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Happy Sunday Night...Classic Radio Time...

07:00 p.m. Johnny Dollar
03/12/61 #731 The Ring of Death Matter (Multi-Sponsored) (CBS) (22:30)
07:30 p.m. Dragnet
12/01/49 #27 Spring Street Gang (NBC) (26:56)
08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
03/14/53 #47 Cyclone (Sus.) (CBS) (29:42)
08:30 p.m. Lum & Abner
Chester the Turkey
08:45 p.m. Vic & Sade
11/20/41 Rush Humiliated On Thanksgiving (NBC) (14:50)
09:00 p.m. Great Gildersleeve
11/16/41 #012 Thanksgiving (Kraft) (NBC) (29:46)
09:30 p.m. Aldrich Family
11/23/52 The Last Turkey (Sus.) (NBC) (27:28)
10:00 p.m. Dr. Christian
11/22/39 Prelude to Thanksgiving (Vaseoline) (CBS) (28:36)
10:30 p.m. Family Theater
11/27/47 Home for Thanksgiving (Sus.) (MBS) (29:02)

Thanx again, Vision !

November 20, 2011 (WARNING: These Raw Notes Contain Spoilers)

7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
3/12/61 "The Ring of Death Matter" Matter #731 Robert Readick, Robert Dryden (Antonio "Touchy Tony" Tarantino), Joan Lorring (Angie Tarantino), Ralph Camargo (Raul Martinez), Mandel Kramer (Don Pinkley), Danny Ocko (Jose) ; Writer - Jack Johnstone ; Producer/Director - Bruno Zirato, Jr. ; Music Supervisor - Ethyl Huber ; Announcer - Art Hannes ; Expense Account Total = $389.00 ; Johnny Travels from New Orleans to a small town in Mexico in order to try to distinguish whether or not a professional boxer was given an honest opinion from a doctor who told him to give up fighting. A case involving a prize fight in which the only prize to be won is death. (Multi-Sponsored) (CBS) (22:30)
7:30 p.m.Dragnet
12/1/49 "Spring Street Gang" Program #27 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Barton Yarborough (Ben Romero), Raymond Burr (Ed Backstrand), ; Writers - James E. "Jim" Moser ; Technical Advice - W.A. Warden, acting Chief of the L.A. Police Department ; NBC ; juvenile Organized Gang and CrimesNBC net. Sponsored by: Fatima, Grainger Pipe Tobacco. A gang of juveniles is hanging out on Spring Street. One of the gang members has been wounded, another is shot by a night watchman while committing a robbery. (26:56)
8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
3/14/53 "Cyclone" Program #47 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Howard McNear (Doc Adams), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), Vivi Janiss (Mrs. Wade), Harry Bartell, Lawrence Dobkin, Joe Cranston, Jerry Hausner ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - Les Crutchfield ; Music Composer/Conductor - Rex Koury ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; Matt and Chester enter the Texas Trail and greet Miss Kitty. All of the hands from the Cyclone Ranch are at the bar. Matt suspects foul play when Old man Bartlett's Foreman, Ed, tells him that the Cyclone Ranch has been sold to a stranger from Texas named Jed Wade. Although Ed did not actually see the Bartletts leave, he was told that they had left the country. Wade paid off all of Bartletts hands and then laid them off because he brought his own hands. Everybody knows that Bartlett put half of his life into that ranch, so it seems unlikely that he would sell. He even said that he planned to live the rest of his life there. Matt decides to do some digging around, and he unearths more than he bargained for. Matt finds out that there has been no bill of sale recorded on the Cyclone Ranch. Chester has been checking around at the stage depot, etc., and no one has seen the Bartletts leave. Matt and Chester go out to the Cyclone. They first meet Jed's belligerent partner, Dallas, and then Jed's friendly mother, Mrs. Wade. She never met the previous owners. She wants