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July 31, 2011 (WARNING: These Raw Notes Contain Spoilers)

7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
4/3/60 "The Double Exposure Matter" Matter #685 Bob Bailey, Marvin Miller (Frederick Keeley), Peter Leeds (Peter Upman), Jack Moyles, Ralph Moody, Bartlett Robinson (Barton Winfield Oliver), Eleanor Audley ("Ebie" Eberhardt), Sandra Gould (Janet Upman) ; Writer/Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - John Wald ; Expense Account Total = $17.20 ; A lesson in how to rob a bank. You think Dollar is kidding? Well he's not. You see, it is also a lesson in how to get caught doing it. Matter of fact, it involves a modern, clever, scientific device that not very many people know about. If more of them did, well, believe him, there would be a lot less futile attempts at bank robbery. And it is this very device that helps Dollar solve he investigates by providing a picture - a simple snapshot that didn't turn up, but which gave him all the evidence he needed. A fighting Irishman apparently cashes the same $3000 check twice. Frederick Keeley, Masters Insurance and Trust Company, Hartford, calls Johnny about his red-haired client Peter Upman, age 33. Records indicate that he endorsed, and cashed a $3000 beneficiary check that was sent to him from his Aunt Elizabeth's insurance. Now he is claiming he never got it and is asking for the $3000. Is he trying to scam the insurance company or did someone forge his signature? Upman's attorney, Alfred R. Price, says Peter owns a small electronics shop, and is the only child born into his wealthy family who ever amounted to anything. Only recently, though, was he made an heir in his father's will , but only if he remains free of scandal until the age of 35. His 31 year old sister Janet, and older brother Edward and younger brother Paul are lazy. Barton Winfield Oliver, New Milford People's National Bank President, says that they have installed a Photo Register, which takes a picture of every person at the teller's window. It worked very well at first but in recent times the pictures have been blurry and indistinguishable. However, Oliver has not seen fit to have it fixed because people think it works and as such it is serving well as a deterrent. He also says that one of his tellers, Mrs. "Ebie" Eberhardt, swears that Peter Upman cashed the check. On the way to Dollar and Oliver, "Ebie" bumps into Jim and calls him Walter. She is badly in need of a new glasses prescription and thinks that Johnny's gun is a pipe. Johnny figures out that Paul impersonated Peter to throw some scandal on him and the half-blind Mrs. Eberhardt was unable to tell the difference. (Commercials for Pepsi, Winston, Ex-Lax, Suspense Promo, where "Silent death stalks a ship's corridor", Manischevitz Wine.) CBS Radio Network, (22:18)
7:30 p.m.Dragnet
6/17/49The Werewolf" Program #3 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Barton Yarborough (Ben Romero), Raymond Burr ; Writer - James Moser ; Technical Advisor - C. B. Harrow, LA Chief of Police ; Announcer - Hal Gibney ; Music Composer/Conductor - Walter Schumann ; NBC ; First use of Dragnet's famous theme signature. ; Friday and Romero are working out of robbery detail. "The Werewolf" has beaten up and robbed eighteen women. This big, ugly man always seems to be one step ahead of the cops. (Sus.) (NBC) (29:32)
8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
11/21/52 "Fingered" Program #31 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Charles Adams), Georgia Ellis (Miss Kitty Russell), John McIntire, Jeanette Nolan (Lyla), Paul Dubov, Jack Kruschen, Harry Bartell ; Writer - John Meston ; Music Composer/Conductor - Rex Koury ; Announcer - Clancey Cassels ; The music bridges use an organ. ; The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series November 23, 1957. ; Sponsored by: Plymouth ($25,00 contest) ; CBS ; It seems that Jim Corbett's loneliness is over when he marries Lyla. When Lyla disappears Jim tells Matt that a party of Indians abducted her. Foul play is suspected when Matt sees a newly planted garden of columbines near Jim's house, especially since Jim's first wife also disappeared. (Sus.) (29:50)
8:30 p.m. Screen Guild Theater
10/5/41 "Strawberry Blonde" James Cagney (Biff Grimes), Olivia DeHavilland (Amy Lind), Jack Carson (Hugo Barnstead) : Sponsor - Gulf Oil Co. ; CBS ; Biff Grimes is crazy about Virginia Brush, but his "pal" Hugo Barnstead marries her himself and makes Biff the fall guy for his shady dealings. Though Hugo seems to have everything Biff wanted, Biff learns that having what one wants and wanting what one has can be two very different things. (29:30)
9:00 p.m. Texaco Star Theater
5/10/42 "The March Of Trivia." Fred Allen, Marlene Dietrich, Alan Reed ; Sponsor - Texaco ; CBS net, WABC, New York aircheck ; The show features a good anti-Benny routine, Falstaff Openshaw recites "Brave Betty Birnbaum" (a soap opera), "Care For Your Car For Your Country" (a good patriotic song), a thundering epic of the west called "The Courtin' Of Nasty and Nell," Marlene sings "See What The Boys In The Backroom Will Have." (59:30)
10:00 p.m. Lux Radio Theater
11/14/38 "The Buccaneer" Clark Gable, Edmond Elton, Montague Shaw (doubles), Frank Nelson (doubles, program opening announcer), Olympe Bradna, Jack Carr (doubles), Gertrude Michael, Lou Merrill, Earle Ross (doubles), John Fee (performer, commercial spokesman), Reginald Sheffield (doubles), Harry Humphrey, Akim Tamiroff, Cecil B. DeMille, Eddie Waller (doubles), Lois Collier (triples), Clara Blandick, Earl Gunn (quadruples), Vic DeMourell (triples), Tony Paton (doubles), George Pembroke (triples, one part is a mouse!), Libby Taylor, Geraldine Peck, Cracker Henderson, Ross Forrester, Lee Millar (as a dog), Perry Ivins ; Announcer - Melville Ruick ; Intermission Guest - Rupert Hughes (author/historian) : Commercial Spokeswomen - Marilyn Stuart, Betty Jean Hainey, and Jane Morgan :,Author - Lyle Saxon ; Screenwriters - Edwin Mayer, Harold Lamb, & C. Gardner Sullivan ; Radio Adaptation - Jeanie Macpherson & George Wells ; Director - Frank Woodruff ; Musical Director - Louis Silvers ; Sound Effects - Charlie Forsyth ; Sponsor - Lever Brothers, makers of Lux (silverware premium) ; CBS ; The story of Jean Lafitte, the buccaneer who came to the aid of Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans. See cat. #40241 for a rehearsal recording of this broadcast. One of the performers loses his place in the script (or fails to pick up on a cue) about thirteen minutes into the program, causing an embarrassing silence. (59:52)