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May 15, 2011 (WARNING: These Raw Notes Contain Spoilers)

7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
12/27/58 "The Burning Desire Matter" Matter #671 Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg, Jean Tatum, Lawrence Dobkin (Pat McCracken), Vic Perrin, Paul Dubov, Don Diamond (Mickey Fortina), Frank Gerstle (The Chimp) ; Writer/ Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - Dan Cubberly ; Expense Account Total - $874.20 ; CBS ; A man, a girl, a gangster. That's right, they all add up to trouble for Dollar. Pat McCracken, Universal Adjustment Bureau, home office Hartford, calls Johnny about a strange phone call he got from Los Angeles who wanted to talk to Johnny, and just said "yeah". Dollar thinks he knows who it is and that Pat can expect some arson cases out west. Johnny calls the number that was left with Pat. Just as he thought - it was Smokey Sullivan. Smokey wants to help Johnny with some cases of arson involving insurance. Dollar heads out to the Los Angeles boarding house where Smokey lives. The landlady, Bertha Fletcher, points Johnny in the right direction. Inside the room, Smokey had been badly beaten up and Johnny frightened the attacker away, probably saving Smokey's life. Smokey says it was "The Chimp", a strong arm guy working for Mickey Fortina. Seven fires have been set by seven different guys involving seven different insurance companies. Fortina is a go-between, taking the orders for the arson jobs and hiring the guys to wield the torches. Johnny gets a hotel room for the injured Smokey to recover. They are visited by an acquaintance of Johnny's, Sergeant Pat Nichols of the police. Dollar goes to 1025 S. Spring, the location of the Fortina Friendly Loan Company using the alias of Theodore Morris, to try to hire Fortina to torch his property. Johnny overhears Fortina and his secretary talking about sending strong arm Husky Costellini, rather than The Chimp, over to the hotel. Johnny figures they are after Smokey. Johnny talks to Mickey but isn't able to get him to admit that he arranges fires. The Chimp shows up and says that he knows that "Ted Morris" is really Johnny Dollar. The cops arrive. A fight ensues. The good guys prevail. Commercial for Winston Cigarettes, Promo for Suspense and "Moonlight Sail". (Multi) (23:16)
7:30 p.m.Line Up
11/16/50 "The Candy Store Murder" William Johnstone (Lt. Ben Guthrie), Wally Maher (Sgt. Matt Grebb), Howard McNear, Raymond Burr, Jeanette Nolan, Sam Edwards, Jean Tatum, Clayton Post ; Producer/Director - Jaime del Valle ; Writers - Blake Edwards ; Music Composer/Conductor - Eddie Dunstedter ; CBS net ; sustaining ; Lieutenant Guthrie solves a robbery and murder case in a candy store, with a station wagon as a clue. Two brothers are the main suspects, but an eye-witness fails to identify either one of them. (29:28)
8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
9/13/52 "Home Surgery" Program #21 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Wesley Proudfoot), John Dehner, Larry Dobkin, Sammie Hill (Tara) ; Writer - John Meston; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; sustained ; CBS ; Matt and Chester are on the prairie trail, returning from a 100 mile trip after a murderer - it was the right name but the wrong man. As they are camped a girl, Tara Hantree, rides by. She says her father is sick. A horse stepped on his leg, now he has a fever. Matt goes to see Mr. Noah Hantree. He has gangrene, and he won't last long. Doc Adams is in St. Louis. A ranch hand, Ben Walling, has taken the Hantree's wagon and disappeared. Ben was sweet on Tara, but she was afraid of him. He was always sneaking around. Mr. Hantree doesn't like Ben. Matt tells Chester that Mr. Hantree's only hope against the blood poisoning is to cut his leg off. Chester tries to talk Matt into doing the surgery. Matt talks to Mr. Hantree and he decides to let Matt do the surgery. Corn liquor is used as the anesthetic. Matt accomplishes the excision. Four hours later Ben returns with the wagon. He offers a lame excuse for why he was gone so long - he lost the horses the first day and has spent all the time since chasing them down. Chester thinks Ben is a no good liar. Matt has seen that Hantree's saddle cinch strap had been cut - so that he would be hurt, and maybe killed, perhaps then giving Ben a free hand with Tara. Mr. Hantree is fading. He asks Marshall Dillon to protect Tara from Ben Walling. Matt promises him that he will take care of Tara. Mr. Hantree dies. Ben comes out with a rifle on Matt and Chester - he had been listening to Matt and Hantree talk. Matt overpowers Ben, and arrests him for murder. They all head back for Dodge. Tara never once looked back. (29:44)
