Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Mr. & Mrs. North "Diehard" (09-08-53)

Diehard (Aired September 8, 1953)


Mr. and Mrs. North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple were featured in a series of twenty-six Mr. and Mrs. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture, and several different radio and television series. Mr. and Mrs. North was a radio mystery series that aired on CBS from 1942 to 1954. Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin had the title roles when the series began in 1942. Publisher Jerry North and his wife Pam lived in Greenwich Village at 24 St. Anne's Flat. They were not professional detectives but simply an ordinary couple who stumbled across a murder or two every week for 12 years. The radio program eventually reached nearly 20 million listeners. The characters originated in 1930s vignettes written by Richard Lockridge for the New York Sun, and he brought them back for short stories in The New Yorker. These stories were collected in Mr. and Mrs. North (1936).

THIS EPISODE:

September 8, 1953. CBS network origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "DieHard". Pam returns to her Alma Mater for a re-union with death! Richard Denning, Barbara Britton, Frances Lockridge (creator), Richard Lockridge (creator). 25:50.

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