It's a night of westerns, detective shows, and a nice ending with Ford Theater's Adventure of the Bad Boy- which should be interesting...
I'm ready, how's everyone?
I can't believe it's already the LAST Big Broadcast of January! Yesterday was New Year's Day, wasn't it? Looks like a decent lineup with a couple of detective shows and an Ellery Queen murder mystery on Ford Theatre.
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2015 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. December 16, 1956. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Rasmussen Matter". A millionaire's son has been killed in Asia, his wife has disappeared, and with good reason. See cat. #43575 for a network broadcast version. Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg, Frank Nelson, Jack Kruschen, Roy Glenn, Jean Tatum, Eric Snowden, Will Wright. 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
7:30 Dragnet. March 29, 1953. Program #197. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Big Dream". An old man, poorly dressed, robs a liquor store and is very apologetic about it. See cat. #47077 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander. 25 minutes. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. April 1, 1956. CBS net. "How To Sell A Ranch". Sponsored by: L & M, Chesterfield. Why is Wayne Rudman willing to pay $15,000 for old Tupp Quaver's ranch, which is hardly worth $10,000? The system cue has been deleted. William Conrad, Parley Baer, John Meston (writer), Ralph Moody, Harry Bartell, Kathy Marlowe, Joseph Du Val, Howard McNear, Georgia Ellis, George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), George Walsh (announcer). 24:45. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
8:30 Wild Bill Hickok. December 1951. Program #37. Mutual net. "Wyatt Foster's Secret". Sponsored by: Kellogg's Corn Pops. Wyatt Foster has mysteriously died, possibly killed by Curt Wiley. Where are Wyatt's valuable papers hidden? Perhaps his son can help. The system cue is added live, the date is approximate. Guy Madison, Andy Devine, Charles Lyon (announcer), Richard Aurandt (music), David Hire (producer), Paul Pierce (director), Ken Peters, Frederick Shields, Clayton Post, Lou Marcell, Jack Moyles. 24:56. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
9:00 Nick Carter. August 12, 1945. Mutual net. "The [Sick] Statues". Sponsored by: Lin-X. The story of a strange plague called, "Bronze Disease." "It murdered two people and almost killed a third." Lon Clark, Charlotte Manson, Alfred Bester (writer), Jock MacGregor (director), Ken Powell (announcer). 27:57. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:30 Boston Blackie. April 1, 1947. Program #103. ABC net origination, Ziv syndication. Commercials added locally. Blackie travels to Valley Junction when the owner of the town's general store is found murdered. Richard Kollmar, Lesley Woods, Maurice Tarplin, Henry Sylvern (organist), Jeanne Harrison (director), Parker Fennelly. 27:55. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.
10:00 The Ford Theatre. January 4, 1948. NBC net. "The Adventures Of A Bad Boy". Sponsored by: Ford. A fine murder mystery, deduced and solved by Ellery Queen. A good radio production; Ellery picks the killer like a rabbit out of a magician's hat...almost literally! Guy Wallace, Kenneth Banghart (announcer), Charlotte Keane, Brad Barker, Jane Houston, Walter Vaughn, Harold Dryanforth, Avril Harris, Frederic Dannay (writer, as "Ellery Queen"), Manfred B. Lee (writer, as "Ellery Queen"), Santos Ortega, Ted de Corsia, Sarah Fussell, Hugh Marlowe, Anne Seymour, John Gibson. 1 hour. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.