The Unwelcome Rescue (Aired July 3, 1948)
The character also appears in numerous radio serials and comic books based on the stories. The model for all later American juvenile sports fiction, Merriwell excelled at football, baseball, basketball, crew and track at Yale while solving mysteries and righting wrongs. He played with great strength and received traumatic blows without injury. A biographical entry on Patten noted dryly that Frank Merriwell "had little in common with his creator or his readers." Patten offered some background on his character: "The name was symbolic of the chief characteristics I desired my hero to have. Frank for frankness, merry for a happy disposition, well for health and abounding vitality." Merriwell's classmates observed, "He never drinks. That's how he keeps himself in such fine condition all the time. He will not smoke, either, and he takes his exercise regularly. He is really a remarkable freshie."
THIS EPISODE:
July 3, 1948. NBC network. "The Unwelcome Rescue". Sustaining. Frank and Bart save a girl's life while working as lifeguards in Atlantic City and uncover a munitions plot. Paul Taubman (music), Richard Keith, Ruth Braun (writer), William Welch (supervisor), Burt L. Standish (creator), Earl George, Elaine Rost, Gilbert Braun (writer), Hal Studer, Jack Kuney (director), Lawson Zerbe, Lon Clark, Mary Patton, Mel Brandt (announcer). 34:28. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.
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