Mixilo's BB Podcast

0:00:00 - Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
“The Molly K Matter” Parts 1, 2 and 3. Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Johnny flies to San Francisco for the investigation of the sinking of the freighter “Molly K.”. (Original air date October 10, 11 and 12, 1955. CBS network.)

0:30:00 - Superman
“A Mystery For Superman” Part 4. Clark Kent’s mystery deepens, people are acting strange and disappearing. (Original air date March 6, 1942.) This is part of our exploration of children’s programming from the Golden Age of Radio.

1:00:00 - Gunsmoke
“The Executioner” A fast gunman provokes and kills a man; the murdered man’s brother plans revenge.(Original air date April 15, 1956. CBS network.) (Running time 20:56)

1:20:00 - Radio retrospective: Johnny Carson’s mentors with excerpts of Jack Benny’s guest appearance on The Tonight Show

1:30:00 - Dragnet
“The Big Chance” A highway patrolman has disappeared from his cruiser, out in the countryside. (Original air date August 24, 1950. NBC network.)(Running time 26:42)

2:00:00 - The Lucky Strike Program Starring Jack Benny
Jack Benny and the gang visit the race track. (Original air date March 6, 1949. CBS network.)(Running time 27:27)

2:30:00 - Fibber McGee and Molly
Fibber has arranged to honor Doc Gamble with an official “Doc Gamble Day” in Wistful Vista. (Original air date March 15, 1949. NBC network.)(Running time 28:30)

3:00:00 - Johnny Carson’s Undergraduate Senior Thesis “How to Write Comedy for Radio”
A young Johnny Carson, deconstructs comedy writing for radio, the rules and customs of the art, in his undergraduate senior thesis at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. (May, 1949. University of Nebraska-Lincoln.)(Running time 42:05)

3:45:00 - The Unexpected
“Heard But Not Seen” Virginia Gregg in a star turn thriller about a blind woman facing a murderer. (Original air date November 28, 1948. Hamilton-Whitney syndication. )(Running time 11:56)

0:00:00 - Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
“The McCormack Matter” Parts 4 and 5. Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; the manhunt comes full circle and returns to Long Island as Johnny tries to wrap up the mystery. (Original air date October 6 and 7, 1955. CBS network.)

0:30:00 - Superman
“A Mystery For Superman” Parts 2 and 3. Lois Lane telephones and says she needs $20,000 immediately, but was it really her? (Original air date March 2 and 4.) This is part of our exploration of children’s programming from the Golden Age of Radio.

1:00:00 - Gunsmoke
“Widow’s Mite” (Original air date April 08, 1956. CBS network.) (Running time 21:14)

1:20:00 - Radio retrospective: The Cuban Missile Crisis with excerpts of speeches by President John F Kennedy and Adlai Stevenson

1:30:00 - Dragnet
“The Big Youngster” A young boy confesses to a murder. (Original air date August 17, 1950. NBC network.)(Running time 26:19)

2:00:00 - Suspense
“Night Man” A psychological thriller by Lucille Fletcher masterfully carried by Marsha Hunt. (Original air date July 26, 1959. CBS network.)(Running time 17:56)

2:25:00 - The Charlie McCarthy Show
Marsha hunt co-stars with Don Ameche in The Bickersons; Charlie finds Bergen’s wallet. (Original air date November 07, 1948. NBC network.)(Running time 28:07)

2:50:00 - Hollywood Fights Back, excerpt
In the original, 45 Hollywood personalities and politicians speak out against the blacklist and McCarthyism (Original air date October 26, 1947. ABC network)

3:00:00 - The Mercury Summer Theatre
“Jane Eyre” Radio’s dream team takes on the classic: Bernard Hermann scores this Norman Corwin adaptation that stars Orson Welles. (Original air date June 28, 1946. CBS network.)(Running time 25:58)

3:30:00 - Philo Vance
“The Tick-Tock Murder Case” A crook willingly admits to robbing the safe, it’s his alibi for the murder! (Original air date August 02, 1949.ZIV syndication)(Running time 26:34)

0:00:00 - Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
“The McCormack Matter” Parts 1, 2 and 3 Bob Bailey is Johnny Dollar in the very first of the series’ five-part episodes; a dying prison inmate puts Johnny on the trail of stolen loot. (Original air date October 3, 4 and 5 1955. CBS network.)

0:30:00 - Superman
“A Mystery For Superman” Part 1 of 5. Clark Kent and Jimmy are sent on a wild goose chase while Lois disappears from a train — who is behind the confusion? (Original air date February 27, 1942. Syndication.) (Running time 11:48) This is part of our exploration of children’s programming from the Golden Age of Radio.

