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1956 was a Leap Year. The first episode of Johnny Dollar aired on February 29th.

7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. February 29, 1956. Part 3. CBS net. "The Fathom Five Matter". Sustaining. A photograph, a silver cup, a harried widow, and the dead begin to stir with life! The system cue has been deleted. Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Barney Phillips, Bob Bailey, Carleton Young, Eleanor Audley, Jack Johnstone (director), John Dehner, Les Crutchfield (writer), Mary Jane Croft, Roy Rowan (announcer), Sam Edwards, Shepard Menken. 13:41. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.

7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. March 1, 1956. Part 4. CBS net. "The Fathom Five Matter". Sustaining. A crazy kid in love, a right decision by a court, and the whole case smashes wide open. The system cue has been deleted. Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Barney Phillips, Bob Bailey, Carleton Young, Eleanor Audley, Jack Johnstone (director), John Dehner, Les Crutchfield (writer), Mary Jane Croft, Roy Rowan (announcer), Sam Edwards, Shepard Menken. 13:57. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.

7:30 Dragnet. July 19, 1951. Program #110. NBC net. "The Big Sophomore". Sponsored by: Fatima. A young boy named Harry Dunbar admits a series of petty thefts, but is reluctant to explains his reasons. Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough. 29:34. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.

8:00 Gunsmoke. September 6, 1954. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Handcuffs (The Promise)". The first show of the season. Hank Springer has been shot in the leg, but manages to strangle a deputy sheriff and escape being taken in for trial. See cat. #41946 for network, sponsored, quality upgrade. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on January 21, 1956. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, Georgia Ellis, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Lawrence Dobkin, Joe Forte, Irene Tedrow, Rex Koury (composer, conductor), John Meston (writer), Jack Kruschen, John Dehner, George Walsh (announcer). 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

8:30 Fibber McGee and Molly. April 30, 1940. NBC net. Sponsored by: Johnson's Wax. Fibber's been offered a job as a theatrical director...his big chance! Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan, Bill Thompson, Billy Mills and His Orchestra, Harlow Wilcox (announcer), The King's Men, Harold Peary, Isabel Randolph, Don Quinn (writer). 29:40. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

9:00 Gangbusters. August 7, 1948. Program #541. ABC net origination, syndicated, WRVR-FM, New York rebroadcast. "The Case Of The Golf Course Murder". Sponsored by: Arrow Audio. The head of a car-theft ring branches out into murder. See cat. #45118 for a more complete version of this broadcast, but one with the commercials deleted and in poorer audio condition. WRVR rebroadcast date: April 11, 1974. Anne Burr, Frank Readick. 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

9:30 Romance. September 26, 1953. CBS net. "Treadmill". Sustaining. A strange couple arrives on a Pacific island after a storm, with a strange secret. Barney Phillips, Fred MacKaye, Hett Manheim (editorial supervisor), Jeanette Nolan, John Dehner, Raymond Burr, Richard Peel, Roy Rowan (announcer), Ted de Corsia, Walter Newman (writer). 29:51. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

10:00 The NBC University Theatre. January 8, 1950. NBC net. "Manhattan Transfer". Sustaining. A "collective novel" of modern life. Sound portraits of lives in New York City. Andrew C. Love (director), Anne Diamond, Anne Whitfield, Bruce Payne, Don Randolph, Don Stanley (announcer), Eddie Fields, Ernest Kinoy (writer), Gail Bonney, Gayne Whitman, Georgia Ellis, Harvey C. Webster (intermission commentator), John Dos Passos (author), Lawrence Dobkin, Lee Millar Jr., Marjorie Hunt, Nestor Paiva, Paul Frees, Steven Chase, William Lally. 59:33. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.