A lovely lineup tonight...Jack Benny's “Walking in the Easter Parade”, a classic...we get a Phil Harris/Alice Faye show...and a Six Shooter! Love the Six Shooter and love Jimmy Stewart.
Hope you can make it for the show...I'll be a little late coming back from a family dinner...
Again we have an error in the lineup with the Gunsmoke listed for tonight being the one we heard last week, so we have a mystery episode.
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2014 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. July 2, 1956. Part 1. CBS net. "The Midas Touch Matter". Sustaining. $3,000,000 worth of worthless gold mine, and there's blood on the desert sand! A minute-and-a-half of closing theme music suggests a voice-over commercial or promotional announcement. The system cue is added live. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director, writer), Virginia Gregg, Shepard Menken, Johnny Jacobs, Roland Winters, Herb Butterfield, Parley Baer, Barney Phillips, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Carl Fortina (music supervisor). 14:5. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. July 3, 1956. Part 2. CBS net. "The Midas Touch Matter". Sustaining. One of the fishermen who hangs around Lake Mojave is a character named death. The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Jack Johnstone (writer, producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Shepard Menken, Johnny Jacobs, Roland Winters, Herb Butterfield, Parley Baer, Barney Phillips, Amerigo Moreno (amusic supervisor), Carl Fortina (music supervisor). 13:0. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.
7:30 Dragnet. June 26, 1952. Program #159. NBC net. "The Big Roll". Sponsored by: Fatima. Ken Gorman has been abducted in front of a downtown bar and taken away in a gray car. The car turns up with bloodstains soon after. Vic Perrin as Friday's partner. Hal Gibney (host), Jack Webb, James Moser (writer), Sam Edwards, Vic Perrin, Virginia Gregg, Walter Schumann (conductor). 29:3. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke Mystery episode!
8:30 Jack Benny 04/17/49 Walking in the Easter Parade (CBS) (26:06). Synopsis is missing from the Index, but we hear this one each year.
9:00 The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show. April 9, 1950. NBC net. Sponsored by: Rexall. Phil sings, "A Son Of God's Country Am I." Alice sings, "Stay With The Happy People." Phil sees a six-foot Easter Bunny...two of them in fact! The play "Harvey" has closed two months before this program. Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Elliott Lewis, Jeanine Roos, Walter Tetley, Anne Whitfield, Walter Scharf and His Orchestra, Ray Singer (writer), Robert North, Dick Chevillat (writer), Mel Blanc (as the bunny), Arthur Q. Bryan, Paul Phillips (producer, director), Griff Barnett (Rexall druggist). 29:5. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:30 Fibber McGee and Molly. March 23, 1948. NBC net origination, WRVR-FM, New York rebroadcast. Sustaining. Molly has won the Wistful Vista "I Like To Patronize Local Merchants Because..." contest. The prize is an Easter frock. This is a syndicated rebroadcast date: June 7, 1974. See cat. #49578 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan, Billy Mills and His Orchestra, The King's Men, Harlow Wilcox (announcer), Don Quinn (writer), Phil Leslie (writer), Gale Gordon, Bill Thompson, Arthur Q. Bryan, Sandra Gould. 28:5. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 Our Miss Brooks. April 9, 1950. CBS net. "Tint-Tomorrow Soap Powder". Sponsored by: Colgate Toothpaste, Lustre-Creme Shampoo, Palmolive Soap. The story of Walter's new invention: "Tint-Tomorrow," a revolutionary Easter egg dye. There's going to be a very colorful Easter parade! Eve Arden, Al Lewis (writer, director), Jane Morgan, Gloria McMillan, Richard Crenna, Gale Gordon, Jeff Chandler, Wilbur Hatch (composer), Larry Berns (producer), Lester White (writer), Maurice Carlton (conductor), Bob Lemond (announcer). 29:3. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:30 The Six-Shooter. April 15, 1954. NBC net. Sustaining. The Six-Shooter is asked to raise money for a new church organ. He asks the notorious outlaw Red-Eye Kirk to help him! Jimmy Stewart, Frank Burt (creator, writer), Virginia Gregg, Robert Griffin, Basil Adlam (music), Jack Johnstone (director), John Wald (announcer), William Conrad, Marvin Miller, Ted de Corsia. 29:3. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.