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First Edition, 3rd printing of Dashiell Hammett's novel, The Thin Man, 1934
(Today's value approx. $7,000)

1934's The Thin Man, starring Myrna
Loy and William Powell

Premiere Spot Ad for The Adventures of The Thin Man, July 2, 1941

Les Damon as Nick Charles from the December 1942 issue of Movie Radio Guide

Claudia Morgan featured in Movie Radio Guide of June 1942

Hildegarde quest stars in the Thin Man episode of 45-09-23. She Returns the favor a month later on her own national Hidegarde Show

Hildegarde quest stars in the Thin Man episode of 45-09-23. She Returns the favor a month later on her own national Hidegarde Show

Hildegarde guest stars in the Thin Man episode of 45-09-23. She returns
the favor a month later on her own national Hidegarde Show.

Victor Moore guest stars in the Thin Man episode of 45-11-04. He returns the favor two weeks later on his own show.

New Adventures of the Thin Man is announced, with a major format change, dated 48-06-22

New Adventures of the Thin Man is announced, with a major NAB-directed format change, dated 48-06-22.

Spot ad announcing the return of The Adventures of The Thin Man as a summer replacement for Ozzie and Harriet from June 20 1950

Background

Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man was first published as a magazine serial in 1933. Knopf published it as a novel in 1934. The film version of The Thin Man was taken from Dashiell Hammett's 1934 detective novel of the same name, and based upon a married couple that was reportedly modeled on Dashiell Hammett's own relationship with playwright Lillian Hellman. The Thin Man was Hammett's fifth--and final novel--following The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key. The 'thin man' referred to in the title is in fact the murder victim, Clyde Wynant, in the magazine serial, novel and film, who only appeared--and disappeared--in the initial film.

One of M-G-M's lower budget films of the era, it was reportedly shot in fourteen days, yet earned over $2 million--the best earnings record of the total of six 'Thin Man' films from M-G-M. The remaining five films were:

After the Thin Man (1936), a Best Picture nominee
Another Thin Man (1939)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
The Song of the Thin Man (1947)

All six of the 'Thin Man' films starred William Powell and Myrna Loy. The Loy/Powell collaboration had already proved a powerful one on screen for the film couple. Indeed, Powell's onscreen coupling with various actresses in films prior to The Thin Man amply demonstrated the appeal of both Powell's droll responses to his usually strong-willed and opinionated female partners, his natural talent as a gentleman detective/comedian, and the already proven appeal of the Powell/Loy chemistry on screen.

Dashiell Hammett wrote some of the screenplays for the six Thin Man films, but the real scenarists for the series were the remarkable married team of Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, close friends and 'protectors' to one degree or another of Dashiell Hammett in real life. Hackett and Goodrich created a revolutionary style of dialogue between Nick and Nora Charles for their day. The style was often mimicked after the Thin Man films became runaway favorites with each new installment. But no one seemed to quite capture that same combination of Hackett/Goodrich dialogue and Powell/Loy delivery and chemistry.

NBC premieres The Thin Man as a Summer replacement

NBC thought the 'Thin Man' concept appealing enough to try it out over Radio for the Summer of 1941, the same period during which The Shadow of the Thin Man (1941) was released. Starring Les Damon and Claudia Morgan, the Summer run of 1941 was also produced and directed by Himan Brown and overseen by its creator, Dashiell Hammett. The music was provided by Fred Fradkin, an NBC staff composer.

We should point out early in our description of this fine, long-running series that precious few examples of the run survive in circulation. The handful of examples of the programs over the years come from the various AFRS electrical transcriptions that have survived. The AFRS transcribed at least fifty of the Thin Man programs as variously, The Thin Man, Mystery Playhouse, Frontline Theatre and Globe Theatre programs for both our American fighting forces overseas and the United Nations fighting forces. Most of the information we'd normally find in the opening or closing credits of the recordings of Thin Man programs are absent in most of the AFRS produced transcriptions. We were therefore forced to rely almost entirely on contemporaneous newspaper articles, spot ads and Radio program listings to prepare our research for this article.

World War II played something of a role in the evolution of this program over the years. Its initial male lead, Les Damon departed from the role for the two years while he performed service overseas in the Burma Theatre of Operations. In his absence, Les Tremayne and David Gothard assumed the role of Nick Charles. Claudia Morgan both inaugurated the role of Nora Charles and continued in the role for all nine seasons of the various Thin Man programs. In addition you will note a characteristic World War II theme in many of the titles for Seasons One and Two of The Adventures of the Thin Man.

