Greetings from lovely Baltimore!
The lineup is good...Great Gildersleeve can be like or dislike....Big Story looks interesting (newspaper business?)...Mysterious Traveler is a solid show...and Mercury Theater with The 39 Steps should be a good closing hour.
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These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2015 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. October 6, 1957. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Bum Steer Matter." Cattle rustlers? Yes and no, but it's anthrax that counts! Bob Bailey, Jack Johnstone (writer, producer, writer), Virginia Gregg, Jack Edwards, Forrest Lewis, Dan Cubberly (announcer), Jean Tatum, Howard McNear, Will Wright, Sam Edwards. 25:55. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
7:30 Dragnet. September 8, 1953. Program #212. NBC net. "The Big Lift." Commercials deleted. A burglar has struck seventeen times and continues to commit new crimes...totalling $8000! Boyd Hall is finally caught, despite his home address turning out to be a vacant lot. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander. 25:08. Audio condition: Good. Incomplete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. July 1, 1956. CBS net. "Gun For Chester." Sponsored by: L & M, Chesterfield. Asa Ledbetter is in town, and Chester thinks he's out to kill him! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on September 21, 1957. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, Lawrence Dobkin, John Meston (writer), George Walsh (announcer). 25 minutes. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:30 The Great Gildersleeve. May 20, 1945. NBC net. Sponsored by: Kraft Parkay, Pabst-Ett. Gildersleeve has rediscovered $209.24 that he had forgotten about and decides to invest in the stock market. Claude Sweeten (music), Earle Ross, Harold Peary, John Whedon (writer), Ken Carpenter (announcer), Lillian Randolph, Louise Erickson, Richard LeGrand, Sam Moore (writer), Shirley Mitchell (?), Walter Tetley. 29:22. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:00 The Big Story. March 9, 1949. Program #102. NBC net. Sponsored by: Pall Mall. Ike McAnally of the Cleveland News looks into the story about a respected chemist was killed in an automobile explosion...or was he? Part of the final commercial and the system cue have been deleted. The story is untitled. Robert Sloane (narrator, performer), Cy Harrice (announcer), Sydney Smith (doubles), Alvin Boretz (writer), Bernard Prockter (director), Ernest Chappell (announcer), Wladimir Selinsky (music), Anne Burr, Agnes Young (doubles), Lyle Sudrow (doubles), Ted Osborne (doubles), Harry Ingram (director). 28:48. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Incomplete.
9:30 The Mysterious Traveler. April 16, 1944. Program #20. Mutual net. "The Accusing Corpse." Sustaining. A journey to the grave to learn the secrets of the dead. An old scam leads to an accusation by a dead body. The show will switch to Sunday at 3:30 P. M. (EST) next week. The script was also used on "The Sealed Book" on April 29, 1945 (see cat. #1534). Don Randolph, Phillip Clarke, Maurice Tarplin (as "The Traveler"), Doc Whipple (organist), Jock MacGregor (director), Robert A. Arthur (writer), David Kogan (writer). 28:26. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 The Mercury Theatre. August 1, 1938. CBS net. "The Thirty-Nine Steps." Sustaining. A rehearsal recording. See cat. #3718 for the program as broadcast. Orson Welles, Bernard Herrmann (composer, conductor), John Buchan (author), George Coulouris, Ray Collins, Eustace Wyatt, Alfred Shirley, Edgar Barrier, Brenda Forbes, Richard Wilson, William Allen, Earle McGill (supervisor), Dan Seymour (announcer). 1 hour 10 minutes. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.