We have a Lux production of "The African Queen"! YAY!
These brief synopses are used with permission from the RadioGOLDINdex © 2016 J. David Goldin.
7:00 PM Eastern War Time Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. November 27, 1960. CBS net. "The Empty Threat Matter". Commercials deleted. The program closing has been deleted after the credits. Johnny returns from Tahiti with a nervous old man, who is sure that he's going to be murdered. Ben Wright, Bob Bailey, Carleton Young, G. Stanley Jones, Harry Bartell, Ralph Moody, Virginia Gregg. 20:43. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Incomplete.
7:25 Vic and Sade. May 28, 1937. NBC net. The opening organ theme and the body of the show only. Vic has to take a sudden trip to Chicago. Who will run the Decoration Day Parade while he's gone? Art Van Harvey, Bernardine Flynn, Paul Rhymer (writer), Billy Idelson. 10:15. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Incomplete.
7:30 Dragnet. July 27, 1954. Program #258. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Big Match". Charles Cain, the owner of an auction house has been robbed and assaulted. A partially burned book of matches provides the needed clue. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander. 25:25. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
8:00 Gunsmoke. October 16, 1954. CBS net. "Kitty Caught". Sponsored by: L & M Cigarettes. The Karp Brothers rob the bank in Dodge and take Kitty with them as a hostage. The closing credits and system cue were apparently done live over music. See cat. #61769 for what appears to be the same program, but with the closing credits and system cue. See cat. #47828 for the same script, produced three years later. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on January 18, 1958. William Conrad, Howard McNear, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin, Joseph Du Val, John Meston (writer), George Walsh (announcer). 31:00. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete as above.
8:30 Big Town. October 12, 1948. NBC net. "Double Murder". Sponsored by: Lifebuoy, Rinso. Dora Mills has been murdered and her body dumped into the Big Town harbor. Her twin sister asks Steve Wilson to help find out what happened to her. The story of a murderous coverup that failed. Edward Pawley, Fran Carlon, Jerry McGill (writer, director). 29:30. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
9:00 The Halls Of Ivy. March 31, 1950. NBC net. Sponsored by: Schlitz Beer. Will Dr. Hall be invited to join the "Ivy Chamber Music and Knockwurst Society" to play the Piffleflute? The program may be dated April 7, 1950. Alan Reed, Benita Hume, Cliff Arquette, Don Quinn (creator, writer), Frank Martin (announcer), Gloria Gordon, Henry Russell (composer, conductor), Ken Carpenter (announcer), Nat Wolff (director), Ronald Colman, Walter Newman (writer). 29:31. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
9:30 The Adventures Of Philip Marlowe. October 17, 1948. CBS net. "Where There's A Will". Sustaining. A good story about a strange will, three strange heirs, $300,000 and a map. Gerald Mohr, Roy Rowan (announcer), Mary Shipp, Theodore Von Eltz, Parley Baer, Don Diamond, Wilms Herbert, Raymond Chandler (creator). 29:14. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
10:00 The Lux Radio Theatre. December 15, 1952. CBS net. "The African Queen". Sponsored by: Lux, Silver Dust, Chlorodent Tooth Paste. A trip down the Zambesi, past rapids and leeches, to sink the Luisa. Humphrey Bogart, Greer Garson, Irving Cummings (host), Ken Carpenter (announcer), Rudy Schrager (music director), John Dodsworth, Hans Conried, Harold Dryanforth, Dorothy Lovett (commercial spokesman: as "Libby"), Zsa Zsa Gabor (intermission guest), James Agee (screenwriter), John Huston (screenwriter), C. S. Forester (author), Earl Ebi (director), Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 60:19. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.