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Gunsmoke was radio's great adult western — Dodge City, Kansas in the hard years of the cattle trade, with William Conrad as U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon. In this early episode from May 31, 1952, an army payroll is stolen and a major gives Dillon an ultimatum: get the money back, or Dodge City goes under martial law. The trail runs straight to Connie Dell, a young woman with a taste for bad company, who may be the marshal's best lead or his prime suspect. With Parley Baer as Chester, Georgia Ellis as Kitty, and Howard McNear as Doc.

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Howard Duff stars as Dashiell Hammett's San Francisco private eye in the show that made Sam Spade a weekly habit — wisecracks, fast talk, and real menace underneath, dictated each week as a case report to his long-suffering secretary Effie Perine. In "The Bow Window Caper," a respectable physician hires Sam to do something about his wife: she is wildly jealous, she turns up at his office and drives the patients out, she is wrecking a practice he spent years building — and now she has started talking about a gun. What looks like a delicate domestic errand curdles fast, and Sam finds that in a marriage this poisoned, nobody is telling him the whole truth about who is really in danger. Originally broadcast November 9, 1947.

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Behind the creaking door, Raymond welcomes you one last time. A man waits out his final night in a small-town jail, condemned for a murder he did not commit — until a beautiful, wealthy stranger offers him a way out. She has money, she has strange powers, and she has teeth. Simone Simon, fresh from Val Lewton's Cat People, plays a rescuer you would be wise not to thank. Broadcast May 15, 1945, this is the last Inner Sanctum hosted by Raymond Edward Johnson, who left radio's most famous ghoul behind to join the Army.

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X Minus One was NBC's great science fiction anthology, made in cooperation with Galaxy magazine and counting down into the void every week with stories by the finest writers in the field. In this March 1956 broadcast, adapted by George Lefferts from Fritz Leiber's classic, a passing dark star has torn the Earth away from the sun. The air itself has frozen and fallen as snow, and a boy's nightly chore is to carry a pail out into the endless black cold and bring back a load of frozen oxygen so his family can breathe. Then, out in the dark beyond the Nest, he sees a light moving — and a face.

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Movie star Joel McCrea rides the airwaves as Ranger Jace Pearson in NBC's Tales of the Texas Rangers — a hard-nosed police procedural with sagebrush in its boots, dramatizing real cases from the Ranger files with technical advice from the legendary Captain M.T. "Lone Wolf" Gonzaullas. In "Soft Touch," first heard October 29, 1950, a quiet elderly couple is found beaten to death in their own home. Robbery looks like the motive, but the savagery of the attack tells Pearson something uglier: this was no panicked amateur. Working the lab evidence, the pawn tickets, and the neighborhood gossip, Jace and Charcoal close in on a killer who picked what he figured was an easy mark. Featuring Tony Barrett, Paul Frees, Tom Tully, Virginia Gregg and Byron Kane, with a script by Russell Hughes and Stacy Keach Sr. producing.

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