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March 14, 2010 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

07:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
10/29-30/56 Silent Queen Matter Pts. 1-2(Sus.)(CBS)(27:26) Bob Bailey, Paula Winslowe (Twila James), Virginia Gregg (Mavis Gail), Vic Perrin (Vic Carson), Paul Dubov (Sergeant McKay), Frank Gerstle (Frank Jessup), John Dehner (Milo Martin), Lawrence Dobkin, Chester Stratton ; Writer - Adrian Gendot ; Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Musical Supervisor - Amerigo Marino ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; Expense Account Total = $436.25 ; The last of the 5 _Part series for Johnny Dollar. : "A body suddenly rises from the grave to take the spotlight from a Hollywood star." Vic Carson, State Unity Life, Hartford, calls Johnny about the murder of 56 year old Penny Arcade owner Bernard "Barney" Slade at the Ocean Park Amusement Zone. The beneficiary of his $25,000 insurance policy is former silent movie star Mavis Gail. Dollar travels to Ocean Park, California, and the Fun Zone. He talks to a blonde female employee at the change desk, Twila James, and then confers with Sergeant McKay who is at Slade's living quarters. This is where the murder was committed. Photos of Mavis Gail on the wall have been marked with a large red question mark. Some clean spots on the wall define where other pictures have been removed. McKay is looking for an acquaintance of Slade's named "The Preacher". Mavis Gail told McKay that she never heard of Slade. Dollar goes to Slade's funeral in Venice. The funeral parlor manager, Mort, says that Mavis Gail has not appeared, and he has never heard of The Preacher. However, Mavis shows up in her big, blue Cadillac from her Bellaire home. Upon reaching the casket she faints. When she revives she identifies Slade as her husband, Tom Sanford, a small time actor who was murdered 27 years ago with a shotgun blast on a hunting trip with four men in the Sierras. Sergeant McKay returns Johnny's call, at which time he learns about Tom Sanford. At the mortuary, Dollar is approached by Frank Jessup, from the ball throwing Mermaid booth at the pier. He says that Twila has worked for Barney for about five years. From McKay, Johnny learns that the marriage was tempestuous. Dollar wonders why Tom planted his identification on the man that tried to kill him and then assumed another identity. Short, round Milo Martin, an actor's agent on the Sunset Strip, was one of the men on the hunting trip. Johnny tracks him down to a location shoot for a cowboy movie. He says that Mavis was in love Tom. He says that others on the hunting trip were silent film director Jarvis Pocket, actor George Shelton, and cameraman Francis Trevellion. Back at his hotel, McKay calls Dollar to say that a witness has identified Mavis as having been hanging around the Penny Arcade two nights before the Slade murder. (to be continued ...)
07:30 p.m. Dragnet
08/10/54Big Wish (AFRS)(24:36) #260 John Colter, a teenager hooked on heroin, walks into the police station and asks for help. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, George Fenneman (announcer). 25:47. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete. juvenile Drug Ring Supplying Teens
08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
7/17/60 "Busted-up Guns" (CBS)(22:38) Program #432 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), Ralph Moody, Vic Perrin, Virginia Christine (Gladys) ; Produicer/Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - Kathleen Hite ; Editorial Supervision - John Meston ; Music Composed and Conducted - Rex Koury ; Announcer - George Walsh ; Matt and Chester decide to visit their friends Whip and Gladys on the Sioux reservation. Whip is the Indian agent for the government and has always been good to his charges. When Matt and Chester arrive they are greeted by Bi Feather who insists on searching their packs. Matt is confused by the strange behavior of the Indians. When he finally encounters Whip and Gladys, Matt learns that the Indians are being deprived of their hunting ground, rations, and their guns. Unsatisfied with the answers he gets from Whip and Gladys, Matt is determined to learn what is at the bottom of the trouble. The Indian agent on the Sioux reservation has gone off the deep end, is drunk and determined to keep guns away from the Indians.
08:30 p.m. Burns & Allen 03/17/41 Gracie in the St. Patrick's Day Parade (Spam)(CBS)(29:24) "Gracie and the St. Patrick’s Day Parade" George Burns, Gracie Allen ; Music - Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, The Smoothies ; Announcer - Jimmy Wallington ; Sponsor - Hormel & Spam (1940) ; The broadcast originates from New York City. George tries to break up the "romance" between Gracie and Artie Shaw.
09:00 p.m. Recollections at 30
03/19/57 "St. Patrick's Day Show" (sus.)(NBC)(24:12) Sustaining. The program has a St. Patrick's Day theme. Rudy Vallee (1938), John McCormack (1938), Beatrice Lillie (1935), The Silver Masked Tenor (1926), the arrival of the swallows at Capistrano, Paderewski's first radio appearance (September 25, 1938) on "The Magic Key," Morton Downey (1938). This program also known as "Recollections." Beatrice Lillie, John McCormack, Morton Downey (guest), Ignace Paderewski, Rudy Vallee, The Silver Masked Tenor (Joseph White). 25 minutes. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.
09:30 p.m. Beat the Band
03/17/40 St. "Patrick's Day Show" (Kix)(NBC)(26:24) "Wearin' Of The Green." A St. Patrick's Day program. Ted Weems and His Orchestra, Garry Moore (host), Elmo Tanner, Parker Gibbs, Red Ingle, Perry Como, Fort Pearson (announcer), Marvel Maxwell, Orm Downes, Country Washburne. 29:36. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete
10:00 p.m. Town Hall Tonight
03/17/37 "St. Patrick's Day Show" (Ipana/Sal Hepatica)(NBC)(59:30) . Sponsored by: Ipana, Sal Hepatica. The first tune is, "Swing High, Swing Low." Town Hall News Of The Week, The Mighty Allen Art Players do a hillbilly drama. Town Hall Varieties: Professor Quigley tries to escape from a packing case once again. Adrian O'Brien, an Irish tenor sings. Martin Burns and The Irish Blackbirds, Maria and Julia Dougherty (from Bayonne, New Jersey) dance an Irish jig to the tune of "The Cow That Ate The Blanket." Fred Allen, Harry Von Zell (announcer), Peter Van Steeden and His Orchestra, Portland Hoffa, The Town Hall Quartet, Adrian O'Brien, Martin Burns and The Irish Blackbirds, Maria Dougherty (dancer), Julia Dougherty (dancer).