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DECEMBER 2008 SATURDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM.... 12/06/08 Jack Benny Christmas Shopping in N.Y. 12/11/38 12/06/08 Dr. Sixgun A Pony for Christmas 12/19/54 12/06/08 Ozzie & Harriet Going to a Concert 12/14/51 12/06/08 Phil Harris The City Hall Christmas Tree 12/18/49 12/06/08 Johnny Dollar Milford Brooks III 12/07/48 12/06/08 Dark Fantasy The House of Bread 12/26/41 12/13/08 Hopalong Cassidy The Memory of Mace Merlot 12/15/51 12/13/08 Life of Riley The New Foreman 12/01/50 12/13/08 Rocky Fortune Carnival One Way 12/08/53 12/13/08 Andrews Sisters Christmas Island 00/00/46 12/13/08 Dr. Kildare Arthur Morgan’s Brain Surgery 12/08/50 12/13/08 Suspense Mission Completed 12/01/49 12/13/08 X-Minus One Nightfall 12/07/55 12/20/08 Challenge of the Yukon Christmas 12/22/48 12/20/08 Gene Autry Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 00/00/49 12/20/08 Gene Autry Here Comes Santa Claus 00/00/47 12/20/08 Great Gildersleeve Christmas Gift for McGee 12/21/41 12/20/08 Columbia Workshop Plot to Overthrow Christmas 12/24/42 12/20/08 Vic & Sade Vic’s Christmas List is Too Long 12/00/39 12/20/08 Casey Crime Photog Christmas Shopping 12/19/46 12/20/08 Whistler The Christmas Gift 12/23/51 12/27/08 Lone Ranger The Fire God 12/12/45 12/27/08 Fibber McGee Fibber Finds a Watch 12/31/40 12/27/08 Box 13 The Hot Box 12/26/48 12/27/08 Space Patrol Last Voyage of Lonesome Lena 12/25/54 12/27/08 Mysterious Traveler If You Believe 12/29/46 12/27/08 Shadow The Cat That Killed 12/31/39
DECEMBER 2008 SUNDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM.... 12/07/08 Lightning Jim The Outlaw’s Son 12/07/08 Jack Benny Jack’s Violin Lesson 12/07/47 12/07/08 Bing Crosby White Christmas 00/00/42 12/07/08 Big Town The Lost and Found 12/07/48 12/07/08 You Bet Your Life Secret Word is Window 12/09/53 12/07/08 Boston Blackie Blackie Sent to the Pen 12/03/46 12/07/08 Weird Circle The Great Plague 12/05/43 12/14/08 All-Star Wester Thea One-Shot 12/13/47 12/14/08 Fibber McGee Mailing Christmas Presents 12/10/40 12/14/08 Globe Theater The Show Off 12/06/44 12/14/08 Escape Border Town 12/13/49 12/14/08 Sam Spade The Bouncing Betty Caper 12/12/48 12/14/08 Columbia Workshop Story in Dogtown Common 12/14/39 12/21/08 Great Gildersleeve The Big Day 12/23/41 12/21/08 First Nighter Little Town of Bethlehem 12/22/45 12/21/08 Campbell Playhouse A Christmas Carol 12/24/39 12/21/08 Jack Benny Christmas Eve Open House 12/24/39 12/21/08 X-Minus One Double Dare 12/21/57 12/28/08 Hoplaong Cassidy Spider Woman 12/22/51 12/28/08 Burns and Allen John Garfield, Gangster 12/28/43 12/28/08 Damon Runyan Theatre Pick the Winner 00/00/48 12/28/08 Johnny Dollar The Forbes Matter 1 of 5 12/26/55 12/28/08 Johnny Dollar The Forbes Matter 2 of 5 12/27/55 12/28/08 Crime Classics Coyle and Richardson 12/30/53 12/28/08 Suspense Pink Camellias 12/27/45
NOVEMBER 2008 SATURDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM... 11/01/08 Have Gun Will Travel The Monster of Moon Ridge 03/08/59 11/01/08 Sons of the Pioneers Ghost Riders in the Sky 11/01/08 Ozzie and Harriet Haunted House 10/31/48 11/01/08 Suspense The Dunwich Horror 11/01/45 11/01/08 Dark Fantasy The Headless Dead 01/23/42 11/01/08 Shadow The Three Ghosts 10/31/37 11/01/08 Inner Sanctum Song of the Slasher 04/24/45 11/01/08 Rosemary Brown Lament 00/00/70 11/08/08 Cisco Kid Who Lives By the Gun 09/16/54 11/08/08 Jack Benny Jack Steals Phil’s Girl 11/04/37 11/08/08 Lives of Harry Lime Art Is Long & Lime is Fleeting 11/09/51 11/08/08 Campbell Playhouse The Magnificent Ambersons 10/29/39 11/08/08 Midnight A Case of the Gothic Blues 11/15/08 Gunsmoke Overland Express 10/31/52 11/15/08 Fibber McGee Parking Ticket Trouble 11/14/39 11/15/08 Let George Do It The Robber 11/08/46 11/15/08 You Bet Your Life Secret Word is Clock 11/12/52 11/15/08 Richard Diamond The Garibaldi Case 02/01/52 11/15/08 X-Minus One Child’s Play 10/20/55 11/22/08 All Star Western Thea with Foy Willing 11/22/47 11/22/08 Space Patrol The Sea Monster of Planet X 11/21/03 11/22/08 Vic and Sade Mr. Gumpox Offer 00/00/39 11/22/08 Bergen & McCarthy W.C. Fields 11/22/08 Mysterious Traveler The Man the Insects Hated 10/07/44 11/22/08 NBC University Theater Arrowsmith 11/07/48 11/29/08 Have Gun Will Travel British Courage 01/11/59 11/29/08 Burns & Allen Charles Boyer as Tex 11/30/43 11/29/08 Crime Classics Killing Story of William Corder 11/25/53 11/29/08 Scarlet Queen The Wandering Master 11/13/47 11/29/08 Calling All Cars The Greasy Trail 06/10/38 11/29/08 Shadow Death is Blind 11/20/38
