The Life Of Riley. June 16, 1950. NBC net. Sponsored by: Pabst Beer. It's Father's Day, and Riley winds up with a TV. Two TV's in fact! William Bendix, Paula Winslowe, John Brown, Irving Brecher (producer, transcriber), Jimmy Wallington (announcer), Reuben Ship (writer), Alan Lipscott (writer), Louise Erickson, Bobby Ellis, Lou Kosloff (music). 29:05. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:00 The Great Gildersleeve. June 21, 1942. NBC net. Sponsored by: Kraft Foods. Sam Hearn appears as "Schlepperman," the furniture dealer. "The Chairs Of Gildersleeve," a present for Father's Day. Earle Ross, Harold Peary, Jim Bannon (announcer), Leonard L. Levinson (writer), Lillian Randolph, Lurene Tuttle, Mel Blanc, Paula Winslowe, Sam Hearn, Walter Tetley, Billy Mills (composer, conductor, billed as "William Randolph"). 29:36. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:30 Father Knows Best. June 15, 1950. NBC net. Sponsored by: Maxwell House Coffee. A Father's Day program. A fishing outing with the entire family. Robert Young is named, "Screen Father of The Year." Robert Young, Jean Vander Pyl, Norma Jean Nilsson, Roy Bargy and His Orchestra, Bill Forman (announcer), Ed James (writer), June Whitley, Rhoda Williams, Ted Donaldson, Eleanor Audley, Herb Vigran, Sam Edwards. 27:54. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.
10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. May 1, 1950. CBS net. "All My Sons". Sponsored by: Lux. A good drama about a factory owner whose partner is in prison for shipping defective parts during the war. Ann Pearce, Burt Lancaster, Edward Arnold, Scott Brady, William Keighley (host), John Milton Kennedy (announcer), Louis Silvers (music director), Norma Varden, Edward Marr, Georgia Ellis, Herb Butterfield, William Johnstone, Lawrence Dobkin, Cy Kendall, Lillian Buyeff, Dorothy Lovett (commercial spokesman: as "Libby"), Joan Reynolds (intermission guest), Chester Erskine (screenwriter), Arthur Miller (author), Fred MacKaye (director), Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 59:41. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
Hello!
Hi, Vision! I don’t know if you’re a father, but if you are, happy Father’s Day! I hope your Dad had a good one.
That Lux ought to be good. It’s a classic. I know they made a movie of it, but I’ve not heard the radio version.
Nope, no kids but Dad is fine. Was going golfing at 2 and then off to a big dinner with other people.
How’s your weekend?
$1.40 for two martinis...
That’s good. I didn’t know you like to golf. Keith is a golf lover. So is all my family. My granddad is 88 and still golfs!
Our weekend has been good. Last night, we went to a “social” at a nice restaurant here with Matt Kibbe of Freedom Works. It was for Chris McDaniel supporters, those of us trying to unseat Thad Cochran, our 42 Senate incumbent. It was awesome to meet Matt Kibbe. He positively ROCKS!
Keith just said this is the last radio Gunsmoke before it went to television. I missed that. Sad.
Howard McNear may be the best OTR actor ever.
No, I don’t like golf, my father does and went today.
Oh! Now I see your wording. That’s fine, still! :-)
We agree about Howard McNear. We were just talking about him. Keith said he was a very interesting person. Very talented.
Bill Conrad pitches the new TV Gunsmoke but does not mention that James Arness will be Matt Dillon instead of him.
Sometimes I think modern life is killing people’s souls. I say this as a few of my favorite actors, Mcnear and Guy Kibbee were born in the 1800’s or early 20th century. They had so much character and it’s nonexistent today.
Hey. You think he should have?
Yes, it seems rare today. Lots of valuable, common-sense things are rare today.
I hope he wasn’t upset, he was priceless in OTR. He might be in the top 5 of OTR actors.
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