DRAGNET "Big Little Jesus"

 

Repeat of 1953 episode on NBC Radio. December 21, 1954. The radio episodes have edited in the television audio with a Webb narration to cover visuals. 

A Los Angeles Mission reports the statue of Jesus has been stolen the day before Christmas. It's Christmas Eve when Father Rojas at the Old Mission Plaza Church in Los Angeles discovers that the statue of the Infant Jesus is stolen from the crib. The statue's worth is only a few dollars, but it is of great sentimental value for the parish. Friday and Smith promise to try to get it back before mass on Christmas Day...Photo Harry Bartell as Father Xavier Rojas.

 

FORT LARAMIE "Loving Cup"

 

Episode 22 aired on CBS Radio June 24, 1956. Raymond Burr as Captain Lee Quince has an unusual way to give Lieutenant Seiberts (Harry Bartell, photo) the confidence he needs to be a good officer.

GUNSMOKE "Cain"

 

 

 Episode 42 aired on CBS Radio February 7, 1953. Told he has only two months to live, a man is determined to avenge the suicide of a young woman by killing the womanizer he blames for her death. (Photo) Harry Bartell as Cain Vestel. Harry Bartell (November 28, 1913 – February 26, 2004) was an American actor and announcer in radio, television and film. With his rather youthful sounding voice, Bartell was one of the busiest West Coast character actors from the early 1940s until the end of network radio drama in the 1960s.Bartell Bio