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07:00 p.m. Johnny Dollar
11/01/59 #663 The Hand of Providential Matter (18:34) (CBS)
07:30 p.m. Dragnet
09/20/55 #318 Big Close (NBC) (25:04)
08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
08/30/52 #19 The Juniper Tree (Sus.) (CBS) (29:42)
08:30 p.m. Father Knows Best
06/22/50 A New Housekeeper (Maxwell House) (CBS) (29:30)
09:00 p.m. Philo Vance
04/18/50 #93 The Golden Key Murder Case (Synd) (26:22)
09:30 p.m. Fort Laramie
04/22/56 #13 The New Recruit (Sus.) (CBS) (29:46)
10:00 p.m. Lux Radio Theater
02/03/47 National Velvet w/Elizabeth Taylor (Lux) (CBS) (59:58)

Last week Ed intro-ed the Dragnet episode "The Big Ruling" but actually played the episode titled "The Big Pipe" originally broadcast as Episode #236 on 2/23/54, and rebroadcast as Episode #378 on 1/29/57.

"The Big Ruling" is an interesting episode, kinda like Perry Mason losing a case (I think there was ONE TV case Perry lost), wherein Friday & Smith bust a crook --- or so it seemed.

If you have a chance to listen "The Big Ruling" is available online HERE complete with Chesterfield cigarette commercials, which touted that the cigarettes were made with the Accu-Ray technology. Marvelous marketing.

Dragnet
9/6/55 "The Big Ruling" Program #316
Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith), Virginia Gregg, Jack Kruschen, Herb Ellis (Sam Arthur Free), Vic Raudman (DA Dan Lauren) ; Writer - Frank Burt; Sponsor - Chesterfield Cigarettes, made the modern way with Accu-Ray, invented by young Bert Chope, the president of Industrial Nucleonics, wherby a stream of electrons passes through and analyzes a product as it is being made, L&M Filter Cigarettes ; NBC network origination ; Technical Advisor - William H. Parker, L.A. Chief of Police, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sgt. Marty Wynn, Sgt. Vance Brasher ; Announcers - George Fenneman, Hal Gibney ; Scripted for TV with original TV air date of 1/19/56. ; Friday and Smith are working out of narcotics, A heroin supply has reached the city. This episode focuses on the frustrating legal limitations placed upon police officers when dealing with known criminals. Searching for a huge shipment of heroin, Friday and Smith confer with informant and former user Candy Delmon. The officers search and detain Sam Arthur Free, a dope pusher specializing in hooking kids. Free is caught with narcotics on him, but he has been "searched illegally." Though the detectives manage to build a strong case against Freed, deputy DA Dan Lauren throws out the evidence because the suspect was neither placed under arrest nor asked permission to be searched, there being no search warrant, the exclusionary ruling. As a knee-jerk reaction to the California State Supreme Court's recent "Charles Cahan" decision, the controversial TV episode was severely criticized by certain citizen's-rights pressure groups (though, according to Dragnet historian Michael Hayde, no one protested the earlier radio version). Gunsmoke to debut on TV Saturday night 9/10/55.

Evening, Vision.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."