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DECEMBER 2002
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE..................... ORIGINAL 12/01/02 Jimmy Durante Guest is Charles Boyer 12/03/47 12/01/02 Grand Marquee What Is This Thing Called Love 09/04/47 12/01/02 Life of Riley Riley Builds His Dream House 09/25/43 12/01/02 The Saint The Dame on the Doorstep 11/12/50 12/01/02 X-Minus One If You Was a Moklin 06/12/56 12/01/02 Mysterious Traveler Murder in Jazz Time 04/20/48 12/08/02 Jack Benny Christmas Shopping 12/05/54 12/08/02 WHA Players Cyrano de Bergerac 11/00/38 12/08/02 Richard Diamond Diamond Becomes a Target 12/07/51 12/08/02 Sherlock Holmes The Noble Bachelor 08/18/59 12/08/02 The Shadow Friend of Darkness 02/19/39 12/15/02 Life of Riley The Rileys' First Baby 12/22/50 12/15/02 Screen Dir Playhouse Miracle on 34th Street 12/21/50 12/15/02 The Saint The Old Man's Car 08/14/49 12/15/02 CBS Radio Workshop The Big Event 12/16/56 12/15/02 The Whistler Hangtree Affair 12/14/48 12/22/02 Fibber McGee Lost Key Ring 12/23/47 12/22/02 Campbell Playhouse A Christmas Carol 12/24/39 12/22/02 Screen Dir Playhouse Alias Nick Beal 12/28/50 12/22/02 X-Minus One Project Mastadon 06/05/56 12/29/02 Favorite Story Little Women 09/27/47 12/29/02 Great Gildersleeve Big New Year's Costume Ball 01/01/47 12/29/02 Lux Radio Theater Anchors Aweigh 12/29/47 12/29/02 Escape Wild Oranges 12/31/47 12/29/02 Boston Blackie Death By Natural Causes 12/31/46
NOVEMBER 2002
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE..................... ORIGINAL 11/03/02 Duffy's Tavern with Boris Karloff 01/12/45 11/03/02 Glenn Miller Orch The White Cliffs of Dover 11/24/41 11/03/02 Adventures By Morse A Coffin for the Lady 03/18/44 11/03/02 Lux Radio Theater Guadalcanal Diary 02/28/44 11/03/02 Shep Fields Orch American Patrol 00/00/43 11/03/02 BBC News Sinking of the Bismark 05/31/41 11/03/02 This Is Your FBI Escaped POWs 04/27/45 11/03/02 Inner Sanctum The Black Seagull 02/07/43 11/10/02 Lone Ranger Ghost Town 04/11/41 11/10/02 Captain Midnight Surrounded by Cavemen 11/10/02 Abbott & Costello with Peter Lorre 00/00/43 11/10/02 Burns & Allen Gallop Allen, Poll-Taker 11/10/02 Lux Radio Theater The Day the Earth Stood Still 01/04/54 11/10/02 Boston Blackie Mutiny Leads to Murder 07/30/46 11/10/02 Gangbusters The Tennessee Valley Killer 11/17/02 Lone Ranger Gold Shipment 01/26/53 11/17/02 Abbott & Costello Who's On First? 00/00/45 11/17/02 Green Hornet Charity Takes It on the Chin 02/21/42 11/17/02 Bell Telephone Hour with Jascha Heifetz 10/24/49 11/17/02 Sherlock Holmes The Well Staged Murder 11/16/47 11/17/02 Inner Sanctum Mind Over Murder 08/22/49 11/24/02 Ozzie & Harriet Jury Duty 01/16/48 11/24/02 Great Gildersleeve Thanksgiving 11/20/49 11/24/02 Nero Wolfe The Case of the Final Page 03/23/51 11/24/02 Escape The Fugitive 08/15/48 11/24/02 Mr. & Mrs. North The Crooked Ring 11/24/02 Suspense Death on My Hands 05/10/51
OCOTOBER 2002
