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Episode Guide compiled by The
Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox [Uploaded March
2019]
references:
TV Guide / Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (https://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive / Writers Guild of America (wga)
New York Times, Brooklyn Daily News, Syraucse Herald, Syracuse Post Standard.
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RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT
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NBC
US Drama Anthology 1949 32 episodes x 30 min / 1950 39 episodes x 30 min
Host Robert L. Ripley (1949) (Ripley died
27-May-1949)
Host Robert St. John (1950)
################ Believe It Or Not ###############
################# Season 1 1949 ################
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Tuesdays 9:30 to 10:00pm 32 episodes x 30 min (01-Mar-1949 to 04-Nov-1949)
[01] Believe It Or Not [Premiere]
01Mar1949 NBC Tues 9:30pm
Host Robert L. Ripley
[02] Believe It Or Not
08Mar1949 NBC Tues 9:30pm
Host Robert L. Ripley
[03] Believe It Or Not
15Mar1949 NBC Tues 9:30pm
Host Robert L. Ripley
[04] Believe It Or Not
22Mar1949 NBC Tues 9:30pm
Host Robert L. Ripley
[05] Believe It Or Not
29Mar1949 NBC Tues 9:30pm
Host Robert L. Ripley
[06] Believe It Or Not
05Apr1949 NBC Tues 9:30pm
Host Robert L. Ripley
[07] Believe It Or Not
12Apr1949 NBC Tues 9:30pm
Host Robert L. Ripley
[08] Believe It Or Not
19Apr1949 NBC Tues 9:30pm [Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
Host Robert L. Ripley
Guest
Senator Warren G. Magnuson
[09] Believe It Or Not
26Apr1949 NBC Tues 9:30pm
Host Robert L. Ripley
[10] Believe It Or Not
03May1949 NBC Tues 9:30pm
Host Robert L. Ripley
[--] Believe It Or Not
10May1949 NBC Tues 9:30pm
pre-empted for "National Conference of Christians and Jews" with Vice
President Alben Barkley.
[11] Believe It Or Not
17May1949 NBC Tues 9:30pm
Host Robert L. Ripley
[12] Believe It Or Not
24May1949 NBC Tues 9:30pm
Host Robert L. Ripley
Summary
The story behind the writing of "Taps" the bugle call for the dead.
The program closed with "Taps" played by a bugler silhouetted against a
background of drifting clouds. (NYT)
[13] Believe It Or Not
31May1949 NBC Tues 9:30pm [NYT, Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
To be announced
[--] Believe It Or Not
07Jun1949 NBC Tues 9:30pm
pre-empted by "The Magic Million". Program commemorating manufacture of
one millionth tube at
Lancaster, Pa., plant of R.C.A. Tube department. Narrator Ben Grauer.
[14] Believe It Or Not
14Jun1949 NBC Tues 9:30pm
[15] Believe It Or Not
21Jun1949 NBC Tues 9:30pm
[16] Believe It Or Not
28Jun1949 NBC Tues 9:30pm
[17] Believe It Or Not
05Jul1949 NBC Tues 9:30pm
[18] Believe It Or Not
13Jul1949 NBC Wed 10pm
Host Robert St. John
*Note: Now airing Wednesdays at 10pm.
[19] Believe It Or Not
20Jul1949 NBC Wed 10pm
Host Robert St. John
[20] Believe It Or Not
27Jul1949 NBC Wed 10pm
Host Robert St. John
[21] Believe It Or Not
03Aug1949 NBC Wed 10pm
Host Robert St. John
[22] Believe It Or Not
10Aug1949 NBC Wed 10pm
Host Robert St. John
[23] Believe It Or Not
17Aug1949 NBC Wed 10pm
Host Robert St. John
[24] Believe It Or Not
24Aug1949 NBC Wed 10pm
Host Robert St. John
[25] Believe It Or Not
31Aug1949 NBC Wed 10pm
Host Robert St. John
[26] Believe It Or Not
07Sep1949 NBC Wed 10pm
Host Robert St. John
[27] Believe It Or Not
14Sep1949 NBC Wed 10pm
Host Robert St. John
[28] Believe It Or Not
21Sep1949 NBC Wed 10pm
Host Robert St. John
[29] Believe It Or Not
28Sep1949 NBC Wed 10pm
Host Robert St. John
[29] Believe It Or Not
02Oct1949 NBC Sun 8pm [Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
Host Robert St. John
[30] Believe It Or Not
09Oct1949 NBC Sun 8pm
Host Robert St. John
[--] The Big Story
14Oct1949 NBC Fri 9:30pm
[31] Believe It Or Not
21Oct1949 NBC Fri 9:30pm
Host Robert St. John
[--] The Big Story
28Oct1949 NBC Fri 9:30pm
[32] Believe It Or Not
04Nov1949 NBC Fri 9:30pm
Host Robert St. John
################ Believe It Or Not ###############
################# Season 2 1950 ################
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Wednesdays 8:00 to 8:30pm 39 episodes x 30 min (04-Jan-1950 to 28-Sep-1950)
Format Change to one story enacted by a guest cast
[01] Believe It or Not: MURDER IN DUPLICATE
[Season 2 Premiere]
04Jan1950 NBC Wed 8pm [Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
starring
Naomi Campbell
Hazel Wallace
and Mercer McLeod.
