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Looks like we finish up the evening on a newspaper theme. Not sure why, because today is National Frozen Food Day.

Thanx again, Vision !

March 6, 2011 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
6/7/59 "The Wayward Heiress Matter" Matter #642 Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg (Virginia "Ginny" Van Doren Haskell), Les Tremayne (Al Towner), Sam Edwards (Paul Snowden), James McCallion (Gordon Haskell) ; Writer/ Producer/ Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; Expense Account Total = $10.00 ; "Well, so help me, it's the wildest case I ever got messed up with." Al Towner, New Britain Mutual Insurance Company, Hartford, calls Johnny. An important client of Al's, Ginny Haskell, wants to see Johnny. In Bronxville, West Chester County, New York, Ginny has been married on the rebound to Gordon Haskell, but in her heart she is still in love with Paul Snowden. They live on Birchbrook Road. Johnny Dollar, Ginny Van Doren and Paul Snowden went to college together in the mid-west. Ginny was a beautiful, blonde girl who was born into a wealthy family. Paul was Ginny's boyfriend since their youth, but he was a proud, poor boy. Paul was trying to build up a machine tool plant in Chicago, and refused Ginny's offer of financial support. Paul was offended and told Ginny to find someone else. Ginny thinks Paul is going to kill Gordon and enlists Johnny's help to prevent the murder. Gordon's life is insured. Paul is in New York, and he called Ginny. He wants to come out when Gordon is there and when he does they should "prepare for the worst". Gordon has gone into hiding. Dollar says that Gordon needs to come out in the open to get Paul to show himself. Paul beats Johnny up, thinking he is Gordon. Paul has learned something about Gordon's activities in the mid-west and has papers and photostats to prove it. Gordon has returned and pulls a gun on Johnny. Paul enters and wounds Gordon. Paul has evidence that Gordon married wealthy women, took their money, and murdered some of them. (18:20)
7:30 p.m. Dragnet
7/5/55 "The Big Rush" Program #307 Jack Webb (Sgt. Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson ; NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast ; Televised version of the show had an original date of 4/12/56 ; Friday and Smith are working out of robbery division. A series of tavern robberies by "The Whale" and his partner leads to the shooting of a cop. It's a personal matter for Friday and Smith when the off-duty police officer is killed by the two stickup men in a downtown bar. The criminal pair has been terrorizing taverns throughout the LA area, but now it looks as though their days of freedom are numbered, thanks to a tipster who provides the detectives with some very valuable information (23:28)
8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
7/5/52 "Never Pester Chester" Program #11 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Paul DuBov (Stobo), Lou Krugman (Trevert), Georgia Ellis (Miss Kitty). Don Diamond, Gil Straton, Jr., Jack Kruschen, Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc) ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - John Meston ; Music Composer/Conductor - Rex Koury ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; CBS ; Sustained ; Chester is dragged through town by two bullies, Stobo and Trevert, and is left out on the prairie. all because he tried to do "Matt's Job". Matt, feeling terribly guilty about the incident, goes after the two men with a vengeance. He captures them and puts them in jail. He lets Trevert go and tells him never to return to Dodge. Then he lets Stobo out and engages the big man in a fist fight and whips him. he then tells Shiloh to get Stobo out of town. Rebroadcast 10/30/60 as Program #447 (29:42)
8:30 p.m. Bob Hope, The Pepsodent Show
3/7/39 Bob Hope, Judy Garland (guest), Bill Goodwin, Jerry Colonna, Patsy Kelly, Elvia Allmon ; Writers - Wilkie Mahoney, Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, Al Schwartz, Norman Sullivan, Milt Josefsberg & Mel Shavelson ; Music - Skinnay Ennis and His Orchestra, Six Hits and A Miss ; NBC ; Sponsor - Pepsodent, Pepsodent Antiseptic ; Bob's opening monologue is about the Santa Anita racetrack. The first tune is, "Could Be." 17 year old guest Judy Garland sings, "It Had to be You" and "Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones". The cast does a spy skit in search of "Ratface."
