Happy Sunday all.
How is everyone? It’s been sunny and in the 80’s here.
What great lineup tonight. The only weak point is Father Knows Best. Never heard of Luke Salughter of Tombstone...and ending with Whistler from ‘44.
Looks like a decent lineup this evening. A Whistler! But Barton Yarborough died after this Dragnet, although he appears in one more episode.
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2013 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. April 18, 1956. Part 3. CBS net. "The Shepherd Matter". Sustaining. The Big Lie is as true as little green apples. The system cue has been deleted, the program is apparently otherwise complete Bob Bailey, John Dawson (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Roy Rowan (announcer), Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Jeanne Bates, Parley Baer, Lawrence Dobkin, Virginia Gregg, Russell Thorson, Herb Ellis, Barney Phillips. 14:23. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. April 19, 1956. Part 4. CBS net. "The Shepherd Matter". Sustaining. A liar is still lying, even though he's dead! The system cue has been deleted, the program is apparently otherwise complete. Bob Bailey, John Dawson (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Roy Rowan (announcer), Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Jeanne Bates, Parley Baer, Lawrence Dobkin, Virginia Gregg, Russell Thorson, Herb Ellis, Barney Phillips. 14:02. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
7:30 Dragnet. December 13, 1951. Program #131. NBC net. "The Big Overtime". Sponsored by: Fatima. A banker's twenty-two-year-old daughter, Judith Sullivan, has been kidnapped and held for a $30,000 ransom. The script is similar to cat. #10735. Barton Yarborough's next-to-last appearance on the program, he died shortly after this broadcast. An announcement is made that a preview of "Dragnet" on television is to be seen on "Sound Off Time," next week. Barton Yarborough, George Fenneman (announcer), Hal Gibney (host), Jack Webb, James Moser (writer), Vic Perrin, Walter Schumann (conductor), Whitfield Connor. 29:29. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. January 8, 1955. CBS net. "Robin Hood". Sponsored by: L & M, Chesterfield. The stage has been robbed by a gentleman, in the manner of Robin Hood. Was it Teddy Blue Fisher? The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on February 4, 1956. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, John Meston (writer), Lawrence Dobkin, Harry Bartell, Helen Kleeb, Joe Cranston, Frank Cady, Howard McNear, George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Ray Kemper (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), George Walsh (announcer). 30:35. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:30 Father Knows Best 04/26/51 Aunt Martha Visits (Maxwell House Coffee) (NBC) (29:23) Synopsis is missing from the RadioGOLDINdex.
9:00 Calling All Cars. May 8, 1939. Program #283. CBS Pacific net (Don Lee net). "The Man Who Ran Away". Sponsored by: Rio Grande Oil. A 1936 Chevrolet ran down two boys on a bicycle in Laguna Beach. The Highway Patrol uses modern detective methods to find the car involved in the hit-and-run and convict the driver. Jesse Rosenquist (dispatcher), Charles Frederick Lindsley (narrator), E. Raymond Cato (host, Chief of the California Highway Patrol). 29:42. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:30 Luke Slaughter Of Tombstone. March 2, 1958. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. Sheriff Taggart's attempts to take a cowboy prisoner is resisted by Luke...and with good reason. See cat. #50358 for a network, quality upgrade version of this broadcast. AFRTS program name: "Sagebrush Theatre." Sam Buffington, Junius Matthews, Vic Perrin, Sam Edwards, Lawrence Dobkin, Jack Moyles, Frank Gerstle, William N. Robson (director), William N. Robson (writer), Tom Hanley (editorial supervisor), Wilbur Hatch (composer, conductor). 25 minutes. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.
10:00 Counterspy. January 7, 1951. NBC net. "The Case Of The Kleptomaniac Clues". Sustaining. This program has also been dated December 31, 1950. Don MacLaughlin, Phillips H. Lord (producer), Marx B. Loeb (director), Edward Adamson (writer), Mandel Kramer, Lionel Ricou (announcer). 27:24. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.
10:30 The Whistler. September 3, 1944. CBS Pacific net. "Practically Foolproof". Sponsored by: Signal Oil. An interesting story about two robbers who are running a lending library. Things get weird when they plan to use a dwarf to commit a robbery against his will! George W. Allen (producer, director), Harriet Reig (writer), Wilbur Hatch (composer, conductor), Bill Pennell (announcer), Jane Morgan (?). 29:35. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.