We have a lovely lineup tonight, although it's surprising there isn't a football theme...Fibber McGee...the BB’s newest recurring 9pm show, the Halls of Ivy which I'm looking forward to...This is your FBI is usually interesting...and a hour long Suspense!
Are you going somewhere? Making anything? Drinking anything? I'll be away for probably the first half...
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2016 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. December 27, 1959. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Burning Desire Matter." Johnny's old pal "Smokey" is onto seven supicious fires, set by seven different arsonists in Los Angeles! See cat. #43558 for a network, sponsored version. Bob Bailey, Paul Dubov, Don Diamond, Frank Gerstle, Virginia Gregg, Lawrence Dobkin, Jean Tatum, Vic Perrin, Dan Cubberly (announcer). 25 minutes. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
7:30 Dragnet. May 25, 1954. Program #249. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Big Watch." A market has been robbed of $7000 by Herbert Langley, the clue to the bandit: a cheap broken watch. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander. 25:25. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. April 28, 1957. CBS net. "Medicine Man." Commercials deleted. Grant Medford, an old miser, wants Hart Finney and his wife off his property. Hart intends to continue selling his "Old Doc Walker's Nerve Tonic." William Conrad makes a speech of thanks after the story on the occasion of the show's fifth anniversary. William Conrad, Parley Baer, John Dehner, Vic Perrin, Virginia Gregg, Georgia Ellis, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), John Meston (editorial supervisor), Rex Koury (composer), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), George Walsh (announcer). 21:52. Audio condition: Very good. Incomplete.
8:30 Fibber McGee and Molly. January 12, 1943. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. Billy Mills is in the hospital, so Fibber and Molly pay a visit to "cheer him up." See cat. #40694 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan, Harlow Wilcox, Billy Mills and His Orchestra, Billy Mills, The King's Men, Isabel Randolph, Bill Thompson, Elvia Allman, Don Quinn (writer). 25 minutes. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:00 The Halls Of Ivy. [NOTE: No episode on the Index matches the date or description given by WAMU, so this may not be the synopsis of tonight's show] January 27, 1950. NBC net. Sponsored by: Schlitz Beer. It's "Charter Day" at Ivy College, and then there's Dr. Wellman's nose! Ronald Colman, Benita Hume, Peter Leeds, Don Quinn (writer, creator), Henry Russell (composer, conductor), Nat Wolff (director), Ken Carpenter (announcer), Walter Brown Neuman (writer), Herb Butterfield, Gloria Gordon, Henry Blair. 29:33. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:30 This is Your FBI. 01/17/47 #94 The Sunshine Swindlers (Equitable Life Assurance) (ABC). Synopsis is missing from the Index.
10:00 Suspense. February 28, 1948. CBS net. "The House By The River." Sustaining. Who killed Emily Gaunt? A British murder mystery involving a poet, his brother, and the house...by the river! A. P. Herbert (author), Anton M. Leader (director), Dan O'Herlihy, Irving Ravetch (adaptor), John McIntire, Lucien Moraweck (composer), Lud Gluskin, Robert Montgomery (host, producer), Ben Wright, William Johnstone (announcer). 59:55. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.