1:00:00 - Gunsmoke
“How To Sell A Ranch” Wayne Rudman offers to buy old Tupp Quaver’s ranch for significantly more than it’s worth, sparking Marshall Dillon’s suspicion. (Original air date April 1, 1956. CBS network.) (Running time 21:22)

1:20:00 - The Tenth Man “The Tie That Binds” A woman returns home from a mental hospital, to find her family has some misapprehensions about her disease. (Original air date September 17, 1947. The National Mental Health Foundation syndication.)(Running time 13:08)

1:30:00 - Dragnet
“The Big Gent” Part 2. Detective Friday must hunt down “The Gentleman Bandit”. (Original air date July 27, 1950. NBC network.)(Running time 26:44)

2:00:00 - Halls Of Ivy
An alumni wishes to donate a painting by Goya to the University, but its authenticity is uncertain. (Original air date January 24, 1951. NBC network.)(Running time 27:30)

2:30:00 - Suspense
“Beware The Quiet Man” Ann Southern stars as an unfaithful wife who suspects that her timid husband plans to have her murdered. (Original air date August 12, 1948. CBS network.)(Running time 28:13)

3:00:00 - Luke Slaughter Of Tombstone
“Worth Its Salt” Election intrigue in the lawless west. (Original air date May 04, 1958. CBS network.)(Running time 24:56)

3:00:00 - Songs By Sinatra
Ginny Simms and Frances Langford are guests of Frank Sinatra on his variety show. (Original air date October 10, 1945. CBS network.)(Running time 26:10)

0:00:00 - Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
“The Kay Bellamy Matter” John Lund as Johnny Dollar investigates why a sultry radio singer, played by Gloria Blondell, is slumming at a burlesque house. (Original air date January 30, 1953. CBS network.) (Running time 29:17)

0:30:00 - The Blue Beetle
“Blasting The Dynamite Ring” Parts 1 and 2. The Blue Beetle is half-police cop, half-superhero and he’s after the nefarious super-villian, The Octopus! Explosions, kidnappings and electric ray guns! (Original air date May 24, 1940. Fox Features syndication.) (Running time 13:33) This is part of our exploration of children’s programming from the Golden Age of Radio.

1:00:00 - Gunsmoke
“Hanging Man” (Original air date March 25, 1956. CBS network.) (Running time 21:04)

1:20:00 - The Amazing Interplanetary Adventures Of Flash Gordon , excerpt (Original air date June 1, 1935. Hearst syndication.)

1:30:00 - Dragnet
“The Big Gent” Part 1. Detective Friday must hunt down “The Gentleman Bandit”. (Original air date July 20, 1950. NBC network.)(Running time 26:10)

2:00:00 - Birds Eye Open House
Groucho Marx guest stars on Dinah Shore’s comedy variety show, and ad-libs the cast into stitches. (Original air date February 21, 1946. NBC network.)(Running time 27:00)

2:30:00 - The Eternal Light
“Tears of Paradise” Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden; a tale offered for Rosh Hashana. (Original air date September 10, 1961. NBC network.)(Running time 28:29)

3:00:00 - The Theatre Guild on The Air
“The Third Man” Graham Greene’s thriller starring Joseph Cotten; set in post-war Vienna. (Original air date January 7, 1951. NBC network.)(Running time 55:19)

0:00:00 - Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
“The Isabel James Matter” John Lund as Johnny Dollar is joined by Gunsmoke regulars Parley Baer and Howard McNear in a Blake Edwards (Pink Panther) script. (Original air date August 18, 1953. CBS network.) (Running time 27:19)

0:30:00 - The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Gracie has, what’s it called again? Oh yeah, amnesia. (Original air date June 29, 1943. CBS network.) (Running time 29:09)

1:00:00 - Gunsmoke
“The Man Who Would Be Marshal” A new Marshal is in town — but Marshal Dillon hasn’t left. (Original air date March 18, 1956. CBS network.) (Running time 21:21)

1:20:00 - Radio Retrospective: Radio Poetry with selections from Moon River and Bob and Ray

1:30:00 - Dragnet
“The Big Dare” (Original air date August 3, 1950. NBC network.)(Running time 26:52)

2:00:00 - Boston Blackie
Sam Fisher has a murderous past, but he can’t remember it. (Original air date March 18, 1947. ABC network.)(Running time 25:05)

