August 5: The Treaty of Taipei between Japan and the Republic of China goes into effect, to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
August 11: The Jordanian army forces King Talal to resign due to mental illness; he is succeeded by his son Hussein of Jordan.
August 13: Japan joins the IMF.
August 14: West Germany joins the IMF and the World Bank.
August 16: Lynmouth, North Devon, England is devastated by floods; 34 die.
August 26: A British passenger jet makes a return crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in the same day.
August 27: Reparation negotiations between West Germany and Israel end in Luxembourg: Germany will pay 3 billion Deutsche Marks.
August 29: Composer John Cage's 4'33", during which the performer does not play, premieres in Woodstock, New York.
August 30: The last Finnish war reparations are sent to the Soviet Union.
August 31: The Grenzlandring racetrack closes in Wegberg, Germany. (source: Wikipedia)
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| The Falcon 389 - Lonely Hunter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Army Intelligence sends Mike Waring to Cairo, someone has started a new "Pyramid Club," are they paying off in lead? | ||||||||||||
| Comic Weekly Man 276 - Why Does the Hen Lay an Egg, First Comic - Big Ben Bolt | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A weighing machine at the "Stork" drug store in Reno seems to have the gift of prophesy. | ||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 531 - Dark Island | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An ex-con is after $250,000 buried somewhere on a resort island. However, he's not the only one after the money. | ||||||||||||
| Whitehall 1212 ep36 - The Case of Nora Brady | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A 'Wellington Boot' in the 'Black Museum' is the key to the murder of Nora Brady. This was the only time a person in Britain was tried twice for the same murder. | ||||||||||||
| Horatio Hornblower 5 - Lydia Sinks the Natividad | |||||||||||||
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| The Lineup 96 - The Karger Kops a Klinker Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Phantom Burglar,' preying on only one neighborhood, shoots a cop and is wounded in return. A stake-out in a drugstore is called for. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 456 - Leroy Is Too Good | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A double-crossing fence is eventually double-double-crossed (a quadruple-cross?). | ||||||||||||
| Night Beat 105 - Somebody Stop Ann | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Ann Tobin asks Randy Stone to help her and protect her children from her estranged husband who plans to kill the kids. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 16 - The Kentucky Tolmans | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Tolmans from Kentucky include a good lookin' mountain gal, a drinking old father with a secret, and a son willing to kill to get at it. | ||||||||||||
| The Falcon 390 - Rolling Stones | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Army Intelligence sends Mike Waring to Sicily, where "some boy is running wild with a knife." They want "The Falcon" to offer him a proposition "he might like to take a stab at". | ||||||||||||
| Comic Weekly Man 277 - Why Does a Dog Turn Around Three Times, First Comic - Big Ben Bolt | |||||||||||||
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| Inner Sanctum Mystery 519 - The Magic Tile | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A look into the past to see a dead madman point a finger at a murderer. | ||||||||||||
| Tales of the Texas Rangers 90 - Last Stop | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The story is based on the events of July, 1931. A disastrous train wreck was caused by a railroad tie on the tracks, and it looks like it was done deliberately! | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 532 - The Havana Lee | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An embezzling chemist in Cuba needs $40,000 to cover his accounts. He becomes a cortisone smuggler in partnership with a very dangerous lady. | ||||||||||||
| Whitehall 1212 ep37 - Case of the Missing Clarinet | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A clarinet in the 'Black Museum' leads Scotland Yard to the murderer of Rowena Hargate. A bottle of Booth's gin and a knife from a Greek restaurant helps the case. | ||||||||||||
| Horatio Hornblower 6 - Damaged Lydia Heads for Panama | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1952-08-12 - 7) A Shawl for the Senorita | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 457 - Gildy Diets Again | |||||||||||||
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| Night Beat 106 - His Name Was Luke | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A beautiful pickpocket named Julie Bronson needs lots of money in a hurry ... and with good reason. It seems there's a man named Luke. | ||||||||||||
| Gang Busters 750 - Case of John Economos | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 17 - The Lynching | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Marshal Dillon tries to get proof of the guilt of the leader of a lynch mob. Billy Saxton was hung for being a murderer, without benefit of trial. | ||||||||||||
