The Empty Ashtray Murder Case (Aired September 20, 1951)
Another radio detective from the pen of Frank and Ann Hummert was Inspector Thorne. The series was short-lived and also had two stars portraying the lead. The first was Karl Weber and the second was Staats Cotsworth. 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:
September 20, 1951. NBC network. "The Empty Ashtray Murder Case". Sustaining. The body of Hortense Tremont has been found. Her safe has been robbed, the jewelry found among the possessions of her niece Jennifer Reynolds. The ashtray points to the killer. Next week's show is, "The Society Writer Murder Case." The system cue has been deleted. Staats Cotsworth, Edward Slattery (director), Geraldine Merkin (writer), Frank Hummert (creator), Anne Hummert (creator), Fred Collins (announcer). 29:27.
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