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February 14, 2010 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

07:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
 10/19/56 "Phantom Chase Matter" Pt. 5 CBS)(Sus.)(14:40) Bob Bailey, (First five episodes:) Virginia Gregg (Lola Chase), Michael Ann Barrett (Connie), Lawrence Dobkin (Pat McCracken), Forrest Lewis (George Emerson, Freddy Quintana), Peter Leeds, Barney Phillips, Tony Barrett, Victor Perrin ; (Last four episodes:) Michael Ann Barrett (Connie), Jack Edwards, Ben Wright (Inspector Witset), Virginia Gregg (Lola Chase), Don Diamond, Forrest Lewis (George Emerson), Richard Crenna (Thomas James Chase) ; Writer - Robert Ryf ; Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Musical Supervisor - Amerigo Marino ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; Expense Account Total = $ 1723 ; Nine part series ; "Ever chase a phantom? Well, believe me I have. And I will next week in the Phantom Chase Matter." Pat McCracken, Universal Adjustment Bureau, Hartford, calls Dollar about 38 year old Thomas James Chase who embezzled $120,000 from his high class New York City investment brokerage company, Emerson & Chase, and has now jumped bail. The 42 year old senior partner, George Emerson, is reluctant at first to believe Chase is guilty, and put up the bail money. Chase's wife is beautiful Lola, and the marriage seemed ideal. She says that Tom liked jazz music, and he had been working late at nights, and that he had sent her alone on a vacation to Martha's Vineyard, saying at the last moment that he couldn't go. George Emerson comes across a newspaper article about New Orleans jazz with a picture from a jazz bar called Ace's Castle, and he is sure that he sees Tom Chase in the background. Johnny heads for New Orleans. At Ace's Castle Johnny talks to blind trumpeter Pops Harker, who can provide no help. Then, a fellow named Freddy Quintana says he can tell Dollar where Tom Chase is hiding for $500. Quintana says Chase is going under the name of Tom James, and provides a sample of handwriting that Johnny verifies is authentic. Pops Harker tells Johnny that Quintana is a mean, bad actor. Lola Chase surprises Johnny by showing up at his hotel door. Quintana, in Lola's presence, tells Johnny to be at his apartment at midnight to get Chase. Johnny tells Lola she can go with him. They arrive 10 minutes early and wait a long time, but no one shows up. Johnny takes Lola back to her hotel. Then he goes back to Ace's castle. Lieutenant Lefevre, New Orleans police, sidles up to Dollar at Ace's Castle. He takes Dollar out in the alley to see Quintana's dead body. Chase looks to be the likely suspect for the murder. Lefevre calls Johnny with the news that they had found Chase's rooming house. In the waste basket they find a partially burned letter on Emerson & Chase stationery, with some legible numbers, 12 and 23. Dollar talks to Roger Carliss, rental agent for the rooming house. He says the room was rented a month in advance in cash for "James" by a very beautiful woman. Johnny sees the newspaper showing the harbor news and he wonders if maybe the numbers meant that a ship was departing pier 23 at 12 o'clock. Lefevre verifies that "The Caribbean Star" did leave pier 23 at 12 o'clock, bound for Trinidad, via Havana, and Haiti. A Tom James is booked among the passengers. Dollar gets to Haiti, and breaks into "James" room. It is empty. The purser tells Johnny that James left the ship in Havana, two days ago, heading for the airport. A Havana policeman, Lieutenant Escobar, tells Johnny that James booked a flight to Barbados, British West Indies. Johnny goes to Barbados. A woman, identifying himself only as Connie, approaches Dollar and says she knows about Tom Chase. She is his girlfriend and she wants out. For money, she will turn chase over to him. She says to be at the "Trade Winds Bar" in the rough waterfront district. As Dollar is approaching the bar, someone follows him and saps him. It is Tom Chase. A night watchman saves Johnny. Connie calls and says that she waited for Dollar to show. He agrees to meet her in the lobby. When he gets to the lobby she is gone. A clerk says that she left the lobby right after the phone call with a man that fits Chase's description. Dollar goes to the Colonial Police and meets with Inspector Witset. Next, Johnny goes back to the Trade Winds bar. Dollar makes eye contact with Connie, who immediately ducks out. Dollar catches up with her. She says that she is really not Chase's girl. She met him two days ago in Barbados. She is broke, stranded in Barbados and wants to get back to the States. She was hoping to get some money. She said that Chase talked for a long time to a fisherman on the waterfront. She takes Johnny to him. He says he was up all night with a passenger with lots of provisions to deserted Largos Island, three hours from Barbados, with one abandoned house. Lola Chase shows up in Barbados and gets a hotel room at Merisol Beach. Dollar calls Emerson who says that he is going to immediately come to Barbados and take Lola back to New York City. Johnny rents a boat , with radio call letters 6X3, to go to Largos Island and finds Lola stowed away on board. Johnny and Lola reach Largos Island. As they trudge toward the house shots ring out. Chase circles around and gets to Dollar's rented boat and takes it out to sea, stranding Dollar and Lola. They are rescued by Inspector Witset in a police boat. Back at Barbados, they see the boat Chase had taken from them - so he came back to Barbados. Dollar talks to George Emerson. Back at his hotel room Tom Chase is waiting. He says it is the end of the line for Dollar. He has a gun and he means business. Lola calls. It disorients Chase and he saps Dollar. He comes to with Lola and George Emerson tending to him. Later, Lola says that Chase wildly confronts her, and then heads into the mountains. She says he was acting crazy, saying that he wanted to see her one time "before". Johnny and Lola go after him. They see his car at the edge of a cliff. His dead body is smashed on the rocks below. Chase is buried in Barbados. Where is the money? Dollar checks Chase's last residence. He compares the writing of Chase with the sample given to him, and then he calls Pat McCracken for some information. Dollar has figured that instead of going to Martha's Vineyard Lola had gone to New Orleans to rent a room. Chase has been dead for two weeks. She killed Quintana. Emerson was the embezzler of the $120,000. Emerson says he is backing out, and fires a shot that wounds Lola, but Dollar overpowers him. The embezzled money was in a New York City safe deposit box. The real Tom Chase was buried on a deserted spot on Long Island.
