I say it every year, I LOVE this Jack Benny episode...don't miss...
Thanks to J. David Goldin's RadioGOLDINdex for these brief synopses.
7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. January 30, 1956. Program #1. CBS net. "The Flight Six Matter". Sustaining. A girl so beautiful, that men are willing to kill for her. Johnny's in Mexico, investigating a deliberate plane sabotage. The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Edgar Barrier, Russell Thorson, Jack Moyles, Ben Wright, Don Diamond, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor). 14:16. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. January 31, 1956. Program #2. CBS net. "The Flight Six Matter". Sustaining. A fighting girl and a lucky break, then murder cancels the score. The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Edgar Barrier, Russell Thorson, Jack Moyles, Ben Wright, Don Diamond, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor). 13:57. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.
7:30 Dragnet. May 17, 1951. Program #101. NBC net. "The Big Blast". Sponsored by: Fatima. The program begins, "Fatima is proud to present its Academy Award winning radio show" (the motion picture "Academy" never gave awards for radio programs!). Josephine Stevens has been murdered with a shotgun, as her seven-year-old boy watched! A well- written, good show! Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough. 29:30. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. July 5, 1954. CBS net. "Hack Prine". Sponsored by: Chesterfield, L & M Cigarettes. A professional gunman, who is an old friend of Marshal Dillon's, is hired by a coward and an enemy of Dillon's to gun down the Marshall. The first show sponsored by Chesterfield. The script was used as the pilot of the Gunsmoke television series and was used as the program of April 28, 1956. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin, Vic Perrin, Harry Bartell, John Meston (writer), George Walsh (announcer). 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:30 Jack Benny 04/17/49 Walking in the Easter Parade (CBS) (26:06) Synopis is missing from the Index.
9:00 Our Miss Brooks. April 9, 1950. CBS net. "Tint-Tomorrow Soap Powder". Sponsored by: Colgate Toothpaste, Lustre-Creme Shampoo, Palmolive Soap. The story of Walter's new invention: "Tint-Tomorrow," a revolutionary Easter egg dye. There's going to be a very colorful Easter parade! Eve Arden, Al Lewis (writer, director), Jane Morgan, Gloria McMillan, Richard Crenna, Gale Gordon, Jeff Chandler, Wilbur Hatch (composer), Larry Berns (producer), Lester White (writer), Maurice Carlton (conductor), Bob Lemond (announcer). 29:36. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:30 The Abbott and Costello Show. April 17, 1947. NBC net. Sponsored by: Camels, Prince Albert Pipe Tobacco. The opening routine is about girls. Costello is going to play baseball with the New York Yankees. This leads to the famous, "Who's On First" routine. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Skinnay Ennis and His Orchestra, Michael Roy (announcer), John Brown, Elvia Allman, Will Osborne and His Orchestra, Nat Wolff (producer, director), Marilyn Maxwell, Bert Cordon (sound effects), John Pawlick (engineer). 29:17. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 Biographies In Sound. April 10, 1956. NBC net. "Mr. Baseball, The Story Of Connie Mack". Sponsored by: Sustaining, Kools. The story of the long Major League career of the owner and manager of the Philadelphia Athletics. Howard Emke tells a great story about the 1929 World Series. A brief portion has been deleted near the end of the program. The program is preceded by a newscast by Kenneth Banghart, sponsored by Kool. Lindsey Nelson (narrator), Red Smith, Andy Cokely, Mickey Cochran, Mrs. Eddie Collins, Jack Barry, Connie Mack, Jimmy Foxx, Howard Emke, Ford Frick, Will Harridge, Robert Cenedella (writer), George Voutsas (director). 57:52. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.