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November 14, 2010 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
5/4/58 "The Carson Arson Matter" Matter #587 ( 24:06) Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg, Harry Bartell, Joe Kearns, Byron Kane, Jack Edwards, Forrest Lewis ; Writer/ Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; Expense Account Total - $56.90 ; Armed Forces Radio & TV Service ; A strange series of fires is burning down a chain of supermarkets.
7:30 p.m. Dragnet
4/12/55 "The Big Tie" Program #295 (23:52) Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith), Barney Phillips (Dick Trendle) ; Writer - John Robinson ; burglary Necktie Warehouse Robbed. One hundred dozen hand painted ties, worth $5 each, have been stolen along with a little money from out on South Western Avenue. Friday, working the day watch out of burglary detail, talks with George Prosper, the owner, who suspects recently fired Morgan Gilroy with the crime. Friday and Smith go out to Gilroy's apartment on Fountain Avenue, Hollywood. They talk to his pregnant wife, Judy. She thinks her husband is at work at the Prosper Tie Manufacturing Company. He even gave her the $80 from this week's check which she thinks he must have cashed. She says he got home around 2:15 AM last night. When Gilroy returns home, Friday and Smith take him down town for interrogation. He says he got the $80 from Steve McGill at a bar known as "The Black Pony". They played poker and he ultimately lost, so he touched Steve for the money when the latter passed out sometime after 1:00 AM. McGill confirmed Gilroy's alibi as did the other guys in the poker game. A men's clothing store, Nimbo's, on Crenshaw has now been hit. This was followed in the next few days by two more men's tie shops being hit. George Prosper calls from a bar & grill on the corner of Normandy and Kingsley Drive - one of his stolen ties just walked in. Friday and Smith arrive. The man is Dick Trendle, a CPA, who says he bought the tie from a man he met in a bar. He agreed to go to the BGT Cafe, and then to the Mortenson Hotel to look for the man who sold the tie. The clerk says that the description sounds like Russell Herbert Lafferty, in room #212. Friday and Smith enter the room, and Lafferty co-operates and admits to the four thefts. Lafferty, adjudged to be an habitual criminal was sent to life imprisonment in San Quentin.
8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
5/7/61 "Ma's Justice" Program #474 (19:32) William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), Sam Edwards, Richard Crenna, Virginia Christine, John Dehner, Vic Perrin ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - Marian Clark ; Music Composed and Conducted - Rex Koury ; Announcer - George Walsh ; CBS ; Reed and Jakey Sayle round-up two wild colts and bring tem back to their ranch. However, Old Man Sloat wants the horses gor himself and descends upon the Sayles' ranch with his son Jase. Sloat shoots both Reed and Jakey before Ma Sayles blasts Sloat' son with a shotgun. Sloat retreats but swears vengeance. Fortunately Jakey is not seriously hurt. He heads for Dodge to summon Doc and Matt.
8:30 p.m. Great Gildersleeve
11/12/52 "Problems with Leroy's Teacher"Program #470 Willard Waterman (Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve), Walter Tetley (Leroy Forrester), Dick Legrand (Mr. Peavey), Bud Stefan, Lillian Randolph, Marylee Robb, Mary Shipp, Earle Ross ; Writers - John Elliotte & Andy White ; Announcer - Bud Hiestand ; Musical Composition- Jack Meakin ; Sponsor - Kraft Foods Company, makers of Philadelphia Cream Cheese ; NBC ; (29:42) : Gildersleeve has an argument with Grace Tuttle, Leroy's beautiful teacher, and winds up in a supply closet trying to peek at Leroy's picture.
9:00 p.m. Nick Carter, Master Detective
10/18/43 "State Prison Evidence" Lon Clark (Nick Carter), Helen Choate (Patsy Bowen), John King ; Script/Producer/Director/Writer - Jock MacGregor ; Original Music Composer/Conductor - Lew White ; Brought to you by - WOR, Mutual Broadcasting System ; Announcer - Bob Martin ; Sponsor - Old Dutch Cleanser & The Cudahy Packing Company ; Copyright - Street & Smith Publications, Inc. ; Sustaining ; aka "The Mystery Of The Midnight Murder" ; In pursuit of a killer and forger of wills, Nick goes to jail for weeks and uses a wire recorder to catch the crooks.
9:30 p.m. Big Show
3/4/51 Program #18 (1:28:30) Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Frankie Laine, Ethel Merman, Herb Shriner, Margaret Truman, Tallulah Bankhead, Clive Brook, Hugh Riley, Margaret Phillips, Goodman Ace, Robert Sherwood ; Producer/Director - Dee Englebach ; Announcer - Ed Herlihy ; Narrator - Frank Wilson ; Writers - George Foster, Morton Green, Philip Barry & Selma Diamond ; Music - Meredith Willson and His Orchestra ; NBC ; Sponsors - Anacin, RCA, Chesterfield, Frankie Laine for Four Way Cold Tablets ; Frankie Laine sings, "Aba Dabba Honeymoon" and a strange song called, "Swamp Girl." Clive Brook, Hugh Riley and Margaret Phillips appear in, "Second Threshold" by Phillip Barrie, adapted by Robert Sherwood. Margaret Truman sings, "Love Is Where You Find It." Portland sings, accompanied by Fred Allen on the banjo! Herb Shriner does a funny "Hoosier" routine. The program finale is a salute to Irving Berlin, but Margaret Truman's straining after the high notes gets painful after a while!