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Hello, FRiends! Thanks, Vision!

I surely hope Ed is feeling all better this week. I know from experience that it's the pits trying to do radio when you're sick (even if it's not live).

7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. July 4, 1956. Part 3. CBS net. "The Midas Touch Matter". Sustaining. The so-called trackless desert yields a set of tracks that leads straight to... 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 (music supervisor), Carl Fortina (music supervisor). 13:46. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.

7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. July 5, 1956. Part 4. CBS net. "The Midas Touch Matter". Sustaining. The case is closed and then it suddenly reopens with a bang...from a 30.06 rifle! 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 (music supervisor), Carl Fortina (music supervisor). 13:12. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.

7:30 Dragnet. July 10, 1952. Program #161. NBC net. "The Big Hate". Sponsored by: Fatima. Elizabeth Hoffman, a fifty-two year old music teacher, is found dead in a boxcar! Gordon Miller is found holding the body. Harry Bartell, Herb Ellis, Jack Webb, James Moser (writer), Joyce McCluskey, Vic Perrin, Walter Schumann (conductor). 29:14. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

8:00 Gunsmoke. July 16, 1955. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "Twenty-Twenty". Troy Carver, a lawman who doesn't see very well, is determined to go ahead with a gunfight. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on February 25, 1956. See cat. #61889 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, Vic Perrin, Joseph Cranston, James Nusser, John Meston (writer), Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), George Walsh (announcer). 26:08. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

8:30 The Jimmy Durante Show. March 31, 1948. NBC net. Sponsored by: Rexall Drugs. Rose Marie does a very good imitation of Jimmy. The whole cast and guest Victor Moore tour the colleges of America. Jimmy Durante, Arthur Treacher, Roy Bargy and His Orchestra, Howard Petrie, Candy Candido, Peggy Lee, Rose Marie, Victor Moore. 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

9:00 Nick Carter. March 25, 1945. Mutual net. "Death Behind The Scenes," or "The Persecuted Actor". Sponsored by: Lin-X Home Brighteners. . 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

9:30 Screen Directors' Playhouse. October 10, 1949. NBC net. "Criss Cross". Sustaining. A good gangster story about a planned armored car holdup and a double-double-cross. Screen director Robert Siodmak appears by transcription. Burt Lancaster, Betty Lou Gerson, Jeff Corey, Betty Morgan, Jimmy Wallington (announcer), Robert Siodmak. 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. September 23, 1940. CBS net. "The Westerner". Sponsored by: Lux (Scarlett O'Hara cameo brooch premium). The "cattlemen," led by Judge Roy Bean, take on the "homesteaders," down in Texas. Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Cecil B. DeMille, Donald Curtis, Doris Davenport, Forrest Tucker, Frederick Shields, Gloria Holden, Hal K. Dawson, Harry Humphrey, Jay Michael, John Deering, Lou Merrill, Melville Ruick (announcer), Ted Arthurs, Brooks Benedict, Julie Bannon (commercial spokesman), Vera Gilmer (intermission guest: a model known as "The Modern Cameo Girl"), Jo Swerling (screenwriter), Niven Busch (screenwriter), Stuart Lake (author), Sanford Barnett (director), George Wells (adaopter), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 59:32. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.