It's been beautiful in Baltimore...and with California Chrome taking the Preakness there is a shot at a Triple Crown this year...
A quality lineup tonight...Aldrich Family, can't remember much of...Philo Vance is good...Gina will like the Sherlock Holmes...and a perfect 10pm hour with the Whistler and Inner Sanctum...
We have a great lineup all the way around this evening! Vision's right--I like the Sherlock Holmes.
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2014 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. July 12, 1956. Part 4. CBS net. "The Shady Lane Matter". Sustaining. A slow net tightens and the fish turn frantic. One of them at least is armed and as dangerous and as deadly as a shark! The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Jeanette Nolan, Bert Holland, Forrest Lewis, Shirley Mitchell, John Dehner, Will Wright, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Carl Fortina (music supervisor). 13:17. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Incomplete.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. July 13, 1956. Part 5. CBS net. "The Shady Lane Matter". Sustaining. The conclusion of the story. One domino tips, the whole stack tumbles, and the last man falls with a crash! The system cue and the music fill have been deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Jeanette Nolan, Bert Holland, Forrest Lewis, Shirley Mitchell, John Dehner, Will Wright, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Carl Fortina (music supervisor). 13:18. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.
7:30 Dragnet. August 14, 1952. Program #164. NBC net. "The Big Drive". Sponsored by: Fatima. John Iverson is found murdered by a piece of concrete. Jack Webb, Ken Patterson (as Frank Smith), George Fenneman (announcer), Gwen Delano, Hal Gibney (announcer), Jack Kruschen, John Robinson (writer), Walter Schumann (music). 29:19. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. August 6, 1955. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "Innocent Broad". Linda Bell, a seventeen year old girl, comes to Dodge to meet her fiance, but finds trouble instead. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on April 26, 1958. See cat. #61892 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. John Meston (writer), Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), Bill James (sound patterns), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), George Walsh (announcer), Paul Dubov, William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, Eleanor Tanin, Vic Perrin, Lawrence Dobkin. 24:58. Audio condition: Very good. Complete.
8:30 The Aldrich Family. June 24, 1948. NBC net. Sponsored by: Jell-O. It's a Saturday morning during the summer...and the garage needs painting. The last show of the season. The show returns on September 30th. Ezra Stone, Jackie Kelk, Clifford Goldsmith (creator), House Jameson, Katharine Raht, Patricia Jowdry (writer), Del Dimsdale (writer), Jack Miller (music), Dwight Weist (announcer). 27:35. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Apparently complete.
9:00 Philo Vance. December 27, 1949. Program #77. ZIV Syndication. "The Identical Murder Case". Commercials added locally. Tommy Orchid has killed a man who looked like Philo Vance and Tommy Orchid doesn't tolerate mistakes! Jackson Beck, Joan Alexander, S. S. Van Dine (creator), Jeanne K. Harrison (director), Henry Sylvern (organist), Frederick W. Ziv (producer). 26:50. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.
9:30 The New Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes. April 22, 1946. Mutual net. "The Tankerville Club". Sponsored by: Petri Wines. A sealed deck of cards is found to be marked. Holmes shows how it was done and prevents a duel to the death from taking place. The story is based on, "The Five Orange Pips." Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Harry Bartell (announcer), Denis Green (writer), Anthony Boucher (writer), Arthur Conan Doyle (author), Dean Fosler (music), Edna Best (producer). 29:42. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 The Whistler. July 9, 1945. CBS Pacific net. "Highway Of Escape". Sponsored by: Signal Oil. A young woman, stuck in the desert with her stepfather, finally kills the old man and drives off with the first motorist passing by. A flight across the desert follows. Marvin Miller (announcer), George W. Allen (writer), Eleanor Beeson (?), Wilbur Hatch (music), Lurene Tuttle. 29:39. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:30 Inner Sanctum. April 17, 1950. CBS net. "Beneficiary...Death". Sponsored by: Bromo Seltzer. A businessman badly in need of money sees his opportunity when a hitch-hiker's body in a car crash is identified as his. The last show of the season. Everett Sloane, Barbara Weeks, Lew White (organist), Himan Brown (director), Norman Brokenshire (announcer), Arnold Moss, Paul McGrath (host), Edward Adamson (writer), Robert Sloane (writer). 30:08. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.