[Vision]

• 07:00p Johnny Dollar
  12/21-22/55 Nick Shurn Matter Pts. 3-4 (Sus.) (CBS) (27:16)
• 07:30p Dragnet
  05/25/50 #050 Big Key (NBC) (26:44)
• 08:00p Gunsmoke
  12/25/55 12th Night (CBS) (22:14)
• 08:30p Burns and Allen
  12/14/43 Kay Kyser for Christmas (Swan) (CBS) (29:00)
• 09:00p Life of Riley
  12/24/47 Christmas in a Store Window (Prell) (NBC) (29:20)
• 09:30p Falcon
  12/24/50 Case of the Unwelcome Christmas Present (Sus.) (27:26)
• 10:00p Lux Radio Theater
  03/10/47 It's a Wonderful Life (Lux) (CBS) (59:36)

[Vision]

Happy Sunday all! A little bit of an early thread...I've got to run to a Christmas thing but should be back before showtime..

We've got a lineup of Bish shows...Burns and Allen...Life of Riley...Falcon...but then we end with a very special moment in OTR history, Lux with It's a Wonderful Life, am excited about that...

How's your Christmas season going?

[WXRGina]

Hello, FRiends! Thanks, Vision!

The Christmas lineups continue. You can't beat "It's A Wonderful Life."

These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex. © 2015 J. David Goldin.

7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. December 21, 1955. Part #3. CBS net. "The Nick Shurn Matter". Sustaining. A lonely vigil in the snow, a killer prowls the night, and a lady vanishes. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Jack Kruschen, Ken Christy, Amerigo Moreno (musical supervisor), Sam Edwards, Peggy Webber, Don Diamond, Ben Wright, Barney Phillips. 15:22. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. December 22, 1955. Part #4. CBS net. "The Nick Shurn Matter". Sustaining. A little girl who believes in Santa Claus, a big girl who believes in very little, and both of them facing death! Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Jack Kruschen, Ken Christy, Amerigo Moreno (musical supervisor), Sam Edwards, Peggy Webber, Don Diamond, Ben Wright, Barney Phillips. 15:12. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

7:30 Dragnet. May 25, 1950. Program #50. NBC net. "The Big Key". Sponsored by: Fatima. Maria Comacho is found dead in a churchyard. The clues are meager: a key, a pen, a shoe polish smear. Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough. 29:29. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

8:00 Gunsmoke. December 25, 1955. CBS net. "Twelfth Night". Sponsored by: Chesterfield, L & M. Eban Hakes has walked all the way from the Ozarks, just to kill Joff Monger. A family feud going on for years is about to break out in Dodge...but never on Sunday! The script was used again on Gunsmoke on December 25, 1955 (see cat. #59418) and on the Gunsmoke televiion series on December 28, 1957. The system cue is added live. William Conrad, Parley Baer, John Meston (writer), Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), John Dehner, George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), Vic Perrin, Helen Kleeb, Howard McNear, Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), Georgia Ellis, George Walsh (announcer). 25:47. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.

8:30 The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show. December 14, 1943. CBS net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. Gracie tries to get guest Kay Kyser married to her friend Tootsie Sagwell. See cat. #72812 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. George Burns, Gracie Allen, Jimmy Cash, Felix Mills and His Orchestra, Bill Goodwin, Kay Kyser, Kay Kyser and His Orchestra (music fill), Harry Babbitt (music fill vocal), Elvia Allman. 30:38. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.

9:00 Life of Riley. 12/24/47 Christmas in a Store Window (Prell) (NBC) (29:20). Synopsis is missing from the Index.

9:30 Falcon. 12/24/50 Case of the Unwelcome Christmas Present (Sus.) (27:26). Another missing synopsis! :-/

10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. March 10, 1947. CBS net. "It's A Wonderful Life". Sponsored by: Lux, Spry. Tired of his life on Earth, a man finds out what it's like never to have been born. Edwin Maxwell, Janet Scott, Noreen Gammill, Cliff Clark, Norma Jean Nilsson, Leo Cleary, Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed, Victor Moore, William Keighley (host), John Milton Kennedy (announcer), Louis Silvers (music director), William Johnstone, John McIntire, Philip Van Doren (author), Fred MacKaye (director), Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Frank Capra (screenwriter), Frances Goodrich (screenwriter), Albert Hackett (screenwriter), Jo Swerling (screenwriter), Susan Blanchard (intermission guest), Norman Field, Franklyn Parker, Ann Carter, Charles Seel, Doris Singleton (commercial spokesman: as "Libby"), Edward Marr. 1 hour. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

[Viking2002]

Evening, folks. Transcribe the shows for me, I'm up to my neck in work tonight. Didn't even get a chance to listen to the Redskins-Bears game............