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Thanx again, Vision !

May 2, 2010 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

• 07:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
  12/09/56 #516 "The Burning Carr Matter" (Sus.)(CBS)(29:24)(CBS)(26:42) Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg, Parley Baer, Victor Perrin (Earl Poreman), Bob Bruce, Harry Bartell, Vivi Janniss, Tony Barrett, Junius Mathews (Frank) ; Writer/ Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Musical Supervisor - Amerigo Marino ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; Johnny travels to Sarasota, Florida where he first meets Earl Poreman, branch office manager for TriState Life & Casualty Company, located in the Conrad Building. Earl is a tall, lanky, easy going fellow with clear blue eyes and a ready smile. He lives in a concrete and stucco , two story home on St. Armand's Key, across Sarasota Bay from the mainland, and drives a new Cadillac with air-conditioning and "all the fixings". Dollar is there to investigate suspected arson at lumber yards in Orlando and Arcadia owned by the Carr brothers, Arnold and Edward. Edward is a dead wringer for Johnny, and his girlfriend Betty did a sister song and dance act with Earl's wife Mike, both being blonde, petite and green-eyed. Arnold is murdered. Three sets of twins, two men, two girls, and two fires that hit the coast of Florida with the impact of a hurricane. Storyline similar to "The Case of Trouble Matter" of 5/5/62 Expense Account Total = $385.26 ; CBS Radio Network

• 07:30 p.m. Dragnet
  9/21/54 "The Big Try" (AFRS)(24:14) Program# 266 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson ; Young Emil Salter comes into headquarters to confess that he had stolen a truck and killed a man along the highway in a hit and run auto accident

• 08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  9/11/60 #440 "About Chester" (CBS)(23:54) Program #440 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), Bartlett Robinson, Harry Bartell, Lynn Allen (Lilly Mae), Vic Perrin, John Dehner ; Producer/Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - Frank Paris ; Editorial Supervision - John Meston ; Music Composed and Conducted - Rex Koury ; Announcer - George Walsh ; Sponsor - Doan's Pills, General Motors Guardian, Kellogg's, Pepsi ; Matt and Chester set out to look for Doc Adams, who has been missing for four days. They split up to follow two different paths. Matt's trail leads to Doc, who is recovering from an illness at a friend's ranch. Chester's path leads to trouble in the person of Lilly Mae and her husband Dack, a horse thief who ties Chester up and threatens to kill him. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on February 25, 1961.ß

• 08:30 p.m. Columbia Presents Corwin
  5/16/44 "New York: A Tapestry for Radio" (Sus.)(CBS)(29:30) Program #11. CBS net, WBNS, Columbus aircheck. "New York, A Tapestry For Radio". Sustaining. A description of the world's greatest city at war. The second program of a trilogy about three cities. Martin Gabel (narrator), Norman Corwin (writer, producer, director), Frederick Steiner (composer), Lyn Murray (conductor), Minerva Pious, Hester Sondergaard, Donna Keith, Paul Mann, Richard Huey, Kermit Murdock, Sam Raskin, Sid Cassell, Walter Burke, Edward Cullen.

• 9:00 p.m. We Hold These Truths
  12/15/41 (All Networks)(Sus.)(59:56) . Pool feed, Mutual net aircheck. Sustaining. A "Bill Of Rights Day" broadcast. The story of the first ten amendments to the Constitution is told, one150 years after they were enacted. A superb production in the Corwin tradition. See cat. #50316 for the same script, updated for broadcast fifty years later! Lionel Barrymore, Orson Welles (narrator), Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Bob Burns, Walter Huston, Marjorie Main, Edward G. Robinson, Rudy Vallee, Leopold Stokowski and His Symphony Orchestra, Franklin Roosevelt (from Washington, D. C.), Norman Corwin (writer, producer, director), Jimmy Stewart (narrator), Bernard Herrmann (composer), Elliott Lewis, Dane Clark.

• 9:30 p.m. Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show
  4/9/50 #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. Screen Guild Theater
  12/7/41 "Between Americans" (Gulf)(CBS)(29:26) Orson Welles

• 10:30 p.m. Columbia Workshop
  2/2/46 "Homecoming" (Sus.)(CBS)(28:58) The start of "a new series of broadcasts." World War II is over, and a farm boy returns home; but not really. Norman Corwin (producer, director), Davidson Taylor (host), Norman Williams (writer), Lyn Murray (composer), Jeff Alexander (conductor), Will Geer, Elsie Mae Gordon, Robert Dryden, Edgar Stehli, Alan Drake, John Mitchell.

[don-o]

Thanks for the ping.

Johnny Dollar wins over Phillip Marlowe (XM). Besides XM runs the same episode several times.