We've got a mystery Easter lineup...Gina's favorite the Great Gilderselleve...Halls of Ivy...and then we'll see...
How's your day been?
No “Fibber McGee and Molly?” I just watched them not too long ago in what I think was their first film, “This Way Please” (1937), a little musical-comedy from Paramount. The more curious element, though, was seeing a solo Mary Livingstone (sans Jack Benny) paired off romantically with Ned Sparks, as she played the wise-cracking friend of leading lady Betty Grable.
Here's the complete lineup for tonight.
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2016 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. June 26, 1960. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Wholly Unexpected Matter". Johnny and Pat McCracken fly out to fish at the Lake Mojave Resort, but find themselves the target of an escaped convict who has sworn to kill Johnny! Really? One public service announcement has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Jack Johnstone (writer, producer, director), Virginia Gregg, Barney Phillips, Edgar Barrier, Shirley Mitchell, John Wald (announcer), Lawrence Dobkin, Sam Edwards. 24:22. Audio condition: Very good. Complete as above.
7:30 Dragnet. July 13, 1954. Program #256. NBC net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "The Big Rescue". Two robbers hold up the "814 Club" and lots of other places. One of them has a .45, but the other carries a machine gun! After they're captured, they're sprung from jail by another gunman with a machine gun. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, George Fenneman (announcer). 25:42. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. January 10, 1953. CBS net. "Word Of Honor". Sustaining. After treating a wounded man, Doc gives his word of honor not to reveal the identity or hiding place of the killers. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series October 1, 1955. See cat. #47826 for the same script produced four years later, see cat. #47835 and #39962 for subsequent broadcasts of this program. William Conrad, Howard McNear, Parley Baer, John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin, Harry Bartell, Roy Rowan (announcer), John Meston (writer). 30:12. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:30 The Great Gildersleeve. April 25, 1943. NBC net. Sponsored by: Kraft Pabst-Ett. Leroy's going to make big money raising rabbits. Kay Francis makes an appeal for the Second War Loan. The president of the Kraft Cheese Company, J. L. Kraft, delivers his annual Easter message. Ben Alexander, Earle Ross, Harold Peary, James L. Kraft, John Whedon (writer), Kay Francis, Ken Carpenter (announcer), Lillian Randolph, Lurene Tuttle, Richard LeGrand, Sam Moore (writer), Shirley Mitchell (?), Walter Tetley. 29:18. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:00 The Halls Of Ivy. March 17, 1950. NBC net. Sponsored by: Schlitz Beer. Is "Willow Walk" a lover's lane or a den of vice? Dr. Hall battles P.T. Grainger, a machine politician. Benita sneezes on cue in the script, but must have sprayed someone as the audience cracks up. Ronald Colman, Benita Hume, Ken Carpenter (announcer), Edwin Max, Eleanor Audley, Herb Butterfield, Henry Russell (composer, conductor), Walter Brown Neuman (writer), Don Quinn (creator, writer), Nat Wolff (director). 29:25. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:30 My Favorite Husband. March 24, 1951. CBS net. Sponsored by: Jello. Will the girls be able to lose weight and get a new Easter outfit? Lucille Ball, Richard Denning, Gale Gordon, Frank Nelson, Bea Benaderet, Shirley Mitchell, Isabel Scott Rorick (creator). 1/2 hour. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 Inner Sanctum. September 20, 1948. CBS net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "Hangman's Island". Good "sanctumesque" story about a madman on a booby-trapped island, a crazed woman living in a cave with her mother carefully preserved in a coffin, and a treasure in gold! Mason Adams, Elspeth Eric, Santos Ortega, Lawson Zerbe, John Roeburt (wrtier), Paul McGrath (host). 24:46. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.
10:30 Hall of Fantasy. 03/11/50 He Who Follows Me (Sus.) (MBS) (24:26). Synopsis is missing from the Index.