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7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. March 6, 1956. Part 2. CBS net. "The Plantagenet Matter". Sustaining. How can you help a dead girl? 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). 14:07. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. March 7, 1956. Part 3. CBS net. "The Plantagenet Matter". Sustaining. A dead girl's .38 automatic comes to life! 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). 13:46. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.
7:30 Dragnet. August 9, 1951. Program #113. NBC net. "The Big Screen". Sponsored by: Fatima. With the help of the Los Angeles News, the police tackle a new and growing problem, crooked TV repairmen. The target: "Chaney's Video Repair." After the story, Jack Webb and George Fenneman explain some of the police terms used on the program. Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough, George Fenneman (announcer). 29:34. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. September 20, 1954. CBS net. "The F. U.". Sponsored by: Chesterfield, L & M. It appears that Al Clovis has shot Onie Becker in the back, killing him. Clovis leads Marshal Dillon and Chester out of town so the bank can be robbed. A good story. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on March 14, 1959. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, Georgia Ellis, John Meston (writer), John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), George Walsh (announcer). 29:40. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:30 The Life Of Riley. April 3, 1948. NBC net. Sponsored by: Prell Shampoo, Lava Soap. Riley attends a meeting of the "Neighborhood Betterment League" to complain about juvenile delinquency. William Bendix, Irving Brecher (producer), Tommy Cook, Paula Winslowe, Alan Lipscott (writer), Reuben Ship (writer), Mitch Lindeman (director), Lou Coslowe (music), John Brown, Ken Niles (announcer). 29:38. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:00 The Lady Esther Screen Guild Theatre. July 22, 1946. CBS net. "The Glass Key". Sponsored by: Lady Esther cosmetics. Murder and double-cross in the sordid world of machine politics. Alan Ladd, Marjorie Reynolds, Ward Bond, Ted Meyers (host), Dashiell Hammett (author), Bill Lawrence (producer, director), Harry Cronman (adaptor), Wilbur Hatch (music arranger), Lud Gluskin (conductor). 29:52. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:30 The Adventures Of Sam Spade. August 2, 1946. ABC net. "Sam and Psyche". Sponsored by: Wildroot Cream-Oil. The fourth show of the series. The story title above is possibly correct, although it's announced indirectly. The program has also been referred to as, "The Death Of Dr. Denoff." A psychiatrist being blackmailed is killed by doing a "Brody" from his apartment window. His blackmailer is later found strangled! Howard Duff, Lurene Tuttle, Dick Joy (announcer), Dashiell Hammett (creator), William Spier (producer, director), Fred Esler. 29:30. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
10:00 The Fat Man. July 8, 1946. ABC net. "The Black Angel". The Fat Man becomes involved with a blackmail plot involving $100,000 in stolen bank money. J. Scott Smart, Bernard Green (music), Ed Begley, Gene Kirby (announcer), Dashiell Hammett (creator). 29:08. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
10:30 The Adventures Of The Thin Man. October 6, 1944. Program #40. CBS net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "The Case Of The Suspicious Hangover". Nora has been drugged and used as a murder alibi. Time to fill with an excerpt from an "Ellery Queen" broadcast. AFRS program name: "Mystery Playhouse." Parker Fennelly, Howard Duff (AFRS announcer), Dashiell Hammett (creator), David Gothard, Claudia Morgan, Himan Brown (producer, director), Fred Fradkin (music). 29:22. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.