The Adventures Of Frank Merriwell - "The April Shower Adventure" (04-09-49)

The April Shower Adventure (Aired April 9, 1949)

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."

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April 9, 1949. NBC network. "The April Shower Adventure". Sustaining. Frank and Bart become locked in a half-finished swimming pool in the middle of a baseball game. Lawson Zerbe, Hal Studer, Elaine Rost, Harlow Wilcox (announcer), Burt L. Standish (creator). 29:40. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.