January 1: The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
January 3: By popular demand, Peter Pan, starring Mary Martin, is restaged live by Producers' Showcase on NBC-TV.
January 8: Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming are killed for trespassing by the Waodani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
January 16: Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser vows to reconquer Palestine.
January 25-26 - Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala after Soviet troops vacate its military base. Civilians can return February 4.
January 26: The 1956 Winter Olympic Games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. (source: Wikipedia)
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The Charlie McCarthy Show 1956-01-01 - Lew Ayers | |||||||||||||
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Gunsmoke 195 - Pucket's New Year | |||||||||||||
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Our Miss Brooks 322 - Annual Winter Outing | |||||||||||||
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Description: | It's time for the annual Yodar Kritch Picnic, despite some very low temperatures. |
Journey into Space - The World in Peril 15 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | While the Lunar Controller is away, Jet and Doc enter his quarters from the asteroid surface. Mitch and Lemmy explain what has happened to them, and they hatch a plan to imprison the Lunar Controller and escape. (source: wikipedia.org) |
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 296 - Caylin Matter ep1 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Eddie Kaylin has been found dead in a burning car near Los Angeles, with several possibilities and motives. |
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 297 - Caylin Matter ep2 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | A lovely girl lies, cries, and hopes to die, while a killer fires from the dark. |
X Minus One 32 - The Roads Must Roll | |||||||||||||
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Description: | In the future the country depends on an electro-hydraulic road system which acts as a conveyor belt to transport people and cargo. The system works well, until the engineer's union which maintains the roads stages a strike as a bid to gain power. Another version ... |
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 298 - Caylin Matter ep3 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | A Latin doll, an erudite bartender, and a terpsichorean! |
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 299 - Caylin Matter ep4 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | A stake-out, a manhunt, and a gunman goes to "face the music." |
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 300 - Caylin Matter ep5 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Conclusion of the story. A quarry run to earth, a strange alibi and the real killer uncovered. |
Gunsmoke 196 - Doc's Revenge | |||||||||||||
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Our Miss Brooks 323 - Boynton the Bird | |||||||||||||
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Journey into Space - The World in Peril 16 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | The crew imprison the Lunar Controller, and gain his assistance by threatening to release him into space. Lemmy smashes up the computerised brain, to stop messages being sent to the rest of the Martian fleet. Frank pilots the ship as they escape the asteroid ... |
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 301 - Todd Matter ep1 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | An expensive tip from an ex-con starts Johnny on the trail of stolen goods, and a murder attempt! |
Suspense 632 - Two Platinum Capsules | |||||||||||||
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Description: | A story about two small boys who "carried death in their pockets." The pocket contains capsules and the capsules contain radium. The radioactive capsules were lost by a hospital, they were found by the boys in a junk yard. |
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 302 - Todd Matter ep2 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | The same old business of murder, but with a brand new twist! |
Hancock's Half Hour s3 13 - Hancock's Hair | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Paranoid over going bald, the Lad pays a visit to Maison James. |
X Minus One 33 - Time and Time Again | |||||||||||||
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Description: | A soldier dying on a battlefield of the future suddenly finds himself transported back to his own childhood. Story by: H. Beam Piper |
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 303 - Todd Matter ep3 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | The death of Gloria and a visit to ex-husband Bill. |
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 304 - Todd Matter ep4 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Find one killer and you find them all, then you have to start all over again! Johnny's been shot ... twice! |
21st Precinct 119 - The Platform | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Eva Deeson says her husband is helping his crazy brother, Fred Deeson, who is wanted for murdering his wife. |
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 305 - Todd Matter ep5 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | The conclusion of the story. There are times when $75,000 worth of stealing isn't worth a plugged nickel! |
The Charlie McCarthy Show 1956-01-15 - Tad Sanders | |||||||||||||
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Gunsmoke 197 - How To Cure A Friend | |||||||||||||
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Journey into Space - The World in Peril 17 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | They head into orbit, transfer to Freighter #1 and, using a modified radio transmitter, attempt to contact Earth, but they cannot get their warning about the invasion through. They spot the asteroid invasion fleet approaching them from behind. Jet decides to use all remaining ... |
