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June 6, 2010 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

07:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
7/28/57 "Confederate Coinage Matter" Matter #547 (AFRS)(27:46) Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg (Delilah Sampson), Eleanor Audley, (Mary Williams) Herb Ellis, Herb Vigran (Digger), Forrest Lewis (Michael Kopeck), Vic Perrin ; Writer - Charles B. Smith ; Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; Expense Account Total = $405.10 ; A small round piece of metal, an 1861 silver coin, face value 50¢, insured value $20,000, is missing in Shade Mountain, just outside of Birmingham, Alabama. Bert McGraw of Providential Insurance, 393 Dewey Avenue, Hartford, calls Johnny about the lost coin, belonging to Henry Sampson, who also owns a chain of newspapers. Apparently only four were ever minted, and the one in question was given to Sampson's grandfather by Jefferson Davis. Michael Kopeck, Sampson employee, approaches Johnny on his arrival at Birmingham to take him to Sampson's private mansion, Zora, which in description sounds like Hearst's San Simeon. He is introduced to Sampson and the beautiful Mrs. Delilah Sampson. Samson says that there are only four possible suspects - Delilah, her maid Mary Williams, Sampson's man servant Digger, and Sampson's secretary Michael Kopeck. Johnny calls McGraw and asks him to check on the value of the coin, then Mary and Digger knock on his door. They tell him that Sampson gets labor help from the local prison - Digger being one, having spent 15 years in prison on a manslaughter charge. Digger says he knows who took that 50¢ piece. The next day Delilah and Johnny go horseback riding. McGraw calls back to say that the coin is worth $5000, and that there are 504 of the coins in existence, four made in 1861 and then 500 in 1879. Digger admits he had to break in and take that 50¢ piece because Mrs. Sampson told him she would tell her husband something that would cause him to go back to prison. He then tripped and the coin flew out of his hand - and went onto turkey farm. One of the 2000 turkeys then swallowed it. Delilah admitted that she did it to get money to get away from Sampson. Dollar makes a deal with Sampson. For $5000 from the insurance company Sampson will give the turkey's to Digger and Mary along with their freedom. When they recover the coin Sampson can have it back. United States Armed Forces Radio & TV Service
07:30 p.m. Dragnet
10/26/54 "Big Key" (AFRS)(24:14) Episode #271 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson & Earl Schley ; Technical Advice - William H. Parker, L.A. Police Chief ; Friday and Smith are working the day watch out of robbery detail. Chief of detectives Thad Brown is boss. They go to the corner of Hobart Boulevard and Westmoreland where the Tichner Drug Store has been robbed. They talk to Harry Tichner. Narcotics were stolen. He describes the perpetrator at about 30-35 years of age, light in color. The robber grabbed a hand full of licorice whips as he left the store. Partial prints were left on the jar because the perp had to take his gloves off to remove the lid from the jar. This is the twelfth in a series of drug store robberies. In the thirteenth robbery there is a beating victim, Mr. Railer, who was sent to George's Street Receiving Hospital. Railer's employee Calvin Webster gives Friday and Smith the details. Later, a domestic disturbance call comes in from Hollywood. A man and her husband were arguing and she called him a lousy hold-up man and she could put him in San Quentin within five minutes. Friday and Smith investigate. Mrs. Kearney says her husband, Keith JerisKearney, has been out with other women. Friday notes that the Kearney baby is playing with car keys that have a plastic tag with the license plate of a car that has been stolen. Friday and Smith wait for him. When he shows and Friday approaches Kearney pulls a gun and opens up fire. Kearney is hurt bad, but he lives.
08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
11/6/60 "Jedro's Woman" (CBS)(22:40) Program #448 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), James Nusser, Lawrence Dobkin (Jedro), Virginia Christine (Hallie) ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - Marian Clark ; Music Composed and Conducted - Rex Koury ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; Matt and Chester make camp and prepare to eat a sumptuous dinner of beans. While the beans are simmering, the two leave to check on something for old man Goss. When they return they are surprised to find the beans are missing. The mysterious theft leads them to Hallie, a bruised and beaten, half-starved woman. Matt and Chester manage to get Hallie to Dodge to see Doc. Barely clinging to life, Hallie is left in Doc's able hands. Her husband, Jedro, comes to get her. Matt tells him she can't be moved. In the middle of the night Doc wakes Matt up - Hallie is gone! Matt and Chester pursue Jedro in the wagon in which he carted Hallie off. They take her back and eventually she recovers her health. She tells Matt that she wants to go back to Jedro.
