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Early ping, Happy Easter!

07:00 p.m. Johnny Dollar
05/18 & 05/21/56 Medium Well Done Pt. 5/Tears of Night Matter Pt. 1 (Sus.)(CBS)(26:42)
07:30 p.m. Dragnet
09/15/53 #213 Big Cab (NBC)(27:00)
08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
05/10/59 #370 Dowager's Visit (Multi-Sponsors)(CBS)(28:28)
08:30 p.m. Jack Benny
04/17/49 Walking in the Easter Parade (CBS)(26:06)
09:00 p.m. Our Miss Brooks
04/09/50 New Egg Dye (Colgate)(CBS)(29:30)
09:30 p.m. Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show
04/09/50 #69 The Easter Bunny (Rexall)(NBC)(29:26)
10:00 p.m. Melody Ranch
04/12/52 Easter Program (Wrigley's Gum)(CBS)(29:37)
10:30 p.m. Sixshooter
04/15/54 #29 Crisis at Easter Creek (NBC)(29:43)

Could you please add me to your ping list? I caught this three or four Sundays ago, (which was the first time I noticed your post), and have missed it ever since. Thanks!

In the territory out West there’s just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers and that’s with a U.S. Marshall and the smell of GUNSMOKE!

I’m that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall. The first man they look for and the last they want to meet. It’s a chancy job and it makes a man watchful... and a little lonely.

One of my favorite radio programs.

