{"id":42,"date":"2022-12-17T10:42:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T15:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/?p=42"},"modified":"2022-12-17T10:43:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T15:43:09","slug":"42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/42\/42\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Sinatra Saves Santa Claus on WAMU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/wamu.org\/story\/22\/12\/11\/the-big-broadcast-december-18-2022\/\">Big Broadcast on WAMU<\/a> continues the holiday theme with these episodes about Christmas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My Favorite Husband:\u00a0Lucille Ball as Liz Cooper \u2013 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>Suspense: The Cave\u00a0\u2013 Original air date December 20, 1955. CBS network. The fanciful tale of two boys on a Christmas Day adventure who chance upon pirates in a magical cave. 7:30 p.m. Eastern<\/li>\n<li>Dragnet: The Big Little Jesus\u00a0\u2013 Original air date December 22, 1953. NBC network. A Catholic mission in Los Angeles files a police report because their statue of Jesus has been purloined. 8:30 p.m. Eastern<\/li>\n<li>Rocky Fortune: The Plot to Murder Santa Claus\u00a0\u2013 Original air date December 22, 1953. Frank Sinatra stars as Rocky Fortune and Old Blue Eyes must foil a scheme to off Old Saint Nick. 9:30 p.m. Eastern<\/li>\n<li>The Shadow: Cold Death\u00a0\u2013 Original air date December 19, 1937. Mutual network. Orson Welles portrays The Shadow, who enters the thoughts of a Scrooge-like slumlord keeping reporters out of his shantytown with gangsters. 10:00 p.m. Eastern<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend&#8217;s Big Broadcast on WAMU continues the holiday theme with these episodes about Christmas: My Favorite Husband:\u00a0Lucille Ball as Liz Cooper \u2013 Original air date December 16, 1949. CBS network. The show explores what George is planning to give &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/42\/42\/\">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-42","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\/42","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=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}