Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Boxcars711Old Time Radio Pod - Granby's Green Acres "Mr. Granby Breaks Down" (08-21-50)


Mr. Granby Breaks Down (August 21, 1950)


Broadcast History: July 3 - August 21, 1950, CBS. 30m, Mondays at 9:30. Cast: Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet as John and Martha Granby, ex-bank teller and wife who moved to the country to become farmers. Louise Erickson as Janice, their daughter. Parley Baer as Eb, the hired hand. Announcer: Bob LeMond Music: Opie Cates Writer-Producer-Director: Jay Sommers. Granby's Green Acres grew out of characters played by Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet on the Lucille Ball series My Favorite Husband. The names were changed, but the basic characters remained the same.


THIS EPISODE:

August 21, 1950. CBS network. "Mr. Granby Breaks Down". Sustaining. Granby becomes very sensitive to noise. The sequence makes excellent use of sound effects. The last show of the series. Gale Gordon, Bea Benaderet, Louise Erickson, Rye Billsbury, Opie Cates (composer, conductor), Parley Baer, Hans Conried, Horace Murphy, Gail Bonney, Billy Gould (sound effects), Jay Sommers (writer, director), Jack Harvey (writer), Bob Shoe (assistant director), Ray Ehrlenborn (sound effects), Pat Walsh (engineer), Bob Lemond (announcer). 29:48.

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