The Amazing Mr. Malone - "Hard Work Never Killed Anyone" (06-22-51)

Hard Work Never Killed Anyone (Aired June 22, 1951)

Based on Craig Rice’s (a female crime novelist who rivaled Agatha Christie in book sales) novels of crime drama, Frank Lovejoy (and later Gene Raymond and George Petrie) plays “fiction’s most famous criminal lawyer,” John J. Malone. Mr. Malone is our amazing hero, a Chicago lawyer whose bar is more famous than Cheers. His hobby is collecting clichés, and each weeks show is based off of one: cleanliness is next to Godliness, a strong offense is the best defense, seek and ye shall find, and so on. Stories are gripping.

THIS EPISODE:
 
June 22, 1951. NBC network. "Hard Work Never Killed Anyone". Sustaining. Danny Braden tries a little blackmail on a former wife and gets a bullet for his trouble. George Petrie, Larry Haines, Craig Rice (creator), Eugene Wang (writer), Richard Lewis (director), Bernard L. Schubert (producer), Fred Collins (announcer). 29:35. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.