The Screen Director's Playhouse - Mr. & Mrs. Smith (01-30-49)

 Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Aired January 30, 1949)

Screen Director's Playhouse is a popular radio anthology series which brought leading Hollywood actors to the NBC microphones beginning in 1949. The radio program broadcast adaptations of films, and original directors of the films were sometimes involved in the productions, although their participation was usually limited to introducing the radio adaptations, and a brief "curtain call" with the cast and host at the end of the program. The series later had a brief run on television. The radio version ran for 122 episodes and aired on NBC from January 9, 1949 to September 28, 1951 under several different titles: NBC Theater, Screen Director's Guild Assignment, Screen Director's Assignment and, as of July 1, 1949, Screen Director's Playhouse.

THIS EPISODE:
 
January 30, 1949. NBC network. "Mr. and Mrs. Smith". Sustaining. A comedy about a feuding couple who discover that they really aren't married after all. Guest director Alfred Hitchcock introduces the story and tells how he "appeared" in a cameo radio role. Bill Cairn (director), Carleton Young, Dink Trout, Frank Barton (announcer), Henry Russell (composer, conductor), Howard Wiley (producer), Mary Jane Croft, Milton Geiger (adaptor), Pat McGeehan, Robert Montgomery, Verna Felton. 29:54. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.