30 minute detective show
Mr. and Mrs. North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple was featured in a series of 26 Mr. and Mrs. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture and several radio and television series.
The characters originated in 1930s vignettes written by Richard Lockridge for the New York Sun, and he brought them back for short stories in The New Yorker. These stories were collected in Mr. and Mrs. North (1936). Lockridge increased the readership after he teamed with his wife Frances on a novel, The Norths Meet Murder (1940), launching a series of 26 novels, including Death Takes a Bow, Death on the Aisle and The Dishonest Murderer. Their long-run series continued for over two decades and came to an end in 1963 with the death of Frances Lockridge. The series was unusual in that it was Mrs. North who often solved the cases, while Mr. North was just background much of the time.
Mr. and Mrs. North was a radio mystery series that aired on NBC and CBS from 1942 to 1954. Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin had the title roles when the series began in 1942. The characters, publisher Jerry North and his wife Pam, lived in Greenwich Village at 24 St. Anne's Flat. They were not professional detectives but simply an ordinary couple who stumbled across a murder or two every week for 12 years. The radio program eventually reached nearly 20 million listeners.
In 1946, Mr. and Mrs. North received the first Best Radio Drama Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America (in a tie with CBS's The Adventures of Ellery Queen). The program, which was broadcast once in 1941 and continuously from December 1942 through December 1946 on NBC Radio (for Woodbury Soap), and from July 1947 to April 1955 on CBS Radio (for Colgate-Palmolive and, later, Adler sewing machines), featured Carl Eastman (1941), Joseph Curtin (1942–53) and Richard Denning (1953–55) as Jerry North. Pam North was played by Peggy Conklin (1941), Alice Frost (1942–53) and Barbara Britton (1953–55). In his book, Radio Crime Fighters, Jim Cox wrote that the couple:
... who passed themselves off as a publisher and his homemaker-spouse continued to make lighthearted wisecracks as they stepped over bodies in dark alleys and were rendered unconscious by unknown assailants dispensing blows to the head almost every week ... The feminine half of the twosome was at least equal to the husband in solving cases that often baffled law-enforcement officers with years of training and practice—except in reading clues. No explanation was given, of course, as to why a couple of misfits could be so successful in their preoccupation while the professionals thrashed about ineffectually."
Mr. and Mrs. North on Television
In 1946, producer-director Fred Coe brought the Owen Davis play to television (on New York City's WNBT) with John McQuade and Maxine Stewart in the leads and Don Haggerty, Joan Marlowe and Millard Mitchell repeating their Broadway roles.
Barbara Britton and Richard Denning starred in the TV adaptation, produced by John W. Loveton, seen on CBS from 1952 to 1953 and on NBC in 1954, sponsored by Revlon cosmetics and Congoleum-Nairn, Inc. Francis De Sales starred in 25 episodes as police Lieutenant Bill Weigand, only his second screen role. Guest stars included Raymond Burr, Hans Conried, Mara Corday, Lawrence Dobkin, I. Stanford Jolley, Carolyn Jones, Katy Jurado, Jimmy Lydon, Dayton Lummis, Julia Meade, William Schallert, and Gloria Talbott. In his early days at WPTZ TV in Philadelphia, Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams occasionally spoofed the show in sketches titled Mr. & Mrs. South on Kovacs's' morning comedy show Three To Get Ready.
