WAMU is back up for now. I’m working on the synopses now...
WARNING! MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. October 21, 1955. Part 5. CBS net. "The Chesapeake Fraud Matter". Sustaining. Conclusion of the story. A double murder, and the surprising conclusion of the case...back in Baltimore. 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. 14:36.
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. October 24, 1955. Part 1. CBS net. "The Alvin Summers Matter". Sustaining. A trip to Santa Tomas Mexico, to find Alvin Summers, the embezzler. Bob Bailey, Robert Ryf (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Don Diamond, Parley Baer, Roy Rowan (announcer). 14:43.
Dragnet. July 13, 1950. Program #57. NBC net. "The Big Bomb". Sponsored by: Fatima. Vernon Carney is threatening to blow up the Los Angeles City Hall unless his brother is released from jail. See cat. #52632 for the same script, broadcast a year earlier. Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough, Richard Boone. 29:34.
Gunsmoke. October 17, 1953. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "Yorky". Yorky Kelly tells the Marshal that his father has been kidnapped and his horse stolen. Yorky's step-mother is something else again. A good story! The script was used again on April 6, 1958 and on the Gunsmoke television series on February 18, 1956. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Dick Beals, Lawrence Dobkin, John Dehner, John Meston (writer). 1/2 hour.
The Lucky Strike Program Starring Jack Benny. September 30, 1945. NBC net. Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first show of the season. Jack "misses" the first show, which features uncanny imitatation of Harold Peary (Mel Blanc) and Edgar Bergen (Ollie O'Toole). Steve Bradley (Dick Lane) appears for the first time. He offers to be Jack's publicity agent. The NBC "telephone operators" ("Mabel and Gertrude") appear for the first time. Jack Benny, L. A. Speed Riggs (tobacco auctioneer), F. E. Boone (tobacco auctioneer), Don Wilson, Sara Berner, Bea Benaderet, Eddie Anderson, Phil Harris, Larry Stevens, Mary Livingstone, Ollie O'Toole, Bob Ballin (producer, performer), Mel Blanc, Kenny Delmar (commercial spokesman), Joseph Kearns, Dick Lane, Basil Ruysdael (commercial spokeman), Hal Sims (commercial spokesman), Mahlon Merrick (conductor), George Balzer (writer), John Tackaberry (writer), Milt Josefsberg (writer), Sam Perrin (writer). 28:15.
Rocky Jordan. February 13, 1949. CBS Pacific net. "Red Stands For Blood". Sustaining. Mr. Melnick wants to rents the Cafe Tambourine for the evening. He's a street photographer who actually doesn't want to rent the cafe. Jack Moyles, Gomer Cool (writer), Cliff Howell (producer, director), Richard Aurandt (original music), Larry Roman (writer), Larry Thor (announcer). 29:38.
Adventures of Michael Shayne #08 Case of the Generous Killer (Synd) (26:42) No synopsis is available at RadioGOLDIndex.com.
The Radio Hall Of Fame. January 28, 1945. Blue Network. Sponsored by: Philco. Host Dick Powell starts by singing, "Evalina." Comedian Gil Lamb tells how various composers would have written, "Little Jack Horner." Paul Whiteman's Orchestra and Chorus "honors" Major Meredith Willson. Benjamin Carter and Mantan Moreland as "Benjamin and Mantan" do a "blackface" routine. Dick sings "Shipmates Forever" as a salute to the Navy. Billy Gilbert tells about his experiences in the Army and does one of his sneezing routines. The Whiteman orchestra plays an extended medley of the many tunes they made famous. An army doctor describes how an iron lung was improvised out of bamboo in the Chinese jungles to rescue a soldier with Infantile Paralysis. Dick Powell (m. c.), Ginny Simms, Gil Lamb, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra, Benjamin Carter, Mantan Moreland, Jimmy Wallington (announcer), Billy Gilbert. 59:18.