110
classic broadcasts of Dangerous Assignment
362 classic broadcasts
of Vic and Slade
470 more bonus classic Old Time
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Dangerous
Assignment:
Dangerous
Assignment was an NBC radio drama starring Brian Donlevy
broadcast in the US 1949–1953, a syndicated television
series distributed in the US 1951–52 (also starring
Brian Donlevy), and an Australian radio series broadcast
in 1954-56 as remakes of the original American radio
scripts.
"The Commissioner" sent US special agent Steve Mitchell
to exotic locales all over the world, where he would
encounter adventure and international intrigue in
pursuit of some secret. Each show would always open with
a brief teaser scene from the episode to follow. After
the intro, Steve Mitchell would be summoned to the
office of 'The Commissioner', the regional head of an
un-named US State Department agency created to address
international unrest as it affected U.S. interests. "The
Commissioner" would give background information, explain
the current situation and tell Steve his assignment.
Steve's cover identity, in almost all his adventures,
was that of a suave debonair foreign correspondent for
an unnamed print publication — his assignments
invariably involved deceit, trickery, and violence, all
tied together into a successful resolution by the end of
the episode.
Dangerous Assignment started out as a replacement radio
series broadcast in the US on the NBC radio network in
the summer of 1949; it became a syndicated series in
early 1950. Reportedly, star Brian Donlevy himself was
the one who brought the show to NBC.
In the American radio shows, Donlevy was both the
protagonist within the action and the narrator, giving
the show "a suspenseful immediacy."[2][3] The only other
regular actor on the radio shows was Herb Butterfield,
who played "The Commissioner." Many stage and screen
actors appeared as guest-stars including, among many
others, William Conrad, Raymond Burr, Paul Frees, Jim
Davis, Dan O'Herlihy, Richard Boone, and Eddie Cantor.
The Australian series was begun as a result of the
popularity of the American series -- scripts from shows
already broadcast in the US were re-done with Australian
actors in 1954. The Australian producers re-created and
broadcast thirty-nine episodes from 1954 on.
Vic and
Slade:
Vic and Sade was an
American radio program created and written by Paul
Rhymer. It was regularly broadcast on radio from 1932 to
1944, then intermittently until 1946, and was briefly
adapted to television in 1949 and again in 1957.
During its 14-year run on radio, Vic and Sade became one
of the most popular series of its kind, earning critical
and popular success: according to Time, Vic and Sade had
7,000,000 devoted listeners in 1943. For the majority of
its span on the air, Vic and Sade was heard in 15-minute
episodes without a continuing storyline. The central
characters, known as "radio's home folks", were
accountant Victor Rodney Gook (Art Van Harvey), his wife
Sade (Bernardine Flynn) and their adopted son Rush (Bill
Idelson). The three lived on Virginia Avenue in "the
small house halfway up in the next block."
Vic and Sade was written by the prodigious Paul Rhymer
for the entire length of its long run. The principal
characters were a married couple living in "the small
house halfway up in the next block." After the first
weeks in production an extra character, an adopted son,
was added to the show, and it was in this format, with
only three characters, that the program thrived for the
next eight years and won many awards for the writer,
actors and sponsor.
In 1940, the actor who played Vic, Art Van Harvey,
became ill, and Sade's Uncle Fletcher (Clarence Hartzell)
was added to the cast to fill the place of the missing
male lead. When Van Harvey recovered his health, Uncle
Fletcher was kept on as a fourth character. During World
War II, the actor who played Rush, Bill Idelson, was
called into military service, and he left the show. The
spring months of 1943 were a tumultuous period, but
eventually a second son figure, Russell Miller (David
Whitehouse), was brought in, and the program continued
as it always had. The show faltered somewhat with
Whitehouse, who sounded as if he was reading his lines
aloud in school. Idelson later returned as Rush.
Paul Rhymer frequently gave each of the principals a day
off, by confining his scripts to only two of the main
characters. Vic and Sade would discuss a domestic
problem while Rush was in school; Sade and Rush would
review the day's events while Vic was still at the
office; Vic and Rush would tackle some project while
Sade was out shopping. Several episodes deliberately
make no forward progress whatever, as the cast
introduces the episode's premise but gets bogged down in
endless details. Rhymer evidently felt some pressure
from the sponsor's advertising agencies to include more
romance and human interaction into his scripts, like the
other daytime dramas on the air. He complied by adding
ridiculous touches (his romantic lead, Dwight
Twentysixler, always speaks with his "mouth full of
shingle nails"!) and oddball characters (Orville Wheeney,
the slow-witted gas-meter man; Jimmy Custard, the
crochety town official who never quite makes clear what
he does as the City Calistrator with the statistics he
collects; Mr. Sprawl, the frail old man who dotes on
"peanuts with chocolate smeared on the outsides").
Vic and Sade went off the air September 29, 1944 but was
brought back several times. In 1945, the cast was
augmented to include many characters who were previously
only talked about. In 1946 it was a summer replacement
series, now in a half-hour format and played in front of
a studio audience. Later that year it became a
sustaining (unsponsored) feature on the Mutual network.
In 1949 three television episodes were made (with only
Flynn remaining from the original cast), using an
elaborate set that included the whole house as well as
the front and back yards; the three episodes aired as
part of the Colgate Theatre anthology series. In 1957 a
series entitled The Humor of Vic 'n' Sade ran for seven
weeks, returning to the original three-character format
with 15-minute episodes, a multi-camera setup and a
small, stripped-down, bare set. Both Flynn and Van
Harvey reprised their roles, with teen actor Eddie
Gillian as Rush; the revival was cut short when Van
Harvey died in July 1957.
And more
Bonus Radio Shows:
As a sampler of our old
time radio library, we are including these
classic old time radio shows on this DVD-ROM at no extra charge:
Coconut Grove Ambassadors |
Eddy Duchin |
Four Star Playhouse |
Cousin Willie |
Edgar Guest |
Francis Langford |
Curtain Time |
Elgin Seasonal Specials |
Frank and Archie Watanabe |
Danger Dr Danfield |
Erskine Johnson |
Frank Black's Cadillac Show |
Danger with Granger |
Fairy Tales |
Frank Farrell |
Date with Chris |
Farm and Garden |
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell |
David Harum |
Farm Review |
Front and Center |
David Rose |
Ford Theater |
|
Songs by Eddie Fisher |
Ford V-8 Revue |
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