NOVEMBER 2008 SUNDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM... 11/02/08 Gunsmoke Tara 11/07/52 11/02/08 Life of Riley Babs’ Elopement 11/03/50 11/02/08 Challenge of the Yukon Preston Turns the Tables 10/27/48 11/02/08 Lum & Abner Projector Lessons 11/01/43 11/02/08 Billy Matthews Whiskey 11/02/08 Bob & Ray Mr. Trace, Keener than Most 05/31/84 11/02/08 Whistler A Present for Ricky 10/07/46 11/02/08 Suspense The Singing Walls 11/02/44 11/09/08 Gunsmoke Till Death Do Us 10/21/56 11/09/08 Bergen & McCarthy with Elsa Maxwell 11/07/43 11/09/08 Let George Do It The Robber 11/08/46 11/09/08 Big Town The Fatal Chain 11/09/48 11/09/08 Shadow Black Rock 11/13/38 11/09/08 Dimension X The Professor was a Thief 11/05/50 11/16/08 Lone Ranger Gallows Threat 11/16/45 11/16/08 Burns & Allen Fifteenth Anniversary 11/11/48 11/16/08 Screen Director’s Playh Lifeboat 11/16/50 11/16/08 Columbia Workshop A Letter from Above 11/16/39 11/16/08 Lorenzo Jones Scheme to Rob Mrs. Peabody 00/00/39 11/16/08 Bob & Ray Hard Luck Stories 05/31/84 11/23/08 Hawk Larabee The California Kid 10/18/47 11/23/08 Life of Riley Riley’s First Date 11/17/50 11/23/08 Mercury Theater The Pickwick Papers 11/20/38 11/23/08 Horatio Hornblower Rejoining the Fleet 01/09/53 11/23/08 Casey Crime Photog Earned Reward 11/20/47 11/30/08 Have Gtun Will Travel Bitter Vengeance 11/29/59 11/30/08 Fred Allen Adolphe Menjou’s New Suit 11/28/42 11/30/08 Information Please Artur Rubinstein 11/29/43 11/30/08 Horatio Hornblower Barbara Joins Horatio 11/28/53 11/30/08 Philip Marlowe The Hard Way Out 11/28/48 11/30/08 Lights Out! Bon Voyage 11/10/42 11/30/08 Bickersons Bets on the Horses
OCTOBER 2008 SATURDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM... 10/04/08 University Theatre War of the Worlds 10/04/08 10/04/08 Scarlet Queen Tattooed Beaver & Baby Food 10/09/47 10/04/08 Ozzie & Harriet The Prince’s Gift 10/07/45 10/04/08 Gunsmoke How to Die for Nothing 10/10/53 10/04/08 Bergen & McCarthy Laughs Take a Holiday 10/11/08 Hopalong Cassidy Gunfighter in Short Pants 10/13/51 10/11/08 Burns & Allen The Wrecked Car 10/15/43 10/11/08 Dr. Kildare Eddie Jenkins & the Arsonist 10/20/50 10/11/08 Escape The Second Shot 03/25/54 10/11/08 Boston Blackie Diamond Smuggling Gang 08/13/46 10/11/08 Diary of Fate Walter Vincent 05/28/48 10/18/08 Lone Ranger The Man from the East 10/15/43 10/18/08 Duffy’s Tavern Party for Columnists 10/05/51 10/18/08 Great Gildersleeve Appointed Water Commissioner 10/18/42 10/18/08 Rocky Jordan The Bartered Bridegroom 10/31/48 10/18/08 Gangbusters Collector who Robbed Midwest 10/18/08 Shadow Night without End 10/16/38 10/25/08 Vic and Sade Looking for a Photograph 11/06/39 10/25/08 Bickersons Round 1 10/25/08 Screen Director’s Play Yellow Sky 07/15/49 10/25/08 Philip Marlowe The Easy Mark 01/29/49 10/25/08 Columbia Workshop The Devil & Daniel Webster 08/06/38 10/25/08 Radio City Playhouse Tension in 643 08/01/43 10/25/08 NBC Short Story The Lottery 03/14/51
OCTOBER 2008 SUNDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM... 10/05/08 Fort Laramie Galvanized Yankee 10/07/56 10/05/08 Jack Benny Jack Recovers His Memory 10/09/49 10/05/08 Five-Minute Mystery Too Early Bird 10/05/08 X-Minus One A Wind is Rising 10/03/57 10/05/08 Inner Sanctum Death by Scripture 10/09/45 10/05/08 Nightbeat Kenny Day, Amnesia Victim 10/06/50 10/12/08 Lone Ranger The Finger of Death 10/08/45 10/12/08 Fibber McGee Missing Screwdriver 10/15/40 10/12/08 FBI in Peace and War Thirty to One 10/12/08 Suspense Beyond Good and Evil 10/11/45 10/12/08 Mr. District Attorney The Case of Setup for Re-entry 10/04/44 10/19/08 Studio One Singing Guns 10/21/47 10/19/08 Our Miss Brooks The Bookie 10/15/50 10/19/08 Point Sublime Ben Willet Returns to Town 10/06/47 10/19/08 Casey Crime Photog The Camera Bug 10/16/47 10/19/08 Strange Dr. Weird The House Where Death Lives 11/07/44 10/19/08 Bob & Ray Elmer W. Litzinger, Spy 05/31/84 10/26/08 Lightning Jim Disorder in the Court 10/26/08 Great Gildersleeve First Cold Snap 10/11/42 10/26/08 Campbell Playhouse Escape 10/15/39 10/26/08 Boston Blackie Granny’s Witchcraft 10/29/47 10/26/08 Hall of Fantasy The Marquis of Death 06/22/53
