VAN JOHNSON, CLAUDIA, GUNSMOKE, CRIME CLUB
Happy Birthday VAN JOHNSON! Happy Marriage CLAUDIA!! Happy Shooting Doc Holliday on GUNSMOKE!!! There's also an unhappy cop who has been pick-pocketed on CRIME CLUB, all tonight August 25 from 7 to 9 pm EDT on THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO on WBAI-NY 99.5 FM, and streaming live at wbai.org.
CLAUDIA Oct 01, 1947 #3 for Coca-Cola. Minerva the maid learns about "vitamins in love." Claudia and David decide to keep or return the wedding presents. Oct 02, 1947 #4 Breakfast in bed for Claudia's mama. Returning the wedding presents. Starring Kathryn Bard, Paul Crabtree, created by Rose Franken, adapted by Manya Starr and Roger Starr, directed by William Brown Maloney, announcer Joe King.
THEATRE OF ROMANCE from CBS on Dec 11, 1945 "Love Affair" for Colgate Tooth Powder, Halo Shampoo. A shipboard romance involves a double triangle. A planned meeting at the Empire State building does not come to pass. Van Johnson's name is greeted by shrieks from the bobby soxers. With Susan Peters, Lou Merrill, hosted by Frank Graham, produced by Charles Vanda.
GUNSMOKE from CBS on July 19, 1952 #13 "Doc Holliday." Doc Holliday has come to Dodge to kill Big Jack Finley. But Big Jack's son, Thorne Finley, is the real problem. Starring William Conrad as Matt Dillon US Marshall, Parley Baer as Chester, Howard McNear as Doc, Harry Bartell as Doc Holliday, Lee Millar as Thorne, Nestor Paiva, Ralph Moody, Tom Tully, music by Rex Koury, written by Herb Purdum, produced & directed by Norman McDonnell, announcer Roy Rowan.
CRIME CLUB from Mutual on July 10, 1947 #33 "Coney Island Nocturne." A dumb cop has his pocket picked on the boardwalk. His wallet is found later on a corpse. With Walter Kinsella as Mike Donahue, Joan Alexander as Helen O'Malley, Jean Ellen as Josie Johnson, Bill Quinn as Peter Johnson, Joseph Julian as Benny Gould, written by Stedman Coles, produced & Directed by Roger Bauer.