April 4, 2010 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

07:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
5/18/56 "Medium Well Done" Pt. 5 Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg (Carol Sharp), Lawrence Dobkin (Pat McCracken), Lurene Tuttle (Clarabelle), Harry Bartell (Tommy Green), Eleanor Audley (Madame Celia Morgana Morgana), Joseph Kearns (Bell Towers manager), Herb Vigran (Lt. Randy Singer), Junius Mathews (Hemingway), Tony Barrett, (Tony Ricardo) Sam Edwards (David Sharp) ; Writer/Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Musical Supervision - Amerigo Marino ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; Expense Account Total - $892.90 ; The matter of the medium, well done, and a seance or two that I think you'll like. Pat McCracken, Universal Adjustment Bureau, Hartford, calls Johnny on a case for Tommy Green of Mid-Eastern Life in New York City. Green's company has a $110,000 policy on beautiful Carol Sharp, 26 or 27 year old spoiled rich girl., who has a swanky penthouse apartment on East 56th in the Bell Towers. She wants to change the beneficiaries over from her family to a psychic medium named Madame Celia Morgana Morgana, and a playboy named Tony Ricardo for $30,000. Green thinks the spiritualist is a fraud. Dollar goes to Carol's building and rents an apartment near her. He then goes to see his old friend Lt. Randy Singer to get information on Carol, Tony, and the Madame. Madame Celia is a phony and Tony is a dangerous character, son of a bootlegger-racketeer. Randy agrees to set up a seance with a psychic for Johnny. In the meantime Johnny manages a meeting with Carol., making her think he has had veritical dreams about her. He finds out that Madame Celia is communicating with Carol's dead father. Dollar receives a threatening note under his door warning him to stay away from Carol. It is from Ricardo, who then calls Dollar and arranges a meeting. Ricardo has a daughter married to a doctor, named, and a son, Anthony, Junior. Johnny and Randy go to the seance of a mystic named Clarabelle. They are led in by her doorman, Hemingway. Randy and Johnny get Clarabelle to reveal her tricks. Johnny goes to dinner with Carol and then to Madame Celia's seance. He takes with him a little camera with infrared film. The pictures show that the Madame Celia is a phony. Who is she working with to get all of her information? It is Carol's adopted brother , David. When Johnny, Randy and Carol go to Madame's New Jersey home the next day they confront her. http://www.genericradio.com/series.php?tag=yourstrulyjohnnnydol
07:15 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
"Tears of Night Matter" Pt. 1 (Sus.)(CBS)(26:42) 5/21/56 Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg (Elise Blair Wendover), Vic Perrin, Jack Kruschen, Jay Novello, William Conrad (Sam Costigan), Frank Gerstle, Marvin Miller (Teddy Davis), Will Wright ( Lieutenant Brady) ; Writer - John Dawson (Jack Johnstone) ; Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Musical Supervision - Amerigo Marino & Carl Fortina ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; Expense Account Total - $405.16 ; A fabulous necklace and a fabulous girl. Hillery Fuchs, C.P.A., has filed a claim for Mrs. Elise Wendover two years after her husband Noah's death. Johnny is working for Universal Adjustment Bureau, Hartford, and heads to Miami Beach. Fuchs tells Dollar that Noah Wendover dies at sea during a party of eight people aboard ship. Fuchs says that Mrs. Wendover is indolent with money and responsibility. However, she is very anxious to have the insurance company pay the $50,000 benefit. She tells Johnny that she is a curse, everybody dies around her - her father, her brother, and her husband. She asks Johnny if he thinks that "he" will die, too. She tells him that she has been seeing a psychiatrist. The "he" that she was talking about was a painter named Teddy Davis, whom she may marry. While Johnny is alone in Fuchs office thin Frank Scanlon comes in, and mistakes Dollar for Fuchs. Scanlon tells Johnny that Sam Costigan, former Chicago gambler who has worked Miami for two years, wants to see him about Wendover. Johnny disarms Scanlon of his .38, but he has him take him to Costigan anyway. Dollar and Costigan know each other from a previous run-in. Costigan shows Dollar a necklace, "The Tears of Night", that Mrs. Wendover left, and he wants to return through Fuchs. When Johnny goes to see Elise Wendover, she is wearing "The Tears of Night" - the very necklace he has in his pocket. Johnny calls the "House of Mortuous", and speaks with Hannibal Mortuous who identifies his diamond creation, "The Tears of Night", which Johnny is carrying. He says that Noah Wendover paid $25,000 for it. He says that nobody could duplicate the necklace. Johnny mails the necklace back to himself, then sees two hoods tailing him, Feely and Toby. He rouses Fuchs out of bed to question him about "The Tears of Night". Feely and Toby catch up with Johnny and beat him unconscious. Back at Elise Wendover's Feely and Toby are dead from .45 bullets. Teddy Davis calls Elise, but Johnny answers. Lieutenant Brady investigates. Johnny tells him that he has been an insurance investigator for 14 years. Brady reveals that Costigan has also been killed. Mortuous had sent Feely and Toby. He wants to await the mail. He admits being involved in a triple cross. Mortuous thinks he has killed Scanlon, but a dying Scanlon makes it to Dollar's apartment and kills Mortuous.
07:30 p.m. Dragnet
9/15/53 "The Big Cab" (NBC)(27:00) Program #213 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson ; Friday and Smith are working the day watch out of robbery detail. Raymond Bailey, a small grocery store owner was robbed and beaten. The 62 year old man has lost his sight. Friday and Smith interview Bailey. They learn that the perpetrator had rain water on his shoulders and no one saw a car. Friday and Smith explore the possibility that the perp took a cab. They find a cab driver that had a fare who had him ride that out in the area of the robbery and then wait for him. In the meantime, other stores are hit with a similar modus operandi.
