Special 8pm start tonight! Until then, I'm tired of fighting with this damn computer, and I need some sleep, so it looks like I'll throw something together when I get to the station in a few hours! The best I can tell you is that we will hear JEAN SHEPHERD, THE FAT MAN, and something from the BLACK HISTORY Premium. OH YEAH, WE START AT 8PM TONIGHT AND RUN UNTIL 11! Tune in tonight Feb 25 from 8 to 11 pm EST on WBAI-NY at 99.5 FM, and streaming live at wbai.org.

THE FAT MAN from ABC on May 23, 1951 “Order For Murder." An ex-major, hated by everyone, is shot in the woods of suburban Washington D. C. Whodunnit? Everyone has a motive! Starring J. Scott Smart, Vicki Vola as Phyllis, Jimmy McCallion as Johny O'Reilly. Written by Richard Ellington, music by Bernard Green, created by Dashiell Hammett, directed by Clark Andrews.

FIRST ADDITION - DESTINATION FREEDOM from WMAQ Chicago November 21,1948 #21 "Rhyme of the Ancient Dodger" The Jackie Robinson Story!

JEAN SHEPHERD for tonight: March 06, 1972 - Spring, Baseball, and First Job. Jeez, Shep had so many of them - I wonder which job it will be tonight!

We will still be offering the following premiums:

Tune in to hear how you can get your hands on the first set of discs to be drawn from all the new first-generation CDs from the MANC Convention in September, focusing on horror, but including a cross-section of all genres of Old Time Radio. including 23 Gunsmoke, 13 Great Gildersleeve, 16 Beulah, 14 Gulf Screen Guild, and that's just the Gs! 3 Big Story, 20 Inner Sanctum, 16 Lights Out, 6 Molle, 12 Mysterious Traveler, 12 Sleep No More, 26 Sealed Book, 22 Whistler, 12 Weird Circle, 4 Mr Moto, 3 I Deal in Crime, 28 Mandrake, 26 Green Valley Line, 16 Planet Man, 9 Tom Mix, 16 Junior G-Men, 12 Buck Rogers, lots of music and comedy, great drama, you name it. And if you missed out on last year's premium, the 2016 set is also available too. You can get the dual-layer DVD for only a $100 pledge, or get both years shows for $200 (a savings of $25!).

Here's the contents of the 2016 Disc:

GOLDEN AGE 2016 CONVENTION (dual-layer) DVD Disc for $125 pledge:

302 shows, over 120 hours of Old-time radio shows from high quality master discs on a dual-layer DVDs. Here's a partial listing:

Disc One

2 or more episodes of the following series: 2000 Plus, A Date with Judy (6), Adv of Ellery Queen, Are You a Genius (5), Big Story, Blondie (4), Bold Venture (4), Broadway Is My Beat, Bulldog Drummond, Call the Police, Calling All Cars, Christopher London (3), Grand Central Station, Gunsmoke (10), I Was a Communist for the FBI (8), Little Orphan Annie (21), Molle Mystery Theater, Mr District Attorney (3), Night Surgeon, Out of the Deep, People Are Funny, Six Shooter (8), Somebody Knows,

Space Patrol, Straight Arrow (3), Tailspin Tommy, This Is Your Life – Ralph Edwards, Truth or Consequences, You Bet Your Life (8), Casey, Crime Photographer (8), On Stage, Orphans of Divorce.

Disc 2

CBS Radio Workshop (36), Superman (50), Philip Marlowe (4), This is Your FBI, One Man's Family (20), Night Beat (4), Lux Radio Theater, Jack Benny (4), Hallmark Playhouse (6), Rogue's Gallery (4), Gangbusters, Mr & Mrs North, Fibber McGee & Molly, I Love a Mystery, Norman Corwin, NBC Short Story, Tales of the Texas Rangers (16), Roy Rogers (4), tons more!

We are also offering our latest JEAN SHEPHERD disc set of rare shows from 1970-71, remastered by me from the original cassette airchecks. It's another 34 Shepherd shows on two mp3 discs for only $65!

DESTINATION FREEDOM and BLACK HISTORY RADIO 2-mp3 collection for $75:

Disc 1 Destination Freedom by Richard Durham:

61 episodes of Black History radio series produced by NBC at station WMAQ in Chicago.

Disc 2 Black History Radio and Civil Rights:

Series of civil rights and music programs, many produced for the Black audience. Includes New World A' Comin' starring Canada Lee, Orson Welles commentaries, Jubilee - produced for Black servicemen by the Armed Forces Radio Service during World War II, featuring the greatest names in Black music and entertainment, Peabody Award winning "Open Letter on Race Hatred" by William N. Robeson, Freedom's People, One Out of Seven - news dramatized by a young Jack Webb covering the civil rights movement, complete 7-part MERCURY THEATER production of Les Miserables, and more.