SEPTEMBER 2008 SATURDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM... 09/06/08 Lone Ranger Thunder God 02/17/48 09/06/08 Jack Benny Northwest Passage 05/19/40 09/06/08 Planet Man Episodes 5-6 09/06/08 Escape The Most Dangerous Game 10/01/47 09/06/08 Lux Radio Theater The Thin Man 06/08/36 09/13/08 Cisco Kid A Spanish Shawl 09/13/08 Burns & Allen Good Help Is Hard to Find 02/02/48 09/13/08 Crime Classics Sudden Death of James Fisk 06/29/53 09/13/08 Radio City Playhouse The Unguarded Moment 08/29/49 09/13/08 Boston Blackie Building Fire 08/20/46 09/13/08 Inner Sanctum Terror by Night 09/18/45 09/20/08 Duffy’s Tavern Army Surplus Helicopter 09/07/50 09/20/08 Vic and Sade Names of Wildflowers 09/22/39 09/20/08 Jungle Jim The Bat Woman 11/02/35 09/20/08 Adventures by Morse Deepest Grave in the World 04/01/44 09/20/08 Richard Diamond Death in Hair Restoration Salon 09/20/50 09/20/08 Shadow The Caverns of Death 09/25/38 09/21/03 Sealed Book I’ll Die Laughing 05/27/45 09/27/08 Lone Ranger Cattle for Sale 09/13/43 09/27/08 American Trail Dispatch to New York 09/27/08 Life of Riley The Birth of Babs 03/04/45 09/27/08 Candy Matson The Egyptian Amulet 10/23/50 09/27/08 NBC University Thea Gulliver’s Travels 09/24/48 09/27/08 Suspense Two Sharp Knives 06/07/45 09/27/08 Bandwagon Corresp The Automated Garden
SEPTEMBER 2008 SUNDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM... 09/07/08 Fort Laramie The Buffalo Hunters 09/09/56 09/07/08 Great Gildersleeve Marjorie’s Cake 09/07/41 09/07/08 Box 13 Blackmail is Murder 09/05/48 09/07/08 Columbia Workshop San Quentin Breakout 09/05/36 09/07/08 Escape The Red Forest 08/11/50 09/07/08 X-Minus One Shanghaied 09/01/55 09/14/08 Gunsmoke Home Surgery 09/13/52 09/14/08 Theatre Guild For Love or Money 09/19/48 09/14/08 Richard Diamond Wrong Laundry Number 09/06/50 09/14/08 Hermit’s Cave House with a Past 09/14/08 Johnny Dollar Expiring Nickels 09/04/49 09/21/08 Let’s Pretend The Elves & the Shoemaker 09/05/42 09/21/08 Gene Autry Lonesome Cowboy 09/17/49 09/21/08 You Bet Your Life Secret Word is Food 09/21/59 09/21/08 Dragnet The Big Pair 09/21/50 09/21/08 CBS Radio Workshop Time Found Again 09/15/57 09/21/08 Shadow Dead Men Talk 09/24/39 09/21/08 Easy Aces Jane Buys Johnny Two Suits 09/28/08 Hopalong Cassidy A Shot in the Dark 09/29/51 09/28/08 Ozzie & Harriet Randolph’s Party 00/00/54 09/28/08 Scarlet Queen Shore Leave & Unhappy Wife 09/25/47 09/28/08 Big Town Double Murder 10/12/48 09/28/08 Pete Kelly’s Blues June Gould 09/12/51 09/28/08 Eleventh Hour Tavern of Lost Souls 00/00/41
AUGUST 2008 SATURDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM... 08/02/08 Hopalong Cassidy Rainmaker of Eagle Nest Mt. 01/08/50 08/02/08 Jack Benny The Train Porter 03/28/37 08/02/08 Studio One Babbitt 03/30/48 08/02/08 Black Museum A .32 Caliber Bullet 06/03/52 08/02/08 Dark Fantasy The Demon Tree 12/05/41 08/09/08 Dr. Sixgun Land Development Scheme 09/09/54 08/09/08 Red Skelton Well-Intentioned Nuisances 05/28/46 08/09/08 Green Hornet The Stuffed Panda 10/04/45 08/09/08 Philip Marlowe The Orange Dog 01/22/49 08/09/08 Mercury Summer Thea The Search for Henri Lefevre 07/12/46 08/09/08 Witch’s Tale The Priest of Sekhet 05/08/36 08/16/08 Great Gildersleeve End of Vacation at Grass Lake 08/29/43 08/16/08 Green Hornet Put It on Ice 07/04/39 08/16/08 Cloak & Dagger The Trojan Horse 05/28/50 08/16/08 Life with Luigi At the Beach 07/17/49 08/16/08 Suspense Footfalls 07/12/45 08/16/08 Boston Blackie The Killer Cuckoo Clock 07/23/46 08/23/08 Frontier Town Return to Dos Rios 09/26/52 08/23/08 CBS Radio Workshop Roughing It 10/05/55 08/23/08 Screen Guild Theater The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 11/03/47 08/23/08 Lives of Harry Lime Ticket to Tangier 08/24/51 08/23/08 Dark Fantasy The Letter from Yesterday 05/01/42 08/23/08 Hall of Fantasy The Judge’s House 04/03/47 08/30/08 Have Gun Will Travel Finn Alley 08/09/59 08/30/08 Dr. Kildare Buffalo Barnie McClure 08/10/50 08/30/08 Fibber McGee Not Getting His Personal Mail 03/04/47 08/30/08 The Lineup Candy Store Killing 11/16/50 08/30/08 Suspense Dealings of Mr. Markheim 06/28/45 08/30/08 Two Thousand Plus The Insect 08/15/51