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Episode List
Mr. and Mrs. North 58 episodes
MMN_430203_006006_Russian_Restaurant_Murder_.mp3
MMN_430317_012012_The_Dark_Swarthy_Man_PARTIAL_.mp3
MMN_430505_019019_Sylvia_Fleming_Murdered_aka_Pam_and_the_Orange_Scarf_PARTIAL_.mp3
MMN_431006_041041_The_Letter_.mp3
MMN_440126_057057_Literary_Murder_.mp3
MMN_440202_058058_Mistaken_Countess_.mp3
MMN_440719_082082_The_Norths_Get_Wired_for_Sound_NoClose_StoryComplete_.mp3
MMN_441011_094094_The_Norths_Discover_Christopher_Columbus_aka_Who_Killed_Columbus_.mp3
MMN_450117_108108_Frisbie_Proves_His_Point_aka_Frisby_Klisby_Times_Square_Murder_Mystery_Playhouse_AFRS_.mp3
MMN_460227_166166_An_Invitation_To_Murder_aka_Pampered_Blue_Blood_Wilbur_Wills_Problem_MystPhse_AFRS.mp3
MMN_470715_211211_Milkmans_Ring_aka_Milk_Run_.mp3
MMN_471209_232232_Clarinet_In_The_Country_aka_Murder_In_AFlat_Jam_Session_.mp3
MMN_500103_339339_Filed_Skate_AFRS_.mp3
MMN_500905_361361_Million_Dollar_Murder_akaWoman_In_A_Red_Dress_.mp3
MMN_501200_xxxxxx_Who_Killed_Mr_Stefano_aka_Opera_Murder_Pretty_Hands_Couldnt_Do_It_AFRS_.mp3
MMN_510130_382382_Charles_Wyatt_Murder_akaFraud_Murder_AFRS_.mp3
MMN_520212_436436_The_Premature_Corpse_aka_Hathaway_Murder_.mp3
MMN_520304_439439_The_Heavenly_Body_AFRS_.mp3
MMN_520311_440440_Dont_Cry_Wolf_AFRS_.mp3
MMN_520318_441441_Murder_Mismanaged_.mp3
MMN_520325_442442_Death_In_The_Dark_.mp3
MMN_520401_443443_The_Last_Escape_.mp3
MMN_521014_471471_Fools_Gold_NxtWk_Curtain_for_Regis_.mp3
MMN_530609_504504_Wheel_Of_Chance_.mp3
MMN_530630_515001_Coat_Of_Arms.mp3
MMN_530707_516002_The_Comic.mp3
MMN_530714_517003_Bet_On_Murder_.mp3
MMN_530728_511005_Family_Affair_AFRS_.mp3
MMN_530804_512006_The_Diamond_Noose_.mp3
MMN_530825_515009_Crooked_Ring_.mp3
MMN_530929_520014_House_Of_Hate_AFRS_.mp3
MMN_531006_521015_Brother_Danny_.mp3
MMN_531020_523017_Masquerade_AFRS_.mp3
MMN_531027_524018_Runaway_From_Murder_.mp3
MMN_531103_525019_Hostage_.mp3
MMN_531110_526020_Death_Comes_in_Cans_.mp3
MMN_531117_527021_Dance_of_Death_NoClose_StoryComplete_.mp3
MMN_531124_528022_Shoot_To_Kill_AFRS_.mp3
MMN_531201_529023_Death_Is_Forever_AFRS_.mp3
MMN_531208_530024_The_Man_With_A_Rifle_EndgCut_.mp3
MMN_540202_538032_Cry_Foul_AFRS_.mp3
MMN_540209_539033_Collectors_Item_AFRS_.mp3
MMN_540316_544038_The_Fallen_Star_.mp3
MMN_540919_562058_Operation_Murder_.mp3
MMN_541004_564060_Nightwalk_15_.mp3
MMN_541005_565061_Nightwalk_25_.mp3
MMN_541006_566062_Nightwalk_35_.mp3
MMN_541007_567063_Nightwalk_45_.mp3
MMNDeadly_Innocent_.mp3
MMNDie_Hard_520325_is_INVALID_DATE_.mp3
MMNGangster_Douglas_Grant_Mystery_Playhouse_440412_.mp3
MMNHoney_Jones_akaDime_A_Dance_AFRS_.mp3
MMNMissing_Sparkler_Frontline_Theatre_43.00.00_.mp3
MMNMurder_By_The_Book_akaGordon_Gilroy_440301_is_an_INCORRECT_date_.mp3
MMNNo_Vacation_From_Murder_.mp3
MMNPam_Goes_It_Alone_Mystery_Playhouse_440802_.mp3
MMNPam_Solves_It_Mystery_Playhouse_440809_.mp3
MMNTouch_Of_Death_.mp3
