Posted on 09/28/2014 2:04:58 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.
A fun lineup with Mysterious Travel and the Campbell Playhouse as the high points for me. Mary Astor was an amazing actress. My Friend Irma was good a few weeks ago, let's hope for a good one tonight. Broadway is my Beat is fine although a little one dimensional.
How's it going out there...
Looks like a decent lineup this evening, but it may compete with the Saints and Cowboys, also on the radio. Also, the "My Friend Irma" date is not given on the Index, and the synopsis is slightly different that stated at the WAMU website. It sounds like the right story, though.
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2014 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. October 11, 1956. Program #327. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Primrose Matter". Episode #4. A fake rattler causes the death of a real one. Three down, one to go. Bob Bailey, Les Crutchfield (writer). 12:57. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. October 12, 1956. Program #328. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Primrose Matter". Episode #5 (conclusion). A good solid rock puts on the finishing touches. Bob Bailey, Les Crutchfield (writer). 13:45. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
7:30 Dragnet. December 28, 1952. Program #184. NBC net. "The Big Mask" Part 1. Sponsored by: Chesterfield. A robber wearing a black mask has hit a string of supermarkets. After going shopping for groceries, he locks the market employees in the freezer! Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, George Fenneman (announcer), Hal Gibney (announcer), Whitfield Connor, Harry Bartell, John Robinson (writer), Walter Schumann (music). 29:36. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. December 11, 1955. CBS net. "Land Deal". Sponsored by: Chesterfield, L & M. Trumbull has been selling land that doesn't belong to him...and stealing a wife on the side! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on November 8, 1958. Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, John Dehner, John Meston (writer), Lawrence Dobkin, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Parley Baer, Rex Koury (composer, performer), Vic Perrin, Vivi Janis, William Conrad, George Walsh (announcer). 25:22. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:30 My Friend Irma. February 10, 1952. CBS net. Sponsored by: Ennds, Eye-Gene. Irma is tired of her job as a stenographer and gets a job in show business...being sawed in half by a magician! Alan Reed, Carl Caruso (announcer), Cathy Lewis, Cy Howard (creator, writer, producer, director), Hans Conried, Leif Erickson, Lud Gluskin (music director), Marie Wilson, Parke Levy (writer), Pat Burton (associate producer), Sara Berner, Stanley Adams (writer). 29:33. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:00 Broadway Is My Beat. June 23, 1951. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. A fourteen-year-old girl named Ruth Larson is killed by a blow from a pistol butt, followed by two other murders in the same way. See cat. #61921 for a network version of this broadcast. Elliott Lewis (producer, director), Alexander Courage (composer, conductor), Larry Thor, Charles Calvert, Jack Kruschen, Joseph Kearns, Martha Wentworth, Harry Bartell, Morton Fine (writer), David Friedkin (writer), Charles Davis. 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:30 The Mysterious Traveler. June 6, 1950. Mutual net. "Killer At Large". Sustaining. A businessman's wife and his best friend are plotting to have him declared insane so they can steal his plans for three-dimensional color television. Maurice Tarplin (as "The Traveler"), Robert A. Arthur (writer, producer, director), David Kogan (writer, producer, director), Al Fanelli (organist), Chester Stratton, Phil Tonken (announcer), Nat Polen, Ralph Bell, Charlotte Holland. 29:57. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
10:00 The Campbell Playhouse. November 5, 1939. CBS net. "The Hurricane". Sponsored by: Campbell's Soup. South Seas drama about a vengeful government administrator and a simple native. Told against the background of a huge storm, the story is based on the famous 1937 film. Bea Benaderet, Bernard Herrmann (composer, conductor), Edgar Barrier, Eric Burtis, Ernest Chappell (announcer), Everett Sloane, Mary Astor, Orson Welles (host), Ray Collins (narrator). 53:14. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
Good Health and Good evening, Vision! How was your week? Anything smoking tonight?
We have some light rain from a low pressure system coming off the Gulf right now, but we sprung for a couple of ribeyes (Man, they’re expensive!), and they’re marinating.
“We sprung”? That doesn’t sound right, but we did it anyway. :-)
We're probably seeing the last of summer now, today it was 80 and it'll be in the upper 70’s this week. The grass is looking great. I'm ready for these end of summer house projects to end and to get back to relaxing. I'm thinking of a brisket next week.
BTW, I found this guy and am liking his channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRIZtPl9nb9RiXc9btSTQNw
I'm off for a quick scooter ride. Steaks sound good. How are things with you?
Food Wishes video recipes! Looks good! Thanks for sharing the link.
All’s well here, thank the Lord. How do you do your beef brisket so that it turns out tender? And how big of a one do you cook?
“THE MOST SPECTACULAR SCENES EVER FILMED BY MAN!” :-)
Brisket, I’ll get back you in a bit on that...
Thanks for that trailer. I’ve never seen or heard of Hurricane. What a trailer! What a dish that leading actress was. So many great old movies still to find.
Man I wish Ed would give a recap before these multi part JD’s.
We’re torn tonight between The BB or Saints @ Dallas
Okay, then.
Yeah, Ed doesn’t recap. He expects us to pay attention. :-)
You can always listen to the BB later.
You know, a criticism of JD, there were 5 parts to the The Primrose Matter. And then it ends in JD hitting the bad guy over the head with a rock? Hello, a little more of an ending please.
HA! Yes, I like the 30-minute, self-contained JD episodes much better. :-)
Aaah, the good old rational days of the Dragnet Fifties, when the typical judge would sentence a three-time loser career criminal to life without parole, without being compelled by mandatory sentencing laws.
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