Posted on 08/17/2014 2:41:03 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.
Keep enjoying these summer days while they last. How was everyone’s week?
A really good lineup tonight. I can do without Fibber McGee but an MGM Theater with Suspense and Escape...fantastic!
Last week I was wishing for a Suspense or a Whistler, and this week we have one! I believe I remember the episode of "August Heat." It's creepy! Also an Escape with Jack Webb. Looks good!
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2014 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. September 26, 1956. Program #2. CBS net. "The Meg's Palace Matter". Sustaining. Dark can cover a multitude of sins and also a strong man with a deadly weapon! The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Jack Johnstone (writer, producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Jack Kruschen, Byron Kane, Forrest Lewis, Stan Jones, Bert Holland, Austin Green, Bob Bruce, Harry Bartell, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Carl Fortina (music supervisor). 14:31. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. September 27, 1956. Program #3. CBS net. "The Meg's Palace Matter". Sustaining. A trip to sea on "The Lily Ann" that starts out like an ordinary fishing trip. Somewhere on board lurks a man with murder in his heart and his next intended victim...Johnny Dollar! The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Jack Johnstone (writer, producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Jack Kruschen, Byron Kane, Forrest Lewis, Stan Jones, Bert Holland, Austin Green, Bob Bruce, Harry Bartell, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Carl Fortina (music supervisor). 14:11. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.
7:30 Dragnet. November 9, 1952. Program #177. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Big Dive". A woman is found murdered in a closet. The trail leads to a freighter in San Francisco. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Walter Schumann (music), June Whitley, Peter Leeds, John Robinson (writer), Hal Gibney (announcer). 25 minutes. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. October 30, 1955. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Choice". Andy Hill, an outlaw trying to go straight, gets a job riding shotgun on the stage. See cat. #46853 for a network, sponsored version. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on May 9, 1959. See cat. #52135 for the same script broadcast three years later on December 28, 1958. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, Sam Edwards, Harry Bartell, Barney Phillips, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), John Meston (writer), Lawrence Dobkin, Rex Koury (music), George Walsh (announcer). 25 minutes. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:30 Fibber McGee and Molly. November 21, 1939. NBC net. Sponsored by: Johnson's Wax. Fibber's book is overdue at the library, but which book...and where is it? Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan, Harlow Wilcox, Billy Mills and His Orchestra, Jimmy Shields, Harold Peary, Bill Thompson, Isabel Randolph, Don Quinn (writer). 29:35. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:00 The MGM Theatre Of The Air. June 30, 1950. Program #40. MGM syndication. "Public Hero Number One". Commercials added locally. An undercover cop makes friends with a gangster in prison. He wants info about criminals, but falls in love with the gangster's sister. Howard Dietz (host), Marx B. Loeb (director), Raymond Katz (producer), Joel Herron (composer, conductor), Ed Stokes (announcer), Paul Stewart, Welborn Kelly (adaptor), William Eyth, Nina Foch. 55:53. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.
10:00 Suspense. May 31, 1945. CBS net. "August Heat". Sponsored by: Roma Wines. A very hot day finds strange predictions of the future starting to come true. The story was subsequently produced on "Suspense" on March 20, 1948 (see cat. #38) and on "The Hallmark Playhouse" on September 29, 1949 (see cat. #40410) and on, "Sleep No More" on November 28, 1956 (see cat. # 84139). Ronald Colman, W. F. Harvey (author), Joseph Kearns (announcer), Dennis Hoey, Lud Gluskin (conductor), Lucien Moraweck (composer, a biographer of Bernard Herrmann credits him with music for this broadcast), William Spier (producer, editor, director), Mel Dinelli (adaptor), Truman Bradley (commercial spokesman), Elsa Maxwell (commercial spokeswoman). 29:29. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:30 Escape. March 14, 1948. CBS net. "Log Of The Evening Star". Sustaining. East coast broadcast. A good story of murder, madness, and a walking dead man on the high seas! Alan Reed (?), Alfred Noyes (writer), Gale Page, Jack Webb, Les Crutchfield (writer), Luis Van Rooten, Pinto Colvig, Wilbur Hatch (music), William N. Robson (director). 29:42. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
How are you all?
Doing fine, Vision. It’s nice you have a slower pace. The busy-busy-busy gets old.
Thankfully, there’s no news here. Just the usual Sunday housework, and chicken on the grill. It’s gotten to be the most affordable meat out there. Inflation is outrageous.
Beef is very high. Chickens are still around $1/lb here.
How’s your job(s)?
Kitty’s feelings. A compass to trouble.
Yep, Kitty’s a sharp one.
Our jobs are fine. Each has its issues, but we’re thankful to have them.
Beef it outrageously high. The cheapest used to be pork, but no more, since the virus killing all the piglets.
She was right about this one.
What a voice on Doris.
I’m glad Doris is still with us.
Me too.
Gina, I’m heading to the radio for the last hour. Talk with you later.
Goodnight, Vision. This Suspense is a freaky one. I remember it. Bad news! :-O
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