We may have sparse participation because of the Big Game, but here's the lineup anyway that includes a Lux and a Suspense!
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2014 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. May 31, 1956. Part 4. CBS net. "The Matter Of Reasonable Doubt". Sustaining. The pressure hits the top and the whole mess starts to crack. The system cue has been deleted. Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Bob Bailey, Carl Fortina (music supervisor), Forrest Lewis, Inge Adams, Jack Johnstone (director), Jean Tatum, Jeanette Nolan, Les Crutchfield (writer), Paul Richards, Richard Crenna, Roy Rowan (announcer), Susan Whitney. 14:3. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. June 1, 1956. Part 5. CBS net. "The Matter Of Reasonable Doubt". Sustaining. The conclusion of the story. The pitched is pegged too late and the runner comes home, the score 1 to 0, favor death. The system cue has been deleted. Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Bob Bailey, Carl Fortina (music supervisor), Forrest Lewis, Inge Adams, Jack Johnstone (director), Jean Tatum, Jeanette Nolan, Les Crutchfield (writer), Paul Richards, Richard Crenna, Roy Rowan (announcer), Susan Whitney. 13:3. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.
7:30 Dragnet. April 3, 1952. Program #147. NBC net. "The Big Streetcar". Sponsored by: Fatima. Wally Radford has been shot by his wife, who is tracked down with the help of a trolley. Barney Phillips, Helen Kleeb, Herb Ellis, Jack Kruschen, Jack Webb, James Moser (writer), Walter Schumann (conductor). 29:2. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. April 23, 1955. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "Born To Hang". Joe Digger is lynched by two ranchers, but he's cut down before he dies and swears to kill the men who tried to kill him. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on November 2, 1957. See cat. #51585 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, Joseph Kearns, James Nusser, John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin, John Meston (writer), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Ray Kemper (sound patterns), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), George Walsh (announcer). 25 minute. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:30 My Favorite Husband 03/10/50 Women's Rights Pt. 2 (Jello) (CBS) (29:32). Syopsis is missing from the Index.
9:00 Boston Blackie. April 22, 1947. Program #106. ABC net origination, Ziv syndication. Commercials added locally. Millicent Bromley has been kidnapped, "The Professor" has been murdered, and a dog is the most important member of the gang. An interesting show in which Blackie never appears! Shorty solves the case with the help of telegrams and (unheard) phone calls from Blackie! Tony Barrett, Lesley Woods, Maurice Tarplin. 28:2. Audio condition: Very good. Otherwise complete.
9:30 Suspense. January 27, 1944. Program #37. CBS net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "The Locked Room". Murder stalks the owner of the second largest diamond in the world. See cat. #61468 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Allyn Joslyn, Virginia Bruce, Will Wright, William Johnstone, John Dickson Carr (writer), William Spier (adaptor, producer, director), George Zucco, Hans Conried, Joseph Kearns ("The Man In Black"), Lucien Moraweck (composer), Lud Gluskin (conductor). 1/2 hou. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. February 11, 1946. CBS net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "Now Voyager". A woman finally breaks free from her domineering mother and winds up in an asylum with the daughter of her true love...by another woman. AFRS program name: "Radio Theatre." See cat. #44900 for a network, sponsored, quality upgrade version. The story was produced on The Lux Radio Theatre previously on May 10, 1943 (see cat. #47002) and on The Lux Video Theatre on October 4, 1956. Bette Davis, Gregory Peck, William Keighley (host), Janet Scott, John Milton Kennedy (announcer), Thomas Hanlon (second announcer), Louis Silvers (music director), Joseph Kearns, Gloria McMillan, Norman Field (doubles), Duane Thompson, Melville Ruick, Frances Robinson, Charles Seel (doubles), Dorothy Scott (doubles), Casey Robinson (screenwriter), Olive Higgins Prouty (author), Fred MacKaye (director), Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 55 minute. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.