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April 18, 2010 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

07:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
11/18/56 "The Markham Matter" (Sus.)(CBS) Bob Bailey, Lois Corbett, Frank Nelson (Ed Porter), Virginia Gregg (Mrs. Leslie Markham), Burt Holland (car service attendant), Paula Winslowe, John Dehner (Floyd B. Markham) ; Writer - John Dawson (Jack Johnstone) ; Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Musical Supervisor - Amerigo Marino ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; Expense Account Total = $968.20 ; Dollar is sent to San Francisco to investigate a long time client of Ed Porter's who has had several endowments mature in recent weeks, but who has mysteriously not been seen since last spring. Using the alias of Stephen B. Harris, Cleveland Pump Company, Johnny tries to contact the woman's husband, and comes to the conclusion that he may be in the process of slowly killing her. CBS Radio Network, Jack Benny promo.
07:30 p.m. Dragnet
09/07/54 "The Big Trunk" (NBC) (25:54) Program #264 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson ; Announcer - George Fenneman ; NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. A pair of robbers has been locking the murdered victims of their crimes, including a divorcee named Josephine Allen, in the trunks of cars.
08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
08/21/60 "Dangerous Bath" (CBS) (25:07) Program #437 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), Sam Edwards, Lawrence Dobkin, Jeanne Bates (Molly) ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - Marian Clark ; Music Composed and Conducted - Rex Koury ; Announcer - George Walsh ; While Matt and Chester are taking a refreshing bath in a stream, outlaws Harve and Ollie steal their horses, guns, and boots. The two are left to walk back to Dodge. Luckily, after a night and a day of hard walking they encounter Doc Adams, who gives them a ride home. When Matt sees his boots on a young cowboy at the Long Branch, the cowboy confesses the crime. However, he wants Matt to accompany him to find his brother Ollie. It seems that Ollie took off with their stolen gold and Harve's girl Molly. Harve does not care about the money, all he wants back is his girlfriend.
08:30 p.m. Our Miss Brooks
02/27/49 "Away Basketball Game" (Colgate)(CBS)(29:30) Program #33 Antoinne), Mary Jane Croft (Miss Enright), Jane Morgan (Mrs. Margaret Davis), Jeff Chandler (Phillip Boynton), Gale Gordon (Osgood Conklin), Leonard Smith (Stretch Snodgrass) ; Writer/Director - Al Lewis; Producer - Larry Berns ; Musical Director - Wilbur Hatch ; Announcers - Verne Smith & Bob LeMond ; The Stretch Snodgrass Problem. Stretch is in Love. Stretch And Harriet. ;
09:00 p.m. Gangbusters
12/11/48 "Case of the Bandit (Throneberry) Brothers" (24:22) Ralph Bell, Art Carney ; Writer - Stanley Niss ; Producer - Phillips H. Lord ; Director - William Sweets ; Announcer - Don Gardiner ; Sponsor - Equitable Life Assurance ; ABC ; Sustaining.
9:30 p.m. This is Your FBI
05/09/47 "Case of the Wayward Brothers"
10:00 p.m. Nick Carter
10/08/44 #152 "The Numbers Murder" (MBS) (29:26) Lon Clark (Nick Carter), Helen Choate (Patsy Bowen), John Kane, Humphrey Davis, ; Writer/Director - Jock MacGregor ; Organ Music - Lew White; Announcer - Ken Powell ; Sponsor - Lin-X Three Home Brighteners (Cream Polish, Self-Polishing Wax, Clear Gloss Varnish) ;
10:30 p.m. Mysterious Traveler
04/13/47 #99 "Dark, Dark Destiny" (Sus.) (MBS) (29:42) Elaine Kemp, Palmer Ward, Ken Lynch, Bill Smith, Maurice Tarplin, Joseph Julian ; Writers/Producers/Director - Robert A. Arthur & David Kogan ; Music - Charles Paul ; Announcer - Carl Caruso ; A man need $1500 for a surgeon to save his wife, but the money is not that easy to get! The story has a fine ironic ending. The script was used on the program three years earlier (with some changes) and on "The Sealed Book" on September 9, 1945.