The Crime Club - "The Self-Made Corpse" (07-31-47)

The Self-Made Corpse (Aired July 31, 1947)

The program ran for two years over the Columbia Basic Network and for three years over NBC's Blue Network. During April 1933, the program was renamed Eno Crime Clues. The program ultimately left the air at the end of June 1936. The Eno Crime Club franchise was by way of a pretend Crime Club for Radio. No book tie-ins were ever associated with Eno Fruit Salts' sponsorship of the program. The program was, however, during its era viewed as a natural extension of the book club phenomena. Crime or mystery book clubs joined other monthly or quarterly selected book clubs for all manner of literary interests. Science fiction book clubs had been popularized as early as the 1920s, as well as romance fiction book clubs, supernatural thriller book clubs, and of course, childrens' book clubs. Show Notes From The Digital Deli.

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July 31, 1947. Mutual network. "The Self-Made Corpse". Sustaining. A mild little man visits a bunch of gangsters to have them help him with a bank robbery. They agree. Bruce Smith, Arthur Vinton, Irene Hubbard, William Quinn, Barry Thompson, Joan Constance, Stedman Coles (writer), Roger Bower (producer, director). 28:29. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.