Hi All, I’m not much of a fan of Life of Riley and Our Miss Brooks, but otherwise an ok lineup...more Sherlock Holmes...
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7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. February 20, 1956. Part 1. CBS net. "The Bennett Matter". Sustaining. A study in bugs...the deadly variety. Fire bugs! The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), John Dawson (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director). 13:49. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. February 21, 1956. Part 2. CBS net. "The Bennett Matter". Sustaining. Tony Midas turns up...in the morgue! The system cue has been deleted. Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Bob Bailey, Chester Stratton, Edgar Barrier, Hans Conried, Jack Johnstone (director), John Dawson (writer), Lillian Buyeff, Marvin Miller, Parley Baer, Roy Rowan (announcer), Stacy Harris, Will Wright. 13:42. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.
7:30 Dragnet. June 21, 1951. Program #106. NBC net. "The Big Run". Sponsored by: Fatima Cigarettes. Two old women are killed by a young hit and run driver. Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough. 29:44. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. August 9, 1954. CBS net. "Joe Phy". Sponsored by: Chesterfield, L & M. "Marshal" Joe Phy is running the town of Elkader with an iron fist, until Matt Dillon comes to town! See cat. #7073 for the same script used seven years later. The script was also used on the Gunsmoke television series on January 4, 1958. William Conrad, Howard McNear, Georgia Ellis, John Meston (writer), Ralph Moody, Vic Perrin, John Dehner, Parley Baer, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), George Walsh (announcer). 29:39. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:30 The Life Of Riley. May 11, 1946. NBC net. Sponsored by: Teel, Dreft. Riley suspects that Junior has forgotten Mother's Day. William Bendix, John Brown, Ken Carpenter (announcer), Paula Winslowe, Scotty Beckett, Sharon Douglas, Irving Brecher (producer), Don Bernard (director), Lou Coslowe (music). 29:49. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:00 Our Miss Brooks. May 8, 1949. CBS net. "Connie Meets Mr. Boynton's Parents". Sponsored by: Palmolive Shave Cream, Palmolive Soap, Lustre-Creme Shampoo. A Mother's Day program. Miss Brooks has been named "Mother Away From Mother." The script was subsequently used on "Our Miss Brooks" on February 14, 1950 (see cat. #62477). Richard Crenna, Gloria McMillan, Jeff Chandler, Verne Smith (announcer), Jane Morgan, Frank Nelson, Wilbur Hatch (music), Al Lewis (writer, director), Larry Berns (producer), Myra Marsh, Bob Lemond (announcer), Eve Arden, Gale Gordon. 29:53. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:30 Box Thirteen. October 10, 1948. Program #8. Mutual net origination, Mayfair syndication. "Double Mothers". Commercials added locally. Dan Holiday finds himself in possession of a little girl...with two mothers! A man with a gun and his henchman have some other ideas. Ted Hediger (writer, director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Alan Ladd, Sylvia Picker, Vern Carstensen (production supervisor). 27:27. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.
10:00 The Mercury Theatre. September 25, 1938. CBS net. "The Immortal Sherlock Holmes". Sustaining. Holmes vs. Moriarty once again. With news bulletins of the European war crisis. Orson Welles, Ray Collins, Edgar Barrier, Eustace Wyatt, Bernard Herrmann (composer, conductor), Arthur Conan Doyle (creator), Mary Taylor, Brenda Forbes, Morgan Farley, Richard Wilson, Alfred Shirley, William Allen, Arthur Anderson, Frank Gallop (announcer). 1 hour. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.