With the exception of Fibber McGee we have a pretty good lineup, ending strong with a Lux!
Evening all! How are you?
These brief synopses are used by permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2013 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. March 20, 1956. Program #190. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Jolly Roger Fraud". Episode #2. Where there's smoke, there's fire. Zanegian tries bribery, and murder. Bob Bailey. 15 minutes. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. March 21, 1956. Program #191. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Jolly Roger Fraud". Episode #3. A dead man talks, but there's murder in the Coast Guard too. Bob Bailey. 15 minutes. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
7:30 Dragnet. September 13, 1951. Program #118. NBC net. "The Big Waiter". Sponsored by: Fatima Cigarettes. An elderly shopkeeper is brutally beaten to death. It seems he had a roving eye for the ladies. Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough, George Fenneman (announcer). 29:43. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. October 23, 1954. CBS net. "Ma Tennis". Sponsored by: L & M. After Andy Tennis kills an unarmed man and is arrested by Marshal Dillon, Ma Tennis comes to town...with her shotgun! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on February 1, 1958. Georgia Ellis, John Meston (writer), Virginia Gregg, Sam Edwards, Harry Bartell, Lee Millar Jr., Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Howard McNear, Parley Baer, George Walsh (announcer), Norman Macdonnell (director), William Conrad. 29:51. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:30 Fibber McGee and Molly. October 16, 1945. NBC net. Sponsored by: Johnson's Wax. Fibber tries to get railroad tickets for Mrs. Carstairs. Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan, Billy Mills and His Orchestra, The King's Men, Gale Gordon, Harlow Wilcox, Bea Benaderet, Arthur Q. Bryan, Shirley Mitchell, Don Quinn (writer), Phil Leslie (writer). 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:00 Hopalong Cassidy. October 11, 1950. Program #81. Commodore syndication. "Gunhawk Convention". Commercials added locally. A whole town is taken over by crooks and Hoppy loses $10,000 in gold. William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Walter White Jr. (producer, transcriber), Herb Purdum (writer), Albert Glasser (music supervisor). 26:19. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Otherwise complete.
9:30 Mr. Keen, Tracer Of Lost Persons. October 6, 1949. CBS net. "The Case Of The Man Who Invented Death". Sponsored by: Anacin, Kolynos Toothpaste, Heet. A modern alchemist has been electrocuted to learn his secrets. Bennett Kilpack, Frank Hummert (originator, producer), Anne Hummert (originator, producer), Lawrence Klee (dialogue), Larry Elliott (announcer). 29:49. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. October 23, 1939. CBS net. "Invitation To Happiness". Sponsored by: Lux. An uneducated prize fighter and a society woman fall in love and marry, both knowing that there are few similarities in their worlds. A well-done boxing/romance story. A girl's trio, billed as "Sally, Irene and Mary," sings a Lux commercial to the tune of, "The Band Played On." Don't miss the tuned cash registers that accompany the orchestra! The story is based on the life of boxer King Cole. Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll, Cecil B. DeMille, George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Sanford Barnett (director), Eva Nixon (commercial spokesman), Vivian Edwards (The Modernettes Trio: commercial spokesman), Mark Jerome (author), Melville Ruick (announcer), Cy Kendall, Eric Burtis, Harry Humphrey, Louis Silvers (music director), Mark Geroux (writer), Claude Binyon (screenwriter), Tristram Coffin, James Eagles (doubles), Ross Forrester (doubles), Robert Warrick, Frank Nelson, Jessie Huston, Ethel Sykes, Grace Nielson (The Modernettes Trio: commercial spokesman), Jo Campbell (The Modernettes Trio: commercial spokesman), Kathleen Fitz, Lou Merrill (doubles), Thomas Graham, David Kerman, Sidney Newman. 59:00. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.