The Adventures of Leonidas Witherall

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

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]

  1. ^ a b c 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.