07:30 p.m. Dragnet
07/20/54 "Big Heel" (AFRS) (24:17) Program #257 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson ; Announcer-George Fenneman ; A pair of unique tennis shoes is the evidence that a string of house break-in burglaries occurring on Fridays was committed by a wealthy young boy.
08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
06/26/60 "Line Trouble" (CBS)(21:32) Program #429 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), Harry Bartell, Joseph Kearns, Lawrence Dobkin, Ralph Moody, Jack Moyles ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - Marian Clark ; Music Composed and Conducted - Rex Koury ; Announcer - George Walsh ; Jasper Foss tells matt that the telegraph line just west of town has been cut. When the marshal investigates he finds the Army already on the scene. In custody is a friend of Matt's, Small Hawk, who confesses that his knife cut the wire. Small Hawk believes the wire is "bad magic" for it "carries bad sounds across the land for his people". Matt convinces Colonel Hooper to release the Indian in his custody. Matt then proceeds to prove that the wire is not bad magic.
08:30 p.m. Jack Benny
02/13/49 "Jack's Birthday" (CBS)(24:32) Program #682 Jack Benny, Mary Livingston, Don Wilson, Mel Blanc (Mr. Finque), Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson ; Jack's birthday is tomorrow. He thinks he'll be 40. Dennis sings "There's a Blue Bird Singing in my Heart".
09:00 p.m.Phil Harris/Alice Faye
02/13/49 #20 "Someone is Sending Flowers to Alice" (Rexall)(NBC)(23:04) Alice sings "Skip To My Lou." Phil Harris & Alice Faye, Elliot Lewis (Frankie Remley), Walter Tetley (Julius Abbrusio), Robert North (William "Willie" Faye), Jeanine Roos (Little Alice), Anne Whitfield (Phyllis), Hal March, Jack Mather ; Producer/Director - Paul Phillips ; Writers - Ray Singer & Dick Chevillat ; Music - Walter Scharf and his Orchestra ; Announcer - Bill Forman ; Sponsor - Rexall ; Phil sings "Minnie The Mermaid." It's Valentine's Day, and Alice has been receiving flowers from the mysterious "Guess Who?"
09:30 p.m.Our Miss Brooks
02/19/50 "Valentine's Day" (Colgate)(CBS)(25:08) Program #83 Eve Arden (Connie Brooks), Jane Morgan (Mrs. Margaret Davis), Gloria McMillan (Harriet Conklin), Gale Gordon (Osgood Conklin), Jeff Chandler (Mr. Boynton), Richard Crenna (Walter Denton) ; Writer/Director - Al Lewis; Producer - Larry Berns ; Announcer Bob LeMond ; Music - Wilbur Hatch, under the direction of Maurice Carlton ; Pitchman - Verne Smith ; A Valentine's Date With Mr. Boynton.
10:00 p.m.The MGM Theatre Of The Air
1949 #15 "Slightly Dangerous" (55:02) 1/20/50. Program #15. Celeste Holm, Carl Eastman, Edgar Stehli ; Host - Howard Dietz ; Announcer - Ed Stokes ; Radio Adaptation - Joseph Ruscoll ; Music Composer/Conductor - Joel Herron ; Director - Marx B. Loeb ; Producer - Raymond Cass ; WMGM, New York City origination, MGM syndication. A well-done adaptation of the comedy about a small town girl who becomes a long lost heiress. The date above is possibly the date of first broadcast on WMGM, New York City.