From the January 2nd 1943 edition of The Binghamton Press:

Adventures of the Thin Man to Shift Networks

"Adventures of the Thin Man," radio's most popular detective-mystery story, starring Claudia Morgan and Les Damon as Nora and Nick Charles, shifts to a CBS network beginning Friday evening, January 8 at 8:30 p.m., E.W.T., over WNBF.

An outstanding favorite since its air debut in the Summer of 1941, "The Adventures of the Thin Man" is written by Dashiell Hammett, creator of the famous sleuthing team, Nick and Nora Charles. Hammett's original book, "The Thin Man," became a sensation as a motion picture starring William Powell and Myrna Loy, and was followed by the sequel, "The Thin Man Returns."

Claudia Morgan is the lovely stage star of more than 30 Broadway plays. She is the daughter of Ralph, and the niece of Frank Morgan. Les Damon, veteran actor of the air waves, is heard currently in "Portia Faces Life" among other programs, and has been seen on the stage in New York and London.

Himan Brown, radio's foremost director of the mystery-comedy drama, continues as producer of "The Adventures of hte Thin Man" and Parker Fennelly remains in his role of Sheriff Ebenezer Williams. The music is under the direction of Fred Fradkin.

Those of us who remain fans of both the Thin Man films and the Radio programs over the years are obviously struck by the contrasts in chemistry between Nick and Nora Charles on Screen and Nick and Nora Charles over the Air. But the suspension of disbelief comes quite quckly when listening to the Radio examples. The snappy patter, while not rising to the level of that between Detective Sam Spade and Effie Perrine, nor to the level of either the on-screen Thin Man or Sam Spade personae, is still well paced and the dialogue is consistently entertaining.

Through its five seasons of the World War II years, The Adventures of the Thin Man remained a universally well received and widely anticipated series. It didn't hurt that the three remaining Thin Man films were issued throughout this period, either. The public's thirst for more of Nick and Nora Charles and their irrepressible pup Asta seemed satisfied for the most part with the Radio rendition, until the next film release of the 'high-Octane' version of The Thin Man. Indeed there seems to be a direct correlation between the popularity of the Radio programs and the continuing release of new Thin Man films over the period. By the time The Song of the Thin Man (1947) had arrived and departed, interest in the Radio version of the Thin Man waned with Hollywood's waning interest in extending the Film franchise.

Between 1945 and 1948, CBS, NBC, and MBS fiddled the Thin Man format into obscurity. First with a series of guest star exchanges, which saw guest stars appear on the Thin Man programs followed by Nick and Nora Charles appearing on the guest star's own Radio program. Promoted with great fanfare, Boris Karloff, Hildegarde, Shirley Booth, and Victor Moore were among the various reciprocal invitees. Secondly, changing the 1948 format to emphasize Nora's desire to see Nick succeed in life as a businessman--and thus more like a conventional situation comedy, also fell flat. The format change was an attempt to skirt the new National Association of Broadcasters programming code which assigned a 9:30 p.m. EST curfew on mystery dramas, in an effort to keep prime time broadcasts free of criminal violence. Halfway into The New Adventures of the Thin Man NBC realized that the revised format wasn't working, so they scrapped the watered down Thin Man and returned to the detective mystery drama format. But that required them to park it in the only available post-curfew time-slot--10:30 p.m. on Wednesday nights. Of course, rather than salvaging the format, the impromptu revamping virtually assured an exponential drop in its already dwindling audience.

So it was that the Thin Man franchise winnowed down to a mere hint of its former popularity, having been handed down the Network line from NBC, to CBS, back to NBC, back to CBS, down to MBS and finally down to ABC. Button, button, who's got the button . . . or should that be hot potato. By the Summer 1950 season it wasn't even being promoted in Radio listings any longer. ABC was never much of a believer in newspaper spot ads to promote their Radio programming.

But it doesn't end there . . .

