We have Frank Sinatra in Rocky Fortune and a Lux!
These (very) brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2014 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. September 6, 1956. Program #302. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Curse Of Kamoshek Matter". Episode #4. The curse strikes...twice! Bob Bailey, Jack Johnstone (writer). 15 minutes. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. September 7, 1956. Program #303. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Curse Of Kamoshek Matter". Episode #5 (conclusion). The secret of the bones. Bob Bailey, Jack Johnstone (writer). 15 minutes. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
7:30 Dragnet. October 12, 1952. Program #173. NBC net. "The Big Lie". Sponsored by: Chesterfield. Jeff Curtis has been shot and killed, and his mother doesn't seem to be upset about it! The Chesterfield commercials contain health claims for the products. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Herb Ellis, Whitfield Connor, Helen Kleeb, John Robinson (writer), Walter Schumann (music). 29:25. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. October 8, 1955. CBS net. "Good Girl-Bad Company". Sponsored by: L & M, Chesterfield. After the Army payroll has been robbed, Major Harris threatens to declare martial law in Dodge! Jenny Lane, a good girl keeping bad company, becomes the key to the crime. This is a re-use of the script originally broadcast on May 31, 1952 (see cat. #61440) and June 21, 1959 (see cat. #62621). It was subsequently used on the Gunsmoke television show on May 24, 1958. William Conrad, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, Parley Baer, John Dehner, Virginia Christine, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), John Meston (writer), George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Ray Kemper (sound patterns), George Walsh (announcer). 24:50. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:30 The Life Of Riley. January 14, 1945. Blue Network. Sponsored by: The American Meat Institute. It's the Riley's wedding anniversary. John Brown, Alan Lipscott (writer), Reuben Ship (writer), Lou Kosloff (music), Ken Niles (announcer), William Bendix, Ashmead Scott (writer), Irving Brecher (creator, producer). 29:40. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:00 Philo Vance. August 2, 1949. Program #56. ZIV Syndication. "The Tick-Tock Murder Case". Commercials added locally. A burglar alarm at the Wellington Loan Company has gone off. "Tick-Tock" Maxwell has been murdered. "Sometimes dead men can be more interesting than live ones." A crook willingly admits to robbing the safe, it's his alibi for the murder! Jackson Beck, Joan Alexander, S. S. Van Dine (creator), Jeanne K. Harrison (director), Henry Sylvern (organist), Frederick W. Ziv (producer). 27:03. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.
9:30 Rocky Fortune. February 23, 1954. NBC net. "A Sitting Duck For Death". Sustaining. The "Organ Grinder" has broken out of jail and is out to get Rocky and the others who set him up. Interesting listening. Frank Sinatra, Kay Stewart, Jack Nestle, Barney Phillips, Jack Mather, Tony Barrett, George Pembroke, George Lefferts (writer), Andrew C. Love (director). 24:45. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. April 16, 1945. CBS net. "Only Yesterday". Sponsored by: Lux. A melodrama about a spurned wife during the 1920's and the stock market crash. Edward G. Robinson speaks briefly about the death of President Roosevelt before the story. The story was produced on The Lux Radio Theatre previously on November 6, 1939 (see cat. #49770) and on The Lux Video Theatre on September 27, 1956. See cat. #93469 for a rehearsal recording of this program. Ida Lupino, Robert Young, Edward G. Robinson (host), Edward Marr (doubles), Howard McNear (doubles), Lois Corbett, Lurene Tuttle, Tommy Cook, Charles Seel (doubles), Norman Field (doubles), Ferdinand Munier (doubles), Regina Wallace, Janet Scott (doubles), Truda Marson (doubles), Doris Singleton (commercial spokesman: as "Libby"), Julie Bannon (commercial spokesman), Janet Russell (commercial spokesman), Betty Jean Hainey (commercial spokesman), Ann Tobin (commercial spokesman), Virginia Gregg (commercial spokesman), Louis Silvers (music director), John Milton Kennedy (announcer), William Hurlbut (screenwriter), Arthur Richman (screenwriter), George O'Neil (screenwriter), Frederick Lewis Allen (author), George Wells (adaptor), Fred MacKaye (director), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 1 hour. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.