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE..................... ORIGINAL 10/06/02 Fred Allen Charlie McCarthy Sues Fred 10/28/45 10/06/02 Gunsmoke Gone Straight 08/22/53 10/06/02 Suspense Love's Lovely Counterfeit 01/17/48 10/06/02 Dimension X Almost Human 05/13/50 10/06/02 Shadow The Black Abbot 10/02/38 10/13/02 Space Patrol The Space Shark 12/06/52 10/13/02 Great Gildersleeve The Circus 04/13/49 10/13/02 Boston Blackie Gardenia 08/06/46 10/13/02 Gangbusters The Appointment with Death 10/13/02 Escape The Brute 04/11/48 10/13/02 Weird Circle The Tapestry Horse 01/28/45 10/20/02 Lone Ranger Dodge City or Bust 04/25/41 10/20/02 Story of Mary Marlin Episode 9* 10/12/34 10/20/02 Story of Mary Marlin Episode 10* 10/15/34 10/20/02 Jack Benny Jack's Split Personality 05/21/44 10/20/02 Buck Rogers Origins, Episode 3 10/20/02 Escape Habit 07/18/45 10/27/02 Life of Riley Haunted House 10/29/44 10/27/02 The Unexpected Handle with Care 10/27/02 Mercury Theater Dracula 07/11/38 10/27/02 Shadow Werewolf of Hamilton Mansion 01/05/47 10/27/02 Weird Circle The Vendetta 09/12/43 10/27/02 Sherlock Holmes The Viennese Strangler 04/09/45
SEPTEMBER 2002
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE..................... ORIGINAL 09/01/02 Frontier Fighters Brigham Young 00/00/35 09/01/02 Lone Ranger Telegraph Wires 09/01/02 Superman Dr. Roebling & His Voice Mach 08/15/41 09/01/02 Escape The Great Impersonation 04/23/49 09/01/02 World War II London After Dark 08/24/40 09/01/02 Shadow The Destroyer 03/25/45 09/08/02 Gunsmoke Mark Dillon, U.S. Marshal 07/15/49 09/08/02 Burns & Allen Blackmailing Jack Benny 11/02/43 09/08/02 Phil Harris That's What I Like 09/08/02 Tarzan Tarzan's First Birthday 09/12/32 09/08/02 Great Gildersleeve Smitten w/an Unknown Beautiful 11/13/46 09/08/02 Boston Blackie The Poetic Assassin 07/30/47 09/08/02 X-Minus One The Castaways 09/15/55 09/08/02 Lights Out! The Dark 09/15/02 Lone Ranger Bat Masterson 03/06/44 09/15/02 Great Gildersleeve Visit from a High School Chum 02/13/44 09/15/02 Rogue's Gallery The Pamela Leeds Case 01/18/46 09/15/02 Dimension X Beyond Infinity 07/21/50 09/15/02 Weird Circle The Wooden Ghost 12/03/44 09/22/02 Father Knows Best Teaching Margaret to Drive 06/21/51 09/22/02 Flash Gordon General Tal Attacks Flash 08/03/35 09/22/02 Mysterious Traveler The Haunted Trailer 04/29/52 09/22/02 After the Fact Myster The Burma Heart 09/29/02 09/22/02 Escape Country of the Blind 03/20/49 09/22/02 Whistler The Girl Next Door 08/20/47 09/22/02 Lights Out! Lord Marley's Guest 09/07/32 09/29/02 Jack Benny Golf Match at Hillcrest C.C. 10/19/47 09/29/02 Six-Shooter Silver Annie's Mine 10/11/53 09/29/02 Studio One An Enemy of the People 05/13/47 09/29/02 Inner Sanctum The Tell-Tale Heart 08/03/41 09/29/02 Topper Telephone Repairman 07/07/45
AUGUST 2002
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE..................... ORIGINAL 08/04/02 Jack Benny Guest is Groucho Marx 02/20/44 08/04/02 Six Shooter Myra Barker 06/24/54 08/04/02 Lux Radio Theater The Scarlet Pimpernel 12/12/38 08/04/02 Whistler Summer Thunder 07/30/45 08/04/02 Richard Diamond The Joan Walker Case 00/00/51 08/11/02 Red Skelton It Pays to Look Well 05/21/46 08/11/02 Superman Dr. Roebling & Voice Machine 07/25/41 08/11/02 Boston Blackie Burning His House Behind Him 08/13/47 08/11/02 Fibber McGee Uncle Dennis 11/19/40 08/11/02 X-Minus One Inside Story 06/20/57 08/11/02 Escape The Brute 04/11/48 08/18/02 Jimmy Durante with Eddie Cantor 10/03/47 08/18/02 Superman Dr. Roebling & Voice Machine 08/01/41 08/18/02 Our Miss Brooks Cow in the Closet 04/24/54 08/18/02 Mercury Theater Sherlock Holmes 09/25/38 08/18/02 Inner Sanctum Birdsong for a Murderer 06/22/52 08/25/02 Challenge of the YukonThe Big Strike Mine 08/25/02 Superman Dr. Roebling & Voice Machine 08/08/41 08/25/02 Johnny Dollar The Ingenuous Jeweler Matter 01/05/58 08/25/02 Lux Radio Theater A Tale of Two Cities 03/18/46 08/25/02 Passing Parade The Case of Lincoln Chambers 08/25/02 Quiet Please Very Unimportant Person 12/05/48
