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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
7/17/60 "The Back to The Back Matter" Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg (stewardess), Jean Tatum (Fletcher Agency secretary), Frank Gerstle (Ed Barringer), James McCallion (Conroy), Herb Vigran (Lt. Randy Singer), Jack Edwards (William "Bill" Spade), Forrest Lewis (Bellevue-Stratford clerk) ; Writer/ Producer/Director - Jack Johnstone ; Announcer - John Wald ; Originates in Hollywood ; Expense Account Total = $25.80 ; Ed Barringer, Continental Insurance and Trust, Hartford, asks Johnny to go to NYC, to investigate the claim of client Lucien R. Fletcher, founder of the Fletcher Ad Agency, that his partner William "Bill" Spade is going to kill him in order to take over the company. Johnny calls the 18th Precinct and talks to Conroy because Randy Singer is out. By the time Johnny gets to Fletcher's apartment on the ninth floor of 614 E. 52nd Street, Singer is there and Fletcher is dead as a doornail from a very accurate shot to the heart with a .22 that missed the heavy steel stays of Fletcher's sacro-lumbar support. Partner Bill Spade shows up at Fletcher's apartment and flashes an airline ticket that claims he was in Philadelphia at the time of the shooting. Neither Johnny nor Randy say that Fletcher is dead. Johnny checks on Spade's alibi. The Fletcher Agency secretary is positive that she received a call from Spade from the noisy airport. Johnny then found that Spade made sure that he attracted a lot of attention to himself both to the stewardess on the plane flight back to NYC, and to the clerk at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia. However, Johnny believes he may have made a quick trip from Philly to NYC and back after he supposedly retired for the night. Johnny talks to Spade, and suggests that Fletcher is still alive as the bullet would have been stopped by the corset. Spade breaks down and confesses

Dragnet
8/11/49 "Maniac Murderer" Program #10 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Barton Yarborough (Ben Romero), Raymond Burr (Ed Backstrand), Harry Morgan (Mr. Ford); Writers - James E. "Jim" Moser ; Technical Advice - L.A. Police Department ; homicide Woman Slain and Mutilated. Friday and Romero are working out of the homicide division of Captain Ed Backstrand. A call comes in about a murdered woman at the Lux Hotel, room 219. Mr. Ford is the manager. The victim's name is "Mrs. Phillip Grant", according to the registration filled out just a couple of hours before the body was found. She was strangled and then mutilated. Ford provides a description of a suspect, "Mr. Phillip Grant". He was tall, moustache, dark hair, dark eyes, about 180 pounds. It is the second murder in seven hours in a three block area where the victim was killed and mutilated. He is a psycho. Lee Jones from the crime lab processes the evidence at the scene. He finds a thumb print for a man named Robert Long, who is 29 years old. A plaster of Paris foot cast made from an imprint at the scene matches Long's shoe size. A man answering the suspect's description has been seen. Friday and Romero join in the pursuit. Bullets fly. Long is killed.

Gunsmoke>

1/3/53 "Westbound" Program #37 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Charles Adams), Georgia Ellis (Miss Kitty Russell), Sam Edwards (Jack Daggett), Barney Phillips, Jim Nusser, John Dehner, Larry Dobkin, Tom Tully (Constable Roark) ; Writer - Les Crutchfield ; Music Composer/Conductor - Rex Koury ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ;Marshal Dillon and Chester go to Abilene to arrest murderer Jack Daggett. Matt is hoping to enlist the aid of his friend, sheriff Wild Bill Hickok. Unfortunately, Hickok is away on business and they must confront a hostile town, as well as a less than sympathetic constable who "is the law" in Hickok's absence. When they finally capture their quarry, Natt and Chester must face down the the two older Daggett brothers, who are determined not to let their brother hang. The script was reused on the broadcast of November 1, 1959.

The Adventures of Sam Spade
8/1/48 "The Dry Martini Caper" Program #110 Howard Duff (Sam Spade), Lurene Tuttle (Effie Perrine), William Conrad (Gordon Martini/ Ernie), Joseph Kearns (Nesbitt/Hack Hartman) ; Creator - Dashiell Hammett ; Producer/Director - William Spier ; Sponsor - Wildroot Creme Oil Hair Tonic ; CBS, from Hollywood ; 300 pound Gordon Martini, about 50 years old, is the Chairman of the Board of the Martini Trading Company. He was waylaid by a mysterious assailant in his office and hospitalized. He calls Spade and retains him for $100. When Spade arrives at the 1000 Marina Boulevard home of Martini the later is soon shot by a man with a .30 caliber carbine hiding in the backseat of Martini's limo who then escapes in another car, a grey sedan with license number beginning with 5B9. Martini had thought his chauffeur Ernie was in the car. Nile green eyed Netta is Gordon's widow. Netta says that Gordon had drinking problems. Mr. Nesbit is a partner of Martini, and he is juggling the books. Netta thinks that Nesbit or Mary Callahan, company lawyer who fleeced him out of the company, killed Gordon. She has a carbine in her car - and it is a grey sedan. Netta has been fooling around with Ernie. When Spade checks the car out he finds that it is the get away car, and the carbine inside was the one that killed Gordon - plus the dead body of Ernie, killed with a single shot. Spade goes to the Trading Company and finds Nesbit and Callahan trading insults. He finds that the beneficiary of Gordon's insurance policy was changed from his wife to the Martini Trading Company, a corporation of the state of California. Spade is convinced that none of them did the murder, that it was the work of a daring professional hit man. Spade travels to the flea-bitten Atlas Hotel on Third Street near the railroad yards to the room of hitman Hack Hartman - and discovers a $1000 check from the Martini Trading Company, signed by Gordon Martini! Hartman says that the dead Martini was Gordon's twin brother and that he also had to kill the chauffeur. Spade finds Gordon could not have had a twin, and that Gordon closed out the account the day he wrote the check. Spade returns to Netta's and finds out that Gordon's personal booze is merely colored water. He calls Maxie at the morgue and learns that Gordon had a brain tumor and would have been dead in a week or two - his falling down drunk was really just the effects of the tumor. Spade tells Netta that Gordon allowed her and Nesbit and Callahan to each set themselves up with as nice a motive for murder as a jury could ask for. The real joker was that the check he used to pay for his own murder bounced. It proves that he planned his own murder. Gordon has his revenge because the insurance that would have kept the company going won't be paid off because of a self-liquidating clause.