Theater of the Mind
Les Crutchfield
Cast, Writer
286 episodes in 10 shows · 1946–1960
Les Crutchfield worked as a geologist and engineer before producer-director Norman Macdonnell brought him into CBS Radio's Hollywood division around 1946. He wrote the 1947 premiere of Escape and dozens more scripts for it, and contributed episodes to Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and Fort Laramie. A founding writer on Gunsmoke, he turned out 138 radio and TV scripts and created the TV character Festus Haggen.
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Gunsmoke95 · Cast, Writer
1952
- Jaliscoe
- Gentlemen's Disagreement
- The Brothers
- Drop Dead
- Hinka-Do
- Lochinvar
- The Mortgage
- The Square Triangle
- Post Martin
1953
1955
1956
- Old Pal
- Belle's Back
- Thick 'n' Thin
- Box O' Rocks
- 'Til Death Do Us
- Dirty Bill's Girl
- Crowbait Bob
- Pretty Mama
- Brother Whelp
- Tail to the Wind
- Speak to Me Fair
- Braggart's Boy
- Cherry Red
- Beeker's Barn
- Hound Dog
1957
- Devil's Hindmost
- Ozymandias
- Categorical Imperative
- Woman Called Mary
- Cold Fire
- Hellbent Harriet
- Doubtful Zone
- Impact
- Colleen So Green
- Grebb Hassle
- Spring Freshet
- Saddle Sore Sal
- Chicken Smith
- Rock Bottom
- Saludos
- Bear Trap
- Sheep Dog
- One Night Stand
- Ben Tolliver's Stud (1957)
- Dodge Podge
- Word of Honor (1957)
- Big Hands
- Jayhawkers (1957)
- Jobe's Son
- Looney McCluny
- Another Man's Poison
- The Margin
- Man and Boy
- Odd Man Out
- Long as I Live
- Ugly
- Where'd They Go
1958
- Moo Moo Raid
- One for Lee
- Bruger's Folly
- Real Sent Sonny
- Indian
- Why Not
- Little Bird
- Hot Horse Hyatt
- Target
- The Proving Kid
- A House Ain't a Home
- I Thee Wed
- Tried It, Didn't Like It
- Tag, You're It
- The Tragedian
- The Grass Asp
- Where'd They Go (1958)
1959
- Jailbait Janet
- The Reed Survives (1959)
- Johnny Red (1959)
- Gentlemen's Disagreement (1959)
- Hinka-Do (1959)
- The Mortgage (1959)
- Westbound (1959)
- Cavalcade (1959)
- The Square Triangle (1959)
- Paid Killer (1959)
1960
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar86 · Cast, Writer
About Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
1953
1955
- The Molly K Matter, Part 1
- The Molly K Matter, Part 2
- The Molly K Matter, Part 3
- The Molly K Matter, Part 4
- The Molly K Matter, Part 5
- The Lorko Diamonds Matter, Part 1
- The Lorko Diamonds Matter, Part 2
- The Lorko Diamonds Matter, Part 3
- The Lorko Diamonds Matter, Part 4
- The Lorko Diamonds Matter, Part 5
- The Cronin Matter, Part 1
- The Cronin Matter, Part 2
- The Cronin Matter, Part 3
- The Cronin Matter, Part 4
- The Cronin Matter, Part 5
- The Nick Shurn Matter, Part 1
- The Nick Shurn Matter, Part 2
- The Nick Shurn Matter, Part 3
- The Nick Shurn Matter, Part 4
- The Nick Shurn Matter, Part 5
1956
- The Caylin Matter, Part 1
- The Caylin Matter, Part 2
- The Caylin Matter, Part 3
- The Caylin Matter, Part 4
- The Caylin Matter, Part 5
- The Flight Six Matter, Part 1
- The Flight Six Matter, Part 2
- The Flight Six Matter, Part 3
- The Flight Six Matter, Part 4
- The Flight Six Matter, Part 5
- The Cui Bono Matter, Part 1
- The Cui Bono Matter, Part 2
- The Cui Bono Matter, Part 3
- The Cui Bono Matter, Part 4
- The Cui Bono Matter, Part 5
- The Fathom-Five Matter, Part 1
- The Fathom-Five Matter, Part 2
- The Fathom-Five Matter, Part 3
- The Fathom-Five Matter, Part 4
- The Fathom-Five Matter, Part 5
- The Lonely Hearts Matter, Part 1
- The Lonely Hearts Matter, Part 2
- The Lonely Hearts Matter, Part 3
- The Lonely Hearts Matter, Part 5
