MR AND MRS NORTH

OLD TIME RADIO - 2 CD - 87 mp3 - Total Playtime: 35:52:51

Mr. and Mrs. North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple were featured in a series of 26 Mr. and Mrs. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture and several radio and television series.

Mr. and Mrs. North was a radio mystery series that aired on CBS from 1942 to 1954. Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin had the title roles when the series began in 1942. 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 Ellery Queen). The CBS Radio program, which was broadcast once in 1941 and continuously from 1942 to 1955, featured Carl Eastman (1941), Joseph Curtin (1942-54) and Richard Denning (1954-55) as Jerry North. Pam North was played by Peggy Conklin (1941), Alice Frost (1942-54) and Barbara Britton (1954-55). 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."

SHOWS LIST

Disc 1

Mr and Mrs North 41-00-00 000 Picnic CBS Audition Show With Peggy Conklin and Car Eastman
Mr and Mrs North 43-02-03 006 Russian Restaurant Murder
Mr and Mrs North 43-03-03 010 Murder by the Book aka-Gordon Gilroy
Mr and Mrs North 43-03-17 012 The Dark Swarthy Man 1st half only
Mr and Mrs North 43-05-05 019 TCO Pam and the Orange Scarf 1st half only
Mr and Mrs North 43-06-02 023 Death Takes a Holiday
Mr and Mrs North 43-08-25 035 Missing Sparkler Frontline Theatre
Mr and Mrs North 43-09-22 039 The Contagious Confession
Mr and Mrs North 43-10-06 041 The Norths Buy a Letter aka-The Letter
Mr and Mrs North 44-01-26 057 Pam Takes a Message aka-Literary Murder
Mr and Mrs North 44-02-02 058 The Norths Go To the Dogs aka-Mistaken Countess
Mr and Mrs North 44-03-01 062 The Norths Run Out of Gas
Mr and Mrs North 44-04-12 068 The Little Man Who Wasn't There
Mr and Mrs North 44-05-24 074 The Norths Are Invited to Murder
Mr and Mrs North 44-07-19 082 The Norths Get Wired for Sound Ending Cut Story Complete
Mr and Mrs North 44-08-02 084 Pam Pops a Question Mystery Playhouse
Mr and Mrs North 44-08-09 085 Pam Keeps Out of Trouble or Pam Stays Out of Trouble
Mr and Mrs North 44-09-06 089 The Norths Borrow a Book aka The Gordon Gilroy Murder Case
Mr and Mrs North 44-10-11 094 The Norths Discover Christopher Columbus Who Killed Columbus
Mr and Mrs North 45-01-17 108 Frisbie Proves His Point Frisby Klisby Times Square Murder
Mr and Mrs North 46-02-27 166 The Norths Receive an Invitation To Murder Pampered Blueblood
Mr and Mrs North 47-07-01 209 Picnic
Mr and Mrs North 47-07-08 210 Fool's Gold
Mr and Mrs North 47-07-15 211 Milkmans Ring aka-Milk Run
Mr and Mrs North 47-12-09 232 Call Me Choo Choo aka-Clarinet In The Country Murder in A-Flat
Mr and Mrs North 50-01-03 339 Accidents on the Ice-Rink aka-Filed Skate AFRS
Mr and Mrs North 50-03-07 348 Dime A Dance aka-Honey Jones AFRS
Mr and Mrs North 50-09-05 361 Million Dollar Murder aka-Woman In a Red Dress AFRS
Mr and Mrs North 50-12-05 374 Who Killed Mr Stefano aka-Opera Murder
Mr and Mrs North 51-01-30 382 Charles Wyatt Murder aka-Fraud MurderMurder to Invest AFRS
Mr and Mrs North 51-03-27 390 Fatal Error
Mr and Mrs North 51-10-16 419 Who Killed Mr. Stefano aka Opera Murder Pretty Hands Couldn't Do It AFRS
Mr and Mrs North 52-02-12 436 The Premature Corpse aka-Hathaway Murder
Mr and Mrs North 52-02-19 437 Dead Giveaway AFRS
Mr and Mrs North 52-02-26 438 The Death Trap AFRS
Mr and Mrs North 52-03-04 439 TCOT Heavenly Body
Mr and Mrs North 52-03-11 440 Dont Cry Wolf AFRS
Mr and Mrs North 52-03-18 441 Murder Mismanaged AFRS
Mr and Mrs North 52-03-25 442 Death in the Dark
Mr and Mrs North 52-04-01 443 The Last Escape AFRS
Mr and Mrs North 52-10-14 471 Fools Gold
Mr and Mrs North 53-06-09 504 Wheel of Chance
Mr and Mrs North 53-06-30 507 Coat of Arms First DENNING and BRITTON isode
Mr and Mrs North 53-07-07 508 The Comic
Mr and Mrs North 53-07-14 509 Bet on Murder AFRS
Mr and Mrs North 53-07-21 510 The Saint of George Street
Mr and Mrs North 53-07-28 511 Family Affair AFRS
Mr and Mrs North 53-08-04 512 Diamond Noose AFRS
Mr and Mrs North 53-08-25 515 The Crooked Ring AFRS

