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The every day existence of an average teenage boy like Henry Aldrich is always a very complicated affair. Life is one crisis after another and if the normal run of problems isn’t baffling enough there are always adults around to make things even more difficult. . .  Duration : 29:08  Starring: Bobby Ellis, Jack Grimes, House Jameson  Broadcast Date: 30th November 1952

Philip Marlowe received a call from Sergeant Mathews regarding a brunette named Helen Lawton. Marlowe made out with Helen and sometimes still does though he hadn’t seen her for about a month. When he asked Mathews if she was in some kind of trouble he replied, “Not now, at about five o’clock this afternoon somebody put a bullet in her neck”.  Duration: 29:59  Starring: Gerald Mohr  ...

You are trapped in the native quarter of Mozambique, two dead men at your feet and the police closing in on you and besides you a sultry girl who offers you escape. Ronald A Dawson, second class passenger who could of course have afforded first class but who was to know back at the department store where he worked. The important thing is that they would be saying “Ronald Dawson is taking a trip ar...

This is the story of a simple melody, and of a killer. Who, as the story opens, is fighting desperately, alone, against a raging storm off the coast of Maine. The lifeboat that he is in is half pounded, and the man’s rowing does little good. . .  Duration: 27:39  Starring: House Jameson, Berry Kroeger  Broadcast Date: 29th May 1945

Whitey Gear was blackmailing Don Mason for $10,000. Whitey knew that Mason was really Jimmy Burke who was wanted for murder after being mixed up in a juvenile gang some years ago when a guard was killed. Don suffered from blackout periods when he couldn’t remember what had happened but he hadn’t had one for a while until apparently last night when he met and killed Whitey.  Duration: 24:42&nb...

James Stewart’s inimitable style and voice make the Six Shooter stories an absolute pleasure for anyone who loves westerns, as I do. If you’ve seen films starring James Stewart, you’ll see that these stories were written for him. I love them all! In this story Al is having his hair cut and discussing a meeting they had last night. Al is not looking forward to telling Gabe that they feel that after...

Archie wants to get some high spenders in to Duffy’s Tavern and when Fats quotes to him from a newspaper column that the biggest spender of the week is a South American gold miner named Senior Diego DeNiro and he’s staying in the Plaza Archie rings him right away and invites him down.  Duration: 30:24  Starring: Ed Gardner  Broadcast Date: 2nd November 1951

Smiley I Must Be Crazy Smith was a DJ and for his Friday Night Stunt Night he was going to spend the night on a spook hunt in a haunted house in which four people were known to have committed suicide.  Duration: 29:28  Starring: Ralph Edwards  Broadcast Date: 23rd June 1949  --- Note -- This is my personal favorite Suspense episode.  

Luigi is just writing his letter to his mother in Italy when there is a commotion outside his apartment when someone is knocked down on the busy corner. Then a debate ensues as to why they can’t have traffic lights on this busy corner. Luigi decides he’s going to ask Miss Spalding if she has any ideas how the neigborhood can get a much needed traffic light. . .  Duration : 29:36  Starrin...

Mickey the Hood whose real name is Michael Jonathan O’Banyan had been a bootlegger, gun runner and jewel thief. After he served his term in order to fill out his parole he worked for a drug company before he opened a little importing company, which was probably just a little front for his bootlegging. He managed to secure half million insurance coverage on his business and a quarter million on his...

In the study of country home on the Hudson River, some 50 miles from New York. An attractive auburn haired young woman has just entered the room, and as she shakily picks up the telephone and dials a number it is obvious that she is under some frightful strain. She is telephoning the police but there is no answer. She telephones the operator to be put through to the police but the line has been cu...

Jim Doby runs the Dodge Hotel. But, he’s in for a little competition. One of the local cattle ranchers has decided that he wants a hotel too, so he has begun the building work. Jim Doby is not at all happy, and he has even begun threatening people. . . This episode was probably a rehersal show. It is hilarious. It’s a wonder this fantastic cast ever got any shows made they had so much fun which yo...