2:30:00 - X Minus One
“Junkyard” Spacemen land on a strange planet, and one by one they find their memories erased. (Original air date February 22, 1956. NBC network.)(Running time 28:45)

3:00:00 - The Whistler
“Fog” A young fisherman has supposedly killed someone, but his amnesia blocks his memory. (Original air date September 20, 1942. CBS network.)(Running time 29:32)

3:30:00 - Proudly We Hail
“Forget Me Not” A mysterious plot involving a man and his lost memories. (Original air date March 11, 1951. Army syndication.)(Running time 29:07)

0:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
“The Lucky Costa Matter” Edmond O’Brien as Johnny Dollar investigates a suspicious detective. (Original air date August 15, 1951. CBS network.)

0:40 p.m. Adventures of Superman
“The Baby From Kryton” Superman’s origin story. (Original air date February 12, 1940. Syndicated.)

1:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
“Bringing Down Father” (Original air date March 11, 1956. CBS network.)

1:30 p.m. Radio Retrospective: Princess Elizabeth speaks on BBC’s Childrens Hour (Original air date October 13, 1940.)

1:40 p.m. Dragnet
“The Big Bomb” A man threatens to blow up City Hall unless his brother is released from prison. (Original air date July 13, 1950. NBC network.)

2:20 p.m. Night Beat
Reporter Randy Stone runs into a young boy running away from home, and finds a connection to an impending execution. (Original air date July 3, 1950. NBC network.)

3:00 p.m. The Ford Theatre
“The Adventures of a Bad Boy” An Ellery Queen murder mystery. (Original air date January 4, 1948. NBC network.)(Running time 59:27)

0:00:00 - Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
“The Nora Faulkner Matter” Edmond O’Brien as Johnny Dollar is joined by Gunsmoke regulars Parley Baer and Vic Perrin in this mystery about a woman whose life is in danger. (Original air date November 18, 1950. CBS network.) (Running time 29:13)

0:30:00 - Duffy’s Tavern
Archie runs for Food Inspector (Original air date February 2, 1951. NBC network.) (Running time 28:25)

1:00:00 - Gunsmoke
“The Hunter” Marshal Dillon has to keep bullying buffalo hunter Jase Murdock from traveling south into American Indian territory on a murderous hunt for hides. (Original air date March 4, 1956. CBS network.) (Running time 20:59)

1:20:00 - Radio Retrospective: Vin Scully, announcing Sandy Koufax’s perfect game (Original air date September 9, 1965.)

1:30:00 - Dragnet
“The Big Frame” A man is found dead in the gutter. At first it seems as a hit-run case, but Friday and Smith become suspicious when all witnesses from the night before give exactly the same story. (Original air date July 6, 1950. NBC network.)(Running time 26:34)

2:00:00 - Radio Retrospective: JFK and the Space Race, “Address at Rice University on the Nation’s Space Effort”

2:05:00 - X Minus One
“Requiem” Robert A. Heinlein’s story of a wealthy tycoon who helped to invent space travel but never made it to the moon — until his dying days. (Original air date October 27, 1955. NBC network.)(Running time 23:44)

2:30:00 - Suspense
“Death and Miss Turner” Agnes Moorehead stars as an artist with a secret, who keeps painting a faceless man. (Original air date November 17, 1952. CBS network.)(Running time 24:55)

3:00:00 - Richard Diamond, Private Detective
A neighbor of P.I. Diamond is not a fan of his singing… (Original air date November 5, 1949. NBC network.)(Running time 27:45)

3:30:00 - Doctor Christian
An aspiring opera singer wonders what she has to do to make it in the opera world. (Original air date November 28, 1937. CBS network.)(Running time 29:26)

0:00:00 - Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
“The Dead First Helpers” Edmond O’Brien as Johnny Dollar works undercover as a steelworker in a Pittsburgh to solve a series of murders (Original air date April 11, 1950. CBS network.) (Running time 29:26)

0:30:00 - The Adventures Of Frank Merriwell
“The Clue Of The Numbers” There’s been a robbery, and a runaway, and Frank is going to find the connection! (Original air date October 19, 1946. NBC network.) (Running time 29:56) This is part of our exploration of children’s programming from the Golden Age of Radio.

1:00:00 - Gunsmoke
“Who Lives By The Sword” A professional gunfighter is disciplined by Marshall Dillon, and then loses his nerve to fight again. (Original air date February 26, 1956. CBS network.) (Running time 21:12)

1:20:00 - Dear Adolf James Cagney, as an American laborer, reads his letter to Hitler. (Original air date July 12, 1942.)