The Thin Man franchise wasn't completely dead. Les Damon and Claudia Morgan teamed up four years later in The Adventures of The Abbotts, a format very similar to the later years of The Thin Man. Fast forward seven years more and The Thin Man appeared on TV as an MGM Television production starring Peter Lawford as Nick and Phyllis Kirk as Nora. The program ran for seventy-two more episodes before it folded. Of course that wasn't the end of married sleuths over Radio, on Television, or in Film. We had Mr. and Mrs. North and their twenty-year franchise over various media. CBS tried--and failed--to bring their own Deductions Deluxe flavor of the Thin Man to production in the Summer of 1941 as one of their CBS Forecast preview offerings. 1965's Get Smart, though ostensibly more a parody of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., was very much in the mold of the Thin Man vis a vis the relationship between Agent Smart and Agent 99. Then Television's McMillan and Wife (1971-1977) and Hart to Hart received favorable responses for five seasons each in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Thereafter, followed Remington Steele (1982-1987) then Moonlighting (1985-1989). And then of course we have the various similarly 'married by proxy' detective couples to this very day. Witness Monk, In Plain Sight, and The Closer as current Television examples.

In whatever the guise, couples detectives, by whatever formula gets them to the inevitable dénouement, have been American favorites for almost eighty years and seem to find their way back into mainstream popularity every decade or so. The Thin Man, with every passing year seemingly distancing itself even further from the original Dashiell Hammett formula has nevertheless embedded itself in the fabric of American pop culture at various junctures over the past eighty years. Not exactly the hard-boiled formulae of The Fat Man or Sam Spade or Secret Agent X-9, but still pure Dashiell Hammett no matter how watered down.

And as a personal schadenfreude pleasure, the more succeeding iterations of the original Thin Man formula deteriorate, the better and better the original William Powell/Myrna Loy Films seem to improve like a fine wine or scotch--each year getting a bit mellower, each passing year increasing their worth.

Series Derivatives:

AFRS The Thin Man; AFRS Mystery Playhouse; AFRS Frontline Theatre; AFRS Globe Theatre; The Thin Man Television Series; The Fat Man; Thin Man Adventures; The Adventures of The Abbotts

Genre:

Anthology of Golden Age Radio Detective Dramas

Network(s):

NBC, CBS, MBS, ABC, and The AFRS

Audition Date(s) and Title(s):

None

Premiere Date(s) and Title(s):

1941-42 NBC Run: 41-07-02 01 The Blonde in the Bedroom
1943-44 CBS Run: 43-01-08 01 Kipper the Killer
1944 NBC Summer Run: 44-06-16 01 The Case Of The Glamorous Clue
1944-47 CBS Run: 44-09-15 01 The Case of the Pesky Painter
1948 NBC Summer Run: 48-06-22 01 [Unknown]
1948-49 MBS Run: 48-10-28 01 [Unknown]
1950 ABC Summer Run: 50-06-23 01 [Unknown]

Run Dates(s)/ Time(s):

1941-42 NBC Run:
41-07-02 to 42-12-23; NBC; Seventy-eight, 30-minute programs; Wednesdays, 8:00 p.m.
1943-44 CBS Run:
43-01-08 to 44-06-04; CBS; Seventy-four, 30-minutes programs; Fridays then Sundays
1944 NBC Summer Run:
46-06-16 to 44-09-08; NBC; Twelve, 30-minute programs; Fridays, 8:30 p.m.
1944-47 CBS Run:
44-09-15 to 47-12-26; CBS; 156, 30-minute programs
1948 NBC Summer Run:
48-06-22 to 48-09-22; NBC; Fifteen, 30-minute programs
1948-49 MBS Run:
48-10-28 to 49-01-20; MBS; Thirteen, 30-minute programs
1950 ABC Summer Run:
50-06-23 to 50-09-01; ABC; Eleven, 30-minute programs

Syndication:

AFRS

Sponsors:

1941-42 NBC Run: The Andrew Jergens Company [Woodbury Soap]
1943-44 CBS Run: C.W. Post
1944 NBC Summer Run: General Foods
1944-47 CBS Run: Maxwell House Coffee; Sanka .
1948 NBC Summer Run: Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer
1948-49 MBS Run: Kaiser-Frazier [and A.A.A. Auto Club]; Rio Trucks; Wood Motor Company; Wesner Bros. Auto Sales; Frank's Motor Sales; Imperatore Motor Sales;
1950 ABC Summer Run: Heinz 57 Varieties

Director(s):

1941-42 NBC Run: Himan Brown [Producer/Director]
1943-44 CBS Run: Himan Brown [Producer/Director]
1944 NBC Summer Run:
1944-47 CBS Run: Himan Brown [Producer/Director]
1948 NBC Summer Run:
1948-49 MBS Run:
1950 ABC Summer Run:

Principal Actors:

