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WAMU ^ | 11/7/10 | Ed Walker

[johngrace]

Yeah! Were do they sing patriotic songs on modern radio like these great old shows. In a galaxy far far away in a bygone era!

[Vision]

Modern music radio hates the military other than wanting to conduct social experiments on it.

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx again, Vision !

November 7, 2010 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

• 7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
  4/27/58 "The Village of Virtue Matter" Matter #586 Bob Bailey, Frank Nelson, Billy Halop, Jack Kruschen, Peter Leeds, Gil Stratton, Will Wright ; Writer/ Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; Expense Account Total - $100.00 ; Armed Forces Radio & TV Service ; There's been a series of roberies in a town filled with retired criminals. Have the old crooks returned to their old ways? Johnny travels to South Carolina to see for himself.

• 7:30 p.m. Dragnet
  3/29/55 "The Big Death" Program #293 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson ; NBC ; AFRS rebroadcast ; The "Dragnet" program of September 28, 1950 has the same story title, but has a different plot. ; Fiday and Smith are working out of homicide. Arthur McNeil has been shot six times in the head and killed in his flophouse room. His lawyer reveals that he's been working on a new explosive.

• 8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  4/30/61 "Ex-Urbanites" (23:52) Program #473 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), Vic Perrin, Harry Bartell, John Dehner ; Producer/Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - John Meston ; Radio Adaptation - Frank Paris ; Music Composer/Conductor - Rex Koury ; Announcer - George Walsh ; CBS ; Sponsor - Pepsi Cola ; The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on April 9, 1960, it was therefore on television before it was on radio. ; While returning from Hayes City, Doc and Chester happen upon a wounded man out on the prairie.. Nate Guillot will surely die unless Doc can treat him. Complications arise when the wounded man's partners, Jesse Turnbull and Pitt Guillot, arrive. They are concerned that Nat might have informed on them, and try to kill him. In the process they seriously wound Doc in the back. Chester faces the grim responsibility of attempting to feed and operate on Doc's back, while fending off the two outlaws.

• 8:30 p.m. Fibber McGee & Molly
  12/12/39 "Jewelry Store Robbery" Program #226 Jim Jordan (Fibber McGee), Marian Jordan (Molly McGee), Bill Thompson, Isabel Randolph (Abigail Uppington), Jimmy Shields ; Writer - Don Quinn ; Sponsor - Johnson Wax and self-polishing Glo-Coat ; Pitchman - Harlow Wilcox ; Music - Billy Mills and His Orchestra ; Fibber the detective recovers a missing necklace after a jewelry store robbery.

• 9:00 p.m. Line Up
  2/22/51 "Charlie's Story" (29:52) I have the title "The Silver Swan Case" for this date. William Johnstone, Wally Maher, Jay Novello, Junius Matthews, Sidney Miller, Pat McGeehan, Mary Jane Croft, Sammie Hill, John McIntire ; Producer/Director - Jaime del Valle ; Writer - Charles E. Israel ; Organ Music - Eddie Dunstedter ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; CBS ; AFRTS rebroadcast ; Edna Hawley, who works in the Silver Swan Dance Hall, has been strangled. The cops know whodunit, but they have no proof.

• 9:30 p.m. Broadway is My Beat
  3/31/50 "The Case of Hope Anderson" Episode #28 Larry Thor (Detective Lieutenant Danny Clover), Charles Calvert (Detective Gino Tartaglia), Frances Chaney, Jody Gilbert, Don Orrick, Etta Reese Morin, Herb Butterfield; Producer/Director - Elliot Lewis ; Music Composed & Conducted- Alexander Courage ; CBS ; Hope Anderson is found dead in the courtyard of the all-female Marbury Apartments. A Luger with a silencer is nearby. Viola Walker, the apartment manager, is interrogated by Danny Clover. She tells Clover that Hope roomed with Jackie Logan in apartment #6. Jackie says that Hope had two boyfriends, one younger, one older. She says that she doesn't know their names. Sergeant Gino Tartaglia tells Clover that the lab has determined that the prints on the Luger belong to recently discharged Navy sailor Allen Harper. At Harper's home he meets Allen's mother Vera and her new husband Phillip Warren. They deny any knowledge of where Allen is, and his mother says he couldn't kill anyone. On the way out Phillip tells Clover that his step son can be found in a cabin on the beach at Montauk. Clover finds Allen on the beach . He denies having killed Hope. He claims that she had just told him that she loved him when she was shot dead. The gun was thrown in his direction. He picked it up to shoot at the fleeing figure but there were no other bullets. Just then shots ring out killing Allen and wounding Clover. Danny wakes up in the hospital, he checks himself out to attend Allen's funeral. He talks to Allen's mother, Vera, at Orville Cemetery. Vera says that Allen and her husband did not get along. Clover suggests that the bullet that killed Hope may have been intended for Allen. Back at headquarters, Viola Walker is waiting for Clover. She says that Jackie Logan moved out to the Carney Hotel in the Bowery. Clover goes there and finds the apartment torn up and Jackie severely beaten. Clover figures that Jackie was trying to blackmail the killer. She says that she had told Vera Warren something over the phone. Clover goes out to the Montauk cabin. Vera has a gun in her hand. Phillip Warren is cowering. Vera says that she is going to kill him because he killed her son.

• 10:00 p.m. Theatre Guild On the Air
  12/24/50 "David Copperfield" Boris Karloff, Richard Burton, Cyril Ritchard, Flora Robson, Hugh Williams, Isabel Elsom, Brenda Forbes, David Cole, John Merryvale, Penelope Mundy, Patricia Marmont (?), Carl Harbord ; Host - Roger Pryor ; Author - Charles Dickens ; Radio Adaptation - Robert Anderson ; Editor - S. Mark Smith ; Director - Homer Fickett ; Supervisors - Lawrence Langner & Theresa Helburn ; Music Composer/Conductor - Harold Levey ; Sponsor - U.S .Steel ; NBC ; The series is also known as, "The NBC Theatre Guild." ; AFRS program name: "Screen Guild." ; The body of the show only, no open or close. A radio portrait of life in olde England.