9:00 p.m. The New Adventures of Michael Shayne, Private Detective
7/22/48 "The Case of the Haunted Bride" Program #2 Jeff Chandler (Michael Shayne), Frank Lovejoy (George Morrison) ; (No opening or closing credits) ; aka "The Case Of The Hunted Bride" ; Host/Director - William P. Rousseau ; Music Composer/Conducer - John Duffy ; Creator - Brett Halliday ; Producer - Don W. Sharp ; Writer - Larry Marcus ; Broadcaster's Guild syndication ; Mike Shayne is approached by a new female client, Grace Morrison, at his New Orleans office. She is from the capital city of a nearby state. She thinks that her husband, George, is a murderer. Shayne takes the case for his usual $20 per day. Shayne goes to her city and calls Grace, who seems disoriented. Shayne rushes to her bungalow. He is met outside by George Morrison. They break in and find Grace overcome by gas fumes, still holding the telephone. Grace revives, but tells Shayne that she thinks that her husband opened the gas vent, but Shayne doesn't think so. Grace says George, out of work, got a telegram. He went away for a few days and came back with $250. He then started to have nightmares, saying he didn't want to kill. Shayne picks up the phone and a female voice, thinking that Shayne is George Morrison, says that Joe Blake. As he is walking away, someone sidles up to Mike and says him. A female named Ruthie and a guy named Ralph are about to kill Shayne until they realize that he isn't George. George appears and orders Shayne upstairs. At gunpoint, he tells Shayne to leave town and provides the train ticket. Shots ring out, from Ruthie and Ralph. George admits to Shayne that he killed Joe Blake. The house detective knocks on Shayne's door wanting to investigate the shots someone has reported. Shayne goes to the library where he learns about Blake. He calls a friend on the police force, Pete, and gets more details. Ruth tells Shayne that she was in love with Joe. Ruthie shoots through the door - and hits Ralph. George Morrison is the official state prison executioner.
9:30 p.m. Rogers of the Gazette
7/8/53 "Newspaper is Being Taken Over" Will Rogers Jr. (Will Rogers), Georgia Ellis(Maggie Button), Byron Kane, John Dehner, Parley Baer (Doc Clemmens), Mary McGovern, Howard McNear ; Announcer - Bob Lemond ; Writers - E. Jack Neuman & Walter Brown Neuman ; Music Composer/Conductor - Wilbur Hatch ; Producer/Transcriber - Norman Macdonnell ; CBS ; Sustaining. Will Rogers, the editor of the local Illyria, Georgia, newspaper is planning to write a story about Lance O'Neill, Illyria's famous artist, despite the opposition of the powerful Mrs. Hannibal. (28:50)
10:00 p.m. Deadline Mystery
8/10/47 "A Boy Asks for Help" Steve Dunne (Lucky Larson), June Whitley, Sam Edwards, Byron Kane, Jack Kruschen, John Frank ; Creator - Robert Neville ; Announcer - Frank Hemingway ; Music Composer/Conductor - Len Salvo ; Writer - Fred Howard ; Director - Dave Titus ; ABC ; Sponsor - Knox Pharmaceutical Company maker of Cystex (nerve tonic), Mendaco (asthma cure) ; Lucky Larson is a fast talking columnist syndicated in more than 250 newspapers around the world, as well as an investigative sleuth. Why is Mr. Quinn trying to force all the tenants to leave his apartment building? (29:18)
10:30 p.m. San Francisco Final
. 7/26/54 "Chinatown" (audition show) Jeff Chandler (Mike Rivera), Harry Bartell (Abe), Jerry Hausner, Olan Soule, Lillian Buyeff, Virginia Gregg, Herb Butterfield, Vic Perrin, Barney Phillips (Cassell in LA), Tony Barrett ; Writers/Directors - David Friedkin & Morton Fine ; Music Composer/Conductor - Walter Schumann ; Arranger - Nathan Scott ; Engineer - Raoul Murphy ; Sound Effects - Bud Tollefson & Wayne Kendall ; Producer - Michael Meshikov ; Mike Rivera, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, tracks down a puzzling story starting with a vicious fist fight between Johnny and Lee Shen, two Chinese brothers in their early twenties. This leads Mike into a story of mass extortion in Chinatowns across America by the Red Chinese. San Francisco Final was produced by many of the same artists who brought Dragnet to radio and television. It is a very well written and produced episode, having many of the same elements as Dragnet in style and feel, but was not picked up as a series. (27:28)