AUGUST 2008 SUNDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM... 08/03/08 Fort Laramie The Massacre 08/05/56 08/03/08 Great Gildersleeve Leroy Behaves Too Perfectly 08/06/52 08/03/08 Let’s Pretend The Yellow Dwarf 07/27/46 08/03/08 X-Minus One The Veldt 08/04/55 08/03/08 Suspense A Man in the House 08/02/45 08/03/08 Quiet Please It’s Later Than You Think 08/02/48 08/03/08 Bickersons Lose Their Apartment 08/10/08 Gunsmoke Sweet and Sour 08/05/56 08/10/08 Lum and Abner Cedric’s Insomnia 08/10/43 08/10/08 Vic and Sade Bacon Sandwiches 08/14/40 08/10/08 Richard Diamond The Wheat Germ Case 08/09/53 08/10/08 Encore Theatre A Man to Remember 08/06/46 08/10/08 Philip Marlowe The August Lion 08/06/49 08/10/08 Bob & Ray Komodo Dragon, Gabe Preston 00/00/69 08/10/08 Dimension X The Castaways 08/11/50 08/17/08 Hopalong Cassidy The Disappearing Deputy 08/13/50 08/17/08 Radio City Playhouse Fanny 08/21/49 08/17/08 CBS Radio Workshop A Dissertation on Love 08/17/56 08/17/08 Suspense Summer Storm 10/18/45 08/17/08 Scarlet Queen The Eight Historic Periods 08/21/47 08/17/08 Crime Classics Trial of Laura D. Fair 08/17/53 08/24/08 Lone Ranger Single Tracks 08/24/45 08/24/08 Burns & Allen No Money 08/29/44 08/24/08 Counterspy Bouncing Bank Robber 08/23/49 08/24/08 Escape Crossing Paris 08/25/50 08/24/08 Clock Professor Leonard Higgins 08/25/47 08/24/08 Weird Circle The Fall of the House of Usher 08/29/43 08/31/08 Have Gun Will Travel For the Birds 08/28/60 08/31/08 Can You Top This? Suitors 08/15/45 08/31/08 Damon Runyan Theatre Breach of Promise 00/00/48 08/31/08 Black Museum The Leather Bag 00/00/52 08/31/08 Lives of Harry Lime Voodoo 08/31/51 08/31/08 Hall of Fantasy The Diamonds of Death 08/31/53 08/31/08 Bandwagon Corresp Back to School
JULY 2008 SATURDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM... 07/05/08 Dr. Sixgun Indians Poisoned 09/02/54 07/05/08 Jack Benny Nightmares of Fred Allen 01/30/37 07/05/08 Gangbusters A Date with Death 06/04/49 07/05/08 Damon Runyon Theater A Very Honorable Guy 07/05/08 Political Humor Adlai Stevenson: The Boar 07/05/08 Radio City Playhouse The Birthday Party 07/25/49 07/05/08 Inner Sanctum The Edge of Death 01/15/46 07/12/08 Our Miss Brooks Hillbilly Heifetz 07/03/55 07/12/08 Theater Guild Pygmalion 10/21/51 07/12/08 Night Beat Old Pop Musician 08/07/50 07/12/08 Calling All Cars Case of Dallas Egan 02/01/38 07/12/08 Mysterious Traveler The Haunted Trailer 04/29/52 07/19/08 Have Gun Will Travel Deliver the Body 07/20/59 07/19/08 Life of Riley Peg’s Old Flame 09/24/44 07/19/08 Johnny Dollar The Robert Perry Case 03/04/49 07/19/08 Suspense Bank Holiday 07/19/45 07/19/08 Philip Marlowe Heir for the G-String 08/25/51 07/19/08 Two Thousand Plus When the Worlds Met 05/03/50 07/26/08 Gunsmoke Gentlemen’s Disagreement 07/26/52 07/26/08 Great Gildersleeve The Fishing Trip 08/30/42 07/26/08 Theater Five Big Deal on Sutton East 07/29/65 07/26/08 Scarlet Queen Boston Geisha & Chesapeake 07/24/47 07/26/08 Green Hornet Juvenile Delinquency 07/26/08 Casey, Crime Photog The Self Made Hero 07/17/47
JULY 2008 SUNDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM... 07/06/08 Challenge of the Yukon Unscheduled Escape 07/06/44 07/06/08 Hop Harrigan Mystery of the Vanishing Men 07/07/47 07/06/08 Can You Top This? with Peter Donald 07/05/47 07/06/08 Bold Venture Isle of Pines 07/06/08 Nick Carter The Echo of Death 07/06/43 07/06/08 I Was a Communist FBI Where the Red Men Roamed 07/02/52 07/06/08 Black Mass Rats in the Wall 07/03/64 07/13/08 Hopalong Cassidy Hoppy Sees Red 07/09/50 07/13/08 Lum & Abner Mousey’s Injury 07/12/43 07/13/08 Lum & Abner Miss Melrose Moves Out 07/13/43 07/13/08 Dr. Kildare Dan Mallory’s Peptic Ulcer 07/13/50 07/13/08 Calling All Cars The Man Who Talked 07/14/38 07/13/08 Rocky Jordan The Race 07/17/49 07/13/08 Political Humor Brooks Hayes 07/13/08 X-Minus One The Green Hills of Earth 07/10/55 07/20/08 Lone Ranger Town of the Lawless 07/18/45 07/20/08 Tom Corbett Pursuit of Danger, 1 of 2 06/17/52 07/20/08 Tom Corbett Pursuit of Danger, 2 of 2 06/19/52 07/20/08 Bob & Ray Hobby Hut 05/31/84 07/20/08 Dragnet The Big Gent, Part 1 07/20/50 07/20/08 Richard Diamond Martha Campbell Kidnapped 07/26/50 07/20/08 Radio City Playhouse Of Unsound Mind 07/17/48 07/27/08 Have Gun Will Travel Delta Queen 07/24/60 07/27/08 CBS Radio Workshop Never Bet the Devil Your Head 07/28/57 07/27/08 Political Humor Billy Matthews: Whiskey 07/27/08 This Is Your FBI The Connoisseurs of Crime 07/27/08 07/27/08 Dragnet The Big Gent, Part 2 07/27/50 07/27/08 You Bet Your Life Secret Word is Name 07/02/56
