The Clock - "A Helping Hand" (12-29-46)

A Helping Hand (Aired December 29, 1946)

INTRO: Bob Plays The School Boys "Please Say You Want Me To) (1956)

The Clock was a mix  of the traditional crime drama and the supernatural dramas of the previous fifteen years. One or the other of the two genres had been traditionally popular formats throughout the Golden Age of Radio era. To its credit, ABC gave The Clock all the time it needed to create an audience. It kept the series in pretty much the same timeslot throughout its seventy-eight episode run, maintained reasonably high standards of talent--both in front of and behind, the mike--and simply waited to see what developed. NBC, by contrast was fairly brutal in its approach to new programming: if it didn't attract a sponsor by the magical thirteenth installment, NBC moved it all over the Radio dial on the slightest programming whim, in an effort to find either a home, an audience, or a sponsor for it. The Clock might well have found a larger audience had ABC had either the budget or resolve to promote it. Show Notes From The Old Time Radio Researcher's Group and The Digital Deli.

THIS EPISODE:

December 29, 1946. Grace Gibson syndication, WRVR-FM, New York aircheck. "A Helping Hand". Participating sponsors. A man and a woman pick up an apparently homicidal maniac while driving on a deserted highway. WRVR rebroadcast date: July 13, 1973. The date above is the date of this program's broadcast on ABC. The date and story title are subject to correction. Charles Tingwell, Harp McGuire, John Sahl (director), Lawrence Klee (creator, writer), Owen Weingart, Ozzie Wendlin, Wendy Clayfair. 24:20. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.