{"id":12,"date":"2022-12-10T10:25:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T15:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/?p=12"},"modified":"2022-12-10T10:26:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T15:26:08","slug":"12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/12\/12\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas from the Big Broadcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Broadcast coming up Sunday night on <a href=\"https:\/\/wamu.org\/story\/22\/12\/05\/the-big-broadcast-december-11-2022\/\">WAMU<\/a> has several Christmas-themed episodes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My Favorite Husband:\u00a0Lucille Ball as Liz Cooper &#8211; Original air date December 16, 1949. CBS network. The show explores what George is planning to give Liz for Christmas, with only seven shopping days left. 7:30 p.m. Eastern<\/li>\n<li>The Challenge Of The Yukon: Original air date December 22, 1948. ABC network. &#8220;The Man With The Red Coat&#8221; episode features a little girl who mistakes Sergeant Preston&#8217;s red Mountie suit for Santa&#8217;s costume. 9:00 p.m. Eastern<\/li>\n<li>Suspense: Original air date December 21, 1958. CBS network. &#8220;Out For Christmas&#8221; stars Raymond Burr as an ex-con who gets out of jail just before Christmas and looks for trouble. 9:30 p.m. Eastern<\/li>\n<li>Big Town: Original broadcast date December 21, 1937. CBS network. The show stars Edward G. Robinson as Steve Wilson of The Illustrated Press, who investigates a suspicious Christmas charity racket. 10 p.m. Eastern<\/li>\n<li>Quiet Please: Original broadcast date December 26, 1948. ABC network. &#8220;Berlin, 1945&#8221; is a heartwarming story about a group of American G.I.&#8217;s celebrating Christmas in conquered Germany. 10:30 p.m. Eastern<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Raymond Burr played a heroic lawyer for so long on the TV series Perry Mason that it was easy to overlook how effective he was in roles as a physically imposing villain. He plays one in the 1948 noir movie Pitfall as a shady detective stalking a woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Broadcast coming up Sunday night on WAMU has several Christmas-themed episodes: My Favorite Husband:\u00a0Lucille Ball as Liz Cooper &#8211; Original air date December 16, 1949. CBS network. The show explores what George is planning to give Liz for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/12\/12\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9693,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}