The Adventures of Leonidas Witherall

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The Adventures of Leonidas Witherall is a radio mystery series broadcast on Mutual from June 4, 1944, through May 6, 1945. [1]

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Based on the novels of Phoebe Atwood Taylor (writing as Alice Tilton),[ citation needed ] the 30-minute dramas were produced by Roger Bower and starred Walter Hampden as Leonidas Witherall, [1] a British professor of criminology at the Meredith School for Boys [2] in Dalton, Massachusetts, a fictional Boston suburb. Witherall, who resembled William Shakespeare, is an amateur detective and the accomplished author of the "popular Lieutenant Hazeltine stories."[ citation needed ]

His housekeeper Mrs. Mollett, who in the novels is constantly offering her "candied opinion", was played first by Ethel Remey and then Agnes Moorehead, [3] and Jack MacBryde appeared as Police Sgt. McCloud. The announcer was Carl Caruso. Milton Kane supplied the music. [4]

The program was heard on Sundays in "various evening timeslots". [1]

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  1. 1 2 3 Dunning, John (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio (Revised ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 390–391. ISBN   978-0-19-507678-3.
  2. ↑ Terrace, Vincent (June 8, 2015). Radio Program Openings and Closings, 1931-1972. McFarland. pp. 8–9. ISBN   978-1-4766-1223-2 . Retrieved April 19, 2024.
  3. ↑ Cox, Jim, Radio Crime Fighters, 2002, p. 18, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, ISBN   0-7864-1390-5
  4. ↑ Terrace, Vincent (September 2, 2015). Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows. McFarland. pp. 10–11. ISBN   978-1-4766-0528-9 . Retrieved April 20, 2024.
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