JUNE 2008 SATURDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM... 06/07/08 Planet Man Episode 2--the Planet Man 00/00/53 06/07/08 Planet Man Episode 3–Emperor of Mars 00/00/53 06/07/08 Campbell Playhouse Ah, Wilderness! 09/17/39 06/07/08 Jack Benny Ah, Wilderness! 05/16/37 06/08/08 Lineup Bad Booze Bootleggers 06/07/08 X-Minus One Early Model 07/11/57 06/07/08 Dark Fantasy The Man Who Came Back 11/14/41 06/14/08 Frontier Town The Opening of Tioga Reserve 11/21/52 06/14/08 Fibber McGee Shrimps McGee 05/27/47 06/14/08 Frank Race The Airborne Adventure 06/19/49 06/14/08 Suspense The Last Detail 07/05/45 06/14/08 NBC University Thea An American Tragedy 10/10/48 06/21/08 Have Gun Will Travel Helen of Abajinian 01/04/59 06/21/08 Dr. Kildare Gordon Mallory’s Lead Poising 06/08/50 06/21/08 Harry James Seems Like Old Times 06/21/08 Campbell Playhouse June Moon 03/24/40 06/21/08 Lives of Harry Lime Too Many Crooks 08/03/51 06/21/08 Inner Sanctum Dead Laugh 01/08/44 06/28/08 Hopalong Cassidy Dead Man’s Hand 01/01/50 06/28/08 Great Gildersleeve In Love with Amelia 06/28/42 06/28/08 CBS Radio Workshop Gettysburg 06/20/57 06/28/08 Mr. District Attorney Case of the Unknown Source 07/14/48 06/28/08 Bold Venture Haven’s Venezuelan Isle 03/17/52 06/28/08 Dark Fantasy I Am Your Brother 06/05/42
JUNE 2008 SUNDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM... 06/01/08 Hopalong Cassidy The Letter from the Grave 05/28/50 06/01/08 You Bet Your Life Secret Word is Clothes 06/04/52 06/01/08 Dragnet The Big Fake 06/01/50 06/01/08 NBC Short Story I Want to Know Why 04/25/51 06/01/08 Crime Classics Mr. Jonathan Jewett 06/02/54 06/01/08 Mr. Keene Murder & the Star of Death 06/09/49 06/08/08 Lone Ranger Trigger Kid’s Nemesis 06/10/46 06/08/08 Burns & Allen Kansas City’s Favorite Singer 06/06/44 06/08/08 Green Hornet The Hornet Does It 06/11/44 06/08/08 Nightbeat Mechanical Brain 06/05/52 06/08/08 Clock Coming Events 06/08/47 06/08/08 Inner Sanctum Death Across the Board 06/05/45 06/15/08 Have Gun Will Travel Leddy Kane & the Silver Queen 05/17/59 06/15/08 Great Gildersleeve Father’s Day Chair 06/21/42 06/15/08 Radio City Playhouse Love Came to Professor Guildea 06/13/49 06/15/08 Strange Wills The Prince of Broadway 06/15/08 Political Humor JFK at the White House 00/00/62 06/15/08 Sam Spade The Apple of Eve 06/19/49 06/15/08 Hall of Fantasy The Jewels of Kali 06/15/53 06/22/08 Gunsmoke Hot Horse Wyatt 06/08/58 06/22/08 Fibber McGee Amusement Park 06/17/41 06/22/08 Green Hornet Not One Cent for Tribute 06/13/39 06/22/08 On Stage An Ideal Couple 06/18/53 06/22/08 Political Humor Adlai Stevenson 00/00/62 06/22/08 Molle Mystery Theater The Four Fatal Jugglers 06/26/44 06/22/08 Sealed Book The Ghost Makers 06/10/45 06/29/08 Fort Laramie The Winter Soldier 06/17/56 06/29/08 Jimmy Durante Presidential Candidate Married 05/12/48 06/29/08 Thea Guild on the Air Call It a Day 06/02/46 06/29/08 Nick Carter The Haunted Rocking Chair 05/27/45 06/29/08 Hermit’s Cave The House of Purple Shadows
MAY 2008 SATURDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM... 05/03/08 Red Ryder Dobie Town 03/10/42 05/03/08 Life of Riley Engaged to Two Women 01/26/51 05/03/08 Gangbusters Snyder Kennedy 05/03/08 Escape He Who Rides the Tiger 05/12/49 05/03/08 Fat Man Murder Rings a Bell 05/03/08 Suspense Fear Paints a Picture 05/03/45 05/10/08 Jack Benny Alexander Graham Bell 05/28/39 05/10/08 Richard Diamond The Private Eye Test 03/19/50 05/10/08 Studio One An Enemy of the People 05/13/47 05/10/08 Two Thousand Plus The Flying Saucers 00/00/50 05/10/08 Arch Oboler Chicken Heart 05/10/08 The Bickersons At Sea 05/17/08 Tom Mix The Vanishing Village, Pt. 1 08/10/45 05/17/08 Rowdy Wright I’m a Wandering Bronco Rider 05/17/08 Charlie Chan The Murder of Deacon Jessup 05/17/08 Bickersons Round 3 05/17/08 Unexpected Handle with Care 05/17/08 Boston Blackie The Green Line Hijacking 07/16/46 05/17/08 Escape Second Class Passenger 01/07/48 05/17/08 Screen Director’s Play Ivy 01/11/51 05/24/08 Gulf Screen Guild Thea Tight Shoes 04/12/42 05/24/08 Your Playhouse Rip van Winkle 05/13/48 05/24/08 This Is Your FBI The Traveling Bride 11/09/51 05/24/08 Scarlet Queen The Death of David Malone 02/02/47 05/24/08 Two Thousand Plus A Veteran Comes Home 00/00/50 05/24/08 Sealed Book Middle Toe of the Right Foot 12/10/47 05/24/08 Duke Ellington Caravan 05/01/45 05/31/08 All-Star Western Thea with Foy Willing 08/09/47 05/31/08 Romance The Lady or the Tiger? 05/12/56 05/31/08 Lux Radio Theater The Plutocrat 09/26/36 05/31/03 Shadow Circle of Death 11/28/37 05/31/03 Hall of Fantasy The Perfect Script 02/13/47