JULY 2002
AIR DATE TITLE............... EPISODE...................... ORIGINAL 07/07/02 Have Gun Will Travel The Teacher 01/25/59 07/07/02 Fibber McGee Picnic in the Orchard 05/16/50 07/07/02 Captain Midnight Jewels of the Queen of Sheba 01/00/48 07/07/02 Buck Rogers Martian Ship Crashes 11/08/32 07/07/02 Lives of Harry Lime The Bohemian Star 09/07/51 07/07/02 Sherlock Holmes The Gunpowder Plot 11/05/45 07/07/02 Quiet Please Calling All Souls 10/31/48 07/14/02 Lone Ranger Arizona's Dog 08/28/39 07/14/02 Abbott & Costello with Dagwood & Blondie 07/14/02 Boston Blackie Joe Delivers the Goods 02/25/47 07/14/02 Dragnet Watch Salesman Robbed 03/22/55 07/14/02 Mysterious Traveler The Man Who Knew Everything 10/09/51 07/14/51 Inner Sanctum Mark My Grave 01/17/49 07/21/02 Baby Snooks with Eddie Cantor 09/16/45 07/21/02 Nero Wolfe The Case of the Hasty Will 02/23/51 07/21/02 You Bet Your Life Secret Word is Table 05/12/58 07/21/02 Burns & Allen Amazon Allen/Henry Wadsworth 07/21/02 Whistler What Makes a Murderer 08/13/45 07/21/02 Philip Marlowe The Last Wish 07/19/50 07/21/02 Lights Out Meteor Man 12/22/42 07/28/02 Father Knows Best Tax Interruptions 03/15/51 07/28/02 Six-Shooter The Double-Seven 05/13/54 07/28/02 Lux Radio Theater The Canterville Ghost 06/18/45 07/28/02 Johnny Dollar The Leumis Matter 09/13/59 07/28/02 Suspense After Dinner Story 10/26/43
JUNE 2002
AIR DATE TITLE............... EPISODE...................... ORIGINAL 06/02/02 Fibber McGee Politics 12/11/45 06/02/02 Johnny Dollar The Fatal Fillet Matter 05/11/59 06/02/02 Sam Spade The Bouncing Betty Caper 12/12/48 06/02/02 Escape The General Died at Dawn 04/16/49 06/02/02 Mercury Summer TheatreThe Hitchhiker 06/21/46 06/02/02 Nero Wolfe The Case of the Party for Death??/16/51 06/09/02 Frontier Town Spanish Land Grant Swindle 01/16/53 06/09/02 Father Knows Best Rehearsing a Play 03/01/51 06/09/02 Gasoline Alley Adventure of Jealous Jessica 06/09/02 Young Dr. Malone Lucia 06/09/02 X-Minus One Hostess 12/12/56 06/09/02 Inner Sanctum The Man from Yesterday 12/21/41 06/09/02 Sam Spade The Hot Hundred Grand Caper 09/19/48 06/16/02 Gene Autry The Bank Robbery 06/16/02 Jimmy Durante with Lucille Ball 10/29/47 06/16/02 Lum & Abner Advice Bureau 00/00/49 06/16/02 Boston Blackie The Gloria Wells Case 02/18/47 06/16/02 Sherlock Holmes The White Cockerel 12/28/46 06/16/02 Dragnet Ralph Tabor Disappears 01/25/52 06/23/02 Sky King The Lady Sheriff 06/23/02 Lux Radio Theater It Happened One Night 03/19/39 06/23/02 Gangbusters The Case of John K. Giles 06/23/02 Whistler Dark Pattern 06/13/54 06/23/02 X-Minus One The Roads Must Roll 01/04/56 06/23/02 Shadow The Black Fedora 01/19/48 06/30/02 Aldrich Family Constance or Barbara? 10/13/39 06/30/02 Challenge of the Yukon Partners 06/26/52 06/30/02 Green Hornet Exposed 10/28/47 06/30/92 Nero Wolfe Case of the Malevolent Medic 02/16/51 06/30/92 Escape The Brute 04/11/48 06/30/02 Inner Sanctum Death Is a Joker 05/25/41
