The Adventures Of Leonidas Witherall -1945-04-22-The Corpse Meets a Deadline

The Adventures Of Leonidas Witherall
7:00 P. M. Leonidas finds that someone has switched corpses on a train to Chicago

The Adventures Of Leonidas Witherall 9:00 P. M. Three different people threaten the life of a miserable old women. When she is found dead at the state fair, all are suspect

The Adventures of Leonidas Witherall
1944-09-17-The Reunion

The Adventures Of Leonidas Witherall
09.14.1944 ( September 14, 1944)

The adventures of a boy's school headmaster who looks like William Shakespeare, and is very good at solving murders. This story takes place at a mountain resort where a murder has been committed by someone who is very adept at throwing knives.

Mrs. Mollet has been kidnapped. After she escapes, she and Leonidas set out to capture the crooks. The program has also been dated June 23, 1944.

The first show of the series on Mutual. Walter Hampden gives a short talk at the start of the show, explaining the characters in this detective series. A dead man is occupying Leonidas' closet during an afternoon tea. It turns out the Nazis are at work!

4:00 P. M. Colonel Corey Ford introduces the series before the story. An announcement is made that this is the first show of the series, but in an ambigiuous way. The stories are based on a book by Corey Ford and Alistair McBain. An American O. S. S. member parachutes into occupied Austria on a spying mission, but makes a serious mistake. Keep your eye on the button! The story is untitled in NBC records. The program of May 14, 1950 was pre-empted for a speech by President Truman. Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the enemy line knowing that you may never return alive? This was the question asked during the war to agents of the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) ordinary citizens who to this question answered yes. Before this first episode begins you will hear from the co-author of the book Cloak & Dagger who was also a former OSS officer on whom the series is based, Colonel Corey Ford.