Giving Thanks, Birthday's for Elliott, John and Howard and A Man of Steel Marathon

by gregbell 11/18/2009 7:00:00 PM

Here are the links for the schedule for Thanksgiving week: November 22nd to the 28th, 2009 

Sirius 118 XM 164 PDF Version and the Excel Version or the direct link to the page HERE 

 As per tradition we have a number of Thanksgiving themed radio shows including a two hour Jack Benny Turkey Day special as well as Father Knows Best, Abbott & Costello, Our Miss Brooks, The Aldrich Family, and more. 

We also celebrate three MAJOR radio stars on the week of their birth as we have two-hour specials for Howard Duff (Suspense, The Whistler and Two from Sam Spade);  John Dehner (Have Gun, Will Travel, The Whistler and two from Escape) and Elliott Lewis (Arch Oboler's Plays, The Clock, Phil Harris & Alice Faye, Crime Classics). 

Finally we have a Super Thanksgiving Weekend beginning on Friday night 8pm ET (7pm CT, 6pm MT, 5pm PT) as we will play a three and a half hour Superman storyline from September of 1945. It includes clips from my interview with Michael Hayde, the author of Flights of Fantasy: The Unauthorized but True Story of Radio & TV's Adventures of Superman.

My sincere thanks to all of you! Pass the turkey. 

 Greg. 

 PHOTOS Below: Jack Benny and President Truman; Elliott Lewis.


PHOTOS Below: Howard Duff; John Dehner

PHOTOS Below: Superman Radio Cast (Jackson Beck, Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander); Michael Hayde's book cover

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Alan Young, Judy Canova, Hazel Scott, Joseph Kearns....also Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat

by gregbell 11/11/2009 7:04:00 PM

Here are the links for the schedule for the week of:

November 15th to the 21st, 2009 

Sirius 118 XM 164 PDF Version and the Excel Version or the direct link to the page HERE 

Alan Young (Wilbur on Mr. Ed) is 90 on the 19th so we have a couple different episodes of his mid 40s variety show.

Judy Canova's birthday is also this week (Born Nov. 20th 1913 - Died Aug. 5th 1983) so we also have a couple from her variety series. 

The music of jazz and classical pianist, Hazel Scott will be heard on an interesting episode of The Mysterious Traveler known as Murder In Jazztime.

We also have a great espionage story on Suspense - The Case of Dr. Singer starring Joseph Kearns. 

And yes, Hitchcock's "Lifeboat" is back on the channel as presented on The Screen Director's Playhouse starring Tallulah Bankhead, Jeff Chandler and Sheldon Leonard. 

  PHOTOS Below: Alan Young (and friend), Judy Canova 

 
PHOTOS Below: Hazel Scott, Joseph Kearns

PHOTOS Below: Tallulah Bankhead, Bankhead In "Lifeboat"

PHOTOS Below: Jeff Chandler (with Joan Crawford), Sheldon Leonard

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Greg Bell On Sirius XM Book Radio's Cover To Cover Tuesday 3pm ET Noon PT

by gregbell 11/10/2009 7:26:00 AM

Hey folks,

 I will be sitting down with Maggie Linton and Kim Alexander on their live "Cover To Cover" program over on Sirius 117 XM 163 today (Tuesday) at 3pm East (2pm CT, 1pm MT, Noon PT) for an interview I conducted with Hollywood screenwriter (3:10 To Yuma, Wanted) and novelist, Derek Haas. He is a big Radio Classics fan and we talk about his second novel, Columbus: A Silver Bear Thriller hitting bookstores on Sunday the 15th. It is a fun interview and I encourage to to come on over and check it out.

Columbus cover art

Greg. 

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Veteran's Day Shows, Specials for Dick Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson & Sherwood Schwartz

by gregbell 11/4/2009 6:31:00 PM

Here are the links for the schedule for the week of:

November 8th to the 14th, 2009 

Sirius 118 XM 164 PDF Version and the Excel Version or the direct link to the page HERE 

To mark the week featuring Veteran's Day (November 11th) we have two different blocks - the two-hour star-studded Bing Crosby led Command Performance episode, "Victory Extra "from August of 1945. The second block features Lux Radio Theatre's version of the WWII picture, "The Navy Comes Through", followed by The Cavalcade of America's retelling of the Allied invasion of Sicily. And finally it is Norman Corwin's end of the war special, "Fourteen August" hosted by Orson Welles. 

We also have birthday week celebrations for Dick Powell (Rogue's Gallery, Richard Diamond); Robert Louis Stevenson (his stories on Murder At Midnight, The Weird Circle); Sherwood Schwartz (Brady Bunch creator - still with us at 93 - Alan Young and Bob Hope's Show which he wrote for). 

Also born this week and honored; writer Robert A. Arthur (Mysterious Traveler, The Sealed Book, Murder By Experts); producer/director Norman MacDonnell (Philip Marlowe, Escape, Gunsmoke, Have Gun, Will Travel) and actress June Havoc, turning 96 (Suspense's hour long version of Eve: The Black Angel). 

PHOTOS (Below): Pat O'Brien in The Navy Comes Through; Dick Powell.


PHOTOS (Below): Robert Louis Stevenson; Sherwood Schwartz.


PHOTOS(Below): Robert A. Arthur; June Havoc; Wendell Corey.

  

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Two Hours of Texas Rangers with Joel McCrea; Katharine Hepburn on Lux and A Birthday For Roy Rogers

by gregbell 10/28/2009 5:58:00 PM

First ,as usual, for the folks who haven't already visited the schedule page this week, here are the links for the schedule for the week of:

November 1st to the 7th, 2009 

Sirius 118 XM 164 PDF Version and the Excel Version or the direct link to the page HERE 

 Pictures to come. 

 

Greg

Photos(Below): Joel McCrea (with Veronica Lake) from Sullivan's Travels (My Fave); Katharine Hepburn (with Robert Mitchum) Undercurrent. 

   

  Photo (Below): Katharine Hepburn (with Jayne Meadows) Undercurrent; Roy Rogers

More Photos (Thanks Again Jim from San Diego)



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