We're back to normal programming with the holidays behind us. We have a "Suspense" and a "Lux"!
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2015 J. David Goldin.
7:00 Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. November 18, 1956. CBS net. "The Markham Matter". Sustaining. A man seems to be slowly poisoning his wife. Bob Bailey, Paula Winslowe, Roy Rowan (announcer), John Dehner, Frank Nelson, Lois Corbett, Virginia Gregg, Bert Holland. 30:05. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
7:30 Dragnet. March 8, 1953. Program #194. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Big Laugh". A thoroughly rotten louse cheats lonely women by promising to marry them. See cat. #47074 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Hal Gibney (announcer), John Robinson (writer), Walter Schumann (music), Peggy Webber, Harry Bartell. 25 minutes. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. March 11, 1956. CBS net. "Bringing Down Father". Sponsored by: Chesterfield, L & M. When Harley Burke is arrested for murder, young Andy Gillan takes over as trail boss of his father's herd. Marshal Dillon suspects the obvious killer may not be the guilty one. The system cue is added live. William Conrad, John Meston (writer), Lawrence Dobkin, Vic Perrin, Billy Idelson, Howard McNear, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), George Walsh (announcer). 26:20. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.
8:30 The Fred Allen Show. April 11, 1948. NBC net. Sponsored by: Ford. Allen's Alley Question: "Have you been victimized by misrepresentation in advertising?" Guest Basil Rathbone and oriental detective One Long Pan solve the murder of a British birdwatcher. Fred makes a wisecrack about Jack Benny during the show. Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Al Goodman and His Orchestra, The De Marco Sisters, Basil Rathbone, Kenny Delmar, Minerva Pious, Parker Fennelly, Peter Donald. 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:00 The Adventures Of Nero Wolfe. March 23, 1951. NBC net. "The Case Of The Final Page". Sustaining. Nero Wolfe and Archie attend a dinner at the home of Arthur Merle, only to find him knifed in the back. Sydney Greenstreet, Don Arthur (writer), Rex Stout (creator), William Johnstone, Don Stanley (announcer), Edwin Fadiman (producer), J. Donald Wilson (director), Harry Bartell, Evelyn Eaton, Lucille Alex, Peter Leeds, Monica Nealy, Herb Butterfield. 29:27. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:30 Suspense. September 16, 1942. CBS net. "The Kettler Method". Sustaining. A chilling, exciting story about inmates taking over an asylum for the insane and "operating" on a visitor to cure her headache. Roger De Koven, John Gibson, Martha Falkner, Guy Repp, Gloria Stuart, Peter Barry (writer), Berry Kroeger (announcer), Bernard Herrmann (composer, conductor), William Spier (producer), John Dietz (director), Winfield Honie, Ralph Smiley. 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. November 1, 1943. CBS net. "So Proudly We Hail". Sponsored by: Lux, Vimms. A stirring story about the gallant American nurses on Bataan. The announcer says "introducing Sonny Tufts" (possibly his first broadcast). See cat. #60976 for a rehearsal of this broadcast. Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts, Les Tremayne, Cecil B. DeMille, Boyd Davis, Katherine Craig (doubles), Charles Seel, Dorothy Scott, Ed Emerson (doubles), Paula Winslowe (commercial spokesman), Duane Thompson (commercial spokesman), Doris Singleton (commercial spokesman: as "Libby"), Fred MacKaye, John Milton Kennedy (announcer), Leo Cleary (doubles), Louis Silvers (music director), Marjorie Davies, Norman Field, Regina Wallace, Truda Marson, Howard McNear (doubles), Allan Scott (screenwriter), Sanford Barnett (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 59:35. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.