Thanks to J. David Goldin's searchable RadioGOLDINdex for these brief synopses.
7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. February 14, 1956. Part 2. CBS net. "The Qui Bono Matter". Sustaining. Beauty is as beauty does. An idol is found to be made out of flesh and blood. The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), D. J. Thompson, Byron Kane, Howard McNear, Mary Jane Croft, Forrest Lewis, Russell Thorson, Dal McKinnon, Sam Edwards, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor). 13:52. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. February 15, 1956. Part 3. CBS net. "The Qui Bono Matter". Sustaining. The net tightens, a rat runs for cover, and the whole thing blows wide open. The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), D. J. Thompson, Byron Kane, Howard McNear, Mary Jane Croft, Forrest Lewis, Russell Thorson, Dal McKinnon, Sam Edwards, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor). 13:48. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.
7:30 Dragnet. June 7, 1951. Program #104. NBC net. "The Big Imposter". Sponsored by: Fatima. Jimmy Sherman, a ten-year-old boy has disappeared. The boy's grandfather has collapsed after his blue jeans were found by the reservoir. Later, the boy is found safe near Dayton Ohio, but is it the same boy? Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough, George Fenneman (announcer). 29:32. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. July 26, 1954. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "Matt For Murder (How To Catch A Marshal)". Red Samples accuses Marshal Dillon of murdering his partner. Wild Bill Hickok is sent for to arrest Dillon so he can stand trial. A good story. See cat. #61528 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on September 13, 1958. Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, James Nusser, Vic Perrin, John Dehner, John Meston (writer), William Conrad, Parley Baer, George Walsh (announcer). 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:30 Father Knows Best. September 18, 1952. NBC net. Sponsored by: Post Cereals, Postum. There's a convention of insurance underwriters in Chicago at the same time that all three kids are going to be away for the weekend. This is not as easy as it sounds! Robert Young, Norma Jean Nilsson, Jean Vander Pyl, Ted Donaldson, Paul West (writer), Bill Forman (announcer), Rhoda Williams, Ben Gershwin (writer). 29:34. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:00 Broadway Is My Beat. December 3, 1949. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. Sherman Gates is found poisoned in the loge of a movie theatre, which leads to a murdered photographer. See cat. #92716 for a network recording of this broadcast Elliott Lewis (producer, director), Alexander Courage (composer), Larry Thor, Charles Calvert, Paul Dubov, Junius Matthews, Mary Jane Croft, Elliott Lewis (producer, director), Morton Fine (writer), David Friedkin (writer), Alexander Courage (composer), Wilbur Hatch (conductor), Herbert Rawlinson, Joyce McCluskey, Joe Forte. 30:27. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:30 Frontier Gentleman. April 6, 1958. CBS net. "The Powder River Kid". Sustaining. The Powder River Kid has been shot, gangrene has set in and he doesn't have long to live. What about the reward? John Dehner, Joseph Kearns, Paula Winslowe, Lawrence Dobkin, Barney Phillips, Antony Ellis (producer, director), Wilbur Hatch (composer, conductor), John Wald (announcer). 24:55. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. November 18, 1946. CBS net. "O.S.S.". Sponsored by: Lux, Spry. Espionage, sabotage and action in occupied France during the war. Fred MacKaye (director), Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Richard Maibaum (screenwriter), Thomas Hanlon (second announcer), Joseph Kearns, Louis Silvers (music director), Richard Benedict, Robert Coute, Rolfe Sedan (doubles), Truda Marson (doubles), Doris Singleton (commercial spokesman: as "Libby"), Lucille Barkley (intermission guest), Norman Field (doubles), William Keighley (host), Charles Seel, Ed Emerson (doubles), Gale Gordon, George Neise (doubles), George Sorel (doubles), Henry Roland, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Howard Jeffrey, Jay Novello, John Milton Kennedy (announcer), Noreen Gammill (doubles). 59:24. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
Hope everyones week was good.