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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. October 19, 1955. Part 3. CBS net. "The Chesapeake Fraud Matter". Sustaining. Is Frank Bowers really John Reardon? Johnny flies to Denver to find out. D. J. Thompson, Bob Bailey, Forrest Lewis, Hy Averback (announcer), Jack Johnstone (director), Jeanne Bates, John Dawson (writer), John Dehner, Paul Dubov, Roy Rowan (announcer), Tony Barrett, Will Wright. 14:38.
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. October 20, 1955. Part 4. CBS net. "The Chesapeake Fraud Matter". Sustaining. Fingerprints don't lie, but liars can fingerprint! D. J. Thompson, Bob Bailey, Forrest Lewis, Hy Averback (announcer), Jack Johnstone (director), Jeanne Bates, John Dawson (writer), John Dehner, Paul Dubov, Roy Rowan (announcer), Tony Barrett, Will Wright. 14:35.
Dragnet. July 6, 1950. Program #56. NBC net. "The Big Frame". Sponsored by: Fatima. Eddie Stokes has been the victim of a hit and run driver...or has he? Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough. 29:34.
Gunsmoke. October 10, 1953. CBS net. "How To Die For Nothing". Sponsored by: Sugar Crinkles, Post Toasties. After Marshal Dillon shoots a drunken cowboy, his brother swears to shoot him in the back. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on June 23, 1956, and used again on radio May 10, 1958. Credits are the same for both broadcasts of this script, except the 1958 show credits Jack Moyles and does not credit John Dehner! William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, John Dehner, Vic Perrin, Harry Bartell, Lawrence Dobkin, John Meston (writer). 25 minutes.
Broadway Is My Beat. August 25, 1949. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. Val Dane, a universally hated author, is found dead of starvation in a room full of food! Larry Thor, Charles Calvert, Morton Fine (writer), David Friedkin (writer), Cliff Howell (director), Lud Gluskin (music director). 30:55.
Fibber McGee and Molly. November 28, 1939. NBC net. Sponsored by: Johnson's Wax. Fibber and Molly are having a hard time dodging the finance company. Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan, Harlow Wilcox, Billy Mills and His Orchestra, Jimmy Shields, Harold Peary, Bill Thompson, Isabel Randolph, Frank Nelson, Don Quinn (writer). 29:34.
NBC's Short Story. March 14, 1951. NBC net. "The Lottery". Sustaining. A good story about a quaint old custom. Well written! The series is also known as, "NBC Presents Short Story." Andrew C. Love (director), Charles Seel, Don Stanley (announcer), Ernest Kinoy (writer), Gail Bonney, Irene Tedrow, Jack Nessler, James Nusser, Jeff Corey, Jeffrey Silver, John McGovern, Louise Lorimer, Margaret Brayton, Morris King (folk singer), Shirley Jackson (author), Steven Chase. 29:38.
The Lux Radio Theatre. April 3, 1939. CBS net. "Silver Dollar". Sponsored by: Lux. The true story of Horace Tabor, who became fabulously wealthy from the silver mines of Colorado. The intermission guest is the former United States Minister to Denmark, who also is the daughter of William Jennings Bryan (the orator remembered for his "Cross Of Gold" speech). An excellent, well-done drama! Harvey Thew (screenwriter), Frank Woodruff (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Edward Arnold, Anita Louise, Marjorie Rambeau, Cecil B. DeMille, Sally Creighton (commercial spokesman), Forrest Taylor (doubles), Frank Nelson (doubles, program opening announcer), Ynez Seabury, Joseph Du Val (doubles), David Kerman (doubles), Eric Burtis, Marilyn Stuart (commercial spokesman), Lois Collier (commercial spokesman), Ruth Bryan Owen Rhoday (intermission guest), Ross Forrester, Betty Jean Hainey (commercial spokesman), David Karsner (author), Lou Merrill (doubles), Mary Lansing (doubles), Perry Ivins (doubles), Lee Millar, Walter White, Carl Erickson (screenwriter). 59:33.