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 306 - Ricardo Amerigo Matter ep1 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Music and mystery and danger! The writer is announced as Sam Dawson (not John Dawson as usual), actor Eric Snowdon's name is used as a character in the story, and the story name is obviously based on music supervisor's Amerigo Moreno's name. |
Suspense 633 - End of the String | |||||||||||||
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Description: | A jeweler steals a million dollar necklace, and then learns that it's not so easy to dispose of it! |
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 307 - Ricardo Amerigo Matter ep2 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | A soggy day in a South Jersey swamp, and a discovery almost too good to be true! It's the wrong fiddle. |
Hancock's Half Hour s3 14 - The Student Prince | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Sid manages to get Hancock a theatrical engagement in Moravia in 'The Student Prince'. But it's all a ruse as Sid has lured Hancock to Moravia to impersonate the Crown Prince who is in danger of assassination. Unfortunately, all does not go well for Sid! |
X Minus One 34 - Perigi's Wonderful Dolls | |||||||||||||
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Description: | A dollmaker sells a father an unusual doll which seems capable of responding to people, presumably by recording voices and replaying them in its own voice. Is it just a bit of technical wizardry, or is there something more to this doll than meets the eye? Story ... |
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 308 - Ricardo Amerigo Matter ep3 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | The results of a poker game, with the cards stacked against you. |
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 309 - Ricardo Amerigo Matter ep4 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | A trio of musicians ... which one's story is playing a little flat? |
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 310 - Ricardo Amerigo Matter ep5 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | The conclusion of the story. A wind-up with a real twist. In this episode, Jack Johnstone receives writer's credit. |
The Charlie McCarthy Show 1956-01-22 - Rudy Whistler, Cecil Zong | |||||||||||||
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Fort Laramie 1 - Playing Indian | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Captain Quince baits a trap for a band of horse thieves and murderers who are trying to make the cavalry think they are Arapahos. |
Gunsmoke 198 - Romeo | |||||||||||||
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Journey into Space - The World in Peril 18 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | The asteroid fleet increases speed and overtakes Freighter #1. Jet records a warning to Earth, to be transmitted on a loop. Attempts to hypnotise the crew fail, so the Martian contacts the crew using their voices. Freighter #1 crashes onto the surface of a large ... |
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 311 - Duke Red Matter ep1 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | The death of a valuable race horse, a case for Johnny! |
Suspense 634 - The Cellar Door | |||||||||||||
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Description: | A story about a two-year-old boy trying to free his parents who are trapped in the basement. |
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Description: | Proof that things are as wrong and as dangerous as they can get. |
The FBI in Peace and War 539 - The Silver Pearl | |||||||||||||
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X Minus One 35 - The Parade | |||||||||||||
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Description: | An ad agency is hired by a man insisting he is from Mars to promote an upcoming parade marking the arrival of Martians on Earth. Of course, he must be lying, or simply crazy... As well as their own version, X Minus One also re-broadcast the version originally ... |
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 313 - Duke Red Matter ep3 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | The case feels like a man full of bullet wounds ... which is just the case. |
21st Precinct 121 - The Baker | |||||||||||||
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Description: | A restaurant pastry chef is murdered. The jealous husband of the chef's girlfriend is suspected. |
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Description: | Sometimes a dead man can answer a lot of questions! |
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 315 - Duke Red Matter ep5 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | The conclusion of the story. A decent man who knows that he's loved and he's never said goodbye. |
The Charlie McCarthy Show 1956-01-29 - Stan Erwin, Dale Evans | |||||||||||||
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Fort Laramie 2 - Boatwright's Story | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Captain Quince takes out a patrol to stop the sale of Henry rifles to Yellow Knife. |
Gene Autry's Melody Ranch 1956-01-29 - Champion Saves Gene's Life aka Ringo Mine | |||||||||||||
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Gunsmoke 199 - Bureaucrat | |||||||||||||
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Journey into Space - The World in Peril 19 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Lemmy fails to contact Earth, but they are contacted by the Martian who tells them to enter the asteroid ship. The Martian reveals that he is the only one left of a race of giants, and explains his reasons for the invasion. A crew from the asteroid, including ... |
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 316 - Flight Six Matter ep1 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | A girl so beautiful, that men are willing to kill for her. Johnny's in Mexico, investigating a deliberate plane sabotage. |
Suspense 635 - Arctic Rescue | |||||||||||||
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Description: | The story of the attempted rescue of the Franklin expedition to the arctic in 1852. |
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Description: | A fighting girl and a lucky break, then murder cancels the score. |