These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2013 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. May 8, 1956. Part 2. CBS net. "The Silver Blue Matter". Sustaining. Fear stalks the streets...and brings death in a dirty alley. System cue deleted, apparently otherwise complete. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Amerigo Moreno (musical supervisor), Lucille Meredith, Tommy Cook, Richard Crenna, Edgar Barrier, Vic Perrin, Jack Kruschen. 13:56. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. May 9, 1956. Part 3. CBS net. "The Silver Blue Matter". Sustaining. A lonely, broken-hearted girl, a blood stained shirt, and a fight with a cornered rat. System cue deleted, apparently otherwise complete. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Amerigo Moreno (musical supervisor), Lucille Meredith, Tommy Cook, Richard Crenna, Edgar Barrier, Vic Perrin, Jack Kruschen. 13:45. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
7:30 Dragnet. January 24, 1952. Program #137. NBC net. "The Big Court". Sponsored by: Fatima. A bartender was shot and killed during an armed robbery. Four witnesses identify Harold St. Clair as the murderer. Barney Phillips, George Fenneman (announcer), Jack Webb, James Moser (writer), Vic Perrin, Virginia Gregg, Walter Schumann (conductor). 29:35. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. February 19, 1955. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "Poor Pearl". Willy Calhoun has come to Dodge to claim his bride Pearl...with a rifle! See cat. #61771 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on December 22, 1956. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, Vic Perrin, Harry Bartell, Virginia Christine, John Meston (writer), Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Ray Kemper (sound patterns), George Walsh (announcer). 23:56. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:30 The Bickersons 4/20/47 The Bachelor Party (Drene Shampoo)(NBC)(29:52) RadioGOLDINdex does not have this synopsis.
9:00 Richard Diamond, Private Detective. October 15, 1949. NBC net. Sustaining. Jeff the newsboy tips off Diamond to a gang of counterfeiters. After solving the case, Dick Powell sings, "You're Breaking My Heart." Blake Edwards (writer), Dick Powell, Ed Begley, Edward King (announcer), Frank Worth (composer, conductor), Lou Krugman, Parley Baer, Richard Sanville (director), Sammie Hill, Tommy Bernard, Virginia Gregg, Wilms Herbert. 29:33. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:30 Box Thirteen. September 5, 1948. Program #3. Mutual net origination, Mayfair syndication. "Blackmail Is Murder". Commercials added locally. Dan is hired by a crazy old lady with a corpse in her hotel room. Alan Ladd, Sylvia Picker, Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor). 27:23. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Otherwise complete.
10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. May 17, 1937. CBS net, KNX, Los Angeles aircheck. "Another Language". Sponsored by: Lux. A turbulent family drama about an overbearing mother and a son trying to find himself. Sarah Delano Roosevelt (mother of the president) is interviewed after the story. Bette Davis, Fred MacMurray, Cecil B. DeMille, Hal K. Dawson, John Beal, Louis Silvers (music director), Margaret Hamilton, May Robson, Melville Ruick (announcer), Sarah Delano Roosevelt (intermission guest), Janet Henle (intermission guest: head of the wardrobe department at Columbia), Edward Keane, Myra Marsh, Sam Flint, Lou Merrill, Frank Nelson (performer, program opening announcer), Margaret Brayton (commercial spokesman), Margaret MacDonald (commercial spokesman), Sherry Ardell (commercial spokesman), Frank Woodruff (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 59:11. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.