08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
5/10/59 #370 "Dowager's Visit" (Multi-Sponsors)(CBS)(28:28) Program #370 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), Sam Edwards, Jess Kirkpatrick, Joseph Kearns, Vic Perrin, Jeanette Nolan, ; Producer/Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - Marian Clark ; Editorial Supervisor - John Meston ; Music Composed and Conducted - Rex Koury ; Announcer - George Walsh ; Mrs. Junius Chamberlain, the wife of the late Senator Chamberlain, has arrived in Dodge in search of her wayward grandson Junius. Mrs. Chamberlain promptly approaches Matt in her endeavor to return the young man to Yale College. Matt refuses to go out of his way to help the old woman so she insists on staying put in Dodge, until the young man turns up.
08:30 p.m. Jack Benny
4/17/49 "Walking in the Easter Parade" (CBS)(26:06) Program #691 Barbara Stanwyck, Jack Benny, Eddie "Rochester Van Jones" Anderson, Phil Harris, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day ; Writers - Sam Perrin, Milt Josefsberg, George Balzer, John Tackaberry, Al Gordon, Hal Goldman ; Producer/ Transcriber - Hilliard Marks ;
09:00 p.m. Our Miss Brooks
4/09/50 "New Egg Dye" (Colgate)(CBS)(29:30) Program #90 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 ; Sponsor - Colgate Dental Creme economy size for 59¢, Lustre Creme Shampoo ;
9:30 p.m. Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show
4/09/50 #69 "The Easter Bunny" (Rexall)(NBC)(29:26) Phil Harris & Alice Faye, Elliot Lewis (Frankie Remley), Walter Tetley (Julius Abbrusio), Robert North (William "Willie" Faye), Jeanine Roos (Little Alice), Anne Whitfield (Phyllis) ; Producer/Director - Paul Phillips ; Writers - Ray Singer & Dick Chevillat ; Music - Walter Scharf and his Orchestra ; Announcer - Bill Forman ; Sponsor - Rexall ;
10:00 p.m. Melody Ranch
4/12/52 "Easter Program" (Wrigley's Gum)(CBS)(29:37) Gene Autry
10:30 p.m. Sixshooter
04/15/54 "Crisis at Easter Creek" (NBC)(29:43) Program #29 James Stewart (Britt Ponset), Marvin Miller (Reverand Broom), William Conrad (Red-Eye Kirk), Virginia Gregg, Robert Griffin, Ted de Corsia ; Reverand Broom of the town of Easter Creek has talked Britt into taking part in this week's singing rehearsal for Easter services with about none other people. They are practicing in a store because there is no church. Miss Elvira Peebles the organist quits because the "organ is plain worn out". Reverand Broom tells Sheriff Abner Appleton that they can borrow from the year-old building fund for a replacement organ. He knows a church in another town that will sell their old organ for $95. However they are $50.50 short, having raised only $42.50 in a year. Broom puts Britt in charge of a drive to raise the needed money. They pass the hat and collect $2.50 right then. Later, Britt has collected $11 having asked everyone in town. Talking to Sheriff Appleton he says that tat the only people around that he hasn't talked to are those east of town. Appleton says that low-lifes live out there and they are not likely to donate. Britt asks about a rumor that he heard that Red-Eye Kirk may be living out that way. Appleton is hesitant to admit that a shack at the foot of Dear Mountain has a resident that resembles Red-Eye. Britt heads out that way. He is greeted with a .45 gun barrel from the cabin-door of Red-Eye, who says his name is "Mr. Jones". He doesn't believe that Britt is asking for a donation for the church organ. Persistent Britt asks Red-Eye to go with him to approach the others who live in the area, like Jack Denton, Mike Morgan, Slick Wilson and Wisconsin Billy, to ask for the charity money. Red-Eye likes the idea. They made eight stops and collected much more that was needed for the organ. On the way back to town with the money Britt gets the feeling that someone is trailing him. Shots ring out. Britt stops, takes cover behind a rock, and draws his gun. Britt gets the drop on him. The guy is Wisconsin Billy and says Red-Eye sent him. He was out when Britt and Red-Eye stopped by and he wants to make his donation. Back in Easter Creek the Reverand is surprised to find that there is enough money to buy the organ and build the church. Britt talks the Reverand into accepting the money. The next Sunday, with the new organ, the services were attended by "Mr. Jones" and his friends.

I also love the “Sixhooter” with Jimmy Stewart. Unfortunately there were not all that many made and I have heard everyone probably twice over including tonights program. I also love the Texas Rangers with Joel MaCrea. Great programs all.

Thanks for the headsup, finally have time to listen tonight.
I do like the classic radio channel on XM, some good shows there too.

Thanks for the ping. He says they’re getting into the Easter portion of the program now. Jack Benny coming up.

Ditto for me about "The Sixshooter" and "Tales of the Texas Rangers".

There were only 39 episodes of "The Sixshooter". According to Stan Freberg, hosting When Radio Was, a tobacco company was willing to sponsor the program, but Stewart didn't want that. This is supported in On the Air, where John Dunning writes: "Despite Stewart's great prestige, the show was largely sustained. Chesterfield was interested, but Stewart declined, not wanting a cigarette company to counter his largely wholesome image."

Sure.

It’s such beautiful writing.

Thanks.

Good to see you.

Yea it’s good. Loved that song in the 8:30 hour.

Belated evening to you, Vision.

The old hymns were great, too. I’m glad he included them.

Happy Easter Viking.