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Key Largo, Agatha Christie and James Mason has evil thoughts!

by gregbell 3/8/2009 6:00:00 AM

First here is this week's schedule as both a PDF and Excel File.

RC March 8th, 2009-March 14th, 2009 - PDF Version.pdf (64.29 kb)

RC March 8th, 2009-March 14th, 2009 - Excel Version (20.50 kb)

Remember it is always available at the link below my picture on the right hand side of the blog. RadioClassics Sirius 118 XM 164 Schedule

Highlights this week include a Lux Radio Theatre version of the 1948 film noir thriller, "Key Largo" with Claire Trevor and Edward G. Robinson. Also playing; the Agatha Christie story Where There's A Will starring James Mason and his wife Pamela and presented on Suspense. New episodes from Boston Blackie, The Adventures of Frank Race, Behind The Mike, The Wonder Show, The Alan Young Show and more.

Photos: Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor (with Humphrey Bogart); James Mason and wife Pamela; Richard Kollmar (Boston Blackie); Tom Collins (Frank Race); Alan Young with Mr. Ed); Graham McNamee (Behind The Mike); Jack Haley of The Wonder Show (with Shirley Temple & Alice Faye).

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Key Largo, Johnny Dollar, Agatha Christie, Dunne & MacCarthy In Bright StarShort Week with Dragnet Special as well as works by Agatha Christie and Ray BradburyAgatha Christie, Cary Grant, Edgar & Charlie, Some Christmas Shows Begin

Comments

3/11/2009 6:12:33 PM

I have a collection of Detective Book Club books from the 40's. Each book has 3 short stories. I was reading one called Payoff for the Banker. Imagine my surprise when they introduced the amateur detectives as Pam and Jerry North! Great book. I look forward to listening to this week's Mr. & Mrs. North episode.

Greg,
Awesome block of 4 of my favorites - Gildersleeve, Fibber, Whistler and Riley. I'll forgive the blasphemous lack of Jack Benny this week. Ever consider a block of Philip Marlowe?

David H

3/11/2009 8:57:14 PM

OH MY Greg you out done your self again the pictures are great makes me wish I was old enough to remember them but Im not
as you hear sooooooooooooooooo many times here is one more KEEP IT UP

Robert

robert

3/12/2009 5:11:22 AM

Love, love, love "Key Largo" on "Lux." Great pick.

John Cleary

3/12/2009 6:31:30 AM

Greg.....I very much enjoy Radio Classics on my 1.5 hour drive to work each day, especially the old westerns like Gunsmoke and The Six Shooter. I also catch Boston Blackie sometimes. I can't wait to leave the office today for my commute home, so that I can listen to some more great radio classics. Keep up the good work!

Brian B.

3/12/2009 7:18:29 AM

Hi, Greg,

Another great schdule this week! I'm grateful for all the information about the shows, and I've noticed in recent weeks the online interactive schedule no longer has story descriptions. I'm sure you've got your hands full! But any chance we'll get to have them back sometime? It was really great to get the descriptions and lists of some of the actors for each show. Thanks again for all of your wonderful work!

3/12/2009 10:50:13 AM

We really, really, need writers for todays television shows like the folks that wrote the shows on radio classics. This weeks Johhny Dollar marathon really had me. I thought I had it figured out several times but the "real" killer took me by surprise.

Does anyone else find it odd that many of the vintage PSAs are for things that are still as big a problem now as they were 50, 60 or 70 years ago? The more things change... well, ya'll know the rest.

Great job, Greg. Keep it up.

Jeff Letchford

3/12/2009 3:35:54 PM

I wonder if we can get Boston Blackie on the case of the lost Gravatars.

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3/14/2009 11:27:46 AM

Hi, Gang! I hope you all have enjoyed "The Moon is Green" (an X Minus One episode) as well as this weeks' episodes of "The Whistler" with Joseph Kern plus "Gunsmoke" and "Suspense" with Joseph Cotten. Keep up the good work, Greg. Even though I've heard some of these before, they still sound wonderful.
I've had trouble sleeping for the last week --- I wake up at 2 or 3 AM and I can't get back to sleep; sadly, this is nothing new. But (and those who have read my past missives know this) I leave my radio on at night and it's "stuck" on Ch. 164. It may not be a good idea to listen to scary stuff in the wee small hours of the morning but I don't mind it! In fact, I LOVE it. Sometimes I drift back to sleep because that's what I SHOULD be doing but sometimes I don't --- it's usually because I get mesmerized by what I'm hearing. I used to have my radio "stuck" on all-news all the time (this was before we got XM) but today, the news is SO depressing and upsetting --- maybe THIS is why I'm having trouble sleeping! So keep up the good work, Greg. I love the stuff you're airing now and I also look forward to new stuff and your plans for the station. And keep writing, you radio bloggers out there! Your missives are a lot of fun to read even if I don't always agree.

Rosemary

3/14/2009 12:43:02 PM

Jim S,

I couldn't post your comment as you promoted a product that has a firm legal rights holder and therefore the site you recommended is likely providing them without legal rights secured. Even if that is not the case, it is not something I can risk on my blog site considering my job and relationship with Radio Classics' content provider.

Sorry, it was very kind of you though.

