This Sunday, March 15, 2026, from 8 to 10 pm, and repeated at 4am Friday March 20, it's THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO! It's Women's Month, and by acclaim we present Natalie Masters as San Francisco detective CANDY MATSON, the rare first episode of THE LINE UP by Morton Fine and David Friedkin, and Agnes Moorehead on SUSPENSE in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” and of course our weekly episode of GUNSMOKE!

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

GUNSMOKE from CBS on March 30, 1958 #312 “Yorky” for Edsel ("Name The Pony" contest), L & M, Shinola Wax. Yorky Kelly tells the Marshal that his father has been kidnapped and his horse stolen. Yorky's step-mother is something else again. A good story. The script was used previously on October 17, 1953, and on the Gunsmoke television series on February 18, 1956. With William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, Georgia Ellis, produced and directed by Norman Macdonnell, written by John Meston, editorial supervisor John Meston, SFX by Ray Kemper & Bill James, music by Rex Koury, Ford Bond (Edsel commercial announcer), announcer George Walsh.

CANDY MATSON, YUKON 2-8209 from NBC net, San Francisco origination on Sept 11, 1950 "The Movie Company." (According to Jerry Haendiges, this is #61, the first show of the Second Season. The show moves to Mondays). Murder occurs on set of film being shot in Candy's neighborhood. Starring Natalie Masters as Candy, Henry Leff as Mallard, Harry Burdick as Reginald Dix, John Grover as Ames, Mary Milford as Cherry Dana, Kurt Martell as Buff Arnold, Ken Langley, written and produced by Monte Masters, organist Eloise Rowan, engineer Clarence Stevens, SFX by Bill Brownell, announcer Dudley Manlove.

THE LINE-UP from CBS on July 06, 1950 #1 “Three Young Girls Murdered.” Three shapely and scantily-clad young girls are found murdered. The trail leads to a municipal swimming pool. The programs were frequently heard on different dates in different areas and the scripts were sometimes repeated with different casts (sometimes just rebroadcasts of a presumably recorded program), making this a difficult series to pin down. This might indicated broadcasts in different areas on different days. Howard McNear appears on almost every show, usually as a drunk or other disreputable type, at the line-up that starts each show. Starring Wally Maher as Lt Ben Guthrie, Howard McNear as Sgt Matt Grebb, Mary Jane Croft, Angela Clark, Hal March, Herb Butterfield, Junius Matthews, Jack Kruschen, Jerry Hausner, written by Morton Fine & David Friedkin, music by Eddie Dunstedter, produced and directed by Elliott Lewis.

Big thanks to Bob Pederson for sharing this one!

SUSPENSE from CBS on July 29, 1948 "The Yellow Wallpaper"for Auto-Lite. A madwoman suspects that things are coming out of the wallpaper to get her. Maybe she's not mad? The story was subsequently produced on "Suspense" on June 30, 1957. Starring Agnes Moorehead as Pet, Bill Johnstone as John, Jeanette Nolan as Jenny, Paul Frees as Signature Voice and announcer, story by Charlotte Curtis Stetson Gilman, adapted by Sylvia Richards, produced and directed by Anton M. Leader, commercial spokesmen Harlow Wilcox & William Johnstone with Gil Stratton, Jr. as Ed, Frank Martin, Sylvia Simms as Girl, music composed by Lucien Moraweck, conducted by Lud Gluskin. cast:

AGNES MOOREHEAD (Pet), Bill Johnstone (John), Jeanette Nolan (Jenny), Paul Frees (Signature Voice)

For much more about this production and the original story, got to

https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2023/12/1948-07-29-yellow-wallpaper.html


 

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