Good Evening.
A lot of good shows on the way tonight filled with detectives and suspense.
How is everyone?
Looks like a great lineup tonight--a "Broadway is My Beat," "Escape" and more. We even have Lucille Ball in "My Favorite Husband."
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2013 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. April 12, 1956. Part 4. CBS net. "The Laird Douglas Douglas Of Heatherscote Matter". Sustaining. Things and people start to line up on the case, enough to blow things sky high! System cue deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director, writer), Jeanette Nolan, James McCallion, Hy Averback, Harry Bartell, Byron Kane, Jack Kruschen, Bill James, Ken Christy, Bert Holland, Jack Edwards, Dick Ryan, Amerigo Moreno (musical supervisor). 14:55. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. April 13, 1956. Part 5. CBS net. "The Laird Douglas Douglas Of Heatherscote Matter". Sustaining. Conclusion of story. All the cards are on the table, and the deck was stacked right from the beginning! System cue deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director, writer), Jeanette Nolan, James McCallion, Hy Averback, Harry Bartell, Byron Kane, Jack Kruschen, Bill James, Ken Christy, Bert Holland, Jack Edwards, Dick Ryan, Amerigo Moreno (musical supervisor). 14:59. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.
7:30 Dragnet. November 29, 1951. Program #129. NBC net. "The Big Affair". Sponsored by: Fatima. A French woman is the only witness to a jewelry robery in which the clerk was badly beaten. Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough, George Fenneman (announcer), James Moser (writer), Hal Gibney (announcer), Virginia Gregg, Walter Schumann, Vic Perrin. 29:31. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. December 25, 1954. CBS net. "Kitty Lost". Sponsored by: L & M. Kitty has disappeared, and so has a dude named Jim Rachmil. They were both last seen riding off for a moonlight buggy ride. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on December 21, 1957. William Conrad, Parley Baer, John Meston (writer), John Dehner, James Nusser, Barney Phillips, Vic Perrin, Howard McNear, Norman Macdonnell (producer, transcriber), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Georgia Ellis, Ray Kemper (sound patterns), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), George Walsh (announcer). 30:03. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:30 My Favorite Husband. July 1, 1949. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. Liz looks through her scrapbook and remembers: her first driving lesson, when she told the endings of all of George's jokes, the butcher who fell for her. Lucille Ball, Richard Denning, Gale Gordon, Hans Conried, Frank Nelson, Isabel Scott Rorick (creator). 25 minutes. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:00 Broadway Is My Beat. June 16, 1950. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. Morris Bernstein, a bread delivery man, is beaten to death...and his girlfriend Leah Goldin is beaten too! See cat. #79269 for a network version of this broadcast. Larry Thor, Charles Calvert, Harry Bartell, Barney Phillips, Maria Palmer, Howard McNear, Billy Halop, Elliott Lewis (producer, director), Alexander Courage (composer, conductor), Morton Fine (writer), David Friedkin (writer), Joe Walters (announcer), Jack Kruschen. 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:30 The Amazing Nero Wolfe. January 19, 1951. NBC net. "The Case Of The Calculated Risk". Sustaining. Dave Caffrey tells Nero Wolfe that he plans to commit murder tomorrow. The final promotional announcement and the system cue have been deleted. Sydney Greenstreet, Edwin Fadiman (producer), Victor Rodman, Howard McNear, J. Donald Wilson (producer, director), Gerald Mohr, Maureen Carter, William Johnstone, Herb Butterfield, Don Stanley (announcer), Rex Stout (creator). 29:26. Audio condition: Very good. Incomplete.
10:00 Escape. October 1, 1947. CBS net. "The Most Dangerous Game". Sustaining. A big game hunt for the biggest game of all...man! Hans Conried, Irving Ravetch (adaptor), Paul Frees, Richard Connell (writer), William N. Robson (producer), Richard Sanville (director), Cy Feuer (music conceiver, conductor). 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:30 Lights Out. July 27, 1946. NBC net. "The Battle Of The Magicians". Sustaining. Mr. Saladin says that he can bring back the dead. Wyllis Cooper (writer), Everett Clark, Tony Parish, Meg Hahn, Duke Watson, Boris Aplon, Nathan Davis, Ernest Andrews, Albert Crews (producer, director). 29:54. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
Thank you very much!
Love listening to the Dragnet shows.
That’s a great lineup. On the XM classic radio station, they play all five parts of the Johnny Dollar in succession. The downside of that station is 4 or 5 minutes of commercials every half hour.