1941-42 NBC Run: Les Damon, Claudia Morgan
1943-44 CBS Run: Les Damon, David Gothard, Claudia Morgan
1944 NBC Summer Run: David Gothard, Claudia Morgan
1944-47 CBS Run: David Gothard, Les Tremayne, Les Damon, Claudia Morgan, Margo
1948 NBC Summer Run: Les Tremayne and Claudia Morgan, with Parker Fennelly
1948-49 MBS Run: Les Tremayne and Claudia Morgan
1950 ABC Summer Run: Joseph Curtin, Claudia Morgan

Recurring Character(s):

Nick Charles, Nora Charles, and Asta their wire-haired terrier. Also occasionally, Sheriff Ebenezer 'Eb' Williams and Detective Lt. Gallagher.

Protagonist(s):

Nick and Nora Charles

Author(s):

Dashiell Hammett

Writer(s)

1941-42 NBC Run:
1943-44 CBS Run:
1944 NBC Summer Run:
1944-47 CBS Run:
1948 NBC Summer Run: Milton Lewis
1948-49 MBS Run:
1950 ABC Summer Run:

Music Direction:

1941-42 NBC Run: Fred Fradkin and Orchestra
1943-44 CBS Run:
1944 NBC Summer Run:
1944-47 CBS Run: Fred Fradkin and Orchestra
1948 NBC Summer Run:
1948-49 MBS Run:
1950 ABC Summer Run:

Musical Theme(s):

Unknown

Announcer(s):

1941-42 NBC Run:
1943-44 CBS Run:
1944 NBC Summer Run:
1944-47 CBS Run:
1948 NBC Summer Run: Dwight Weist [Narrator]
1948-49 MBS Run:
1950 ABC Summer Run:

Estimated Scripts or
Broadcasts:

1941-42 NBC Run: 78
1943-44 CBS Run: 74
1944 NBC Summer Run: 12
1944-47 CBS Run: 156
1948 NBC Summer Run: 15
1948-49 MBS Run: 13
1950 ABC Summer Run: 11

An Estimated 350 unique scripts

Episodes in Circulation:

1941-42 NBC Run: 0
1943-44 CBS Run: 0
1944 NBC Summer Run: 0
1944-47 CBS Run: 3
1948 NBC Summer Run: 2
1948-49 MBS Run: 0
1950 ABC Summer Run: 0

Total Episodes in Collection:

1941-42 NBC Run: 1
1943-44 CBS Run: 1
1944 NBC Summer Run:
1944-47 CBS Run: 0
1948 NBC Summer Run: 2
1948-49 MBS Run: 1
1950 ABC Summer Run: 0
AFRS Programs: 6
Supplemental Programs: 6

Provenances:

Shirley Booth guest stars as herself
on the last program of the 1943-44
CBS Run, June 4, 1944

Spot ad announcing schedule change
to Sunday nights, dated 45-09-16

Spot ad announcing return from
Summer Break over CBS, dated 46-08-09

The Billboard review of Season 7 of The Thin Man was lukewarm at best from August 9 1947

The Billboard review of July 7 1948 panned the season opener of The New Adventures of The Thin Man

Billboard review of the MBS run of The Thin Man from November 13 1948

'The Directory of The Armed Forces Radio Service Series'.

Notes on Provenances:

All above cited provenances are in error in one form or another. The most helpful provenances were newspaper listings and The Directory of The Armed Forces Radio Service Series.

Digital Deli Too RadioLogIc

Where most researchers have apparently either failed in--or simply inductively intuited--an attempt to log this historic series of programs has been under various faulty assumptions about the chronology of the seven distinct runs of the Thin Man adventures over the years. Further complicating these research efforts is the proliferation of Thin Man movie references throughout most research resources for the period.

The seven distinct runs of Adventures of the Thin Man were:

The initial 1941-42 NBC Run
The CBS run of 1943-44
The 1944 NBC Summer Run
The second CBS Run of 1944-47
The 1948 NBC Summer Run
The short 1948-49 MBS Run
The final 1950 ABC Summer Run

Given the extraordinary differences in networks and formats over the years, any suggestion that the entire Thin Man series of programs constitutes one long continguous run is pure nonsense. Indeed the only tenuous connection between any of them are Nick and Nora Charles as protagonists and Claudia Morgan as the one actor present in all of the distinct iterations of the Thin Man series over the years. We have therefore numbered the episodes consistent with their distinguishing run(s).

