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7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. October 30, 1956. Program #2. CBS net. "The Silent Queen Matter". Sustaining. A stagecoach ride, Johnny gets his lumps, and a surprise witness turns up! The system cue has been deleted. Adrian Gendot (writer), Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Bob Bailey, Chester Stratton, Frank Gerstle, Jack Johnstone (director), John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin, Paul Dubov, Paula Winslowe, Roy Rowan (announcer), Vic Perrin, Virginia Gregg. 14:40. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. October 31, 1956. Program #3. CBS net. "The Silent Queen Matter". Sustaining. A bowl of lentil soup and Johnny almost ends up in a cemetary! The system cue has been deleted. Adrian Gendot (writer), Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Bob Bailey, Chester Stratton, Frank Gerstle, Jack Johnstone (director), John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin, Paul Dubov, Paula Winslowe, Roy Rowan (announcer), Vic Perrin, Virginia Gregg. 14:10. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
7:30 Dragnet. February 8, 1953. Program #190. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Big Press". A pair of check forgers are at work in Los Angeles. Sgt. Friday goes undercover to track them down. See cat. #47072 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Hal Gibney (announcer), Art Gilmore, Whitfield Connor, John Robinson (writer), Walter Schumann (music). 25 minutes. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. February 5, 1956. CBS net. "Legal Revenge". Sponsored by: L & M, Chesterfield. Marshal Dillon and Chester visit a cabin out on the prairie with a dying man and his strange wife. There's an unusual secret between them. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on November 17, 1956. Bobby Haggart is introduced as the whistler on the Chesterfield commercials. The system cue is added live. William Conrad, John Meston (writer), Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), Helen Kleeb, Lawrence Dobkin, Stacy Harris, Georgia Ellis, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, Bob Haggart, George Walsh (announcer). 25:20. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
8:30 My Favorite Husband. April 22, 1949. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. Liz and George are late to dinner at the Atterburys. Liz is always late! George wants her to budget her time from now on. The date is subject to correction. Lucille Ball, Richard Denning, Gale Gordon, Hans Conried, Isabel Scott Rorick (creator). 24:42. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:00 Casey, Crime Photographer. October 23, 1947. CBS net. "Lady In Distress". Sponsored by: Anchor Hocking Glass. Marybelle Warren has disappeared, and her cowboy companion is concerned. A phoney murder racket is the cause of it all! Alonzo Deen Cole (writer), Archie Bleyer (music), Herman Chittison (piano), Jan Miner, John Dietz (director), John Gibson, Staats Cotsworth, Tony Marvin (announcer), George Harmon Coxe (creator). 29:35. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.
9:30 The Line-Up. October 11, 1951. CBS net. "The Frivolous Forger Fracus". Sustaining. Florian Bach is identified as a passer of bad checks. A popular violinist at this time was actually named "Florian Zabach." William Johnstone, Wally Maher, Eddie Dunstedter (composer, conductor), Ray Hartman, Jay Novello, Jeanette Nolan, Hy Averback, E. Jack Neuman (writer), Herb Butterfield, Howard McNear, Peter Leeds, Gil Stratton, Dan Cubberly (announcer), Jaime del Valle (producer, director). 28:57. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. December 29, 1947. CBS net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "Anchors Aweigh". A wartime musical about two sailors and a girl and a promised audition. AFRS program name: "Showtime." See cat. #45156 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson, Louis Silvers (music director), Frances Robinson, John McGovern, Truda Marson (doubles), Cliff Clark (doubles), William Johnstone, Ed Emerson (doubles), Clarke Gordon, Gil Stratton, Robert Griffin, Edward Marr (doubles), George Neise, Isobel Lennart (screenwriter), Fred MacKaye (director), Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.
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