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March 21, 2010 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

07:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
10/31 & 11/01/56 "Silent Queen Matter" Pts. 3-4 (Sus.) (CBS) (27:32) 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 ; "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 in California. 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.
Vic Carson phones Johnny, who fills the insurance man in on the progress. Johnny heads for the Penny Arcade and talks to Twila and Frank Jessup again. He then tries to tracks down handyman and former actor George Shelton, beginning at a bar. A bartender reveals that Shelton had a busted romance with an actress named Josephine Hinch. He also provides Shelton's address in Glendale. The bartender then talks a little bit about "The Preacher". For a fin, $5, he reveals that "The Preacher" is Jarvis Pocket, and that George Shelton is dead. Dollar tracks down "The Preacher" at a mission conducting a skid-row service. Brother Pocket tells Dollar that he saw Tom struggling with the would-be killer, and the accidental death from a gun shot full to the face. Tom decided to play dead and disappear. The identity of the killer was known only to Tom and Jarvis. Dollar adds that another person who knew the killer would be the person that hired him. The murderer was Joe Fallon, who at one time was Mavis Gail's personal chauffeur.
At Barney Slade's residence with Brother Pocket, Dollar gets a call from Sergeant McKay. Johnny tells McKay to come over. They discuss the pictures on the wall which Pocket says are action scenes from movies in which Mavis, Tom and George Shelton starred. Why are some missing? Why the red question marks on Mavis? Headquarters calls. Mavis Gail is at Francis Trevellion's place on the beach and wants to talk to the police. She says she received a phone call to go to the Penny Arcade to meet an old friend that she could help. She met no one there. In response to a question, Mavis admits that Tom had her fire Joe Fallon. She says that she doesn't know if Joe loved her. The Fallon name caused a stir from Trevellion. He says that 24 hours ago some one called and mentioned Fallon's name to him. After leaving, Dollar asks who found the body. McKay says it was Twila James. Dollar wonders if someone other than the killer wrote the red question marks. Johnny goes off by himself to Venice, and hears a shot and a man collapse. It is Jarvis Pocket. Johnny chases after the shooter, but loses him in the dark. Dollar stops by a canal. He then hears footsteps behind him, but too late. He gets knocked out with a blow on the head and pushed into the canal. (...to be continued ...)
07:30 p.m. Dragnet
08/17/54 #261 "Big Cad" (NBC) (25:24) Program# 262 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson ; burglary Gang Breaking Into Stores
08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
7/24/60 "The Imposter" (CBS) (23:26) Program #433 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), Jeanne Bates, Vic Perrin, Lawrence Dobkin, ; Producer/Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - Kathleen Hite ; Editorial Supervision - John Meston ; Music Composed and Conducted - Rex Koury ; Announcer - George Walsh ; Ab Stringer arrives in Dodge claiming to be a sheriff from the small town of Miami, Texas. The pleasant, easy going gentle natured lawman tells Matt that he is searching for Sam Frazier, a murderer who has eluded him. Matt gives Stringer run of the town and all the assistance he has available. However, Rob and Sara Curtin, a respected and well-liked couple, run into serious trouble when Stringer meets them. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on May 13, 1961.
08:30 p.m. My Favorite Husband
4/29/49 "To Buy a New Car" (Jello) (CBS) (24:56) (For this date I have a show titled "Vacation Time" and can find no mention of "new car" in MFH synopses) Lucille Ball (Liz Cooper), Richard Denning (George Cooper), Ruth Perrott (Katie, the maid), Frank Nelson (police officer), Gale Gordon, Wally Maher, Milton Stark ; Characters Created by Isabel Scott Rorick ; Sponsor - Jell-O ; Announcer - Bob LaMond ; CBS ; Producer/Director - Jess Oppenheimer ; Writers - Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. ; Music Composer - Marlin Skiles ; Music Conductor - Wilbur Hatch ; It's vacation time...will it be Moosehead Lodge or a trailer trip? Lucille misreads a line and cracks up the cast and audience Katie has a new backless, strapless sun-dress. She plans to go to Moosehead Lodge on Lake Okeechobee if she can talk George into it. Joe Ridgely, who works at the bank with George, has offered him use of his trailer for a vacation. When the two offer there vacation plans, Liz suggests that they take separate vacations. George takes her up on it, which causes Liz to burst into tears. Liz agrees to try the camping trip with George. George has obtained Joe's trailer for the car which sleeps four. George gets a ticket for having the trailer in front of his house. George is on the road to Goosegrease Lake before he realizes that he hasn't hooked up the trailer. He has to go back to get it. After a drive George parks the car and trailer. In the morning the Coopers learn that they have camped out on the 18th green of the Municipal Golf Course, only two miles from home. The police officer arrests them again. A situation comedy that varies from being ridiculous to just plain silly.
09:00 p.m. Line Up
10/11/51 "Bad Check Passers" (Sus.) (29:20) CBS net. aka "The Frivolous Forger Fracus". Sustaining. bad check passers William Johnstone. .
9:30 p.m. Cavalcade of America
10/13/41 (a date that differs from WAMU) "Waters of the Wilderness" (Dupont) (NBC) (29:32) Kay Francis, Gale Gordon, Lou Merrill (triples), Gerald Mohr, Bea Benaderet (triples), Jack Mather (quadruples), Agnes Moorehead (triples), Pat McGeehan (triples),, Grace Leonard, Earle Ross, Gayne Whitman, Catherine Cragen, Jerry Gale ; Commercial Spokesman - Gayne Whitman ; Announcer - Bud Hiestand ; Author - Shirley Siefert ; Radio Adaptation - William Johnstone & Robert L. Richards ; Producer/Director - Homer Fickett ; Music Composer/Conductor - Robert Armbruster ; The story of Col. George Rogers Clark, during the American Revolution. The is the first "Cavalcade" show to originate from Hollywood.
10:00 p.m. Suspense
02/28/48 "The House by the River" (CBS) (59:52) Program #286 John McIntire (Stephen Byrnes), Dan O'Herlihy (John Byrnes), Ben Wright (Henry Dimple) ; Host/Producer - Robert Montgomery ; Announcer - William Johnstone ; Writer - Alan Patrick Herbert (1945 novel) ; Radio Adaptation - Irving Ravetch ; Director - Anton Morris Leader ; Music Composer - Lucien Morawek ; Music Conductor - Lud Gluskin ; Hour Long Program 9 of 18. ; Who killed Emily Gaunt? A British murder mystery involving a poet. Stephen Byrnes, his brother, and the house...by the river! While flirting with the new maid, Emily Gaunt, Stephen accidently murders her and in order to protect his name and reputation, he convinces his brother, John, to help him sink the body in the river. Steven is soon under suspicion when the dead girl returns, proving that you can't keep a good body down. Muriel, comes to visit neighbor Henry Dimple, her uncle. Stephen tries to shift suspicion to John. Stephen writes a poem about the murder. Stephen's wife, Marjorie, reads the poem and deduces the truth. Stephen then starts to choke Marjorie, but stops before killing her. She then tells him she sent his manuscript to the publisher, having changed the title to a confession of having killed Emily Gaunt. Stephen writes a suicide confession stating that he alone killed Emily on June 15th, and that John is completely innocent.