MAY 2008 SUNDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM.... 05/04/08 Have Gun Will Travel The Colonel & the Lady 04/12/59 05/04/08 Fibber McGee Salmon Dinner 05/14/41 05/04/08 Sam Spade Battles of Belvedere 05/01/49 05/04/08 Escape The Footprint 08/18/50 05/04/08 Hermit’s Cave The House on Lost Man’s Bluff 05/11/08 WYRF Winners 2008 Various 05/11/08 05/11/08 Challenge of the Yukon The Dawson Fire 05/07/42 05/11/08 Duffy’s Tavern Latin Night 05/04/51 05/11/08 Man Called X Knocked off His Feet 05/12/51 05/11/08 Sherlock Holmes In Flanders Fields 05/14/45 05/11/08 Vic & Sade Hank’s Indebtedness 05/06/40 05/11/08 Unexpected The Cripple 05/30/48 05/18/08 Gunsmoke Indian Horse 05/15/54 05/18/08 Riders in the Sky Little Joe, the Wrangler 05/18/08 Great Gildersleeve House Hunting 05/16/42 05/18/08 Frank Merriwell The Ballot Box Mystery 05/15/48 05/18/08 Damon Runyan Theater Butch Minds the Baby 00/00/48 05/18/08 Philip Marlowe The Promise to Pay 05/14/49 05/18/08 Weird Circle Werewolf 05/07/45 05/25/08 Fort Laramie Trooper’s Baby 05/27/56 05/25/08 Jack Benny Jack is Sick 05/23/37 05/25/08 Calling All Cars Some Words and a Fingerprint 05/23/34 05/25/08 Molle Mystery Theater Goodbye, Darling 05/24/46 05/25/08 Suspense Donovan’s Brain, Part 1 05/18/44 05/25/08 Suspense Donovan’s Brain, Part 2 05/25/44
APRIL 2008 SATURDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM.... 04/05/08 Lone Ranger Trouble on the Rio Grande 05/21/41 04/05/08 Fibber McGee Back Yard Barbeque 09/12/50 04/05/08 Ma Perkins Carl Michael’s Leaving Town 04/05/08 Fireside Chat Democracy & Dictatorship 04/00/38 04/05/08 Dragnet Man Shot Down in Street 04/03/52 04/05/08 Shadow The Bride of Death 03/13/38 04/05/08 WHA Players This Side of Eternity 07/15/48 04/12/08 Jack Benny Jack’s Split Personality 05/21/44 04/12/08 Bergen & McCarthy Achilles Heel 04/12/08 Road of Life The Detective 04/12/08 Mercury Summer Thea Hell on Ice 08/09/46 04/12/08 Escape The General Died at Dawn 04/16/49 04/12/08 Nero Wolfe The Case of the Lost Heir 04/02/51 04/12/08 Mysterious Traveler The Last Survivor 10/11/49 04/19/08 Lone Ranger The Army Mule 06/14/54 04/19/08 Fibber McGee To Find an Architect 01/21/47 04/19/08 Speed Gibson Leeds Kills Himself 00/00/37 04/19/08 I Love a Mystery The Temple of Vampires 01/00/50 04/19/08 Escape The Finger of Doom 03/19/49 04/19/08 Nero Wolfe A Slight Case of Perjury 04/06/51 04/19/08 Quiet Please Shadow of the Wings 04/17/49 04/26/08 Archie Andrews Picnic 08/21/48 04/26/08 Life of Riley Peg’s Father Comes to Visit 01/05/03 04/26/08 Guiding Light Taking Advantage of Distance 06/10/5- 04/26/08 Bickersons Round 1 04/26/08 Philip Marlowe The Sound & the Unsound 09/15/03 04/26/08 Suspense Eve 01/24/48
APRIL 2008 SUNDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM.... 04/06/08 Gunsmoke Jayhawkers 04/04/53 04/06/08 Lum & Abner How to Propose 04/26/43 04/06/08 Lum & Abner Grandpap and Charity 04/27/43 04/06/08 You Are There The Spanish Armada 08/11/47 04/06/08 Boston Blackie The Bus to Valley Junction 04/01/47 04/06/08 This Is Your FBI The Phantom Hitchhiker 03/28/52 04/06/08 Lights Out Valse Triste 03/30/38 04/13/08 Hopalong Cassidy The Bandits of Ridge Creek 04/02/50 04/13/08 Burns & Allen Victory Garden 03/30/43 04/13/08 Strange Wills Seven Flights to Glory 04/13/08 Gangbusters The Case of the Elusive Leader 10/22/49 04/13/08 Johnny Dollar The Perikoff Matter 02/11/49 04/13/08 Suspense The Name of the Beast 04/11/46 04/20/08 Lone Ranger The Law West of the Pecos 04/17/44 04/20/08 Tex Ritter Have I Stayed Away Too Long? 11/23/43 04/20/08 Jimmy Durante The Housing Shortage 04/14/48 04/20/08 Pat Novak for Hire The Bruno Zeiss Case 04/23/49 04/20/08 Calling All Cars Hammers in Honduras 04/18/34 04/20/08 Suspense Brother John 04/15/62 04/20/08 Dark Fantasy The Edge of the Shadow 04/10/42 04/27/08 Gene Autry Steve Williams 04/27/08 Gene Autry You Are My Sunshine 06/18/41 04/27/08 ene Autry/Jimmy Long Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine 10/29/31 04/27/08 Jack Benny In the Spring 04/25/37 04/27/08 Rocky Jordan Consignment for Naples 04/24/49 04/27/08 Box 13 Find Me, Find Death 04/24/49 04/27/08 CBS Radio Workshop A Living Portrait 04/20/56 04/27/08 X-Minus One And the Moon Be Still as Bright 04/22/55
