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7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. August 29, 1956. Program #296. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Cranesburg Matter". Episode #4. A murdered pearl thief and that gun again. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Howard McNear, Forrest Lewis, Paul Richards, Mary Jane Croft, Virginia Gregg, James McCallion, Russell Thorson, Shirley Mitchell, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor). 15 minutes. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. August 30, 1956. Program #297. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Cranesburg Matter". Episode #5. Johnny learns that the society girl is out and her maid is in. More female visitors. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Howard McNear, Forrest Lewis, Paul Richards, Mary Jane Croft, Virginia Gregg, James McCallion, Russell Thorson, Shirley Mitchell, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor). 15 minutes. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
7:30 Dragnet. July 3, 1952. Program #160. NBC net. "The Big Trio". Sponsored by: Fatima. A portrait of the death and destruction on Los Angeles streets on the 4th of July weekend, including "Hit and Run Logan." Good radio. George Fenneman (announcer), Hal Gibney (host), Harry Bartell, Jack Webb, James Moser (writer), Stacy Harris, Vic Perrin, Victor Rodman, Walter Schumann (conductor). 29:30. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. September 10, 1955. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "Alarm At Pleasant Valley". A band of renegade Kiowa Indians attacks the Clayburn family. Sam Fraser decides to give up and leave the territory. See cat. #50729 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on August 25, 1956. Rex Koury (composer, performer), Sam Edwards, Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Vic Perrin, William Conrad, George Walsh (announcer), Bill James (sound patterns), Eleanor Tanin, Helen Kleeb, John Dehner, John Dunkel (writer), John James, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Parley Baer. 25 minutes. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:30 The Great Gildersleeve. June 9, 1946. NBC net. Sponsored by: Kraft Parkay. Gildersleeve recalls a Fourth of July picnic held by The Jolly Boys, at which they sang, "In The Good Old Summertime." Tommy Bernard as Craig Bullard. A good show, the last one of the season. The last Sunday program as the show switches the next season to Wednesday (on September 11, 1946). Arthur Q. Bryan, Earle Ross, Harold Peary, Jack Meakin (music), John Laing (announcer), John Whedon (writer), Ken Christy, Lillian Randolph, Louise Erickson, Richard LeGrand, Sam Moore (writer), Shirley Mitchell (?), Tommy Bernard, Walter Tetley. 29:43. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:00 Our Miss Brooks. July 3, 1949. CBS net. "The 4th Of July At Eagle Springs". Sponsored by: Palmolive Soap, Lustre-Creme Shampoo, Palmolive Shave Cream. Plans for the July 4th weekend at Eagle Springs aren't as easy as they sound! Eve Arden, Jane Morgan, Gale Gordon, Gloria McMillan, Verne Smith (announcer), Richard Crenna, Jeff Chandler, Larry Berns (producer), Al Lewis (writer, director), Wilbur Hatch (music), Bob Lemond (announcer), Howard McNear (doubles), Parley Baer (?), Joseph Kearns (?). 29:40. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:30 CBS Is There. March 21, 1948. CBS net. "The Declaration Of Independence Is Adopted". Sustaining. The events of July 4, 1776. Will the Continental Congress delegates vote for a break with England? The program is to be pre-empted next week for the second broadcast of "The Son Of Man" by Archibald MacLeish. John Daly, Robert Lewis Shayon (producer, director, writer), Quincy Howe, Ken Roberts, Quentin Reynolds, Michael Sklar (writer). 28:28. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
10:00 Options 07/04/78 The 4th of July w/Ed Walker (NPR) (60:00) No synopsis for this show is available on the Index.
Hooah! The founding fathers would be firing by now, all right.
Hooah! The founding fathers would be firing by now, all right.