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Hello, FRiends! Thanks, Vision. I hope you're all having a nice Memorial Day Weekend. It seems wrong, or at least awkward, to say "Happy Memorial Day," so I won't.

7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. May 21, 1961. CBS net. "The Lone Wolf Matter". Sustaining. A story of blackmail. Robert Readick, Santos Ortega, Sam Grey, Robert Dryden, William Redfield, Art Hannes (announcer). 24:16. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

7:30 Dragnet. September 21, 1954. Program #266. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Big Tribe". Young Emil Salter comes into headquarters to confess that he had stolen a truck and killed a man along the highway. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander. 25:23. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.

8:00 Gunsmoke. September 29, 1957. CBS net. "Another Man's Poison". Marshal Dillon tries to keep two men, both married to the same woman, from killing each other. All but one of the AFRTS public service announcements have been deleted. William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, Vic Perrin, Les Crutchfield (writer), Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Ray Kemper (sound patterns), Bill James (sound patterns), George Walsh (announcer). 22:10. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Otherwise complete.

8:30 Our Miss Brooks. May 7, 1950. CBS net. "Mr. Boynton's Barbecue". Sponsored by: Colgate Toothpaste, Lustre-Creme Shampoo, Palmolive Soap. Mr. Boynton has invited Miss Brooks to a barbecue. The script was repeated on October 18, 1953 (see cat. #104968). Eve Arden, Larry Berns (producer), Al Lewis (writer), Verne Smith (commercial spokesman), Bob Lemond (announcer), Wilbur Hatch (music), Jane Morgan, Gale Gordon, Jeff Chandler, Gloria McMillan, Richard Crenna, Joe Quillan (writer), Lester White (writer), Mary Jane Croft, Maurice Carlton (director). 29:28. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

9:00 Halls of Ivy. "Adoption" (10/03/51)(NBC)(27:15). Synopsis is missing from the Index.

9:30 Presenting Charles Boyer. "Adventure With A Slide Rule Blonde" (07/04/50) (NBC) (28:43). Synopsis is missing from the index.

10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. April 24, 1944. CBS net. "This Land Is Mine". Sponsored by: Lux, Spry. An excellent performance by Charles Laughton, portraying a meek schoolteacher in Nazi-occupied Europe. Cecil B. DeMille introduces the program from Little Rock, Arkansas. See cat. #92643 for a rehearsal recording of this program. Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, Cecil B. DeMille, Billy Roy, Charles Seel, Cliff Clark, Denis Green, Douglas Wood, Edgar Barrier, Howard McNear, John McIntire, John Milton Kennedy (announcer), Louis Silvers (music director), Norman Field, Ralph Lewis, Regina Wallace, Tyler McVey (doubles), Betty Jean Hainey (commercial spokesman), Charlotte Treadway (commercial spokesman), Bob Haynes (commercial spokesman), Ann Tobin (commercial spokesman), Doris Singleton (commercial spokesman: as "Libby"), Dudley Nichols (screenwriter), Fred MacKaye (director), Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 59:36. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.