Thursday, December 11, 2008

Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Inspector Thorne "The Defrosted Refrigerator Murder Clue" (08-10-51)


The Defrosted Refrigerator Murder Clue (Aired August 10, 1951)


By the 1940's, Frank and Ann Hummert controlled four and a half hours of national weekday broadcast schedules. Their features reportedly spawned more that 5 million pieces of correspondence annually from steadfast fans. Simultaneously they brought in more than half of the national radio chain's advertising revenues generated during the daylight hours. The couple broadcast 18 quarter-hour serials five times weekly, a total of 90 original episodes for 52 weeks per year, with none of those ever repeated. Some shows were "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill", "Backstage Wife","Chaplin Jim USA", "David Harum", "Easy Aces", "Front Page Farrell", "John's Other Wife", "Just Plain Bill", "The Life of Mary Sothern","Lora Lawton", "Lorenzo Jones", "Ma Perkins", "Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch", "Our Gal Sunday", "The Romance of Helen Trent" and "Young Widder Brown".


THIS EPISODE:

August 10, 1951. NBC network. The Defrosted Refrigerator Murder Clue". Sustaining. Not auditioned. Kenneth MacGregor (director), Frank Hummert (creator), Anne Hummert (creator), Fred Collins (announcer), Karl Weber, Geraldine Merken (writer), Edward Francis (writer). 28:50.

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