Mr & Mrs North - "The Premature Corpse" (02-12-52)

The Premature Corpse (Aired February 12, 1952)

INTRO: Bob Plays Eddie Arnold "Make The World Go Away" (1965)

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). Lockridge increased the readership after he teamed with his wife Frances on a novel, The Norths Meet Murder (1940), launching a series of 40 novels, including Death takes a Bow, Death on the Aisle and The Dishonest Murderer. Their long-run series continued for over two decades and came to an end in 1963 with the death of Frances Lockridge. Albert Hackett and Peggy Conklin had the title roles in the Broadway production Mr. and Mrs. North, which ran 163 performances at the Belasco Theatre from January 12, 1941, to May 31, 1941.


THIS EPISODE:

February 12, 1952. CBS network origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "The Premature Corpse". Who inherits the Hathaway money? There's no love lost in this family! Alice Frost, Joseph Curtin, Frances Lockridge (creator), Richard Lockridge (creator). 25:40. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.