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Tuesday Night Detectives - Richard Diamond, Private Detective (The Private Eye Test) & The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez) (opens the original)
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This week on Tuesday Night Detectives, two very different private investigators, back to back. We open with Richard Diamond, Private Detective and "The Private Eye Test," broadcast 19 March 1950. Dick Powell stars as the wisecracking former cop turned private eye, this time sitting a formal licensing exam alongside every other private investigator in the city. It should be routine, until the staged corpse in the training exercise turns out to be a real one, and Diamond has to solve a murder from
Sunday Night Playhouse - Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier) (opens the original)
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Orson Welles and Margaret Sullavan bring Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca to the air for the very first time — a year and a half before Hitchcock ever filmed it — in the debut broadcast of Campbell Playhouse.
Saturday Matinee - The Jack Benny Program (The Racetrack), The Abbott and Costello Show (The Merchant Marines) & Our Miss Brooks (Heat Wave) (opens the original)
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Jack Benny hits the racetrack, Lou Costello tries to enlist in the Merchant Marines, and Miss Brooks battles a stifling classroom heat wave — three of the most beloved half-hours in golden-age American comedy, back to back.
Friday Night Noir - Suspense (The A.B.C. Murders) & Suspense (Sorry, Wrong Number) (opens the original)
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A killer stalks England alphabetically and a bedridden woman overhears her own murder being planned on a crossed telephone line, in two landmark broadcasts from Suspense’s extraordinary May of 1943 — The A.B.C. Murders and Sorry, Wrong Number, starring Agnes Moorehead.
Tuesday Night Detectives — Philip Marlowe (The Panama Hat) & Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (The Royal Street Matter) (opens the original)
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Gerald Mohr stars as Philip Marlowe in “The Panama Hat,” followed by Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar in “The Royal Street Matter,” with an original period Mayfield Cigarettes radio commercial between the two mysteries.
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