Boy I'm excited about tonight. We have a Phil Harris show (love that guy), some detective shows, and a Screen Director's Playhouse staring Barbara Stanwyck. What a lady she was. Sigh. That's a pretty strong lineup.
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These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2014 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. October 5, 1956. Program #323. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Picture Postcard Matter". Episode #5 (conclusion). The third picture leads to the diamonds and a murderer. Bob Bailey, Robert Ryf (writer). 15 minutes. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. October 8, 1956. Program #324. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Primrose Matter". Episode #1. Johnny heads out into the desert, prospecting for killers and robbers. Bob Bailey, Les Crutchfield (writer). 15 minutes. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
7:30 Dragnet. December 7, 1952. Program #181. NBC net. "The Big Mole". Sponsored by: Chesterfield. A burglary in a dry goods store is the latest in a series of similar crimes. The burglar has a most unusual secret room! The Chesterfield commercials make health claims for the product. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, George Fenneman (announcer), Hal Gibney (announcer), Gwen Delano, Paul Richards, John Robinson (writer), Walter Schumann (music). 30:00. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. November 27, 1955. CBS net. "Amy's Good Deed". Sponsored by: Chesterfield, L & M. Amy Slater comes to Dodge, determined to make Marshal Dillon kill her! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on April 12, 1958. The system cue is added live. William Conrad, John Meston (writer), Virginia Gregg, Harry Bartell, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), George Walsh (announcer). 25:41. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
8:30 The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show. October 22, 1950. NBC net. Sustaining. Phil finds himself as the chaperone on a camping trip for the Brownies. Alice sings, "Skip To My Lou." Phil sings, "The Feathers Of A Lucky Duck." Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Ray Singer (writer), Dick Chevillat (writer), Elliott Lewis, Walter Tetley, Robert North, Walter Scharf and His Orchestra, Bill Forman (announcer), Paul Phillips (producer, director), Jeanine Roos, Anne Whitfield, Red Nichols and The Five Pennies. 29:20. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:00 The New Adventures Of Nero Wolfe. December 8, 1950. NBC net. "The Case Of The Impolite Corpse". Sustaining. An advertising executive, hated by everyone, is found shot, from a strange position. It's all a matter of perspective. The program closing has been deleted, the story is unaffected. Barney Phillips, Betty Lou Gerson, Donald Morrison, Edwin Fadiman (executive producer?), Howard McNear, J. Donald Wilson (producer, director), John Storm (announcer), Lawrence Dobkin, Mary Lansing, Rex Stout (author, Chairman Of The Writer's War Board), Sydney Greenstreet, William Johnstone, William Kendall Clarke (writer). 27:27. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.
9:30 Crime Club. January 22, 1947. Mutual net. "Mr. Smith's Hat". Sustaining. A man calls the police to say he's going to be murdered. Ten seconds later, the man's daughter calls to say she just found the body. Roger Bower (producer, director), Elaine Kent, Raymond Edward Johnson, William Podmore, Eleanor Phelps, Paul Hammond, Shirling Oliver, Barry Thompson, Helen Riley (author), Stedman Coles (adaptor). 29:23. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 Screen Directors' Playhouse. March 15, 1951. NBC net. "Thelma Jordan". Sponsored by: RCA, Chesterfield. A murder is complicated by a romance between the killer and the District Attorney. Wendell Corey, Barbara Stanwyck, William Conrad, Hy Averback, Stan Waxman, Ruth Perrott, Ralph Moody, Peggy Webber, Jack Carroll, Robert Siodmak (guest screen director), Bill Cairn (director), Jack Rubin (adaptor), Jimmy Wallington (announcer), Howard Wiley (producer), Marty Howland (writer), Bing Crosby (Chesterfield commercial), Bob Hope (Chesterfield commercial). 59:00. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.