Also, given the overwhelming popularity of the series for at least the first six seasons of its various runs, it's a foregone conclusion that there are at least as few as 200 or as many as 300 example programs in some collectors' holdings. The few examples in circulation come to us from the various AFRS programs through which the various Thin Man adventures were transcribed and syndicated through the AFRS network.

In response to this regrettable situation we can only--yet again--remind those collectors sitting on the bulk of the surviving examples that time is running out. We've identified some thirty or so uncirculated examples of Thin Man adventures in our own collection of 23,000 reels, cassette tapes and electrical transcriptions from the era, so we can safely assume that there are more that will surface in the next few years--or quite frankly they risk being lost forever. We point this out simply to remind our fellow collectors and archivists that one can only hedge one's bets on the popularity (e.g., perceived market value) of examples of the Thin Man adventures for so long. We'll have our own additional 30+ transcriptions digitized before long and as other collectors do the same, whoever's sitting on the remaining surviving programs will only see a commensurate decline in their market value. These are not a finite resource. Despite everyone's best efforts, those examples that remain undigitized simply continue to disintegrate or corrode beyond satisfactory recovery.

OTRisms:

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More alarmingly, in researching this log we turned up an entire half-season that had been previously described as non-existent. It's one thing to post inaccurate details about a program's history. But it's far more disingenuous to go out of one's way to intentionally mis-direct the efforts of other serious Golden Age Radio archivists by either flatly stating a run exists when it doesn't, or conversely, that it doesn't when in fact it does.

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Adventures of The Thin Man Radio Programs Log

