Night Beat - "A Case Of Butter" (09-25-50)

A Case Of Butter (Aired September 25, 1950)

 

INTRO:Bob Plays The Classic IV "Please Be Mine" (1962)

Broadcast on NBC, Nightbeat ran from 1949 to 1952 and starred Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone, a tough and streetwise reporter who worked the nightbeat for the Chicago Star looking for human interest stories. He met an assortment of people, most of them with a problem, many of them scared, and sometimes he was able to help them, sometimes he wasn’t. It is generally regarded as a ‘quality’ show and it stands up extremely well. Frank Lovejoy (1914-1962) isn’t remembered today, but he was a powerful and believable actor with a strong delivery, and his portrayal of Randy Stone as tough guy with humanity was perfect. The scripts were excellent, given that they had to pack in a lot in a short time, and there was a good supporting cast, orchestra, and sound effects.

 

THIS EPISODE:

September 25, 1950. "A Case Of Butter" - NBC network. Sustaining. Randy Stone tries to track down twenty tons of contaminated butter before a typhoid epidemic hits Chicago! Anne Whitfield, Don Diamond (producer, host), Frank Lovejoy, Frank Worth (composer, conductor), Joan Banks, Larry Marcus (writer), Lou Rusoff (writer), Nestor Paiva, Peter Leeds, Russell Bender (writer), Tudor Owen, Warren Lewis (director). 29:28. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

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