08:30 p.m. Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show
10/16/49 "The Market Fight" (Rexall) (NBC) (29:52) Program #44 Phil Harris & Alice Faye, Elliot Lewis (Frankie Remley), Walter Tetley (Julius Abbrusio), Robert North (William "Willie" Faye), Jeanine Roos (Little Alice), Anne Whitfield (Phyllis), Earle Ross, Hal March, Sidney Miller. ; Producer/Director - Paul Phillips ; Writers - Ray Singer & Dick Chevillat ; Music - Walter Scharf and his Orchestra ; Announcer - Bill Forman ; Sponsor - Rexall ; NBC ; Phil has gotten into a fight at the Encino Market. When he's sued for damages, Phil's only witness is Julius! He loses his place in the script and ad libs his way out of it. Phil sings, "He'd Row, Row, Row." The program opening is slightly upcut.
09:00 p.m. Richard Diamond
12/15/41 (All Networks)(Sus.)(59:56) The date has to be wrong. Richard Diamond aired from 4/24/49 to 9/20/53. Also, I can find no year in which the Richard Diamond program was broadcast on December 15.
9:30 p.m. Falcon
5/20/51 "Case of the Curious Cop" (Kraft)(NBC)(29:54) Les Damon, Ken Lynch ; Writer - Eugene Wang ; Director - Richard Lewis ; Producer - Bernard L. Schubert ; Creator - Drexel Drake ; Announcer - Ed Herlihy ; Music - Arlo ; Sponsor - Kraft Salad Oil, Kraft Caramels ; Who killed Frank Walsh? He was possibly a cop on the take. Police corruption and greed leads Michael Waring to a murder without a corpse!
10:00 p.m. Radio City Playhouse
7/3/48 "Long Distance" (Sus.)(NBC)(29:42) Program #1 Jan Miner, Anna Karen, Frank Thomas, Eugene Francis, Jean Tatum ; Writer/Director - Harry W. Junkin ; NBC supervisor - Richard P. McDonough ; Music Composer/Conductor - Roy Shield ; Announcer - Bob Warren ; The first show of the series. A story about the wife of a convicted murderer who tries to stay his execution by telephone. The concept is similar to, "Sorry, Wrong Number." The script was subsequently used on "Radio City Playhouse" on August 23, 1948 and on June 30, 1949.
10:30 p.m. Mysterious Traveler
1/30/44 "House of Death" (Sus.)(MBS)(28:14) Program #9 "The House of Death" Host - Maurice Tarplin (The Mysterious Traveler), Irene Hubbard (Martha Abbott), Elizabeth Morgan (Louise Abbott) ; Writers - Robert A. Arthur & David Kogan ; Director - Jock MacGregor ; Original Music - Doc Whipple ; Roger Abbott and his wife Hestor have invited Roger's elderly Aunts Martha Abbott and her wheel-chair-bound sister Louise Abbott to move out of their home in the village and into the isolated home of Roger and Hestor. The Abbott sisters father had left them a lot of money. Their tea tastes funny. Martha and Louise do not like living there and decide to return home in a few days along with their cats, Queenie and Toby. George Gibson, driving the mail car, delivers The Sentinel. The old ladies look at the obituaries. Louise sees something in the real estate column that their home, The Abbott Mansion, has been put up for sale by Roger. When the old ladies express their desire not to sell the place Roger admits that as co-executor of the estate he thought it was the proper thing to do, but claims he will take it off the market. Then, 12 year old Queenie dies immediately after eating a piece of meat from one of the old ladies' dinner plate. Martha suggests that the poisoned meat was meant for them. The sisters ask mailman George Gibson to contact Judge Smith for them. Hestor runs into George who relates the sister's request. Later, Roger tells the old ladies that George Gibson had an "accident" and died before reaching Judge Smith. Their suspicions rise. The old ladies are convinced that Roger means to murder them in order to get their money. They decide to have their other cat, Toby, sample anything they are offered to eat. Roger and Hestor catch them feeding the cat and take him away. Then, Toby "disappears. The sisters suspect that Roger and Hester killed him. Martha and Louise are growing hungry. Martha attempts to hobble to the village to get help, but Roger goes after her and gets her in his car and returns her to his house. Martha concocts a plan to set the house on fire and attract the townsfolk. They trick Roger and Hestor into going into the cellar and lock the door behind them. Then, using kerosene, they set the house on fire. Roger and Hestor die in the fire. They are talking to Judge Smith who tells them that their bonds are worthless, they are penniless, and that Roger and Hestor were trying to protect them from the truth, and on Roger's salary they were going to try to keep them out of the poor-house. Unfortunately, now they are going to have to live in the poor house. Queenie, it turns out, had died of cramps.