Morning previews of the day ahead, and evening summaries of the day. During Jon Worth's #CrossBorderRail Finale 2025.

C'est à 21h, le mercredi soir... quand on est là.

Morning previews of the day ahead, and evening summaries of the day. During Jon Worth's #CrossBorderRail Finale 2025.

Amos and Andy: 5/25/48, episode 177

A Date with Judy is a comedy radio series aimed at a teenage audience which ran from 1941 to 1950. The series featured Louise Erickson (Marjorie on The Great Gildersleeve and Babs on The Life Of Riley) who played the role of Judy from January 18, 1944, to January 4, 1949.

This episode is called "Father's Birthday" and it originally aired on August 1, 1944.

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Suspense: 08/24/58, episode 764

Jackie Cooper stars in the third performance of a Gus C. Bayz script about a cheap bandit who kills an old grocery store owner for resisting his robbery attempt. A young woman enters the store just after the incident, and it turns out she knows the bandit from high school! As they interact, he realizes that the more she remembers, the more he knows he has to eliminate her because she will become a witness against him. Cooper had not appeared on Suspense for almost eleven years.

Dan Duryea had the definitive performance of the three because of his unsavory characterization, which seems so natural to his style. There is no weak performance of the three.

1952 Dan Duryea: Details about the performance, Bayz, and other background, including the television production of the script are at https://youtu.be/0BWkb8Gsc4k

1955 Tony Barrett: https://youtu.be/yh_FA6CLgNk

The program was recorded on Wednesday, August 6, 1958. Rehearsal began at 3:30 pm and recording started at 6:00 pm. Including in-studio edits, the session concluded at 8:00 pm. Additional production edits were handled separately, from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm.

No network recording is known to have survived. Of the four ad spots, GMC Trucks and Congoleum floors were booked before the recording date. The two remaining spots were allocated before the broadcast day.

There are two surviving Armed Forces Radio Service recordings, AFRS#692 and AFRS#993. The better recording is AFRS#993. The two AFRS recordings can be differentiated by the announcements after the Robson opening monologue:

AFRS#692: Free choice in elections

AFRS#993: Joe & Daphne Forsythe skit about US Savings Bonds

The cast: JACKIE COOPER (Harry Norris), Sandra Gould (Ruth Shaw), Barney Phillips (Liebowitz / Police Lieutenant), Norm Alden (Jimmy), George Walsh (Narrator)

For more information visit https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2025/06/1958-08-24-remember-me.html

C'est à 21h, le mercredi soir... quand on est là.

C'est à 21h, le mercredi soir... quand on est là.