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7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar “Mildford Brooks III” The audition program of the series! Johnny is hired to keep a client from committing suicide. (Original air date December 7, 1948. CBS network.) (Running time 29:18)

7:30 p.m. Hopalong Cassidy “Gunsmoke Rides The Stagecoach Trail”. An innocent nester is accused of robbing the stage coach of the mine payroll, and he’s on the run! Can Hopalong save him? (Original air date April 4, 1949.) (Running time 26:10) This is part of our exploration of children’s programming from the Golden Age of Radio.

8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke “Romeo” Two families, both alike in dignity, in fair Dodge City where we lay our scene… (Original air date January 22, 1956 CBS network.) (Running time 20:25)

8:20 p.m. Vic and Sade Vic and Sade’s adopted son Rush is collecting scrap for the war effort. (Original air date April 6, 1942.)(Running time 10:30)

8:30 p.m. Dragnet “The Big Pug” Two robbers hold up the owner of a cafe in the parking lot of a bank. (Original air date May 18, 1950. NBC network.)(Running time 27:07)

9:00 p.m. The Whistler “The Avengers” A ghost story involving brothers, a mine claim and a deadly promise. (Original air date July 2, 1943. CBS network.)(Running time 29:32)

9:30 p.m. Bright Star The audition episode for this newsroom comedy series starring Irene Dunne and Fred MacMurray. (Original air date October 23, 1952. Ziv syndication.)(Running time 26:49)

10:00 p.m. The Lux Radio Theater “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” A truly excellent radio adaptation of the classic story of gold, gumption and greed, starring Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston, and radio’s Frank Lovejoy. (Original air date April 18, 1949. CBS network.)(Running time 53:51)