VARIETY OF SOUNDS

Originally broadcast on WDCB
Saturday, January 29, 2005

SUSPENSE (9-30-48) “The Man Who Wanted to be Edward G. Robinson” starring Edward G. Robinson as a Walter Mitty-type, a meek little man who decides to murder his wife. AutoLite, CBS. (30 min)

COUPLE NEXT DOOR (12-30-58) Peg Lynch and Alan Bunce star with Margaret Hamilton. The family returns home to find a cold house. Sustaining, CBS. (15 min)

EMPIRE BUILDERS (1-19-31) Don Ameche stars as a movie actor who is mistaken for a real sheriff by a gang of badmen. Story is set at Glacier National Park. Great Northern Rail­way, NBC. (30 min)

A DATE WITH JUDY (3-20-45) Louise Erickson stars as Judy Foster with Bob Hastings as Oogie Pringle. Guest is actress Dorothy Lam-our. When Judy breaks up with Oogie, he writes a song for Dorothy to sing at an Army camp show. AFRS rebroadcast. (27 riiin)

A LIFE IN YOUR HANDS (7-24-52) Carlton KaDell stars as Jonathan Kegg, “a friend of the court,” who doesn’t take sides, but attempts to learn the truth. An “earwitness” helps solve a murder. Sustaining, NBC. (30 min)

*COMMAND PERFORMANCE #38 (10-24­42) Actress Linda Darnell introduces “dead­pan” singer Virginia O’Brien, Zero Mostel, Erskine Hawkins and comedian Red Skelton. AFRS. (29 min)