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Hopalong Cassidy was three days overdue, and that fact alone would have been enough to make the four ranch owners nervous, but there were other reasons too. Joe Randall listened patiently while one of the other three men listed their concerns - and it's not really Hoppy they have the issue with, it's another man who recently rode back into town...

Starring: William Boyd

Broadcast Date: June 18, 1950

Robert Craig was a flight officer fed up of being on Zone 5 planet in space where he had been for the last sixteen years. He decides to go back to earth. However once there he finds the control officers unfriendly, hostile and suspicious towards him and wants to go back to Space. However getting a permit to go back is as hard as being accepted on Terra. Maybe once he finds his sea legs he’ll be able to settle down in to the system on Terra.

Starring: William Redfield, Ralph Bell, Charles Penman

Broadcast Date: May 1, 1956

In this session from the series Downbeat, Harfield Weedin introduces today's guest band leader, the amazing Benny Carter, jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader, performing music asked for by the armed forces overseas. The curtain is raised with the opening tune, Fish Fry.

Starring: Benny Carter

Penny Gibbs and Professor Rogers have taken a plane, along with a detective who is returning Freddie Lang to New York Police to face criminal charges. On the plane, Freddie suddenly admitted his guilt to Penny, and now, as the plane nears its destination, he doesn't understand her indifference to his confession...

Broadcast Date: September 9, 1946

The story begins late one afternoon, in the luxurious office of Henry Norton, a stockbroker. Norton, a tall dapper man in his forties, is in the midst of signing some letters, when he is called on the office communicator by his secretary. There is a man named Charles Blair to see him. Norton demands that she not let him in, but it is too late, he forces his way past her in enters Norton's office…

Starring: Maurice Tarplin

Broadcast Date: October 21, 1947

Hosted by the quick witted Groucho Marx this is a fun quiz show game in which three couples each have $20 and they can bet as much as that on each of four questions. The couple that finishes with the most money gets to go for the $1000 question at the end of the show. Plus if someone uses the secret word they win an extra bonus prize.

Starring: Groucho Marx

Broadcast Date: December 28, 1955

The story of a man from the steel mills of Pittsburgh, who sought after and found the one thing in the world, he alone was meant to do. That man is John Alfred Brashear, who became famous as a lens grinder and maker of telescopes, and the story began as many stories do - that when he couldn't afford to buy a telescope, he learned the skills in order to make his own!

Starring: Barry Sullivan, Claire Niesen, Sydney Smith, Denise Alexander, Phyllis Creore, Roy Fant, Guy Repp, Dan Ocko

Broadcast Date: June 5, 1951

This story is a dramatization of a real case of a missing person taken from the Missing Persons Bureau files in London but for obvious reasons names and addresses have been changed. 

There are many attractions for the tourists in London in fact almost as many as there are tourists. Of all the attractions London has to offer there are none to compare for color and splendor as the pomp and ceremony of the changing of the guard. On this day Henry Simon head of the Bureau of Missing Persons had been held up in a traffic jam near Buckinham Palace by the changing of the guard on the same day he was visited in his office by an old friend Sir Robert Attwell whose son was a member off the royal guard.

He could tell be the look on his face that something was wrong. Sir Robert Attwells's son Anthony Attwell had disappeared without a trace. Last Tuesday afternoon he was on duty at Buckingham palace then shortly after three he was found missing from his post by one of the constables on duty. His bearskin helmet and coat were later found in a sentry box and Anthony was reported as a deserter. He hasn't been seen since.

Starring: Henry Simon

Broadcast Date: 1967

Andrew Wilson is dead, murdered; murdered under conditions so impossible as to challenge explanation. Who will find out how he died, who will discover his murderer, who will start the manhunt?

Starring: Maurice Tarplin, Larry Haines