[02] Believe It or Not: THE VOICE OF OBSESSION
11Jan1950 NBC Wed 8pm
starring
Hildy Parks
John Hudson
and Grace Keddy.
[03] Believe It or Not: THE MASKED MADONNA
18Jan1950 NBC Wed 8pm [Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
starring
E.A. Krumschmidt
and Bruno Wick.
[04] Believe It or Not: VOYAGE OF DESTINY
25Jan1950 NBC Wed 8pm
starring
Pat Jenkins
King Calder
and James Gannon (as Jim Gannon).
[05] Believe It or Not: WHEELS OF CHANCE
01Feb1950 NBC Wed 8pm
starring
Henry Hart
Ann Sorg
and Maurice Manson.
[06] Believe It or Not: MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY
08Feb1950 NBC Wed 8pm [Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
starring
John Sephen
Anne Francis
Phillip Carlyle
Fairfax Burgher
and Stanley Tackney.
[07] Believe It or Not: THE CASE OF THE MISSING MODEL
15Feb1950 NBC Wed 8pm
starring
Charles Summers
and Barbara Joyce.
[08] Believe It or Not: THE DIAMOND EYE
22Feb1950 NBC Wed 8pm
starring
William Keene
Hi Enzel
Marcel Rousseau
and Phil Sterling.
[09] Believe It or Not: JOURNEY THROUGH DARKNESS
01Mar1950 NBC Wed 8pm [Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
starring
Anna Minot
George Reeves
Ruth Altman
and Will Kuluva.
[10] Believe It or Not: MURDER TO COME
08Mar1950 NBC Wed 8pm [Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
starring
Vickie Marsden
Gordon Mills
Rhoderick Walker
and Virginia Kelley.
[11] Believe It or Not: CROSS OF VALOR
15Mar1950 NBC Wed 8pm
starring
Leonard Ceeley
Frederick Bradlee
Ed Jerome
and Mary MacLeod.
[12] Believe It or Not: SECRET OF NEFERTITI
22Mar1950 NBC Wed 8pm
starring
Stewart Bradley
Romola Robb
Rita Gam
and Ralph Bunker.
[13] Believe It or Not: THE FRIGHTENED CITY
29Mar1950 NBC Wed 8pm
starring
Patricia Benoit
Wesley Addy
Barbara Bolton
and Robert Carricart.
[14] Believe It or Not: THE BANDIT OF BALLINGRY RIDGE
05Apr1950 NBC Wed 8pm
starring
John Stephen
Louis Edmonds
Andree Wallace
and Blair Davies.
[15] Believe It or Not: THE BLOODHOUND AND THE BURGLAR
12Apr1950 NBC Wed 8pm [Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
starring
Mort Stevens
June Dayton
Robin Craven
and Valerie Cossart.
[16] Believe It or Not: CASKET OF DOOM
19Apr1950 NBC Wed 8pm
starring
Warren Parker
Mercer McLeod
and Kenneth Treseder
[17] Believe It or Not: THE POINTING FINGER
26Apr1950 NBC Wed 8pm
starring
Will Hare
Virginia McMahon
and Robert Pastine.
[18] Believe It or Not: MURDER MAKES THE HEADLINES
03May1950 NBC Wed 8pm
starring
Mark Roberts
Gaye Jordan
Malcolm Beggs
and Richard Newton.
