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DOA

Screen Directors Playhouse · June 21, 1951 · 59 min · 9,179 words

The transcript of “DOA”, an episode of Screen Directors Playhouse first broadcast June 21, 1951. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Screen Directors Playhouse plays Screen Directors Playhouse free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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This is the Screen Directors Playhouse, one of the weekly features on NBC's All-Star Festival of Comedy, Music, Mystery and Drama. Brought to you by the makers of Aniston for fast relief from the pain of headache, youritis and your algev, by RCA Victor, world leader in radio, first in recorded music, first in television, and by Chesterfield,

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