8:30 p.m. Meet Millie
10/22/53 "Painting the Town" Elena Verdugo (Millie Bronson), Bea Benaderet (Mamma Bronson), Marvin Kaplan (Alfred Prinzmetal), Roland Winters, Rye Billsbury (Johnny Boone, Jr.), Robert Easton, Melitz Kalke (?) ; Creator - Frank Galen ; Writer/Producer/Director - Bill Manhoff ; Writer - Joel Kane ; Music Composer/Conductor - Irving Miller ; Announcer - Bob LeMond ; CBS ; KNX, Los Angeles aircheck ; Sponsor - Brylcreme, CBS Columbia televisions with a local cut-in. Alfred Prinzmetal, the poor man's poet, has almost been run down by a bakery truck. Don't miss the singing CBS radio promotional announcement. (27:12)
9:00 p.m. FBI in Peace and War
8/2/51 "Unfinished Business" Ed Begley, Frank Readick ; Creator - Frederick L. Collins ; Sponsors - : Wheaties, Wildroot Cream-Oil ; CBS ; Theme song - March from Love for Three Oranges by Sergei Prokofiev ; Eddie took the rap for Joe after a bank job. He was paid $100,000 to do it. Now that he's out of stir, Joe wants the loot back. (29:48)
9:30 p.m. Nightbeat
2/20/50 "A World All His Own" Episode #3 Frank Lovejoy (Randy Stone), Bill Conrad (Billy "The Kid" Candell), Lurene Tuttle (Edna Compton), Bill Lamme, Larry Dobkin, Leo Cleary ; Writer - Russell Hughes ; Director - Warren Lewis ; Editor - Larry Marcus ; Music - Frank Worth ; Alt: "Fighter", "Billy the Kid and Edna", "She Who Laughs Last" ; Reporter Randy Stone is walking west down Madison Street when he enters Pop Gordon's Training Gym. Inside the ring a boxer Randy knows named Billy "The Kid" Candell, former middleweight champion of the world, is ranting like a nut. Randy tries to quiet him down but Billy slugs him and then leaves. Pop tells Randy that Billy had been panhandling for money before he blew his lid. Randy goes after Billy. When Randy catches up with Billy, the latter can't remember slugging Randy. Billy says he needs to get $15 tonight to get a new suit because he can't be wearing "this crummy rag when I see her". Randy talks Billy into coming back to his apartment with him. Billy shows Randy a newspaper article he cut out today about "her", Mrs. Walter Compton. Billy says he has to tell her something. Randy offers to lend Billy the $15. Billy then, in flashback, tells Randy about Edna. She was his girl, but she left him. Billy tells Randy that he'll kill anyone who triesd to stop him from seeing Edna. Locking Billy in his apartment, Randy goes to see Mrs. Walter Compton at her Lakeshore Hotel suite. He asks her to meet with Billy. She refuses. Returning to his apartment Randy discovers that Billy has escaped. Randy goes after him, finding him in the street outside Edna's Hotel. Randy goes up to Edna's suite and finds that Billy has killed her . It is obvious that the punch drunk Billy does not know that he has killed Edna. The cops take Billy away. (Sus.) (NBC) (29:28)
10:00 p.m. Lux Radio Theater
5/22/50 "Jolson Sings Again" Al Jolson, Barbara Hale, William Demarest, Ludwig Donath, Milt Angold, Willard Waterman, William Johnstone (doubles), Herb Butterfield (doubles), Edward Marr, Howard McNear, George Neise (doubles), Charles Woolf, Lucille Alix, Dona Homer, Pauline Hunt, Becky Porter, Estelle Pardell, Walter Craig, Harold Davis, Eric Lord, Peter Rankin, Tom Sinnett, Charles Smith ; Host - William Keighley (speaking from New York City) ; Announcer - John Milton Kennedy ; Intermission Guest - Amanda Blake : Commercial Spokeswoman "Libby Collins" - Dorothy Lovett : Screenwriter - Sidney Buchanan ; 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 ; The story of Jolson's comeback, his biography that picks up where "The Jolson Story" leaves off. (58:36)