| Let's Pretend 1952-08-16 - The White Cat | |||||||||||||
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| The Falcon 391 - Gorgeous Greek | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Army Intelligence flies "The Falcon" to Athens. "When Greece gets too hot, somebody is bound to catch the devil!" | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 520 - The Corpse Laughs Last | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | As a man lays dying, he tells the story of how he came to his circumstances by impersonating another for a half a million dollars. | ||||||||||||
| Tales of the Texas Rangers 91 - Cover-Up | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The story is based on the events of July 4, 1946. A Mexican is found cleaning a puddle of blood in the house owned by a missing man. | ||||||||||||
| Whitehall 1212 ep38 - Case of Dougall Henry | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A scarred cigarette case in the 'Black Museum' helps Scotland Yard solve the murder of Dougal Henry. A military man claims that a burglar committed the crime. | ||||||||||||
| Horatio Hornblower 7 - Return to the Fleet | |||||||||||||
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| Let George Do It 310 - Seed of Destruction | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 458 - Leroy's Laundry | |||||||||||||
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| Night Beat 107 - The Man with the Red Hair | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Randy Stone meets a beautiful woman in a bar and goes pub crawling with her in the Chicago night. Beware the man with the red hair! | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A creepy old Romanian castle harbors a dark, sinister secret out of the past, and an evil portent of the future. | ||||||||||||
| Buster Brown Gang 1952-08-23 - Zacha and the Mutiny | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A story about a crazed Shakespearean actor who commits murder during a Kansas heat wave. | ||||||||||||
| The Falcon 392 - Silent Butler | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Michael Waring is flown to Lisbon by Army Intelligence. A woman is "playing fast and loose with Uncle Sammy's secrets". | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 521 - No Rest for the Dead | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A retired artist in need of cash sells his brain to the evil Dr. Tarleton, who dies under strange circumstances that very day! | ||||||||||||
| Tales of the Texas Rangers 92 - Three Victims | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The story is based on the events of August, 1955. A colored man is the suspect in a robbery and double-murder, after he's identified by the son the victims. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 534 - Final Papers | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman had married her wealthy husband in order to become a citizen, and to be with her real lover. A fellow countrywoman from an unidentified eastern European location blackmails her, but the solution lies with a poisonous African plant! | ||||||||||||
| Whitehall 1212 ep39 - Murder of Lady Madge Johnson | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A blood-stained man's handkerchief in the 'Black Museum' helps Scotland Yard solve the murder of the well-known philanthropist, Lady Madge Johnson. Her dead body is found in her hotel room, with a box of currency by the corpse. | ||||||||||||
| Horatio Hornblower 8 - Return to the Sea | |||||||||||||
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| Let George Do It 311 - Sabotage | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1952-08-26 - 11) The Outlaw Who Dropped His Own Wallet | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 459 - Cousin Emily Visits | |||||||||||||
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| Buster Brown Gang 1952-08-30 - The Goddess Statue | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 19 - The Juniper Tree | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Jim Stanley, a slow thinking rancher, is framed by Mingo and accused of stealing from his gambling table. | ||||||||||||
| The Falcon 393 - Careless Corpse | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | U. S. Army Intelligence sends Michael Waring to Berlin to protect a German rocket scientist. A Peter Lorre-sounding clone kidnaps the Herr Professor, who is fresh from a concentration camp, before "The Falcon" arrives. A double murder follows in an interesting ... | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 522 - Strange Passenger | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An weird story about a strange woman hitch-hiker named Ann, who loves the song, 'Star Dust' and who can't be killed! aka The Corpse In The Taxi | ||||||||||||
| Tales of the Texas Rangers 93 - Misplaced Person | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The story is based on events of November 6, 1949. A dead woman is traced to a psychiatrist, who comes under suspicion; but keep your eye on the shrimp fisherman! | ||||||||||||
| Whitehall 1212 ep40 - Case of the Madden Family | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An inspector's badge in the 'Black Museum' is the souvenir of the murder of a child named Damon Madden. Failure to solve the case costs a Scotland Yard inspector his job. | ||||||||||||
