THIS DAY, THAT YEAR

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, April 1, 2000

LIFE WITH LUIGI (4-1-52) J. Carroll Naish stars as Luigi Basco, with Alan Reed as Pasquale who plays an April Fool’s joke to try to get Luigi to marry Rosa. Wrigley’s Gum, CBS. (31 min)

FORT LARAMIE (4-1-56) “Lost Child” starring Raymond Burr as Captain Lee Quince of the U. S. Cavalry, with Vic Perrin as Sgt. Gorce. A settler’s child is kidnapped in an Indian raid. Sustaining, CBS. (28 min)

FIBBER MC GEE AND MOLLY (4-1-41) Jim and Marian Jordan star as the McGees of Wist­ful Vista. When Molly returns from a shop­ping trip she discovers her car is missing its left front fender. Cast includes Isabel Randolph as Mrs. Uppington; Harold Peary as Gilder­sleeve; Bill Thompson as Horatio K. Boomer; King’s Men; Billy Mills and the orchestra; announcer Harlow Wilcox. Johnson’s Wax, NBC. (30 min)

YOUR HIT PARADE (4-1-44) The top tunes of the week as presented by Frank Sinatra, Joan Edwards, the Hit Paraders and Mark Warnow and the orchestra. Kenny Delmar announces. AFRS rebroadcast. (30 min)

SUSPENSE (4-1-62) “You Died Last Night” starring Robert Readick and Santos Ortega. In the midst of the Atomic Age, a man meets up with a space traveler from a planet 15 Light Years away. Sustaining, CBS. (23 min.

MEL BLANC SHOW (4-1-47) Mel makes an April Fool phone call to his girl friend’s father, telling him he is going to inherit a million dol­lars. Cast includes Alan Reed, Mary Jane Croft, Joe Kearns, Hans Conried, Jim Backus. Col­gate products, CBS. (24 min)

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Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, April 8, 2000

RICHARD DIAMOND, PRIVATE DETECTIVE (3¬16-51) Dick Powell stars as Diamond with Ed Begley as Lt. Levinson and Virginia Gregg as Helen Asher. A madman threatens to blow up City Hall unless the Mayor jumps off the building. Sustaining, NBC. (28 min)

ADVENTURES OF PHILIP MARLOWE (1-8-49) “The Restless Day” starring Gerald Mohr as Marlowe with Edgar Barrier, Virginia Gregg, John Dehner, Jack Moyles. A cosmetics manufacturer is convinced he’s the victim of a murder attempt. Sustaining, CBS. (30 min)

CANDY MATSON (1950) “Symphony of Death” starring Natalie Masters as Candy, a tough and beautiful San Francisco private de-tective who tries to help a composer who is waiting to die. Sustaining, NBC West Coast. (28 min)

THE FAT MAN (1-17-51) “The Nightmare Murder” stars J. Scott Smart as Brad Runyon. A mystery writer hires the Fat Man to find out whether or not he -the writer- is a murderer. Buick, ABC. (29 min)

PAT NOVAK FOR HIRE 14-16-49) Jack Webb is Novak, a San Francisco waterfront trouble-shooter. Novak becomes the prime suspect in a murder case. Cast includes Raymond Burr as Inspector Hellman and Tudor Owen as Jocko Madigan. AFRS rebroadcast. (30 min)

ADVENTURES OF SAM SPADE (6-19-49) “The Apple of Eve Caper” starring Howard Duff. Sam gets knocked out while trying to prevent two “ladies” from fighting. Lurene Tuttle is Effie. Wildroot Cream Oil, CBS. (28 min)