It's perfect weather all this weekend and life is fine. A consistently solid lineup tonight...My Favorite Husband is usually good, a detective show, Suspense!...and MGM Theater (which could be good or ok)...
How is everyone?
Looks like a good lineup this evening. Love the "Suspense" with Joan Crawford and "Broadway is My Beat." According to the synopsis of "My Favorite Husband," we'll have to listen for Lucille Ball to misread a line, making everyone laugh.
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2014 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. July 30, 1956. Program #284. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Sea Legs Matter". Episode #1. Off to Nicaragua to look into a maritime disaster. Bob Bailey, Jack Johnstone (producer, director, writer), Roy Rowan (announcer), Harry Bartell, Lawrence Dobkin, Virginia Gregg, Parley Baer, Don Diamond, Russell Thorson, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor). 14:52. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. July 31, 1956. Program #285. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Sea Legs Matter". Episode #2. The seed of suspicion begins to sprout. Meet Oscar, pilot and everything else. Bob Bailey, Jack Johnstone (writer, producer, director), Roy Rowan (announcer), Harry Bartell, Lawrence Dobkin, Virginia Gregg, Parley Baer, Don Diamond, Russell Thorson, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor). 14:56. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
7:30 Dragnet. August 21, 1952. Program #165. NBC net. "The Big Paper". Sponsored by: Fatima. Blank checks have been stolen from "Marty's Mart," and are being passed in supermarkets by Roger Theodore. But Roger Theodore died six months ago! Jack Webb, Herb Ellis, George Fenneman (announcer), Cliff Arquette, Virginia Gregg, Hal Gibney (announcer), John Robinson (writer), Walter Schumann (music). 29:37. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. August 13, 1955. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "Johnny Red". Bill Krale returns to his old mother seventeen years after he ran away from home. But he's not really Bill Krale! The script was used again on September 13, 1959 (see cat. #52370), and on the Gunsmoke television series on October 3, 1959. See cat. #61893 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, Sam Edwards, Virginia Gregg, Vic Perrin, Lawrence Dobkin, Paul Dubov, Les Crutchfield (writer), Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), George Walsh (announcer). 26:33. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:30 My Favorite Husband. April 29, 1949. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. A situation comedy that varies from being ridiculous to just plain silly. It's vacation time...will it be Moosehead Lodge or a trailer trip? Lucille misreads a line and cracks up the cast and audience. Lucille Ball, Richard Denning, Gale Gordon, Frank Nelson, Wally Maher, Milton Stark, Isabel Scott Rorick (creator). 24:13. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:00 Broadway Is My Beat. February 17, 1950. CBS net. Sustaining. Dion Hartley invites Danny Clover to visit his exquisite apartment. He tells Danny that he's going to be murdered. He knows who's going to kill him, but won't tell Danny who it is. After the murder takes place, Danny seems to be falling for a suspect! Danny gets himself arrested after a fistfight in a restaurant. The guy he fights with is then murdered! Larry Thor, Charles Calvert, Anne Stone, Virginia Gregg, Elliott Reid, Ted Osborne, Bert Holland, Jack Kruschen, Morton Fine (writer), David Friedkin (writer), Joe Walters (announcer), Elliott Lewis (producer, director). 29:45. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:30 Suspense. March 22, 1951. CBS net. "Three Lethal Words". Sponsored by: Auto-Lite. A former screenwriter describes her story about a forty-three year old woman who throws acid in the face of her younger boyfriend. A predictable story about insanity in Hollywood that even admits on the air that it sounds like a "Sunset Boulevard" melodrama. Bea Benaderet, Lillian Buyeff, Ted de Corsia, Don Diamond, Sylvia Syms, Joseph Kearns (announcer, performer), Elliott Lewis (producer, director), Harlow Wilcox (commecial spokesman), Lucien Moraweck (composer), Lud Gluskin (conductor), Charles Vion (author), Walter Brown Neuman (adaptor), Joan Crawford, Hy Averback. 29:48. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 The MGM Theatre Of The Air. January 20, 1950. Program #18. MGM syndication. "Third Finger, Left Hand". Commercials added locally. A light comedy about a marriage of convenience between an artist and a lady executive. Melvyn Douglas, Arlene Francis, Edwin Jerome, Ed Stokes (announcer), Howard Dietz (host), William Kendall Clarke (adaptor), Joel Herron (composer, conductor), Marx B. Loeb (director), Raymond Katz (producer). 58:17. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.