to make sure though that Jed hasn't gotten in trouble again. Jed shows up and chases his mother away. Matt wants to see the bill of sale signed by Old Man Bartlett. Jed produces the document. Dillon wants to take it into town and check the signature. Back in town, Matt and Chester run into Doc, who has a bill of sale from Old Man Bartlett for a horse that he bought last fall. The signature is the same. Matt can't escape the thought that Old Man Bartlett was forced to sign the bill of sale. Matt and Chester go back out to the Cyclone. The coyotes are howling. They appear to be digging by the river bank. At that spot Matt and Chester continue the digging and find the dead bodies of the Bartletts. Shots then ring out. Matt and Chester return fire and score a fatal hit on Dallas. Matt and Chester go on to the house looking for Jed. They meet Mrs. Wade who directs them to the barn. Matt tells Jed that he is under arrest. Jed knocks over the lantern and grabs his gun. The hay quickly catches fire, and the barn collapses on Jed, killing him. (Kansas Governor Edward F. Arn addresses the radio audience.) (Sus.) (CBS) (29:42)
8:30 p.m. Lum & Abner
"Thanksgiving Special, Chester theTurkey" Chester Lauck (Lum Edwards), Norris Goff (Abner Peabody) ; Announcer - Lou Crosby ; Lum's turkey, Chester, is going to be served up for Thanksgiving.
8:45 p.m. Vic & Sade
11/20/41 "Rush Humiliated On Thanksgiving" Art Van Harvey (Victor Gook), Billy Idelson (Russell "Rush" Gook), Clarence Hartzell (Uncle Fletcher Rush) ; Writer/Creator - Paul Rhymer ; Announcer - Ed Herlihy ; NBC Red network ; Sponsor - Crisco. Nicer Scott has been telling everyone that Rush Gook eats with a baby's knife and fork. Rush is humiliated and angry. Stuff happens! The organ themes, bridges and system cue have been deleted. (14:50)
9:00 p.m. The Great Gildersleeve
11/16/41 "Thanksgiving" Program #12 Harold "Hal" Peary (Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve), Lurene Tuttle (Marjorie Forrester), Walter Tetley (Leroy Forrester), Earle Ross (Judge Horace Hooker), Hans Conried, Jim Bannon, Lillian Randolph (Birdie Lee Coggins) ; Composer/Conductor - William Randolph ; Sponsor - Kraft Parkay ; It's Thanksgiving, and Gildersleeve is trying to invite some soldiers to share his turkey. (29:46)
9:30 p.m. Aldrich Family
11/23/52 "The Last Turkey" Bobby Ellis (Henry Aldrich), Jack Grimes (Homer Brown), House Jameson (Sam Aldrich), Katharine Raht (Alice Aldrich) ; Creator/Writer - Clifford Goldsmith ; Music - Jack Miller ; Announcers - Dick Dudley & Bob MacKenzie ; Sponsor - Jello ; NBC ; Sustaining ; Henry and Homer Battle for the Last Turkey. It's Thanksgiving time and there's only one turkey left. Both the Aldrich and Brown families want it. (27:28)
10:00 p.m. Dr. Christian
11/22/39 Prelude to Thanksgiving" CBS net. "Prelude To Thanksgiving". Jean Hersholt (Dr. Christian), Rosemary De Camp (Judy Price) ; Announcer - Art Gilmore ; Sponsor - Vaseline Petroleum Jelly, Hair Tonic, and Lip Ice, The series is also known as, "The Vaseline Program." ; CBS ;(CBS) (28:36)
10:30 p.m. Family Theater
11/27/47 "Home For Thanksgiving" Charles Boyer (host), Joan Leslie, Paul Henreid ; Announcer - Tony La Frano ; Writer - True Boardman ; Director - David Young ; Music - Max Terr ; Mutual network ; Sustaining ; An American woman and her Austrian husband return to the city where he grew up. Arriving on Thanksgiving, they find only ruins. A fine Thanksgiving story. The script was subequently used on "Family Theatre" on February 4, 1953. (29:02)

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Happy Sunday-Before-Thanksgiving evening, folks.......

"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."