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May 1, 2011 (WARNING: These Raw Notes Contain Spoilers)

7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
11/1/59 "The Hand of Providential Matter" Matter #663 Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg (landlady), Edgar Barrier (Ernest L. Whiteman), Junius Mathews (Elwood Sprague), Jerry Hausner (Sergeant Ed Wilson), Larry Dobkin (Pat McCracken), ; Writer/ Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; Expense Account Total = "I may as well forget the expense account for a change, but the important thing was is to have some small part in wiping out this dirty racket." ; CBS ; Earnest L. Whiteman of a new company, Providential Assurance Company, Hartford, calls Dollar about a case of embezzlement of over $200,000. At the Providential office Johnny meets Providential's owner Elwood Sprague. The money was embezzled from Providential. It is believed that bookkeeper Tom Hauser stole the money, and now he has disappeared. Johnny goes to Hauser's apartment. His landlady said that he left late the previous evening. Johnny goes to his apartment and he hears Hauser talking on the phone! Dollar tries to slip into the room, but he is knocked unconscious. When he revives the landlady says she has seen no one. Sergeant Ed Wilson calls Johnny with the news that the recovered prints show Hauser is a safe-cracker and murderer with a number of aliases. Pat McCracken, Universal Adjustment Bureau, calls Dollar for a case and tells him that Providential may be an illegal outfit. Sprague calls and asks Johnny to meet his at the Guilford Hotel. Johnny complies. Sprague admits that they were running a scam, intending to run off with the premiums. Whiteman interrupts them with a gun, intending to murder them and admitting that he killed Hauser. Pat McCracken and Ed Wilson slip up from behind Whiteman and disarm him. Promo for Suspense, next , the nerve tingling progress of a man hurled into space. (18:34)
7:30 p.m. Dragnet
9/20/55 "The Big Close" Program #318 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Ben Alexander (Frank Smith), Vic Perrin, Helen Kleeb, Lillian Buyeff, Stacy Harris, ; Writer - John Robinson ; NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast ; Technical Advisor - William H. Parker, L.A. Chief of Police, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sgt. Marty Wynn, Sgt. Vance Brasher ; Announcers - George Fenneman & Hal Gibney ; Music - Walter Schumann ; Program #318 is the final original script and the last episode sponsored by Chesterfield. It is also the last of the "new" shows. Although the show would continue on the air until February 26, 1957, the remaining broadcasts would be all re-runs. ; Scripted for TV with original TV air date of 3/7/57. ; Friday and Smith are working out of homicide. The body of a man is found in a Sepulveda motel, only a few days after he registered. The corpse was that of a "ladies man" in town on "sales business". Friday and Smith suspect that the dead man had given a phony name to the desk clerk--and that, contrary to evidence of suicide, he was actually murdered. It soon develops that the victim had recently been seen in the company of a flashy blonde, even though he was married to another woman. In addition, it turns out he was telling the truth about being a salesman: trouble is, his merchandise consisted of illegal narcotics. (25:04)
8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
8/30/52 "The Juniper Tree" Program #19 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc), Vivi Janiss, Paul DuBov, Bill Lally, John Dehner (Jim Stanley), Michael Ann Barrett ; Writer - Herb Purdum ; Music Composer/Conductor - Rex Koury ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; sustained ; CBS ; Matt responds to a complaint by Mingo of the Cherokee Palace. Upstairs Brandy, who runs the dance hall girls, has been tending to Jim Stanley, who Mingo claims stole money from his roulette wheel. Mingo has two witnesses to back him up. Matt has to arrest Stanley. Matt questions the witnesses and determines that they are lying. While in jail Stanley is paid a visit by Dixie, Mingo's girl. Later, Stanley breaks jail, having sawed through the bars. Dixie had to have supplied the saw blades. Matt chases down Stanley and finds out that he and Dixie are now married. As Matt is talking to Stanley a bullet hits Stanley and he goes down. Dixie thinks Stanley is dead and shows no remorse, only thinking about sole ownership of Stanley's ranch. When Stanley revives, Dixie runs off. It was Mingo who shot Stanley and Matt took him out. (29:42)
8:30 p.m. Father Knows Best
6/22/50 "A New Housekeeper" 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 - Maxwell House ; Transcribed in Hollywood ; CBS (29:30)
9:00 p.m. Philo Vance
4/18/50 "The Golden Key Murder Case" Episode #93 Jackson Beck (Philo Vance), Joan Alexander (Ellen Deering), George Petrie (District Attorney F. H. Markham) ; Creator - S. S. Van Dine ; Organist - Henry Sylvern ; Director - Jeanne K. Harrison ; Producer - Frederick W. Ziv ; Ziv Syndication ; After Vance receives a mysterious key in the mail, he discovers a dead man sitting at his desk...with an identical golden key in his hand. (26:22)
9:30 p.m. Fort Laramie
4/22/56 "The New Recruit" Episode #13 Raymond Burr (Lee Quince, captain of cavalry at Fort Laramie, Wyoming frontier), Vic Perrin (Sgt. Gorce), Lawrence Dobkin, Harry Bartell (Lt. Seiberts), Jack Moyles (Maj. Daggett), Sam Edwards, Lou Krugman, John Dehner, Paul Dubov, James Nusser ; Producer/Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Music - Amerigo Marino ; Writer - E. Jack Neuman ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; Sound Patterns - Bill James & Ray Kemper ; The system cue has been deleted. ; The program was recorded March 29, 1956.; Sustaining ; CBS ; The story of a man who was in the army...but never really a soldier, who re-enlists, but for a strange reason. (29:46)
10:00 p.m. Lux Radio Theater
2/3/47 "National Velvet" Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Janet Scott, Norman Field, Charles Seel, Truda Marson (doubles), Lois Boniston, John McGovern, Alec Harford, Jack Edwards Jr., Herbert Rawlinson, George Neise (doubles), Jerry Barnes (as a dog) ; Host - William Keighley (speaking from New York City) ; Announcers - John Milton Kennedy & Thomas Hanlon ; Intermission Guest - Dorothy Patrick : Commercial Spokeswoman "Libby Collins" - Doris Singleton : Screenwriters - Theodore Reeves & Helen Deutsch ; Author - Enid Bagnold ; Radio Adaptation - Sanford Barnett ; Director - Fred MacKaye ; Musical Director - Louis Silvers ; Sound Effects - Charlie Forsyth ; Sponsor - Lever Brothers, makers of Lux and Spry ; CBS ; The story of a young girl in love with her horse and with a dream of winning the Grand National with him. (59:58)