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January 30, 2011 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
6/29/58 "The Ugly Pattern Matter" Matter #595 Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg (Miss Gregg), Les Tremayne (Barry Winters), Forrest Lewis (Hanley Thomas), Herb Vigran (Sgt. Dennis), Junius Mathews (building superintendent), Frank Gerstle (Charles Hart) ; Writer/Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; Expense Account Total - $101.00 ; CBS origination ; Armed Forces Radio & TV Service ;In Danbury, Connecticut, one of nine executives of the Simplex Fishing Tackle Company is being murdered every Wednesday, with clock-like regularity! Additionally, they are being murdered in alphabetical order, as well as in ascending order of salary. All of them are covered by a group life insurance policy. (24:02)
7:30 p.m. Dragnet
5/31/55 "The Big Sisters" Program #302 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson ; NBC ; Friday and Smith are working out of v division. An old lady named Miss Dunbetter has been robbed of $300 from her apartment ...or has she? (26:08)
8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
5/10/52 "Jaliscoe Pete" Program #3 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc), Harry Bartell (Ben Roark), Lou Krugman, Barney Phillips (Catocsa), Georgia Ellis (Miss Kitty), Jack Kruschen, Vivi Janiss (Mrs. Thompson), Johnny McGovern (Thompson's son) ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - Les Crutchfield ; Music Composer/Conductor - Rex Koury ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; CBS ; Homesteader Will Thompson's house near Mulberry Creek is burned to the ground and his family is massacred. Their son manages to reach Dillon's office and inform the Marshal before he dies of a gunshot to the back. Matt and Chester go out to investigate. The attack is made to look as if Indians are responsible, because Will Thompson has been scalped. They find Mrs. Thompson barely alive, having been savagely kicked. She says that the attackers dragged off her 17 year old daughter, Mary. Mrs. Thompson dies after telling Matt that the attacker left a Mexican silver spur. Chester finds Mary's body. However, the real evidence points to Jaliscoe Pete, a cowboy who wears Mexican silver spurs. The man in question, Jaliscoe Pete, and his three accomplices work for Ben Roark. Matt goes into Dodge and looks for Jaliscoe Pete. Miss Kitty tells Matt that Ben Roark is gambling. Roark resists, but warns Ben not to draw on him because he isn't fast enough. Colonel Blake thinks it was the Indians, but Matt asks for 24 hours before the army asks. The cattle-ranchers hate the homesteaders for bringing plows and fences into the wide open country. Ezra Hawkins, who represents the homesteaders in the county, warns Matt of an impending range war if justice is not served in the Thompson case. They are interrupted when Red Dudley leads a group of rowdy, gun firing, range riders, "The Curly Wolves" into Dodge. Matt shoots Dudley's gun out of his hand and puts him in jail. Later, Chester brings in Jaliscoe Pete, who has been shot to death in the back and scalped. He has only one spur, and Dillon has the mate to it. Doc says the scalping is not as slick and clean as what he has seen Indians do. Later, Miss Kitty tells Matt that Jaliscoe Pete was in her saloon last night, leaving with three friends from the Pecos Country - including Red Dudley and Tulsa Jim. Doc interrupts them to tell Matt that Ben Roark and about 30 cattle ranchers have caught an Indian named Catocsa and plan to string him up. Ezra Hawkins shows up with 100 armed homesteaders. He says that the Indian has been working for them, tracking down fence cutters. Back at the jail, Chester is tied up and Fred Dudley has been sprung by some Circle Bar B boys who were all in with Pete on the Thompson killings, and then they killed Pete, too. Matt and Chester go after them. In the gun fight Matt kills Red and his boys. PSA for Political Convention Handbook, courtesy of Time. Promo for Tarzan, "Jungle Legacy" episode tonight. Promo for Broadway is My Beat, every Saturday. (29:08)
8:30 p.m. Fibber McGee & Molly
"Dog License" Program #240 Jim Jordan (Fibber McGee), Marian Jordan (Molly McGee), Bill Thompson Isabel Randolph (Abigail Uppington), Gale Gordon , Harold Peary (Mr. Gildersleeve) ; Music - Billy Mills and His Orchestra, The King's Men ; Writer - Don Quinn ; Sponsor - Johnson Wax and self-polishing Glo-Coat ; Pitchman - Harlow Wilcox ; NBC ; Sponsor - Johnson's Wax ;NBC ; Fibber gets a notice that he must buy a dog license, but he has no dog! (29:28)
9:00 p.m. "The Eddie Cantor Pabst Blue Ribbon Show."
1/30/47 Eddie Cantor, Harry Von Zell, Jack Benny, Peter Lind Hayes, Ralph Edwards, Margaret Whiting, Cookie Fairchild and His Orchestra, The Sportsmen ; NBC ; Sponsored by: Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer ; It's Eddie's fifty-fifth birthday. He wants to borrow a half-million dollars from guest Jack Benny so he can start a new network; it's to be called "NBC" ("Nothing But Cantor"). The Sportsmen sing a Pabst commercial to the tune of, "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes." Ralph Edwards gets squirted with a seltzer bottle and eggs cracked on his head. Eddie gets a cake-in-the-face. (29:30)
9:30 p.m. Suspense
10/13/57 "Well-Dressed Corpse" Program #719 Margaret Whiting (Ruth Franklin), John Dehner ; Producer/Director/Host - William N. Robson ; Announcer - George Walsh ; Writers - John Michael Hayes & E. Jack Neuman ; The story was previously produced on "Suspense" on January 18, 1951 ; CBNS ; Ruth Franklin, voted as the best-dressed woman meets the best-dressed man and decides right away that she is going to marrry him. When she proposes she finds out that he is already engaged. Angered, she shoots him and then puts out a search to kill his fiance. Love hath no pity for the wounded heart. (19:02)
10:00 p.m. Ford Theater
5/9/48 "The Front Page" John Larkin, Everett Sloane, Ed Begley, Karl Swenson, Carl Eastman, Ted Osborne, Mary Patton, Mitzi Gould, Dan Ocko ; Announcer - Kenneth Banghart ; Host - Howard Lindsay ; Writers - Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur ; Radio Adaptation - Gilbert Seldes ; NBC ; Sponsor - Ford, Mercury ; The classic comedy about the rough and tumble Chicago newspaper game and the escaped murderer in the rolltop desk. Good radio. (59:34)