- The Silver Blue Matter, Part 1
- The Silver Blue Matter, Part 2
- The Silver Blue Matter, Part 3
- The Silver Blue Matter, Part 4
- The Silver Blue Matter, Part 5
- The Matter of Reasonable Doubt, Part 1
- The Matter of Reasonable Doubt, Part 2
- The Matter of Reasonable Doubt, Part 3
- The Matter of Reasonable Doubt, Part 4
- The Matter of Reasonable Doubt, Part 5
- The Laughing Matter, Part 1
- The Laughing Matter, Part 2
- The Laughing Matter, Part 3
- The Laughing Matter, Part 4
- The Laughing Matter, Part 5
- The Shady Lane Matter, Part 1
- The Shady Lane Matter, Part 2
- The Shady Lane Matter, Part 3
- The Shady Lane Matter, Part 4
- The Shady Lane Matter, Part 5
- The Open Town Matter, Part 1
- The Open Town Matter, Part 2
- The Open Town Matter, Part 3
- The Open Town Matter, Part 4
- The Open Town Matter, Part 5
- The Kranesburg Matter, Part 1
- The Kranesburg Matter, Part 2
- The Kranesburg Matter, Part 3
- The Kranesburg Matter, Part 4
- The Kranesburg Matter, Part 5
- The Kranesburg Matter, Part 6
- The Confidential Matter, Part 1
- The Confidential Matter, Part 2
- The Confidential Matter, Part 3
- The Confidential Matter, Part 4
- The Confidential Matter, Part 5
- The Primrose Matter, Part 1
- The Primrose Matter, Part 2
- The Primrose Matter, Part 3
- The Primrose Matter, Part 4
- The Primrose Matter, Part 5
Escape51 · Writer
1947
- The Man Who Would Be King (1947)
- The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (1947)
- Typhoon
- The Sire de Maletroit's Door
- The Ring of Thoth
- A Shipment of Mute Fate (1947)
- The Fall of the House of Usher
1948
- Ancient Sorceries (February 15, 1948)
- Ancient Sorceries (February 21, 1948)
- How Love Came to Professor Guildea (February 22, 1948)
- How Love Came to Professor Guildea (February 28, 1948)
- The Grove of Ashtaroff
- Jimmy Goggles...The God
- Log of the Evening Star
- Misfortune's Isle
- A Shipment of Mute Fate (March 1948)
- Action (1948)
- The Brute
- The Drums of the Fore and Aft (1948)
- John Jock Todd
- The Match
- Beau Geste
- She
- Habit
- The Man Who Would Be King (1948)
- The Fugitive
- S.S. San Pedro
- The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (1948)
- Dream of Armageddon
- The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1948)
1949
- The Lost Special
- He Who Rides the Tiger
- A Shipment of Mute Fate (1949)
- The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (1949)
- When the Man Comes, Follow Him
- The Drums of the Fore and Aft (1949)
- Action (1949)
- Red Wine
- The Fortune of Vargas
1950
- The Pistol
- The Red Mark
- The Golden Snake
- A Shipment of Mute Fate (1950)
- The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1950)
1951
1953
1954
The Story of Dr. Kildare26 · Writer
About The Story of Dr. Kildare
- Rico Marziano's Dying Wife
- Barbara Lane
- Janet Dane's New Cancer Treatment
- Terry Murphy
- Abandoned Baby
- Nurse Parker Resigns
- Dick Brennan: $5,000 or $50,000?
- Colonel Beauregard's Paralysis
- Priscilla's Broken Arm
- Dan Malloy's Peptic Ulcer
- Appendicitis Operation at Sea
- Dr. Carew and the Mystery Patient
- Marion Lewis
- Sam Nevitsky's Paralysis
- Mumpkin's First Baby
- Eddie Jenkins and the Arsonist
- Ling Ko Refuses Surgery
- Nurse Parker Needs a Hobby
- Lady Donabee's Annual Visit
- Mr. Morgan Needs Surgery
- David Norton Has Pneumonia
- Eddie Lazetti Takes Hostages
- Dr. Gillespie's Testimonial Dinner
- Dr. Conlon, Quack
- Robert Lane, Intern
- The Woman Who Forgot
The Man Called X13 · Writer
Fort Laramie6 · Writer
Suspense3 · Writer
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