MARCH 2008 SATURDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM.... 03/01/08 Lone Ranger An Outlaw Manhunt 07/24/40 03/01/08 Mel Blanc Show with Spike Jones 09/03/46 03/01/08 Suspense My Own Murderer 05/24/45 03/01/08 Nero Wolfe The Disappearing Diamonds 03/02/51 03/01/08 Mercury Theater Dracula 07/11/38 03/08/08 Frontier Town Seminole Strip 11/07/52 03/08/08 Great Gildersleeve Gildy Disappears 01/09/52 03/08/08 Mr. & Mrs. North Fool’s Gold 02/16/51 03/08/08 NBC University Thea Of Human Bondage 11/14/48 03/08/08 Fat Man Murder for Sale 03/15/08 Lone Ranger The Stolen Watch 12/13/50 03/15/08 Life of Riley Junior’s Lawn Mowing Business 12/01/50 03/15/08 Romance Bill Gunn’s Mermaid 09/08/56 03/15/08 Escape Conqueror’s Isle 03/05/49 03/15/08 Frank Race The Baradian Letters 06/12/49 03/15/08 Philip Marlowe The Medium was Rare 09/08/51 03/22/08 Cisco Kid Sam Grant’s Ranch & Will 03/22/08 Fred Allen with Sydney Greenstreet 05/12/46 03/22/08 Screen Dir Playhouse Prince of Foxes 01/04/51 03/22/08 Boston Blackie Skating Rink 07/09/46 03/22/08 Suspense Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 07/19/59 03/29/08 Frontier Gentleman Claim Jumpers 03/09/58 03/29/08 Fibber McGee McGee’s Citizenship 06/03/47 03/29/08 Studio One Topaz 05/06/47 03/29/08 Escape Man Who Could Work Miracles 09/18/48 03/29/08 Inner Sanctum Mind Over Murder 08/22/49
MARCH 2008 SUNDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM.... 03/02/08 Hopalong Cassidy Stampede at Semole’s 03/01/52 03/02/08 Jack Benny The Fight of the Century 03/07/37 03/02/08 NBC University Thea The Heart of Midlothian 02/27/49 03/02/08 Gangbusters Case of the Dakota Badman 02/28/48 03/02/08 Sealed Book The Hand of Death 03/18/45 03/09/08 Lone Ranger The Double Cross Waller 03/08/43 03/09/08 Tex Ritter & His TexansHave I Stayed Away Too Long 11/23/43 03/09/08 Fibber McGee Fibber Changes His Name 03/25/41 03/09/08 Dr. Kildare Edward Carlton’s Dog Bite 03/09/51 03/09/08 CBS Radio Workshop Air Raid 03/10/57 03/09/08 Fat Man Murder Makes a Ham 03/09/08 Hall of Fantasy Death in the Bayous 03/09/47 03/16/08 Fort Laramie The Beasley Girls 03/18/56 03/16/08 Great Gildersleeve Income Tax 03/14/43 03/16/08 CBS Radio Workshop Cops and Robbers 03/16/56 03/16/08 Adventures By Morse A Coffin for the Lady 1 of 3 03/18/44 03/16/08 Sam Spade The Sinister Siren Caper 03/16/51 03/16/08 Quiet Please Dark Rosalie 03/13/49 03/23/08 Have Gun Will Travel They Told Me You Were Dead 03/27/60 03/23/08 Our Miss Brooks The Auction 03/19/50 03/23/08 Green Hornet A Pair of Nylons 03/19/46 03/23/08 Adventures By Morse A Coffin for the Lady 2 of 3 03/25/44 03/23/08 Tom Corbett Atmosphere of Death 1 of 2 03/18/52 03/23/08 Tom Corbett Atmosphere of Death 2 of 2 03/20/08 03/23/08 Bickersons Pink Slip 03/30/08 Luke Slaughter Yancy’s Pride 03/09/58 03/30/08 Life of Riley Riley the Rent Collector 03/30/51 03/30/08 Damon Runyan Theater Princess O’Hara 03/30/08 Adventures By Morse A Coffin for the Lady 3 of 3 04/01/44 03/30/08 Nightbeat The Man Who Claimed He Was Dead 03/20/50 03/30/08 Sealed Book The King of the World 03/25/45
FEBRUARY 2008 SATURDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM.... 02/02/03 Frontier Town Poisoned Water Hole 10/24/52 02/02/08 Jack Benny I Stand Condemned 01/19/47 02/02/08 Richard Diamond The Dixon Case 03/14/52 02/02/03 Sherlock Holmes The Out-of-Date Murder 09/17/45 02/02/03 Frank Race The Vanishing President 06/05/49 02/02/03 Escape The Lost Special 02/12/49 02/09/08 Frontier Gentleman Kendall’s Last Stand 02/23/58 02/09/08 Duffy’s Tavern Archie’s Philosophy 02/09/49 02/09/08 Green Hornet Washington Story 02/05/46 02/09/08 Clock Dr. Carter’s Experiment 02/23/47 02/09/08 Inner Sanctum Elixir Number Four 02/12/46 02/09/08 Once Upon a Midnight Malice Aforethought 05/11/45 02/16/08 Frontier Gentleman The Honkeytonkers 02/16/58 02/16/08 Great Gildersleeve Leroy Demands Freedom 02/27/52 02/16/08 Our Miss Brooks Cow in the Closet 04/24/54 02/16/08 Escape Orient Escape 02/19/49 02/16/08 Nero Wolfe Case of the Party for Death 02/16/51 02/16/08 X-Minus One Skulking Permit 02/15/56 02/23/08 Lone Ranger Dodge City or Bust 04/25/41 02/23/08 Green Hornet Charity Takes It on the Chin 02/21/42 02/23/08 Our Miss Brooks Cure That Habit 01/15/50 02/23/08 Escape When the Man Comes, Follow 04/09/49 02/23/08 X-Minus One Project Mastodon 06/05/56 02/23/08 Weird Circle The Vendetta 09/12/43
