The Lady's No Tiger: The Way It Was, 12 September

FEATURED BROADCAST
THE GREEN HORNET:
MURDER TRIPS A RAT
(NBC BLUE, 1942)

The Daily Sentinel newsroom bristles when a racketeer is shot to death over suspicion of turning to cooperate with authorities, but Britt (Al Hodge) neutralises Lowry's (Jack Petruzzi) and Casey's (Leonore Allman) excitement when he reveals the killer---a woman---confessed to the crime, a possible crime of passion borne of jealousy. Which prompts the Sentinel staffers to smell a rat, after eager young reporter Gayle Manning (unknown) gets to question the woman in jail . . . and begins to suspect she's taking the fall for another killer.

Her suspicion sends Britt and Kato (Rollon Parker) after the full story, despite Kato's rare reservation, after Manning reveals a possible ploy by the lady suspect---an engagement ring she claims to have worn for longer than she's really worn it. The team rolls out and slips into the apartment in spite of constant police vigil---and rescues a police officer when a fire breaks out in the building, but not before finding evidence that could exonerate the confessor even if it doesn't immediately yield a hint toward the actual killer.

Mike Axford: Gil Shea. Newsboy: Also Rollon Parker. Additional cast: Unknown. Announcer: Possibly Charles Wood. Director: James Jewell. Writer: Fran Striker.

CHANNEL SURFING . . .

THE GREAT GILDERSLEEVE: WAR BOND DRIVE (NBC, 1943)---Back from vacation, Gildersleeve (Harold Peary) has his hands full keeping Leroy (Walter Tetley) from faltering in school or in hygiene, a newspaper call for him to improve Summerfield's water flavour, and a city department head meeting at which the mayor calls for improved war bond driving . . . under the guidance of the newspaper editor who ripped the city's water quality. Marjorie: Lurene Tuttle. Birdie: Lillian Randolph. Bessie: Pauline Drake. Hooker: Earle Ross. Additional cast: Unknown. Announcer: Ken Carpenter. Music: Claude Sweeten. Director: Prank Pittman. Writers: John Whedon, Sam Moore.

BOX 13: THE ACTOR'S ALIBI (MUTUAL, 1948)---Holiday doesn't understand at first why tickets to a live radio performance turned up in the box, courtesy of fearful leading lady Jean Blake (Betty Lou Gerson), whose ultimately justified fear of her impending murder is stoked by a call Holiday gets at the restaurant where he meets her---and rejects her, at first, after receiving a phone call from a man predicting he won't help her . . . with a gun pointed right at them. Suzy: Sylvia Picker. Kling: Edmund MacDonald. Additional cast: Alan Reed, Luis van Rooten, John Beal. Director: Ted Hennigan. Music: Rudy Schrager. Writer: Frank R. Crawford. (Note: Dragging in spots toward the end of the surviving recording.)