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Thanx again, Vision !

March 20, 2011 (WARNING: Contains Spoilers)

• 7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
  6/28/59 "The Mei Ling Buddha Matter" Matter #645 Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg (Mary Haskell), Paul Dubov (Marty Bruce), Will Wright (Howard Bancroft), Forrest Lewis (Le Chat Gris) ; Writer/Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Expense Account Total = $300.00 ; Marty Bruce at World Wide Mutual Insurance Company, Hartford, calls Johnny for help. The Mei Ling Buddha is a 3 inch jade statue, which is the most valuable piece of jade in the world. It is insured for $40,000. It is supposed to be locked up in the estate of the late Daryl Harcourt of Boston and to be inherited by his nephew Charles Curtis upon the latter's graduation from Harvard. However, it has recently been spotted in Paris in a dingy antique shop by an insurance company employee, Ray Connor. However, there has been no reported theft. Johnny calls his French friend "Le Chat Gris", who confirms that the Mei Ling Buddha has been at the shop of Monsieur du Bissac for a couple of weeks. When Johnny goes to Boston to investigate he verifies that the jade is missing. He meets Harcourt's housekeeper, Mrs. Haskell. The dust in the library room where the Buddha had been stored suggests that no one has been in the room for two years. How did someone get into that locked room to steal the Buddha, without leaving marks in the dust? But, how does dust accumulate in a hermetically sealed library? Dollar consults with Harcourt's lawyer Howard Bancroft. It gives Johnny an idea. He figures it was Fuller's earth that was the dust in the Harcourt Library. Fuller's earth is an old method of cleaning tapestries. He gets Mrs. Haskell to admit that she stole the Buddha and sold it for $21,000. (CBS)(17:58)

• 7:30 p.m. Dragnet
  7/19/55 "The Big Bobo" Program #309 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith) ; Writer - John Robinson ; NBC ; Script adapted for on television episode first airing on 4/5/56. ; Friday and Smith, working out of internal affairs, are none too pleased when fellow police officer James Sorvell is falsely accused of extortion. While Sorvell is placed on suspension, the two detectives search high and low for the crook who bears a striking resemblance to the accused officer, and who is posing as Sorvell to shake down unsuspecting citizens. (25:32)

• 8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  7/19/52 "Doc Holiday" Program #13 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc), Harry Bartell (Doc Holliday), Lee Millar, Nestor Paiva, Ralph Moody, Tom Tully (Moncreif) ; Writer - Herb Purdom ; CBS ; When Thorne Finley is made to back down his father, Big Jack Finley, demands that Matt run Doc Holliday out of Dodge. Doc Holliday has come to Dodge to kill Big Jack Finley. But Big Jack's son, Thorne Finley, is the real problem. (29:52)

• 8:30 p.m. Phil Harris/Alice Faye
  5/1/49 "Spring House Cleanning" Episode #31 Phil Harris & Alice Faye, Elliot Lewis (Frankie Remley), Walter Tetley (Julius Abbrusio), Robert North (Willie Faye), Jeanine Roos (Little Alice), Anne Whitfield (Phyllis), Gale Gordon ; Producer/Director - Paul Phillips ; Writers - Ray Singer & Dick Chevillat ; Music - Walter Scharf and His Music ; Announcer - Bill Forman ; Sponsor - Rexall ; NBC ; Phil sings, "Everybody Dances" ("Silas Lee From Tennessee"). Phil and Remley begin a Spring cleanup project and wind up with Alice's living room looking like a minstrel show!(29:30)

• 9:00 p.m. Father Knows Best
  3/4/54 "Spring Cleanning" Episode #193 (Sus.)(NBC)(29:04) Robert Young (Jim Anderson), Ted Donaldson (Bud Anderson), Rhoda Williams (Betty Anderson), Dorothy Lovett/Jean Vander Pyl (Margaret), Helen Strom/Norma Jean Nilsson (Kathleen Louise "Kathy"); Writers - Paul West & Roswell Rogers ; Creator - Ed James ; Announcer - Bill Forman ; Sponsor - Instant Postum, the good-tasting drink that is entirely caffeine free, & Post 40% Bran Flakes ; Transcribed in Hollywood ;

• 9:30 p.m. Great Gildersleeve
  3/26/47 #242 "First Day of Spring" (Kraft)(NBC)(26:59) (part 1 only) Program #248 Hal Peary (Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve), Louise Erickson (Marjorie Forrester), Lillian Randolph (Birdie Lee Coggins), Walter Tetley (Leroy Forrester), Earle Ross (Judge Horace Hooker), Richard Legrand (Peavey the druggist), Janet Waldo (Joanne Piper) ; Writers - John Whedon & Sam Moore ; Music - Jack Meakin ; Announcer/Pitchman - John Laing ; Sponsor - Kraft Foods Company, makers of Kraft American Cheese, Velveeta, Kraft Mustards ; NBC ; Gildersleeve is about to end Leroy's piano lessons, but then meets Joanne Piper, the new music teacher. Gildy gets turned down for a date and then he starts acting strangely .

• 10:00 p.m. Lux Radio Theater
  10/3/49 "It Happens Every Spring" Ray Milland (Prof. Vernon K. Simpson / King Kelly), Colleen Townsend, Ted de Corsia (Manager Jimmy Dolan), Wally Maher, Ed Begley (Edgar Stone), William Johnstone, Eleanor Audley, Ken Peters, Clarke Gordon, George Neise, Cy Kendall, Robert Griffin, Herb Ellis, Gil Stratton, Edward Marr, Howard McNear ; Host - William Keighley (speaking from New York City) ; Announcer - John Milton Kennedy ; Intermission Guest - Jean Ruth : Commercial Spokeswoman "Libby Collins" - Dorothy Lovett :,Author/Screenwriter - Valentine Davies ; Author - Shirley Smith ; Radio Adaptation - Sanford Barnett ; Director - Fred MacKaye ; Musical Director - Louis Silvers ; Sound Effects - Charlie Forsyth ; Sponsor - Lever Brothers, makers of Lux ; CBS ; College professor Vernon K. Simpson is working on a long term experiment when a baseball comes through the laboratory window destroying his chemistry beakers. The resultant fluid causes the baseball to be repelled by wood. Realizing the possibilities, Simpson takes a leave of absence to go to St. Louis to pitch in the big leagues where he becomes a star and propels his team to the World Series. (59:37)

[don-o]

That Phil Harris looks a little politically incorrect, eh?

Minstrel show?? Hmmmm.