Tonight, May 11, 2025, from 8 to 10 pm, Robert Rodriquez, This Is Your Life! All requests, including giant bugs on HALL OF FANTASY and QUIET PLEASE, and a Mothers Day episode of CRIME CLASSICS! But first up, our weekly episode of GUNSMOKE.

Tune in to WBAI-NY 99.5 FM at 8pm, or listen to the stream at wbai.org for THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO, produced by Max Schmid.

GUNSMOKE from CBS on June 16, 1957 via the AFRS #271 "Summer Night.” A wagon train passes through Dodge on its way west, leaving behind a baby girl! With William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, Georgia Ellis, produced and directed by Norman Macdonnell, written by Tom Hanley, editorial supervisor John Meston, SFX by Tom Hanley & Bill James, announcer George Walsh.

For Mother's Day, CRIME CLASSICS from CBS on Aug 31, 1953 #12 "Your Loving Son, Nero." The emperor decides to kill Agrippina, his mother. William Conrad sings! With Betty Lou Gerson, Edgar Barrier, Hy Averback, Martha Wentworth, Sammie Hill, and Lou Merrill as Thomas Hyland, your host. Script by Morton Fine & David Friedkin, music by Bernard Herrmann, produced and directed by Elliott Lewis, announcer Roy Rowan.


He likes big bugs and I cannot lie!!

THE HALL OF FANTASY from WGN, Chicago origination, on the Mutual net on May 18, 1953 #26 "The Crawling Thing." A scientist uses a deadly spider to experiment with his growth serum. It works all too well. Good of this kind. Written & produced by Richard Thorne, music by Harold Turner, directed by Leroy Olliger, announcer George Bower.

QUIET PLEASE from ABC on June 04, 1949 #101 "Tanglefoot." A fly for a pet? It's not such a bad idea, even though he's eight or nine inches long! Watch out though, when he gets hungry...and don't step on the man-paper! An excellent horror yarn. Written, directed, and hosted by Wyllis Cooper, Ernest Chappell as "the man who spoke to you," Jack Lescoulie, organist Albert Buhrman, sound effects by William J. McClintock.

We will try to squeeze in a little Mel Blanc as the train announcer on THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM in the remaining time!

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