Greg.

gregbell

3/14/2009 10:46:56 PM

Great shows this week. A minor photo correction - that's Jack Haley Sr. Junior was Liza Minnelli's husband and produced THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT. That's a great shot of Robinson, Trevor and Bogie. It's from THE AMAZING DR. CLITTERHOUSE, made 10 years before KEY LARGO. By 1948, Bogie had aged the most due to his excessive cigarette smoking.

Ray Faiola

3/14/2009 11:39:52 PM

Thanks Ray,

Actually oddly they both were "Juniors" The Jack Haley in the photo (Wonder Show, Tin Man, etc) was born John Joseph Haley Jr. He later named his son, Jack Haley Jr. So I guess to be accurate in the photo caption, it should say John Joseph not Jack.

Greg.

gregbell

3/15/2009 2:35:53 AM

TWO Johnny Dollars in one week!! YEAH!! Bob Bailey is my fav.. BUT I love to hear all the stories and the differences in the characterizations.. 24/7 J/Dollars..

Cheri

3/15/2009 9:57:55 AM

Hi, Greg! Have you considered becoming a Twitter? Check out www.twitter.com and you'll get an idea of how it works. I'M a twitterer - I'm only now adding people I'd like to follow. Telling you this should not interfere with your employers - I checked Old Time Radio and didn't find a spot, though there are lots of radio twitterers out there but with far different formats. Just a thought, dear Greg! I want the whole wide world to know about you and Radio Classics. Does any blogger twitter? If you do, I'm Navy Moo.

Rosemary

3/15/2009 10:30:44 AM

I have enough trouble keeping up with my Facebook , although I did just join a Radio Classics fan site over there.
I see what I can do about Twitter.

Greg.

gregbell

3/15/2009 11:39:09 PM

Hi, Gang! Did y'all hear "Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of The Creeping Man"? That had to be one of the scariest Sherlock Holmes episodes I'd ever seen or heard. It's also a darned good read. So thank you, Greg, for playing it once again.
I'll check you out on Facebook; I think I have an account with them. I'm having trouble keeping up with all this new technology! Oh, well - it's fun finding all this new stuff!

Rosemary

3/16/2009 12:04:55 AM

we need more shadow its the best oh and lone ranger.please please

m hewitt

3/16/2009 7:04:54 AM

I agree -- more "Shadow" and "Lone Ranger." I believe we went a week or even two without the LR and I felt like something had been missing from my life. Hey, Gang - if you haven't done so yet, I STRONGLY suggest you read "Raised on Radio" by Gerald Nachman. It's terrific - the chapter I'm on now is about Jack Benny. Wait till you read it - he truly was a remarkable man. The paperback is out but the hardback may be hard to get - it was published in 1998. I also just found another titled "I Hit It Under the Sheets: Growing Up With Radio" by Gerald Eskenazi, published in October 2005. My birthday is in 6 months (Sept. 11 - can you believe that?) so if the Birthday Fairy donates to my enRICHment, I may buy it then. Finally, make sure to read Joan Benny's "Sunday Nights at 7," a combination of her father's unpublished autobiography and her own memories of her father and her mother, too. I love reading about the history of old-time radio! I grew up with television but I discovered Old Time Radio when I found "CBS Radio Mystery Theater" 30 years ago and I became HOOKED! Now I couldn't do without it and, now, thanks to XM Radio/Sirius, I don't have to.

Rosemary

3/16/2009 9:45:33 AM

"Shadow" and "Lone Ranger are good as well as "Six Shooter" being a Jimmy Stewart fan. The show I've really have come to enjoy is "The Whistler". Good endings! With all these shows it just proves that "Crime does NOT pay. BWA AH AH AH AH!"

Bob

3/17/2009 7:35:36 AM

Hi everyone!

As always, great schedule this week Greg! I could just listen to the voice of Jimmy Stewart ppppuuuurrrr all day...he is such a mesmerizing story teller with that voice! I remember one episode where he was creeping from large rock to large rock and then he crept behind a large log and he was whispering the whole time. I felt like I was right beside him trying to be as stealthy as he was. Wow, what an actor! What a voice!

Kudos to Agatha Christie again for "Where There's A Will". That's what great about all these shows...the twist at the end. I must admit, The Shady Lane Matter had me going through the whole thing...everyone was just so darn nice! Who could possibly be a killer?!

And I agree with you Rosemary; Sherlock was too, too creepy this time around. Whoo Hoo! was I ever hooked on that one! Who wants to listen to the depressing old new when we can listen to The Shadow get the bad guy every time! The weed of crime bears bitter fruit,...just ask Margo!...the Shadow knows................

Ciao!

margolane

3/17/2009 7:40:30 AM

Hey Greg! Forgot to ask you....

Any chance of getting a printable black and white schedule? I print the schedule each week and, as great as the colored one is, it eats a lot of ink.

Thanks Greg.

margolane

3/17/2009 6:52:50 PM

Margolane,
You should be able to tell your printer to print in black & white. Click on File>Print and when the printer dialog box pops up, click on Properties or Preferences. You should be able to change the print job to B&W somewhere in there. The highlighted boxes will still have a background, only now it'll be grey. Hope this helps...

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