[19] Believe It or Not: THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING GUESTS
10May1950 NBC Wed 8pm
starring
Elwyn Harvey
Jo Dingley
Jack Manning
and Merrill Joels.
*Note: The series moves to Thursdays at 8pm next week.
[20] Believe It or Not: THE BODARK TREE
18May1950 NBC Thurs 8pm
starring
Virginia McMahon
Jim Davidson
Earl Hammond
and Phil Faversham.
[21] Believe It or Not: THE SILENT WITNESS
25May1950 NBC Thurs 8pm
starring
Graham Belsey
Patricia Jones
Stewart Bradley
Edith Meisner
and Bruno Wick.
[22] Believe It or Not: PASSAGE TO ZERMATT
01Jun1950 NBC Thurs 8pm
starring
Gordon Mills
Marguerite Lewis
Elizabeth Wilson
and George Ives.
[23] Believe It or Not: DEATH CALLS THE TIME
08Jun1950 NBC Thurs 8pm
starring
Catherine Meskill
Warren Burmeister
Jean Pearson
and Philip Tonge.
[24] Believe It or Not: ROSE OF VENGEANCE
15Jun1950 NBC Thurs 8pm
starring
Louis Hector
Faith Brooke
and Ted Newton
[25] Believe It or Not: MURDER BY MOONLIGHT
22Jun1950 NBC Thurs 8pm
starring
James Gannon (as Jim Gannon)
Lee Grant
and Andrew Duggan.
[26] Believe It or Not: THE BLEEDING HEART
29Jun1950 NBC Thurs 8pm
starring
Dayton Lummis
Jean Gillespie
Richard Fraser
Bernard Kates
Jim Davidson
and Byron Russell.
[27] Believe It or Not: THE MILLION DOLLAR CORPSE
06Jul1950 NBC Thurs 8pm
starring
Dean Harens
Constance Moorehead
and Michael Blair.
[28] Believe It or Not: DOUBLE JEOPARDY
13Jul1950 NBC Thurs 8pm
starring
Lauren Gilbert
Diana Douglass
and Edith Meister.
[29] Believe It or Not: THE WELL OF DESPAIR
20Jul1950 NBC Thurs 8pm
starring
[30] Believe It or Not: MURDER WITH A PAYOFF
27Jul1950 NBC Thurs 8pm [Syracuse Post Standard]
starring
King Calder
[31] Believe It or Not: LOSER TAKE ALL
03Aug1950 NBC Thurs 8pm
starring
[32] Believe It or Not: THE GHOSTLY WILL
10Aug1950 NBC Thurs 8pm [Syracuse Post Standard]
starring
Justine Johnson
Elizabeth Ross
John Seymour
Andrew Duggan
and Ethel Remy.
Synopsis:
A true account of how justice was done because of a vision seen by an
imaginative young girl,
an actual case on the records of the Maryland courts.
[33] Believe It or Not: CORPUS DELICTI
17Aug1950 NBC Thurs 8pm
starring
John Stephen
Geoffrey Lumb
Dan Morgan
and Marguerite Lewis.
[34] Believe It or Not: THE EMERALD TATTOO
24Aug1950 NBC Thurs 8pm
starring
Marcel Rosseau
Dan Morgan
and Harry Townes.
[35] Believe It or Not: THE BLOOD CALL
31Aug1950 NBC Thurs 8pm
starring
Gene Barry
Ted Newton
and Jean Gillespie.
[36] Believe It or Not: MURDER IN DIAMONDS
07Sep1950 NBC Thurs 8pm
starring
Herbert Evers
Wolfe Barzell
Cara Williams
and Will Hare.
[--] Believe It or Not:
14Sep1950 NBC Thurs 8pm [Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
pre-empted by "Star Spangled Revue"
host Bob Hope, with Lucille Ball, Dinah Shore, Bob Crosby and The Cole Dancers.
[38] Believe It or Not: THE DEAD WILL SPEAK
21Sep1950 NBC Thurs 8pm
starring
Ada Kuznetzoff
Miriam Goldina
Louis Edmonds
and Bruno Wick.
[39] Believe It or Not: HOMICIDE
[Final episode of the series]
28Sep1950 NBC Thurs 8pm
starring
John Marley
Arny Freeman
Elaine Williams
and Elinor Randel.
. "You Bet Your Life" starring Groucho Marx premieres 05-Oct-1950
in this timeslot.
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