+ The Halls of Ivy is an NBC radio sitcom that ran from 1950-1952. It was created by Fibber McGee & Molly co-creator/writer Don Quinn before being adapted into a CBS television comedy (1954-55) produced by ITC Entertainment and Television Programs of America. British husband-and-wife actors Ronald Colman (1891-1958) and Benita Hume (1906-1967) starred in both versions of the show. Quinn developed the show after he had decided to leave Fibber McGee & Molly in the hands of his protege Phil Leslie. The Halls of Ivy's audition program featured radio veteran Gale Gordon (then co-starring in Our Miss Brooks) and Edna Best in the roles that ultimately went to the Colmans, who demonstrated a flair for radio comedy during their late 1940s recurring roles on The Jack Benny Program. The Halls of Ivy featured Colman as William Todhunter Hall, the president of small, Midwestern Ivy College, and his wife, Victoria, a former British musical comedy star who sometimes felt the tug of her former profession, and followed their interactions with students, friends, and college trustees. Others in the cast included Herbert Butterfield as testy board chairman Clarence Wellman; Willard Waterman (then starring as Harold Peary's successor as The Great Gildersleeve) as board member John Merriweather; and Bea Benaderet, Elizabeth Patterson, and Gloria Gordon as the Halls' maids. Alan Reed (television's Fred Flintstone) appeared periodically as the stuffy English teacher, Professor Heaslip. The series ran 109 half-hour radio episodes from January 6, 1950, to June 25, 1952, with Quinn, Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee writing many of the scripts and giving free if even more sophisticated play to Quinn's knack for language play, inverted cliches and swift puns (including the show's title and lead characters), a knack he'd shown for years writing Fibber McGee & Molly. Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee continued as a writing team; their best-known play is Inherit the Wind. Cameron Blake, Walter Brown Newman, Robert Sinclair, and Milton and Barbara Merlin became writers for the program as well.-WikiPedia Click here to read more about Halls Of Ivy, The
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Please enjoy these 89 old time radio episodes:
Air Date | Title | Synopsis | Rating |
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06.25.1952 | summer vacation |
+ , Voice Of America rebroadcast. The last show of the series. Ivy is closing for the summer, and th... | |
06.18.1952 | math professor |
+ , Voice Of America rebroadcast. Professor Upshaw has been named the new head of the Mathematics De... | |
06.11.1952 | the wellmans come to dinner |
+ , Voice Of America rebroadcast. The Wellmans stop by the Hall residence for dinner, one week befor... | |
06.04.1952 | pregnant student |
+ , Voice Of America rebroadcast. One of the Ivy students is about to have a baby...just before fina... | |
05.28.1952 | mummynapper |
+ , Voice Of America rebroadcast. A simulated mummy has been stolen from the Ivy College museum. Tom... | |
05.21.1952 | doctor spatzen |
+ , Voice Of America rebroadcast. Mr. Wellman's protege, Dr. Spatzen, isn't all he seems to be. In ... | |
05.14.1952 | student singer |
+ , Voice Of America rebroadcast. Marion Colter, a talented Ivy music student and classical singer, ... | |
05.07.1952 | faculty follies part 2 | ||
04.30.1952 | faculty follies part 1 |
+ , Voice Of America rebroadcast. Plans for "The Faculty Follies" proceed apace, despite the objecti... | |
04.23.1952 | professor waldens son |
+ , Voice Of America rebroadcast. Matthew Walden feels that he's going to fail his course in Renaiss... | |
04.16.1952 | the french exchange student | ||
04.09.1952 | faculty marriage |
+ , Voice Of America rebroadcast. Two of the professors at Ivy College have gotten married, and tha... | |
04.02.1952 | professor grimes |
+ , Voice Of America rebroadcast. Mr. Wellman feels that Professor Grimes of the History Department ... | |
03.26.1952 | stolen money |
+ , Voice Of America rebroadcast. Eleanor Joyce plans to resign from The Student Judiciary Committee... | |
03.19.1952 | the oldest living graduate | ||
03.12.1952 | the lame girl and the hypochondriac | ||
03.05.1952 | the astronomy exam |
+ , Voice Of America rebroadcast. The strange case of the student who refused to take an astronomy e... | |
02.27.1952 | budget problems | ||
02.20.1952 | voice of the ivy vine | ||
02.13.1952 | dean huxley |
+ “Out of the Fog, out of the night and in to his American adventures comes Bulldog Drummond”. I... | |
02.06.1952 | glee club donation | ||
01.30.1952 | track star |
+ Sponsored by: Schlitz Beer. The strange problem of the track star at Ivy who quits the team to imp... | |
01.23.1952 | medal of honor |
+ , Voice Of America rebroadcast. The operator of "A La Cart," the Ivy College hot dog stand, is ho... | |
01.16.1952 | art exhibit | ||
01.09.1952 | nelson carters son |
+ , Voice Of America rebroadcast. A student named Jerry Carter is having trouble with his economics ... |
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