We have a Whistler and an Escape with a Robert Louis Stevenson story, plus Mutiny on the Bounty hosted by Orson Welles! Great lineup this evening!
It looks like Ed's assistants may have misspelled the new Johnny Dollar series title. Theirs conflicts with the Mr. Goldin's.
These brief synopses are provided courtesy of the RadioGOLDINdex © 2013 J. David Goldin, used by permission.
7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. March 2, 1956. Part 5. CBS net. "The Fathom Five Matter". Sustaining. The conclusion of the story. A dead man tells a tale, but not the one he was meant to tell! 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. 14:02. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. March 5, 1956. Part 1. CBS net. "The Plantagenet Matter". Sustaining. In Vicksburg, a beautiful girl dies in Johnny's arms, while asking him for help! The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), John Dawson (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Michael Ann Barrett, Jeanne Bates, Marvin Miller, Frank Gerstle, Lawrence Dobkin, Jack Kruschen, Ken Peters, Herb Butterfield, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor). 02:51. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.
7:30 Dragnet. July 26, 1951. Program #111. NBC net. "The Big Late Script". Sponsored by: Fatima. A successful businessman named Tony Richmond has been kidnapped and held for a $20,000 ransom. Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough. 29:33. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. September 13, 1954. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "Dooley Surrenders". A buffalo skinner named Emmett Dooley confesses to Marshal Dillon that he's killed a man, but Matt has a good reason for refusing to put him in jail. See cat. #54834 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on March 8, 1958. Vic Perrin, Harry Bartell, James Nusser, William Conrad, Howard McNear, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), John Meston (writer), Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, George Walsh (announcer). 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:30 Bob and Ray. November 10, 1948. WHDH, Boston. Sponsored by: Fatima Cigarettes, Mission Bell Wine. Linda Lovely, "Believe It Or Rot." Bob Elliott, Ray Goulding, Bill Green (piano), Ken Wilson (organ). 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Very good. Complete as above.
9:00 Escape. August 4, 1947. Program #5. CBS net. "The Sire de Maletroit's Door". Sustaining. Which will it be...the beautiful girl or the sword? Robert Louis Stevenson (author), Elliott Lewis, Peggy Webber, William N. Robson (producer, director), Les Crutchfield (adaptor), Ramsay Hill, Cy Feuer (composer, conductor). 29:36. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:30 The Whistler. October 4, 1942. CBS net. "The Urge To Kill". Sustaining. A businessman under intense wartime production pressures develops amnesiac spells with increasing frequency. J. Donald Wilson (writer, director), Wilbur Hatch (composer, conductor). 29:54. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 The Campbell Playhouse. January 13, 1939. CBS net. "Mutiny On The Bounty". Sponsored by: Campbell's Soup. The story of Captain Bligh and the men of "The Bounty" during a visit to Tahiti. Orson Welles reads an eloquent word portrait of ham radio operators. The intermission guest is Dorothy Hall, a ham radio operator who helped the residents of Pitcairn Island during an epidemic. Burgess Meredith, Carl Frank, Dorothy Hall, Edgar Barrier, Ernest Chappell (announcer), Frank Readick, Joseph Cotten, Memo Holt, Myron McCormick, Orson Welles (host), Ray Collins (narrator), Richard Wilson, William Alland. 59:49. Audio condition: Excellent.