Shorty’s been arrested by Inspector Friday for sticking up a gas station and even though he told them it was a guy named Donald Bolton Shorty has ended up in Jail. Inspector Friday informs Mary to tell Blackie that Shorty’s guilty and he’s to keep his nose out of this case.  Duration: 27:48  Starring: Richard Kollmar  Broadcast Date: 1st November 1945

He woke up on the floor shivering all his clothes had gone. It was like a nightmare that he had dreamed many times before and dreaded coming true. At first he thought he had awoken in his own room, that somebody had taken all his furniture as well as his clothes but then he realized it wasn’t so much a room as it was a cube, an empty sterile cube with luminescent walls that hummed with the soft bl...

Phillip Marlowe escaped a road accident with a fractured tibia and assorted bruises but ended up 10 days in a hospital worrying about the business he was missing. After 4 days laid up at home he finally Audine Patterson a girl with a multimillion dollar estate he’d worked on once insisted on seeing him immediately about a job, one that he could handle flat on his back.  Duration: 30:00 ...

A publisher named Hillary Grayson ran a “best first novel” contest with $50,000 for the winner. The prize winning manuscript was stolen mysrteriously and there was no copy. Grayson was willing to pay Craig $2000 to get it back.  Duration: 29:21  Starring: William Gargan  Broadcast Date: 5th December 1951

Sooner or later every man must learn this sad fact, come storm, come flood, come fire, come bill collectors a woman will make that trip to the beauty parlor. At this moment Teresa Travis, blond secretary of Results Incorporated is receiving the expert attention of Monsieur Jean Gillette hairstylist extraordinary. Terry watches his progress in the mirror. . .  Duration: 29:20  Starring: L...

Before the Suspense story begins you will hear a CBS World News bulletin from an American wartime correspondent at Normandy beach. Harry Andrews was a laughing happy-go-lucky fellow before he began to have dreams about Aaron Burr dreams in which Burr would be mean to his friend Alexander Hamilton, dreams that became nightmares that began to plague him. . .  Duration: 32:00  Starring: Ger...

Hard-boiled action mystery and thrilling adventure as the Lion’s Eye informs Jeff Regan that he has been hired by Alice Lafarge. She gives him instructions to be at the Gladstone Hotel where he meets her father Bill Lafarge. Bill Lafarge wants Regan to spend the weekend with him as a witness, just in case someone needs him to testify how he spent the weekend. Just as they settle in to a game of ca...

Mr Thurston calls insurance instigator Johnny Dollar regarding one of their most important clients from the standpoint of all the insurance she carries with them. Now it seems as though somebody might want to kill the fine lady to collect the insurance.  Duration: 25:05  Starring: Mandel Kramer, Lawson Zerbe, Daniel Ocko  Broadcast Date: 3rd September 1961

All Gas and Gaiters , predominantly farcical in nature, was set in the close of the fictional St Ogg's Cathedral and concerned various intrigues and rivalries among the clergy. The "gaiters" in the title refers to part of the traditional dress of bishops and archdeacons. The bishop was easygoing; his friend the archdeacon was elderly, tippling, and still appreciative of attractive women; and the b...

“The housing shortage may be bad but there’s one place I know of that always has room for another tenant. It’s a big grey structure near the river and the windows are crossed with iron bars and the landlord never asks you for a penny in rent. If you are an extra-special customer they even give you a private suite in a secluded part of the building that leads directly to a room with a heavy chair....

Lacey Abbott escapes from West View prison asylum by killing his visiting lawyer and forging his signature. Abbott is in prison accused of killing his wife but he knows he is innocent and that his ex-business partner Martin Avery was the guilty one. It was Avery’s testimony that convicted Abbott and now Abbott was planning on revenge.  Duration: 29:31  Starring: William Powell, John McIn...

The term 'music depreciation' is an interesting enough play on words in and of itself. Spike Jones and His Orchestra may well have coined the term in the course of their various irreverent, but brilliant send-ups of popular--and traditional--music over the years. Their aim being to both knock some of the most revered classics off their pedestals a notch or two, while at the same time deconstructin...

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