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August 15, 2010 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

• 07:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
  10/13/57 "Silver Belle Matter" (24:20) Matter #558 Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg (Henrietta Scott), B.J. Thompson (Mercedes Crabtree), G. Stanley Jones (George Reed), Frank Nelson (Charlie Greenpaw), Sam Edwards (Slim Richards), Will Wright (Sheriff Wilkins) ; Writer - Charles B. Smith ; Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; Expense Account Total = $317.10 ; United States Armed Forces Radio & TV Service ; An old ghost town out in Silver Gulch, Montana - but one of the ghosts carries a .38 Colt. George Reed of Floyd's of England, American Branch Office, Hartford, calls Johnny about elderly Mercedes Crabtree of Montana. Last night someone took a shot at her. Now she has disappeared. She has a $25,000 double indemnity policy. It was sold to her by the company's president Murdoch Morton 30 years ago. Henrietta Scott, Mrs. Ctrabtree's friend, has called in. The beneficiary is Mrs. Crabtree's favorite charity. Henrietta says that Mercedes owns more than half of Main Street, and townsfolk are upset with her because she doesn't want to participate in Silver Gulch's self-improvement campaign. Charlie Greenpaw and Slim Richards, the sheriff's deputy, approach the old Silver Belle mine tunnel. Charlie has been wanting to buy the mine from Mrs. Crabtree. Johnny goes in to investigate - and shots ring out. It is Mrs. Crabtree. She is hiding out, and she has injured his leg. Mrs. Crabtree has no intention of selling the mine - it contains her husband and others who died in a cave-in. Greenpaw says he wants to build a dude ranch on the site of the Silver Bells mine. A fire has broken out at the Crabtree cabin. Sheriff Wilkins has no idea how the fire started. Mercedes says she want to sell to Greenpaw. Johnny accuses Mercedes trusted friend Henrietta as being the culprit. She can't sell her land if Mercedes doesn't sell hers. Henrietta pulls a rifle on Dollar, but he overpowers her. Mercedes marries Murdoch Morton.

• 7:30 p.m. Dragnet
  1/4/55 "The Big Mug" (AFRS) (24:24) Program #281 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Announcer - George Fenneman ; Writer - John Robinson ; NBC ; Friday and Smith are working out of robbery detail. Hold-up men are terrorizing the downtown area. A "strong arm" bandit continues his operation, by breaking a woman's arm! Sgt. Friday uses a new gadget called the "Speakerphone".

• 8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  1/15/61 "The Wake" (Multi-Sponsored) (CBS) (24:24) Program #458 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), John Dehner (Gus Mather), Virginia Gregg ("Widow" Boggs) ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - John Meston (Story) ; Radio Adaption - Norman Macdonnell ; Music Composed and Conducted - Rex Koury ; Announcer - George Walsh ; Doan's Pills, Kellogg's All-Bran The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on December 10, 1960. ; Gus Mather comes to Dodge with a coffin which he claims contains the dead body of Orson Boggs, his good buddy. Gus proceeds to invite everyone to Orson's wake, which turns out to be quite an event. After the lavish wake, Mather continues to buy drinks and spend lavishly. Matt suspect's foul play and tracks down Orson's "widow" who claims she never heard of Gus Mather.

• 8:30 p.m. Jack Benny
  1/24/43 "Mr. Benny Goes To Washington From Ft. Meade, MD" Program #466 Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Mary Livingston, Dennis Day, Eddie "Rochester Van Jones" Anderson, Sam Hearn, Bill Morrow (doubles), Ed Beloin (triples0 ; Music - The McFarland Twins and Their Orchestra ; Producer/Transcriber - Bill Morrow ; Writers - Ed Beloin & Bill Morrow ; Sponsor - Kellogg's Grape-Nuts and Grape-Nuts Flakes Cereal ; NBC Red Network ;The program originates from Fort Meade, Maryland. The cast does its version of, "Mr. Benny Goes To Washington."

• 09:00 p.m. Nightwatch
  7/10/54 "Hammer/21" (CBS) (26:26) Episode #12 Police Recorder - Donn Reed ; Producers - Sterling Tracy & Jim Headlock ; Technical Advisor - Ron Perkins ; CBS ; Sustaining ; The first call is about a liquor store hold-up. The clerk is attacked by a man with a hammer. A marijuana leaf is found in a man's jacket pocket when he takes the coat in to be dry cleaned.

• 9:30 p.m. Dr. Christian
  10/4/50 "Love Is A Two-Sided Thing" (CBS) (27:24) Jean Hersholt (Dr. Christian), Rosemary De Camp (Judy Price) ; Sponsor - Vaseline Hair Tonic, Vaseline Petroleum Jelly ; Earl Carlson is going to be prosecuted by Grant Newman for manslaughter. But Newman doesn't know that Carlson is his own brother-in-law! At the banquet of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia (remote from Washington D. C.), "Dr. Christian" is presented with an award. Jean Hersholt makes an extended speech of thanks.

• 10:00 p.m. NBC University Theater
  1/9/49 "The Grapes Of Wrath" (NBC)(59:48) Jane Darwell (Ma Joad), Clarke Gordon, Earl Lee, Gwen Delano, Howard McNear, Jerry Farber, John Dehner, June Martell, Lawrence Dobkin, Lou Krugman, Parley Baer, Steven Chase, Theodore Von Eltz, Tom Charlesworth, Tony Barrett, Wally Maher ; Host/Producer - Don Diamond ; Announcer - Don Stanley ; Intermission Commentator - J. Donald Adams ; Author - John Steinbeck ; Radio Adaptation - Richard E. Davis ; Director - Andrew C. Love ; Music Composer/Conductor - Albert Harris ; The classic drama of the Depression, the Okies and their search for the promised land in California

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