Another good lineup tonight. Lucille Ball in My Favorite Husband. Luke Slaughter of Tombstone is new to me. Boston Blackie is solid. And a good Mercury Theater to end it all- let's hope it's as good as last week's Screen Director's Playhouse with Cary Grant.
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Looks like a very good lineup this evening. Another Orson Welles production to end it all.
These very brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2014 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. September 12, 1956. Program #3. CBS net. "The Confidential Matter". Sustaining. $80,000 and a beaten girl...both missing! Then, one of the two is found and a bombshell explodes! The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Hugh Brundage (announcer), Virginia Gregg, Jack Edwards, Russell Thorson, Shirley Mitchell, Stacy Harris, Bob Miller, Harry Bartell, Vic Perrin, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Frank Gerstle. 13:58. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
7:15 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. September 13, 1956. Program #4. CBS net. "The Confidential Matter". Sustaining. A search for a dead man who intends to stay dead, and is willing to kill to do it! The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Hugh Brundage (announcer), Virginia Gregg, Jack Edwards, Russell Thorson, Shirley Mitchell, Stacy Harris, Bob Miller, Harry Bartell, Vic Perrin, Amerigo Moreno (music supervisor), Frank Gerstle. 13:55. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
7:30 Dragnet. October 26, 1952. Program #175. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Big Number". A bank robber using a sawed-off shotgun is traced through the first three digits of his license plate number. See cat. #61819 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, John Robinson (writer), Walter Schumann (writer), Whitfield Connor, Jack Kruschen, Hal Gibney (announcer). 25 minutes. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. October 16, 1955. CBS net. "Trouble In Kansas". Sponsored by: Chesterfield, L & M. Jim Hoyt and his boss Jack Raven are Texans driving a herd to Dodge. En route, they're attacked by Jayhawkers, so Raven plans to kill him a few Kansans! The system cue is added live. William Conrad, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, Lawrence Dobkin, Barney Phillips, Harry Bartell, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Rex Koury (composer, conductor), George Fenneman (commercial spokesman), John Meston (writer), Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Ray Kemper (sound patterns), Parley Baer, George Walsh (annjouncer). 25:17. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.
8:30 My Favorite Husband 12/04/48 Be Your Husband's Best Friend (AFRS) (29:12). Synopsis is missing from the Index.
9:00 Luke Slaughter Of Tombstone. March 9, 1958. CBS net. Sustaining. Rancher Drake McArdle plans to lynch a cattle rustler, who turns out to be Yancy, Luke's old army buddy. Alan Botzer (writer), Barney Phillips, Howard McNear, Junius Matthews, Lou Merrill, Norman Alden, Sam Buffington, Sam Edwards, Tom Hanley (sound patterns), Wilbur Hatch (composer, conductor), William N. Robson (director). 24:46. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:30 Boston Blackie. September 24, 1946. Program #76. ABC net origination, Ziv syndication. Commercials added locally. Blackie promises to steal the valuable Abbott painting in just 5 hours. He plans to exchange it for a cigarette lighter that links Shorty to a murder. Henry Rice promptly double-crosses Blackie and calls the cops. Richard Kollmar, Lesley Woods, Maurice Tarplin, Tony Barrett. 27:40. Audio condition: Excellent. Otherwise complete.
10:00 The Mercury Theatre on the Air. July 25, 1938. CBS net. "A Tale Of Two Cities". Sustaining. The third show of the series. Orson Welles subsequently played the same role on The Lux Radio Theatre broadcast of March 26, 1945 (see cat. #10444). Charles Dickens (author), Orson Welles, Martin Gabel, Ray Collins, Edgar Barrier, Frank Readick, Eustace Wyatt, Kenny Delmar, Dan Seymour (announcer). 1 hour. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.