FEBRUARY 2008 SUNDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM.... 02/03/08 Fort Laramie Boatwright’s Story 01/29/56 02/03/08 Fibber McGee Egyptian Good Luck Ring 02/13/40 02/03/08 You Bet Your Life Secret Word is Chair 02/03/58 02/03/08 NBC University Theater Gulliver’s Travels 02/06/49 02/03/08 Weird Circle The River Man 02/04/45 02/10/08 Gunsmoke Dutch George 11/20/55 02/10/08 Burns & Allen The Marriage Contest 02/07/46 02/10/08 Richard Diamond Timothy the Seal 02/05/50 02/10/08 Suspense Drury’s Bones 01/25/45 02/10/08 Murder at Midnight The Ace of Death 01/06/46 02/17/08 Cisco Kid The Black Kerchief 10/05/54 02/17/08 Life of Riley Riley Quits 02/17/50 02/17/08 CBS Radio Workshop Season of Disbelief, Hail & 02/17/56 02/17/08 Falcon The Case of the Mighty Muscle 02/11/51 02/17/08 Suspense The Lucky Lady 02/14/46 02/17/08 Witch’s Tale The Devil Doctor 02/19/34 02/24/08 Luke Slaughter Duel on the Trail 02/23/58 02/24/08 Walker & Sullivan When My Blue Moon Turns 03/09/41 02/24/08 Duffy’s Tavern Job Opening 02/23/51 02/24/08 Crime Classics The Good Ship Jane 02/24/54 02/23/08 Gangbusters Case of the Dakota Badman 02/28/48 02/24/08 Suspense Sorry, Wrong Number 02/24/44 02/24/08 Rocky Jordan Champagne, Caviar & Hot Ice 02/06/49
JANUARY 2008 SATURDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM.... 01/05/08 Challenge of the Yukon The Silent One 01/03/48 01/05/08 Fibber McGee McGee Builds a Dog House 01/02/40 01/05/08 Great Gildersleeve Big New Year’s Costume Ball 01/01/47 01/05/08 Mr. & Mrs. North Milk Run 07/15/47 01/05/58 Texaco town Follies with Eddie Cantor 01/03/37 01/05/08 Suspense I Had an Alibi 01/04/45 01/12/08 Lone Ranger Fort Laramie Incident 06/21/48 01/12/08 Terry & the Pirates Hong Kong 01/14/47 01/12/08 Buck Rogers Origins 4 04/12/39 01/12/08 Jack Benny First Show for CBS 01/02/49 01/12/08 Suspense The Crowd 09/21/50 01/12/08 Nero Wolfe Case of the Tell-Tale Ribbon 03/30/51 01/12/08 Shadow The League of Terror 01/09/38 01/19/08 Fibber McGee Man’s Untapped Energy 03/11/47 01/19/08 Frontier Town Carne, Claim Jumper 01/19/08 NBC University Thea Lord Jim 10/03/48 01/19/08 Gangbusters The Case of the Hue & Cry 01/19/08 Philip Marlowe The Black Halo 01/15/49 01/26/08 Lone Ranger Gold Shipment 01/26/53 01/26/08 Lux Radio Theater Shane 02/22/55 01/26/08 Great Gildersleeve The Diet 01/04/42 01/26/08 Suspense Sorry, Wrong Number 09/06/45 01/26/08 Nero Wolfe Case of the Midnight Ride 03/09/51 01/26/08 Strange Dr. Weird Survival of the Fittest 01/23/45
JANUARY 2008 SUNDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM.... 01/06/08 Straight Arrow The Brave Blackfoot 01/07/50 01/06/08 Ozzie & Harriet Sports Heroes 01/09/49 01/06/08 Favorite Story Change of Face 12/28/48 01/06/08 Bold Venture Death by a Fighting Bird 01/03/51 01/06/08 Mysterious Traveler New Year’s Nightmare 01/05/47 01/06/08 Suspense Angel of Death 01/03/46 01/13/08 Lone Ranger The Pink Umbersol 01/15/45 01/13/08 Jack Benny from Bangor, Maine 01/03/43 01/13/08 Damon Runyan Theater A Nice Price 01/13/08 Scarlet Queen Fang Rubies & Black Siamese 01/14/48 01/13/08 Big Town The Mask of Evil 01/04/49 01/13/08 Nick Carter The Wandering Corpse 01/06/46 01/20/08 Gunsmoke Kangaroo 01/18/59 01/20/08 Bergen & McCarthy with Louis Bromfield 01/14/45 01/20/08 Twenty-First Precinct The Visitors 01/20/54 01/20/08 Radio City Playhouse Portrait of Lenore 01/20/49 01/20/08 X-Minus One Chain of Command 11/21/56 01/20/08 Witch’s Tale Suicide 01/22/37 01/27/08 Hoplaong Cassidy Danger Wears Two Faces 01/19/52 01/27/08 Jimmy Durante Jimmy Returns 01/28/48 01/27/08 Lux Radio Theater Dark Victory 01/07/40 01/27/08 Scarlet Pimpernel Hostage Children 01/27/08 Falcon Case of the Bellicose Boxer 01/28/51
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