A museum curator hires a flirtatious girl. Suddenly, in the middle of painting a copy of a portrait, she disappears. The clues for the mystery are laid out when the…

Cedric is mad, and tells Abner how he hates and despises that, Gomer Bates. He can’t even keep his mind on his pinball game. Has he been taken advantage of…

Cleaning out the spare room for a war worker, Molly has to keep Fibber calmed down after reading old news headlines. Fibber has trouble parting with sentimental, old items. Who…

Doctor Sloane is told about his last patient of the day by his fiancee, and office nurse, Miss Banks. His ex-wife, a model, and nervous woman is unhappy despite having all she wanted with her rich new husband. She wants to come back, but the doc is to be married soon. When Nola dies in his office, who is to blame? A jealous nurse? The doctor, after threats were made to his happy life?

Peg wants to go out to a formal restaurant. As the argument comes to a boil, a telephone call from Sidney Monahan comes in. He’s an old friend of Pegs,…

The old gents can often be silly, well intended, and in their later episodes sometimes a little critical of each other. Today’s episode is probably the most touching of their…

It’s the jukebox of the air, just for troops overseas, and GI Jill delivers the tunes. Tommy Dorcey presents, Blue Skies. Hellen Forrest sings, When They Ask About You. Jill…

In Jack’s house, he and Rochester put together a photo scrapbook. They’re out of glue, and have no flour to make homemade paste. Jack sets out for Ronald Colemans to…

The Old Lady 1/17/53

Gunsmoke

was a long-running American old-time radio and television Western drama

created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The

stories took place in or about Dodge City, Kansas, during the

settlement of the American West. The radio version ran from 1952 to

1961, and is commonly regarded as one of the finest radio dramas of all

time; the television version ran from 1955 to 1975 and still holds the

record for the longest-running U.S. prime time fictional television

program.

Come one, come all, and let’s pretend. Listen and enjoy the week’s children’s story. Mount up on horses as we ride off to storyland. The Juniper Tree is a story…