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February 5, 2012 (WARNING: These Raw Notes Contain Spoilers)

7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
5/28/61 "The Yak Mystery Matter" Matter #742 Bob Readick, Robert Dryden (Shorty Beasom), Bill Lipton (Steve Yokum), Athena Lorde (Kate Beasom), Alan Manson (Lou Larson) ; Writer - Jack Johnstone ; Producer/Director - Bruno Zirato, Jr. ; Musical Supervisor - Ethyl Huber ; Announcer - Art Hannes ; Expense Account Total = $207.75 ; CBS Radio Network ; A raging blizzard in the middle of May in Yak, Montana, and the pure white snow carries the mark of death as Dollar gets caught in an avalanche. An old and quite wealthy man is missing and Johnny must find him ... dead or alive! (23:22)
7:30 p.m.Dragnet
2/2/50 "Claude Jimmerson, Child Killer" Program #35 Jack Webb (Joe Friday), Barton Yarborough (Ben Romero) ; Writer - James Moser ; Sponsor - Fatima Cigarettes, "best of all long cigarettes" ; NBC ; Sergeants Friday and Romero are working out of homicide detail. Two little girls, aged seven and eleven are missing. Their pet collie is found beaten to death. Foul play is suspected. (27:18)
8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
5/2/53 "Tacetta" Program #54 William Conrad (Matt Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester Proudfoot), Georgia Ellis (Kitty Russell), Tom Tully (Dorgan), Lawrence Dobkin, Paul DuBov, Lillian Buyeff (Tacetta) ; Director - Norman Macdonnell ; Writer - John Meston ; Music Composer/Conductor - Rex Koury ; Announcer - Roy Rowan ; Kitty has a new girl at The Texas Trail named Tacetta. Several men are attracted. Dorgan has the inside track, but Horn and Watson, both gun-fighters, are threatening trouble. The next day Dorgan is missing and so is Tacetta. It is believed that they left on the stage. Matt assumes that Dorgan has kidnapped Tacetta so he hand picks a twelve-man posse to track them down. Horn and Watson volunteer but Matt refuses their help, telling them that he wants them out of town by the time he returns. The posse catches up with the stagecoach and Dorgan and Tacetta are passengers. Tacetta unconvincingly says that she is traveling on her own free will. Dillon is not buying it and arrests Dorgan. Back in Dodge, Dorgan is locked in the jail cell. The next morning he is found dead, hit over the head through the window bars and then strangled by a rope. Horn and Watson are prime suspects. Matt learns that they are still in town. He and Chester act as if nothing happened, trying to un-nerve the suspects. They go to The Texas Trail. A drunk Watson comes in and demands to dance with Tacetta. He threatens Chester, taunting him for being from Texas, and then he draws his gun. Chester drops him with two shots. As he is dying he confesses to Matt that he and Horn strangled Dorgan. Matt goes looking for Horn. Horn confronts Matt with a shotgun. Matt tries to talk him into surrendering. It doesn't work. Horn makes a move and Dillon drops him. (CBS) (29:10)
8:30 p.m. Destination Freedom
11/7/48 "Echoes of Harlem" Cliff Norton, Les Spears, Oscar Brown Jr., red Pinkard, Gladys Williams ; Narrator - Tony Parish ; Writer - Richard Durham ; Assistant Director - Larry Auerbach ; Producer - Homer Hecht ; Announcers Henry Cook & - Charles Mountain ; Music - Bobby Christian ; Organist - Elwyn Owen ; Origin - WMAQ, Chicago ; NBC ; Sustaining ; The story of Duke Ellington and how he put his band together. (28:40)
9:00 p.m. Tales of the Texas Rangers
7/15/50 "The Case of the White Elephant" Joel McCrea (Ranger Jace Pearson), Tony Barrett, Paul McVeigh, Lou Krugman, Jeff Corey, Robert Bruce, Byron Kane, Jeannette Nolan ; Creator/Producer/Director - Stacey Keach, Sr. ; Transcribed/Adapted - Russell Hughes ; Announcer - Hal Gibney ; Sponsor - Wheaties ; NBC ; A murder in west Texas is investigated. (29:50)
9:30 p.m. I Was a Communist for the FBI
4/6/52 "I Can't Sleep" Program #2 Dana Andrews (Matt Cvetic) ; Director - Henry Hayward ; Producer - Frederick Ziv ; Announcer - Truman Bradley ; Music - David Rose ; ZIV Syndication. ; The Party assigns a room-mate to Cvetic with a tape-recorder when it finds out he's been talking in his sleep. (26:14)
10:00 p.m. Lux Radio Theater
12/9/40 "My Favorite Wife" Program #285 Laurence Olivier, Rosalind Russell, Gail Patrick, Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Q. Bryan (doubles), Bud McAllister (doubles), Charles Seel (doubles), Dix Davis, Edwin Max, Ferdinand Munier, Hal K. Dawson, Lou Merrill (doubles), Mary Lou Harrington, Rolfe Sedan, Verna Felton, Warren Ashe, Nancy Leach (commercial spokesman/doubles), Betty Jean Hainey (commercial spokesman/doubles) ; Commercial Spokeswoman - Lois Collier, Jane Morgan, Julie Bannon :, Commercial Spokesman Trio - Jay Barris, Austin Grant, & Henry Kruse ; Announcer - Melville Ruick : Author/Screenwriter - Samuel Spewack & Bella Spewack ; Author - Leo McCarey ; Radio Adaptation - George Wells ; Director - Sanford Barnett ; Musical Director - Louis Silvers ; Sound Effects - Charlie Forsyth ; Sponsor - Lever Brothers, makers of Lux ; CBS ; A comedy about a man's wife, just back from seven years on a desert island, arriving on the day of the husband's re-marriage! (59:48)