Fibber McGee: "Win House on Wistful Vista" 08/26/35
Fibber McGee & Molly win the house where they live on Wistful Vista. This was really early in the series - not only do they win the house that is in the show (as I've always heard it); but the man from Johnson(s) Wax didn't come into the plot to plug his product.
Philo Vance: "The Blue Penny Murder Case" 08/23/49
Another case of a high stakes money making scheme: a guy in a small town print shop prints off the sheet music for new songs (after getting the new song already printed) & making the money off the sheet music - doesn't have to do the development or marketing, and makes a whole $2 a piece. Luckily Philo Vance has started the slugging after he was threatened by the vast money maker/now blackmailer.
Oh! Cat fight going on!... Ok, it got resolved. Although 1/2 of the cat fight ("Marie") has now been strangled by the brilliant sheet printing bandit. He's responsible for 2 deaths, and now he's going to kill the district attorney. It's all worth... hundreds of dollars.
Inner Sanctum: "Dead Man's Deal" 08/28/45
One of the things that is most interesting about this show is that it was sponsored by Lipton; had a male host that introduced the stories, or shows up, and is supposed to be creepy & disturbing; and is interrupted by this cheery lady hawking Lipton Tea or Lipton chicken noodle soup. I can see it's making the best of an almost impossible advertising situation, and it just leads to the weirdest interactions you can possibly imagine: he's talking all creepy, and she keeps coming in with, "Now, really... Lipton Tea is beloved because it has a... really BRISK flavor, not flat or insipid." To which the host replies with something that makes mention of corpses or graves.
A dead man pursuing his murderer. You know: typical Inner Sanctum plot. There are always lots of dead people doing things they shouldn't be doing in Inner Sanctum.... Oh, ok: the dead guy is really just an illusion. Someone who had figured that the murderer had killed someone else was doing things just to scare the murderer sh*tless. He'd been playing a poker game where the loser has to kill themselves. He'd killed the winner & rigged it to look like he had won the game & the other man had killed himself.
I can't figure out why he just didn't turn himself in (instead of giving in to the man who gives him a gun so he can commit suicide). Of course he'd get the death penalty (they always do), but at least he'd live a little longer. And get a nice meal before he dies.
Journey Into Space: "Operation Luna 04" 10/12/53
This is an ongoing radio series of 4 men at the moon. I don't know how long the radio station is going to broadcast the episodes (since this run is over a dozen shows, I think). It's too bad, b/c they always end the episodes with a cliffhanger.
These 4 British guys are on a rocket ship, and weird things keep happening. This episode had them on the ship after power ran out the previous episode. Have to say it's a bit of a waste of time - most of the episode consists of 1 person informing us of how many days of oxygen they've got left; all the men on the ship checking the equipment every few hours & reporting it's not working; telling us how hot it's getting inside; and getting crabby at each other. Oh, and a few weird things happening that are never explained.
At the end of the episode, the power came back on & a UFO is outside.
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