MAY 2002
AIR DATE TITLE............... EPISODE...................... ORIGINAL 05/05/02 Lone Ranger Gambler Draws a Blank 05/05/41 05/05/02 Duffy's Tavern Archie's Philosophy 02/09/49 05/05/02 Tarzan Man from Another World 01/10/52 05/05/02 Suspense The Visitor 09/18/47 05/05/02 Shadow Bones of the Dragon 01/11/48 05/05/02 Sam Spade The Soap Opera Caper 02/18/51 05/12/02 Fibber McGee Investigating a Spy 05/12/42 05/12/02 I Love a Mystery Temple of Vampires 01/26/50 05/12/02 Speed Gibson Leeds Kills Himself 01/14/39 05/12/02 Have Gun Will Travel Ranch Carnival 12/20/59 05/12/02 Escape The Adaptive Ultimate 03/26/49 05/12/02 Suspense The Face Is Familiar 01/18/54 05/12/02 X-Minus One Universe 05/15/55 05/19/02 WYRF Winners 2002 Various 05/19/02 05/19/02 Johnny Dollar Trans Pacific Arson 5 08/29/55 05/19/02 Burns & Allen Grandpa's 92nd Birthday 05/19/02 Gunsmoke Gunshot Wound 10/14/56 05/19/02 Green Hornet The Hornet Does It 06/11/46 05/19/02 Inner Sanctum You Could Die Laughing 05/07/46 05/26/02 Lone Ranger United We Stand 10/22/41 05/26/02 Charlie Chan The Marching Ants 00/00/45 05/26/02 Bickersons Insomnia 05/26/02 Spike Jones with Don Ameche 06/25/49
APRIL 2002
AIR DATE TITLE............... EPISODE...................... ORIGINAL 04/07/02 Rin-Tin-Tin The Ambassasdor 11/13/55 04/07/02 Father Knows Best Both Bosses Visit 03/29/51 04/07/02 Man Called X Custom Cigarettes 10/13/50 04/07/02 Fibber McGee & Moll Camping at Du 06/22/43 04/07/02 Two Thousand Plus The Green Thing 04/07/02 A Canticle for Liebowitz Part 13 of 15 00/00/82 04/14/02 Jack Benny My Naval Experience 03/30/52 04/14/02 Fort Laramie Still Waters 10/14/56 04/14/02 Terry & the Pirates Man Who Never Sleeps 12/13/46 04/14/02 Lux Radio Theater The Rains Came 02/18/40 04/14/02 Shadow The Unburied Dead 04/14/46 04/14/02 A Canticle for Leibowitz Part 14 of 15 00/00/82 04/21/02 Lum & Abner Raising Money 02/20/49 04/21/02 Sam Spade The Dry Martini Caper 08/01/48 04/21/02 Escape Confidential Agent 04/02/49 04/21/02 X-Minus One No Contact 04/24/55 04/21/02 Shadow Death Stalks the Shadow 10/09/38 04/21/02 A Canticle for Liebowitz Part 15 of 15 00/00/82 04/28/02 Moon Mullins 00/00/44 04/28/02 Bergen & McCarthy Charlie Marries Marilyn Monroe 00/00/54 04/28/02 Flash Gordon Wedding Stopped 05/04/35 04/28/02 Philip Marlowe The Gold Cobra 06/21/50 04/28/02 Night Beat Vincent & the Painter 06/19/50 04/28/02 Whistler The Accounting 12/13/42 04/28/02 Inner Sanctum Man Who Couldn't Die 10/30/45
MARCH 2002
AIR DATE TITLE............... EPISODE...................... ORIGINAL 03/03/02 Fibber McGee Memory Course 03/14/39 03/03/02 Gunsmoke The Cabin 12/27/52 03/03/02 Suspense The Black Curtain 01/03/48 03/03/02 Hermit's Cave The Plantation Mystery 03/03/02 Canticle for Leibowitz Part 8 of 15 00/00/82 03/03/02 Life of Riley Riley Quits 02/17/50 03/10/02 Captain Midnight The Perada Treasure 12/15/39 03/03/02 Lum & Abner Hire Grandpap 05/31/35 03/10/02 Sherlock Holmes The Limping Ghost 09/03/45 03/10/02 Man Called X Strasbourg 03/10/02 Philip Morris Playhouse Leona's Room 03/10/02 Canticle for Leibowitz Part 9 of 15 00/00/82 03/17/02 Ozzie & Harriet Ozzie the Scholar 03/29/49 03/17/02 Bergen & McCarthy with Dick Powell 00/00/49 03/17/02 