Disc 2
Mr and Mrs North 53-09-01 516 No Vacation From Murder AFRS
Mr and Mrs North 53-09-08 517 Die Hard AFRS
Mr and Mrs North 53-09-22 519 No Vacation From Murder
Mr and Mrs North 53-09-29 520 House of Hate AFRS
Mr and Mrs North 53-10-06 521 Brother Danny AFRS
Mr and Mrs North 53-10-20 523 Masquerade AFRS
Mr and Mrs North 53-10-27 524 Runaway from Murder
Mr and Mrs North 53-11-03 525 Hostage AFRS
Mr and Mrs North 53-11-10 526 Death Comes In Cans AFRS
Mr and Mrs North 53-11-17 527 Dance Of Death
Mr and Mrs North 53-11-24 528 Shoot To Kill AFRS
Mr and Mrs North 53-12-01 529 Death Is Forever AFRS
Mr and Mrs North 53-12-08 530 The Man With the Rifle
Mr and Mrs North 53-12-15 531 Too Late to Die
Mr and Mrs North 53-12-22 532 Background for Murder
Mr and Mrs North 53-12-29 533 The Witness 11th Anniversary show
Mr and Mrs North 54-01-26 537 Snowbound
Mr and Mrs North 54-02-02 538 Cry Foul AFRS
Mr and Mrs North 54-02-09 539 Collectors Item AFRS
Mr and Mrs North 54-02-23 541 Winter Honeymoon
Mr and Mrs North 54-03-02 542 Cross My Heart
Mr and Mrs North 54-03-16 544 The Fallen Star AFRS
Mr and Mrs North 54-05-25 554 Two Deaths For A Hero
Mr and Mrs North 54-09-19 562 Operation Murder
Mr and Mrs North 54-10-04 564 Nightwalk, Part 1 of 5
Mr and Mrs North 54-10-05 565 Nightwalk, Part 2 of 5
Mr and Mrs North 54-10-06 566 Nightwalk, Part 3 of 5
Mr and Mrs North 54-10-07 567 Nightwalk, Part 4 of 5
Mr and Mrs North 54-10-08 568 Nightwalk, Part 5 of 5
Mr and Mrs North 55-03-21 614 Deadly Doll AFRS
Mr and Mrs North A Touch of Death - Denning and Britton
Mr and Mrs North Checkmate AFRS - Denning and Britton
Mr and Mrs North Deadly Innocent - AFRS Denning and Britton
Mr and Mrs North Gangster Douglas Grant - Mystery Playhouse Curtin and Frost
Mr and Mrs North Murder for Sale - AFRS Denning and Britton
Mr and Mrs North Murder Threatened 44-04-12 Curtin and Frost - Mystery Playhouse
Mr and Mrs North The Missing Sparkler - Frontline Theater Rebroadcast - Curtin & Frost
Mr and Mrs North Touch of Death - Denning & Britton