WARNING! MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. October 11, 1955. Part 2. CBS network. "The Molly K Matter." Sustaining. Johnny meets Capt. Brawley's daughter Ellen, and discovers that the mortgage on the Molly K was held by Loo Tang! Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (director), Virginia Gregg, James McCallion, Hy Averback, Peter Leeds, Barney Phillips, Vic Perrin. 15:15.
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. October 12, 1955. Part 3. CBS network. "The Molly K Matter." Sustaining. Johnny decks Capt. Brawley, and has a meeting with "Shanghai Lil." Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (director), Virginia Gregg, James McCallion, Peter Leeds, Hy Averback, Barney Phillips, Vic Perrin. 15:12.
Dragnet. March 8, 1955. Program #290. NBC network origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "The Big Father." A daylight burglar posing as being from the electric company slugs an old woman. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander. 25:13.
Gunsmoke. September 19, 1953. CBS network origination. "There Was Never A Horse." Ken Creed comes to Dodge. He's the fastest gunman ever (faster even than Marshal Dillon), and he's looking for a shootout! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on May 16, 1959. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Lawrence Dobkin, John Dehner, Ralph Moody, John Meston (writer), Howard McNear, Georgia Ellis. 1/2 hour.
The Jell-O Program Starring Jack Benny. June 18, 1939. Red network. Sponsored by: Jell-O. The cast does down to the railroad station to leave for Waukegan. Carmichael the bear is going along too! The last program on which Kenny Baker appears. Andy Devine, Don Wilson, Jack Benny, Kenny Baker, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris and His Orchestra, Eddie Anderson, Harry Baldwin, Ed Beloin (writer, performer), Bill Morrow (writer), Cliff Nazarro, Frank Nelson, Blanche Stewart. 29:18.
Father Knows Best. June 14, 1951. NBC network. Sponsored by Maxwell House Coffee (one commercial heard). The family plans a Father's Day picnic; physical preparations begin. Robert Young, June Whitley, Rhoda Williams, Ted Donaldson, Norma Jean Nilsson, Herb Vigran, Stanley Farrar, Roy Bargy and His Orchestra, Bill Forman (announcer), Ed James (writer). 27:40.
Night Beat. December 28, 1951. NBC network. Sustaining. Ben Troy's wife is having a baby, and Ben's almost going into labor himself! A two-voice drama. Frank Lovejoy, William Conrad, Warren Lewis (producer, director), David Ellis (writer), Mary Marcus (editor), Robert Armbruster (music), Don Rickles (announcer). 29:18.
The Great Gildersleeve. June 21, 1942. NBC network. Sponsored by Kraft Foods. Sam Hearn appears as "Schlepperman," the furniture dealer. "The Chairs Of Gildersleeve," a present for Father's Day. Harold Peary, Walter Tetley, Paula Winslowe, Lillian Randolph, Lurene Tuttle, Leonard L. Levinson (writer), William Randolph (composer, conductor), Jim Bannon (announcer), Sam Hearn, Earle Ross, Mel Blanc. 29:36.
Mystery is My Hobby #17 "Some Fatherly Advice."
I could not find the synopsis of this epidsode anywhere, but I did find a description of the series at radioarchives.com:
First aired between 1945 and 1947, "Mystery is My Hobby" (which Mutual originally broadcast as "Murder is My Hobby") is a good example of a typical mystery series from radio’s "golden age." Glenn Langan stars as mystery writer Barton Drake, author of both short stories and a series of best-selling anthology books. Drake is a well-spoken sophisticate, fascinated by the ways of the criminal mind, and is intrigued by mysteries the same way that other hobbyists - ornithologists, for instance - are intrigued with birds. His stories and books have given him a comfortable income, allowing him to freely pursue the details of whatever new case or crime may come his way - and come they do, on a weekly basis, with a seemingly endless array of robberies, shootings, suspicious deaths, damsels in distress, and unsolved murders to occupy his time and fascinate his interests.
An urbane mixture of Ellery Queen and Philo Vance (with a surfeit of Boston Blackie thrown in for good measure), Barton Drake is a pleasant, friendly, and knowledgeable fellow who is always willing to assist both perfect strangers and the police in solving some mystery or other, if only to fill his need for serviceable story plots. Some of his cases deal with the solutions to impossible crimes - dead men committing murder, for instance - but the majority are bread-and-butter for a radio detective: basically, who's dead, whodunit, and how’d they do it? In the programs, lead Glenn Langan is assisted by many of the "usual suspects" - the top character actors of Radio Row - including such talents as Norman Field, Ken Christy, Betty Lou Gerson, Willard Waterman, Junius Matthews, and Jack Edwards Jr.
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