Suspense Black Path of Fear 08/31/44 03/17/02 Inner Sanctum The Dark Chamber 12/11/45 03/17/02 Hall of Fantasy Out of the Sky 04/20/53 03/17/02 Canticle for Leibowitz Part 10 of 15 00/00/82 03/24/02 Hop Harrigan The Ghostly Avenger 08/25/47 03/24/02 Phil Harris Orchestra The Thing 03/24/02 Our Miss Brooks Student Govt Day 01/16/49 03/24/02 Box 13 First Letter 08/22/48 03/24/02 You Bet Your Life Secret word is people 04/21/54 03/24/02 Suspense Voyage Thrgh Darkness 09/07/44 03/24/02 X-Minus One The Map Makers 09/26/56 03/24/02 Canticle for Leibowitz Part 12 of 15 00/00/82 03/31/01 Jack Benny I Stand Condemned 01/19/47 03/31/02 Texaco Town Follies with Eddie Cantor 00/00/37 03/31/02 Richard Diamond 00/00/49 03/31/02 Sherlock Holmes The Incurable Sceptic 03/31/02 Witch's Tale The Priest of Beckett 03/31/02 Canticle for Leibowitz Part 11 of 15 00/00/82
FEBRUARY 2002
AIR DATE TITLE............... EPISODE...................... ORIGINAL 02/03/02 Ozzie & Harriet The New Dress 09/14/47 02/03/02 Our Miss Brooks Student Funds 01/30/49 02/03/02 Jack Armstrong Easter Island Adventure 01/19/40 02/03/02 Lum & Abner Lion is Loose 11/17/41 02/03/02 Escape S.S. San Pedro 08/22/48 02/03/02 Shadow Crownshield Castle 12/28/47 02/03/02 Canticle for Leibowitz Part 4 of 15 00/00/82 02/10/01 Father Knows Best It Pays to Borrow 04/05/51 02/10/01 Dragnet The Big Paper 08/21/52 02/10/02 Nero Wolfe Room 304 04/27/51 02/10/02 Duffy's Tavern First Show 07/29/40 02/10/02 Whistler Two-Year Plan 11/25/46 02/10/02 Canticle for Leibowitz Part 5 of 15 00/00/82 02/17/02 Jack Benny Guests Burns & Allen 04/11/37 02/17/02 Escape The Dead of night 03/21/47 02/17/02 X-Minus One The Embassy 07/28/55 02/17/02 Canticle for Leibowitz Part 6 of 15 00/00/82 02/24/02 Lone Ranger Conference w/Gen Lee 02/09/53 02/24/02 Batman Mystery Club Monster of Dumphrey's 02/24/02 Open House with Groucho Marx 00/00/45 02/24/02 Lux Radio Theater Northwest Mounted Police 04/13/42 02/24/02 Gangbusters Brothers in Banditry 02/24/02 Canticle for Leibowitz Part 7 of 15 00/00/82
JANUARY 2002
AIR DATE TITLE............... EPISODE...................... ORIGINAL 01/06/02 Challenge of the Yukon Grizzly 06/19/47 01/06/02 Great Gildersleeve The Great Detective 05/30/54 01/06/02 Buck Rogers Origin 1-2 01/06/02 Box 13 One of These Four 05/08/49 01/06/02 Escape Sire de Maletroit's Door 06/04/01 01/06/02 Black Museum The Straight Razor 00/00/52 01/13/02 Burns and Allen The Beauty Shop 01/18/50 01/13/02 Lux Radio Theater Red River 03/07/49 01/13/02 Suspense Murder in G-flat 04/05/51 01/13/02 Inner Sanctum Ghosts Always Get 09/23/46 01/13/02 Canticle for Leibowitz Part 1 of 15 00/00/82 01/20/02 Great Gildersleeve Arrives in Summerfield 08/31/41 01/20/02 Gunsmoke Paid Killer 01/17/53 01/20/02 Green Hornet Torpedo on Wheels 11/14/42 01/20/02 Man Called X Japan Underground 01/20/51 01/20/02 Price of Fear Cat's Cradle 01/20/02 Canticle for Leibowitz Part 2 of 15 00/00/82 01/27/02 Challenge of the Yukon A Dog Named Mabel 07/26/48 01/27/02 Bickersons The In-Laws Visit 12/13/46 01/27/02 Richard Diamond The Singing Critic 09/20/48 01/27/02 Whistler Lie or Consequences 12/11/44 01/27/02 X-Minus One The Seventh Order 05/08/56 01/27/02 Canticle for Leibowitz Part 3 of 15 00/00/82
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