	Adventures of The Thin Man Radio [NBC] Program Log
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
41-06-25	--		--	41-06-25 New York Times 8 :00-WEAF--Tony Martin, Songs; Orch. 41-06-25 Wisconsin State Journal 6:00 Tony Martin--WMAQ WTMJ
41-07-02	1	The Blonde in the Bedroom	N	Premiere Episode 6:00—KSD, Adventures of the Thin Man: "The Blonde in the Bedroom." starring Claudia Morgan and Les Damon. The first of the new Thin Man stories will deal with the strange disappearance of Judge Carver. The tales will be by Dashiell Hammett, whose original Thin Man story has become one of the classics of mystery fiction." 41-07-02 Wisconsin State Journal 6:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW 41-07-02 Brooklyn Eagle . . . The other premiere is Dash Hammett's "Adventures of the Thin Man" on WEAF at 8 o'clock, featuring Lester Damon as the "Thin Man" and Claudia Morgan as the witty, pretty wife of the sleuth . . . 47-07-02 Cloversville Herald AROUND THE RADIO CLOCK By C.E. BUTERFIELD (Eastern Standard Time) . . . Claudia Morgan in the first of the adventures of the Thin Man; NBC-RED at 8, replacing Eddie Cantor
41-07-09	2	Bellboys See Everything	N	6:00—KSD, Adventures of the Thin Man: "Bellboys See Everything", starring Claudia Morgan and Les Damon."
41-07-16	3	Title Unknown	N	41-07-14 Niagara Falls Gazette The soap-sponsored half-hour show to replace Tony Martin's "How Did You Meet" airshow will be "Adventures of the Thin Man" and goes on NBC Red on July 1. 47-07-02 Findlay Morning Republican 7 p.m.--WTAM--The Thin Man 41-07-16 New York Times 8 :00-WEAF-The Thin Man-Drama, Claudia Morgan, Les Damon
41-07-23	4	.32 Calibre Love Caption reads 'A MIKE OF HIS OWN---Claudia Morgan and Les Danvin [sic] as Mr. and Mrs. Thin Man, always start a new mystery case by buying a present for their astute wire-haired terrier. The pup has his own mike on the WBEN show. This evening at 8, the Thin Man and his wife co-star in “.32 Calibre Love.” '	N	41-07-23 Wisconsin State Journal "Thin Man (WMAQ): a murder over the phone." 41-07-23 San Antonio Express ".32 Calibre Love," the newest of the Thin Man adventures which are aired each Wednesday night over WOAI at 6, opens with a telephone call from a frantic girl whose father has been accused of murder. The case becomes even more baffling when the father admits his guilt to the Thin Man. Hear this thrilling story and see how the Thin Man and his keen-witted wife solve the mystery.
41-07-30	5	Black Eyes and Blue	N	41-07-30 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WMAQ): murder in the boxing ring. 41-07-30 Alton Evening Telegraph 6:00—KSD, Adventures of the Thin Man: "Black Eyes and Blue," starring Claudia Morgan and Les Damon.
41-08-06	6	Three Dots and A Dash	N	41-08-06 Wisconsin State Journal 6:00 p.m.--Adventures of the Thin Man (WMAQ): "Three Dots and a Dash," story of v-campaign.
41-08-13	7	The Rocks I Buy Baby	N	41-08-13 Wisconsin State Journal 6 The Thin Man (WMAQ): "The Rocks I Buy Baby," a diamond necklace's double life.
41-08-20	8	The Case of The Blue Pelican	N	41-08-19 The Salt Lake Tribune 9:00—NBC—"The Adventures of the Thin Man," mystery drama with Lester Damon, Claudia Morgan 41-08-20 Wisconsin State Journal 6 Thin Man (WLS): red heads at an auction. 41-08-20 Long Island Daily Press 8:00 WEAF--Adventures of The Thin Man--"Case of the Blue Pelican."
41-08-27	9	Twinkle, Twinkle, Where's The Star?	Y	[Side #2 Only] 41-08-27 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p. m.—Adventures of the Thin Man (WBAQ): "Twinkle, Twinkle, Where's the Star?" in which a movie star vanishes.
41-09-03	10	Ham with Russian Dressing	N	41-09-03 Alton Evening Telegraph 6:00—KSD, Adventures of the Thin Man: "Ham, With Russian Dressing."' Claudia Morgan and Les Damon in lead roles 41-09-03 New York PM Daily 8:00 WEAF: Adventures of the Thin Man--in a mystery satire on Hollywood, Ham, with Russian Dressing.
41-09-10	11	Socked in the Cradle Of the Deep	N	41-09-10 Alton Evening Telegraph 6:00—KSD, Adventures of the Thin Man: "Socked in the Cradle Of the Deep."' Claudia Morgan and Les Damon in lead roles 41-09-10 New York PM Daily 8:00 WEAF: Adventures of the Thin Man--with diamond smugglers.
41-09-17	12	The Gang Wears Chaps	N	41-09-17 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p. m. — The Thin Man (WMAQ): "The Gang Wears Chaps," gangdom on a dude ranch. 41-09-17 Long Island Daily Press 8:00 WEAF--Adventures of the Thin Man--Murder On the Dude Ranch.
41-09-24	13	Glamour Ghost	N	41-09-24 Alton Evening Telegraph 6:00—KSD, Adventures of the Thin Man: Claudia Morgan and Les Damon in "Glamour Ghost." KWK 41-09-24 Lockport Union-Sun A delightful Park avenue spook plays bob with Nick and Nora's plans for leasing a brownstone house in the70's during "Adventures of the Thin Man" on WBEN at 8 this evening.
41-10-01	14	Bombs and Brunettes	N	41-10-01 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p. m. — The Thin Man (WMAQ): "Bombs and Brunettes," both are unlucky throughout history. 41-10-01 New York PM Daily 8:00 WEAF: Adventures of the Thin Man--Nick and Nora tangle with Bombs and Brunettes.
41-10-08	15	The Little Girl with the Little Curves	N	[Postponed - See Episode 22] 41-10-08 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m. Thin Man (WMAQ): The "little girl with all the curves" does a little sleuthing on a plane.
41-10-15	16	Title Unknown	N	41-10-15 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW
41-10-22	17	Homicide and The Red Herring	N	41-10-22 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m. Thin Man (WMAQ): "Homicide and the Red Herring," the corpse if buried
41-10-29	18	Title Unknown	N	41-10-29 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW
