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Posted on 03/22/2015 6:22:16 AM PDT 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:
Think of tonight's lineup like an inverse bell curve...we start strong, then some weaker shows come in with Life of Riley and Red Ryder...then we get stronger with Sam Spade and end with a '48 Lux about boxing.
Have a great Sunday...see you tonight...
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2015 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny DollarZ. September 1, 1957. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Poor Little Rich Girl Matter." A $200,000 policy on a playboy husband...and he doesn't even know about it. Bob Bailey, Herb Ellis, Virginia Gregg, Marvin Miller, Alan Botzer (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Frank Nelson, Peter Leeds, Bud Sewell (announcer). 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
7:30 Dragnet. June 7, 1953. Program #207. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Big Will". Charles Stall has been shot. Tire tracks lead to a motel and to a drunken Texan and his car. See cat. #47086 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Ben Alexander, Hal Gibney (host), Helen Kleeb, Jack Webb, John Robinson (writer), Ralph Moody, Victor Rodman, Walter Schumann (conductor). 25 minutes. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. May 27, 1956. CBS net. "Man Hunter". Sponsored by: Chesterfield, L & M. A deputy sheriff from Arizona has come to Dodge to arrest Hank Young for murder. The system cue is added live. William Conrad, Parley Baer, John Meston (writer), Lawrence Dobkin, John Dehner, Ken Lynch, Georgia Ellis, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), George Walsh (announcer). 25:50. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
8:30 The Life Of Riley. March 20, 1948. NBC net. Sponsored by: Prell Shampoo, Lava Soap. The Riley kids have little respect for their father. Riley enters the suggestion contest at the factory. William Bendix, Irving Brecher (producer), Barbara Eiler, Tommy Cook, Alan Lipscott (writer), Reuben Ship (writer), Paula Winslowe, John Brown, Ken Niles (announcer). 28:48. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:00 The Adventures Of Red Ryder. March 3, 1942. Blue net, Pacific coast. "Trouble At Bullion Bend". Commercials deleted. 7:30 P.M. (PST). After watching a stage hold-up in Bullion Bend, Red Ryder and Little Beaver try to help the owners of the stage line. Ace Hanlon has hired Deadwood Dick to stage another robbery...but Red has an idea! Reed Hadley, Tommy Cook, Fred Harman (creator), Brad Brown (producer), Paul Franklin (writer, director). 28:27. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.
9:30 The Adventures Of Sam Spade, Detective. July 25, 1948. CBS net. "The Mad Scientist Caper". Sponsored by: Wildroot Cream-Oil. Raymond Fox is a famous but slightly insane inventor. He hires Spade to recover the secret formula for "Pentron." Sam promptly winds up in a hospital for the mentally deranged! Howard Duff, Lurene Tuttle, Dashiell Hammett (creator), William Spier (producer), Dick Joy (announcer), Robert Tallman (writer), Gil Doud (writer, director), Lud Gluskin (music director). 29:24. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. November 15, 1948. CBS net. "Body and Soul". Sponsored by: Lux, Spry. A prize-fight saga about the rise and fall of a champ. William Keighley (host), John Milton Kennedy (announcer), Louis Silvers (music director), Marie Windsor, John Garfield, Jane Wyman, William Conrad, William Johnstone (doubles), Wilms Herbert, Janet Scott, Douglas Evans, James Edwards, Carlton KaDell (doubles), Jeff Chandler (doubles), Herb Butterfield (doubles), Leo Cleary (doubles), Nora Martin, Edward Marr (doubles), Howard McNear (doubles), Dorothy Lovett (commercial spokesman: as "Libby"), Fred MacKaye (director), Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Laura Elliott (intermission guest), Abraham Polansky (screenwriter), Fred MacKaye (director), Sanford Barnett (adaptor). 59:54. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
Phew. That was a busy day. How ya doing?
Hey, Vision! What did you do? I hope it was fun!
We went to Mobile and only got back about an hour and a half ago, so we’re behind on laundry and barbecue. I ran and got us a baby back rack Keith’s getting ready to throw on the Egg along with a couple of sweet potatoes.
Who's in Mobile?
Well, Keith’s from Mobile, and some of his family is there, including his Mom, but we went to a church picnic thing where some of his grade school friends were going to be there. It was nice, but also nice to get home safely. I hate traveling on the Interstate. I’m a road chicken.
I think you told me that before.
Road Chicken. Just don’t like going fast?
I’ve gotten to where I’m scared of other drivers, because there are so many idiots, and yes, they drive stupidly fast. I used to drive fast but not anymore. On I-10, there are wrecks all time, speed limit 70 (though they drive 90, some of them), and a wreck happens in a nanosecond.
GUNSMOKE!
My favorite! :-)
Did something happen?
Good evening. Gunsmoke never gets old. Even episodes I have heard many times.
Did you listen to any more Vic and Sade this week?
I’m not sure...
Not really. I started with the earliest I could find. Bill Idleson (Rush) was in the military fron 42 - 45 and I am not a fan of the kid they replaced him with.
Here’s another link to episodes that I just found.
http://archive.org/details/vicandsade1/
I buy Lava soap.
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