Posted on 02/08/2015 2:39:11 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.
Info *tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.
Official OTR blog of "The Big Broadcast" thread:
There's a ok lineup here. Some like the Great Gildersleve, some don't...the Lone Ranger is more kid focused...Line Up is a poor man's Dragnet...but...we have a Lux! and one from ‘38 with Clark Gable so we end strong.
How's it going? The poor people in the NE are getting more snow :(
Looks like a fairly decent lineup tonight.
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2015 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 11/12/54 #528 Suntan Oil Matter (Sus.) (CBS) (29:24). Bummer! There's a gap in the Index for Johnny Dollar episodes that runs from August 1954 to August 1955. I can't imagine why he doesn't have them. Oh, well.
7:30 Dragnet. April 12, 1953. Program #199. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Big Compulsion". A lunatic has been making false police calls and has caused a serious accident. See cat. #61435 for a network version of this broadcast. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, George Fenneman (announcer), Herb Ellis, Ralph Moody, John Robinson (writer), Walter Schumann (music), Hal Gibney (announcer). 25 minutes. Audio condition: Good to very good. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. April 15, 1956. CBS net. "The Executioner". Sponsored by: L & M, Chesterfield. A good story about Tom Clegg, a fast gunman who provokes and kills Abe Curry. Abe's brother Morgan plans revenge. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on February 2, 1957. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), John Meston (writer), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Ray Kemper (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), Sam Edwards, Vic Perrin, John Dehner, George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), George Walsh (announcer). 24:50. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:30 The Great Gildersleeve. November 9, 1941. NBC net. Sponsored by: Kraft Parkay. Judge Hooker hires Birdie away from Gildersleeve! Earle Ross, Harold Peary, Jim Bannon (announcer), Leonard L. Levinson (writer), Lillian Randolph, Lurene Tuttle, Walter Tetley, Billy Mills (composer, conductor, billed as "William Randolph"). 29:32. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:00 The Lone Ranger. October 21, 1946. Program #2145/1370. Syndicated. "Mary" "Uncle Ezra"/"Girl From The East". Music fill for local commercial insert. Red Eagle is an Indian who wants peace; Mary is visiting the Larkin ranch and wants to help relations with the Red Men. Who is to be trusted, who is to be doubted? Brace Beemer, John Todd, George W. Trendle (writer, creator, producer), Fran Striker (writer). 29:36. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.
9:30 The Line-Up. August 3, 1950. CBS net. Sustaining. The program is announced as the summer replacement series for "The FBI In Peace and War." Two young girls have been killed by a hit-and-run driver. What did they have in common? William Johnstone, Wally Maher, Howard McNear, Sheldon Leonard, Elliott Lewis (producer, director), Morton Fine (writer), David Friedkin (writer), Eddie Dunstedter (composer, conductor), Peggy Webber, Anne Stone, Lillian Buyeff, Lou Krugman, Lawrence Dobkin, Dan Cubberly (announcer). 29:41. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. November 14, 1938. CBS net. "The Buccaneer". Sponsored by: Lux (silverware premium). The story of Jean Lafitte, the buccaneer who came to the aid of Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans. See cat. #40241 for a rehearsal recording of this broadcast. One of the performers loses his place in the script (or fails to pick up on a cue) about thirteen minutes into the program, causing an embarrassing silence. Rupert Hughes (intermission guest: author/historian), Edwin Mayer (screenwriter), Louis Silvers (music director), Harold Lamb (screenwriter), C. Gardner Sullivan (screenwriter), Jeanie Macpherson (adaptor), Lyle Saxon (author), Edmond Elton, Montague Shaw (doubles), Frank Nelson (doubles, program opening announcer), Melville Ruick (announcer), Olympe Bradna, Jack Carr (doubles), Gertrude Michael, Lou Merrill, Earle Ross (doubles), John Fee (performer, commercial spokesman), Reginald Sheffield (doubles), Harry Humphrey, Akim Tamiroff, Cecil B. DeMille, Eddie Waller (doubles), Lois Collier (triples), Clara Blandick, Clark Gable, Earl Gunn (quadruples), Vic DeMourell (triples), Tony Paton (doubles), George Pembroke (triples, one part is a mouse!), Libby Taylor, Geraldine Peck, Cracker Henderson, Ross Forrester, Lee Millar (as a dog), Perry Ivins, Marilyn Stuart (commercial spokesman), Betty Jean Hainey (commercial spokesman), Jane Morgan (commercial spokesman), Frank Woodruff (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 59:40. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
Hey there!
Howdy, Vision! I’m glad to hear the weather’s gotten better where you are. We had a VERY nice day here, too—sunny and almost 70. WOW!
Are you doing well? Any news?
Another week blew by. Car needed $1100 worth of repairs. Did some steaks and a potato dish. Watched the Philadelphia Story last night. Life is good.
Will you have football withdrawals?
We’ve got a bad guy heading to Dodge...
That’s a LOT of money on your car! I’m sorry to hear that.
We also did steaks, and we baked potatoes last night. Tonight I’ve made chicken spaghetti. Mmmmm...
That Les Paul and Mary Ford, “How High The Moon,” is one of my all-time favorite songs ever. :-)
I’m not really missing football, because the season was so messed up for all the teams we cared about. I haven’t thought about it at all this week. :-/
...or Country Crock. :-)
Just popping in and out..........the missus just got back from a three-day national management conference in St. Louis (beautiful hotel at the old Union Station). Tending to her for the moment. She’s frazzled and family is here for dinner.
Hey, sounds like you’re busy. Busy’s good.
Rock on, Viking! :-)
By the way, I didn’t understand the Parkay reference. :-) But that’s okay. The chicken spaghetti I made tonight has no “butter” in it. :-D
WAIT! Keith just told me I missed the Parkay commercial! I get it now. :-D
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