1:30:00 - Dragnet
“The Big Grab” A professor’s wife has been kidnapped. (Original air date June 29, 1950. NBC network.)(Running time 26:48)

2:00:00 - New World A’ Coming
“Inside Harlem Hospitals” Canada Lee and Celeste Holm appear in this dramatic story of a white woman who spends several weeks in a Harlem hospital after a traffic accident. (Original air date November 12, 1944. WMCA station.)(Running time 25:13)

2:30:00 - My Friend Irma
Irma and her friends attend a charity masquerade ball. (Original air date October 11, 1948. CBS network.)(Running time 29:17)

3:00:00 - The Green Hornet
“Pavement Condemned” The Green Hornet gets to the bottom of a corrupt construction company, treating its workers as contractors. (Original air date June 29, 1939. Mutual network.)(Running time 25:24)

3:00:00 - The People Act
“Our Partner: The Public”. A documentary about how the people of Toledo, Ohio, settles labor disputes without going on strike. (Original air date March 03, 1951. NBC network.)(Running time 29:16)

0:00:00 - Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
“The Gravediggers” Edmond O’Brien as Johnny Dollar goes to North Dakota to convince elderly clients not to commit suicide. (Original air date February 17, 1950. CBS network.) (Running time 29:54)

0:30:00 - Our Miss Brooks
The school year is about to begin, but the chairman of the State Board of Education wants to make a (surprise) visit! (Original air date September 11, 1949. CBS network.) (Running time 29:30)

1:00:00 - Gunsmoke
“New Hotel” Two hotels are competing for the limited business to be had in Dodge. (Original air date February 19, 1956. CBS network.) (Running time 20:30)

1:20:00 - Radio Retrospective: The First Commercial

A selection of Bob and Ray

1:30:00 - Dragnet
“The Big Mink” A furrier is killed and a mink stolen. (Original air date June 22, 1950. NBC network.)(Running time 26:38)

2:00:00 - Grand Central Station
“Larkspur To Feed The Soul” The story of an actress and her rise to stardom, and the men who love her. (Original air date December 1, 1945. CBS network.)(Running time 25:51)

2:30:00 - The Man Called X
A cure for radiation poisoning hangs in the balance when the leading inventor is murdered. (Original air date January 20, 1951. NBC network.)(Running time 29:22)

3:00:00 - The Fred Allen Show
Fred Allen lampoons advertising slogans, polls and surveys. (Original air date October 11, 1939.)(Running time 57:02)

0:00:00 - Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
“The S.S. Malay Trader” Edmond O’Brien as Johnny Dollar in a sea-faring adventure, supported by Dragnet’s Barton Yarborough and Gunsmoke’s William Conrad. (Original air date February 10, 1950. CBS network.) (Running time 28:55)

0:30:00 - Mark Trail
“Strange Invitation to Death” Mark Trail attempts to save a community of farmers from the ravages of hungry deer — and save the deer population at the same time! This is part of our exploration of children’s programming from the Golden Age of Radio. (Original air date October 16, 1950. Mutual network.) (Running time 29:45)

1:00:00 - Gunsmoke
“The Ride Back” A rare previously “lost” episode rescued by old time radio researchers, a unique performance by William Conrad . (Original air date June 28, 1952. CBS network.) (Running time 28:31)

1:30:00 - Dragnet
“The Big Purse” Purse-snatchers are turning violent, and Detective Friday must track them down. (Original air date June 15, 1950. NBC network.)(Running time 26:32)

2:00:00 - Broadway Is My Beat
A cinematic radio story! Murder, alibis and confusion. (Original air date February 17, 1950. CBS network.)(Running time 29:31)

2:30:00 - The Eternal Light
“Face to Face With Gabriel” The true story of a Rabbi whose life was saved in a train wreck. (Original air date December 20, 1953. NBC network.)(Running time 28:39)

3:00:00 - Excerpts celebrating Hawaiian Statehood Day:

Alka-Sletzer Time, with Curt Massey and Martha Tilton (Original air date October 21, 1953.

Hawaiian Fantasies, The story of, “The Legend of Kuakuku, The Shark God.” (1933.)

excerpts from two broadcasts Hawaii Calls, with Webley Edwards, Alfred Apaka and Haunani Kahalewai. (January 10 and May 18, 1957. AFRTS)

3:00:00 - Mysterious Traveler
“Vacation From Life” A man finds an undetonated mine and plans to use it to his advantage. (Original air date September 7, 1947.)(Running time 29:43)