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Tuesday, June 1, 2021 - OTr Dramas

Suspense -- "Smiley"

A friendly but somewhat dim-witted guy is wrongly accused and sent to prison. When he is released, he finds himself a woman hater.

Smiley makes up his mind that his way to receive justice is to commit the very crime for which he has already spent time in prison.

“For 22 years I get along with people and, they like me. They even started calling me Smiley. I was always laughing and smiling inside. Then I met this woman and the smiles left me. I learned a a few things about women. Like some of them don't deserve to live."

Featuring: Donald O'Connor, Lurene Tuttle, Sidney Miller

Original Air Date: August 14, 1947 on CBS

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May 31, 2021 - OTR Comedies

The Burns & Allen Show - "Gracie Adopts Mickey Rooney"

When Gracie reads about Mickey Rooney in a movie magazine she is shocked at all of the things the young boy is allowed to do -- like drive a car. Convinced he needs parental guidance, she explains to George why they should adopt Mickey -- even though George tries to explain Rooney is a full-grown man.

Meanwhile, the studio wants Rooney to do yet another juvenile picture. Fed up with playing teens, Mickey wants a serious role so decides to hide out someplace the studio can't find him.

When Gracie comes calling with her offer to adopt him, he sees a perfect opportunity to remain undercover.

Hilarious episode!

Featuring: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Mickey Rooney, Wally Maher, Toby Reed, Harry Lubin, Bill Baldwin

Original Air Date: May 19, 1949 on NBC

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Thursday, May 27, 2021 - OTR Westerns

The Six Shooter -- "Aunt Emma"

Britt Ponset is a man who lives alone and likes it that way. He enjoys wandering about the west from job to job -- it suits him just fine.

When Britt wanders into Powder Creek after several weeks of working a round-up at the Bar Y Ranch, he stops into Ethan Greenriver's General Store where he discovers he has mail waiting for him -- a letter from his Aunt Emma in Topeka, Kansas.

Emma explains she is relocating to Powder Creek and is going to get a house where she and Britt can live together. She says he needs someone to be his housekeeper and take care of him.

As it turns out, that really means she wants to completely change his life.

Featuring: Jimmy Stewart, Eleanor Audley, Bill Johnstone

Original Broadcast Date: April 1, 1954 on NBC

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Wednesday, May 26, 2021 -- OTR Mysteries

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe - The Fox's Tail

When Orin Metcalf requests a private meeting with Marlowe it is to ask for his help.

Metcalf is representing a chemist who is suing his former employer because he stole the scientist's secret formula for a revolutionary nail polish. According to Metcalf, the product will be worth millions.

The problem is, Metcalf's scheme involves Phil assuming the identity of a dead man.

Howard McNear shines as Metcalf. Pretty good story.

Featuring: Gerald Mohr, Howard McNear, Lou Krugman, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Hugh Thomas

Original Air Date: May 23, 1950 on CBS

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Tuesday, May 25, 2021 -- OTR Dramas

Night Beat -- "Old Home Week"

Randy is on vacation and as he is driving to the lake he meets

a young woman in distress. When he stops to help her he finds

himself involved in the middle of a dilemma. Was she the victim of an attempted murder? And was she actually the victim or the suspect?

Frank Lovejoy is always good as the night beat reporter for the Chicago Star. In this episode he heads an otherwise all female cast.

Featuring: Frank Lovejoy, Barbara Fuller, Rose Hobart, Shirley Mitchell, Martha Wentworth

Original Air Date: September 4, 1950 on NBC

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Monday, May 24, 2021 - OTR Comedies

Jack is ticketed for an expired meter. Rather than pay the $2 fine, he decides to go to the Beverly Hills Traffic Court and declare the parking meter was broken.

Funny episode that starts off in a coffee shop with Jack, Dennis and Bob Crosby and ends up at the courthouse with lots of typical Benny gags along the way that are laugh out-loud funny.

Listen for Mel Blanc and Frank Nelson -- both bits are really good. Also the waitress in the drug store coffee shop (Sara Berner?) is very funny.

Featuring: Jack Benny, Rochester, Dennis Day, Bob Crosby, Frank Nelson, Mel Blanc.

Original Air Date: January 17, 1954 on CBS

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Saturday, May 22, 2021

Old Time Radio Grab-Bag #8

Here is the line-up of shows from this week's grab-bag:

1. Dimension X....4-22-50...."The Barnhouse Effect"

2. The Abbott & Costello Show....5-5-48...."The New Sheriff"

3. Information Please....4-24-44....Guest: Irene Dunne

4. Mysterious Traveler....7-27-47....The Man the Insects Hated"

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Thursday, May 20, 2021 - OTR Westerns

Gunsmoke - "Post Martin"

When Kathryn Blair gets off the train in Dodge City, she immediately looks out of place. She is beautiful, refined and obviously from a wealthy family. She has just arrived from Boston on a quest to find her brother, Martin Blair, who left Boston two years earlier.

Matt acknowledges he knows Martin, but tells her he does not know his present whereabouts -- it seems Martin travels a great deal.

Little wonder this is confusing to Chester, because he knows Martin is back in a jail cell and next week he will be tried for cattle rustling, horse stealing -- and murder.

Featuring: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Jeanne Bates, Sam Edwards, Ralph Moody

Original Air Date: December 13, 1952 on CBS

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Wednesday, May 19, 2021 - OTR Mysteries

Dragnet - "The Big Layout"

When an old friend of Joe Friday tells Joe he needs to talk to him, Friday knows it's an indication he is in some kind of trouble. He is -- he has just discovered his eighteen-year old son is using heroin.

Joe and Frank try to work with the teen but are met by a brick wall pf resistance. That's when they decide the young man needs some tough love.

Realistic story line. Interesting to see how things have changed and yet how they also remain the same. Eddie Firestone is tremendous as the young man.

Featuring: Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Harry Bartell, Virginia Gregg, Eddie Firestone

Original Air Date: January 25, 1953 on NBC

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Tuesday, May 17, 2021 - OTR Dramas

Lux Radio Theatre: "High Wall"

A man (Van Heflin) suffering from a brain injury appears to have strangled his wife. When he is committed to a mental hospital, the doctor assigned his case (Janet Leigh) is skeptical about his claim of innocence and his reluctance to undergo treatment.

As she works with him, however, she begins to doubt his guilt and puts her career on the line to try to save him.

Featuring: Van Heflin, Janet Leigh, Donald Randolph, Raymond Largay, Gerald Mohr, Herb Ellis, Leo Cleary, Joan Banks, Bill Johnstone, Jay Novello, Shepherd Menken, Cliff Clark, Gwen Delano, Bob Griffin, Lou Krugman, Alan Reed Jr, Eddie Marr

Original Air Date: November 7, 1949 on CBS

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