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Happy Sunday, FRiends! Thanks, Vision!

We finally have schedules posted, and it's a decent lineup tonight. We have a couple of title mismatches with The Lone Ranger and Philip Marlowe.

7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. May 23, 1956. Part 3. CBS net. "The Tears Of Night Matter". Sustaining. A curse goes with the Wendover name...wherever it goes! The system cue has been deleted. The script is similar to, "Jeff Regan, Investigator" (cat. #42397). Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), John Dawson (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, directer), Virginia Gregg, Frank Gerstle, Marvin Miller, Will Wright, William Conrad, Vic Perrin, Jack Kruschen, Jay Novello, Amerigo Moreno (musical supervisor), Carl Fortina (musical supervisor). 14:07. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.

7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. May 24, 1956. Part 4. CBS net. "The Tears Of Night Matter". Sustaining. The old curse comes up with an old fashioned flourish. The system cue has been deleted. The script is similar to, "Jeff Regan, Investigator" (cat. #42397). Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), John Dawson (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Frank Gerstle, Marvin Miller, Will Wright, William Conrad, Vic Perrin, Jack Kruschen, Jay Novello, Amerigo Moreno (musical supervisor), Carl Fortina (musical supervisor). 13:13. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.

7:30 Dragnet. March 13, 1952. Program #144. NBC net. "The Big Fire". Sponsored by: Fatima. Edward Daniels signs a lease for his apartment, then threatens a couple when they try to move in. Barney Phillips, George Fenneman (announcer), Jack Webb, James Moser (writer), Vic Perrin, Walter Schumann (conductor). 29:27. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

8:00 Gunsmoke. April 2, 1955. CBS net. "Bloody Hands". Sponsored by: L & M Cigarettes, Chesterfield. Marshal Dillon gets sick of killing and resigns his job. See cat. #47827 for the program broadcast two years later using the same script. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on February 16, 1957. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin, John Meston (writer), Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Ray Kemper (sound patterns), George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), George Walsh (announcer). 30:13. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

8:30 Fibber McGee and Molly. March 5, 1940. NBC net. Sponsored by: Johnson's Wax. The famous Fibber McGee closet is heard for the first time. Gracie Allen appears as a guest to promote her candidacy for President. Gracie Allen, Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan, Harlow Wilcox, Billy Mills and His Orchestra, The King's Men, Isabel Randolph, Bill Thompson, Mel Blanc, Billy Mills, Don Quinn (writer). 29:29. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

9:00 The Lone Ranger. December 15, 1939. Program #1075/299. Syndicated. "Mullins" "Red". Music fill for local commercial insert. Earle Graser, John Todd, Brace Beemer (announcer), Fran Striker (writer), George W. Trendle (creator, producer). 29:43. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.

9:30 X Minus One. October 31, 1956. NBC net. "Sam, This Is You". Sustaining. A telephone lineman gets a phone call from himself...in the future! Murray Leinster (author), Larry Haines, Pat Hosley, Ernest Kinoy (adaptor), Daniel Sutter (director), Fred Collins (announcer), William Welch (producer). 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

10:00 Nick Carter. April 1, 1944. Mutual net. "The Professor's Secret". Sustaining. "Nick Carter and The Mystery Of The Z-Rays." The announcer misreads the opening announcement. Next week, the program is moving to 10:15 P. M. Saturday evening. The program is referred to as, "The Return Of Nick Carter." Lon Clark, Helen Choate, John Kane, Humphrey Davis, Jock MacGregor (director, writer), Lew White (organist). 29:11. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

10:30 The Adventures Of Philip Marlowe. November 26, 1949. CBS net. "The Birds On The Wing". Sustaining. "The Plunging Comets" are a parachute exhibition act on the midway. A mashed comet results when a chute fails to open. Gracie Allen appears on the story to ask Philip Marlowe's help to get George Burns a radio show on which he could sing. Don Randolph, Gene Levitt (writer), Gerald Mohr, Gracie Allen, Jack Moyles, James Eagles, Junius Matthews, Lois Corbett, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Raymond Chandler (creator), Richard Aurandt (music), Rita Lynn, Robert Mitchell (writer), Roy Rowan (announcer). 29:55. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.