41-11-05	19	Matched Makeup for Madame	N	Monday "Thin Man (WMAQ): "Matched Makeup for Madame," Thin Man's wife solves the crim while hubby sleeps. Nora Charles, played by Claudia Morgan, will demonstrate her right to rank next to her husband. The Thin Man, as a detective when she solves a baffling murder mystery during the 9 P. M. adventure of the Thin Man. When the Thin Man is laid up as the result of an assault, she takes over and lays the villain by the heels as the result, of finding a smear of lipstick on the face of a dead man."
41-11-12	20	First Poison, Singular	N	"7 p. m. — The Thin Man (WMAQ): "First Poison Singular," third down and murder . . . Big Town (WBBM: battle between underworld lords." 41-11-12 New York PM Daily 8:00 WEAF: Adventures of the Thin Man--a football game on the campus of a mid-west college results in First Poison Singular. The Title is also a cute 'poke in the ribs' to Mercury Theatre of The Air, first conceptually billed as 'First Person, Singular', a rather too grand for Radio kind of title.
41-11-19	21	Thanksgiving with Blackmail	N	7 P. m. — Thin Man (WMAQ): "Thanksgiving with Blackmail."
41-11-26	22	The Little Girl with the Little Curves	N	"7 p. m. — Thin Man (WMAQ): "The Little Girl with the Little Curves," but they're counterfeit" 46-11-26 Lima News "The Little Girl with the Little Curves," will make a delayed but spectacular appearance as the villainess in "Adventures of the Thin Man," Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. over WEAF. The drama originally was scheduled for Oct. 8, but had to be postponed because of the Thin Man's efforts to determine whether the curves were real or counterfeit. Under Norm's eagle eye he now has reached the latter conclusion. 41-11-26 New York PM Daily 8:00 WEAF: Adventures of the Thin Man--Nick mixes with counterfeiters and a surrealist painter.
41-12-03	23	The Case of the Little Man Who Wasn't There	N	41-12-03 San Antonio Express Asta stops leading a dog's life and talks back to her master during a psychological mystery drama--of a type new to radio, screen, stage or even Punch and Judy theater--during Adventures of the Thin Man on WOAI tonight at 7. Entitled "The Case of the Little Man Who Wasn't There," the story will show Nick Charles, on the verge of a nervous breakdown as the result of looking at too many pretty girls, getting himself thoroughly psychly at Nora's wifely insistence. The Thin Man goes into a trance and has three dreams in rapid succession. Finally he awakes suffering from a badly strained aura and three bullet holes in his libido."
41-12-10	24	Fair Today, Murder Tomorrow	N	41-12-10 Wisconsin State Journal ""Fair Today, Murder Tomorrow," another dashing, "Adventures of the Thin Man" episode, will be presented over WOAI at 7 tonight. The story has a carnival of atmosphere, heart interest, gunplay and Dashiell Hammett's usual sophisticated dialogue. The program, which has just received a New Year's present in the form of an extension of its NBC contract, will continue to co-star Claudia Morgan and Lester Damon under Himan Brown's direction."
41-12-17	25	Mr Wurp Goes To Jail	N	41-12-17 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW 41-12-17 San Antonio Express Wednesday over NBC-Red . . . The Jittery Mr. Wurp again with the Thin Man
41-12-24	26	Santa Comes Across	N	[ Christmas Program] 41-12-24 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m. Thin Man (WMAQ): "Santa Comes Across," Christmas on Times Sq. 41-12-24 San Antonio Express A street corner Santa who is called upon to pinch hit for the real thing will be the startled hero of a Christmas Eve Adventures of the Thin Man drama, "Santa Comes Across," tonight at 7 over WOAI. The story begins when a hysterical young woman flings herself upon a Times Square St. Nick and demands that he save her innocent husband from the electric chair. Mr. and Mrs. Thin Man overhear the conversation and go into action to obtain a reprieve from the Governor.
41-12-31	27	Jingle Bells and Bullets	N	41-12-31 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW
42-01-07	28	Title Unknown	N	42-01-07 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW 42-01-07 San Antonio Express Adventures of the Thin man is a WOAI feature tonight at 7.
42-01-14	29	Title Unknown	N	42-01-14 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW 42-01-07 San Antonio Express Adventures of the Thin Man is a WOAI feature tonight from 7 to 7:30 p.m.
42-01-21	30	Title Unknown	N	42-01-21 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW
42-01-28	31	Title Unknown	N	42-01-28 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW
42-02-04	32	Title Unknown	N	42-02-04 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW
42-02-11	33	Title Unknown	N	42-02-11 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW
42-02-18	34	Title Unknown	N	42-02-18 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW
42-02-25	35	Title Unknown	N	42-02-25 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW
42-03-04	36	Title Unknown	N	42-03-04 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW
42-03-11	37	Title Unknown	N	42-03-11 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW
42-03-18	38	Title Unknown	N	42-03-18 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW
42-03-25	39	Title Unknown	N	42-03-25 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW
42-04-01	40	Title Unknown	N	42-04-01 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW
42-04-08	41	Title Unknown	N	42-04-08 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW
42-04-15	42	Kill The Umpire	N	42-04-15 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m. Adventures of the Thin Man (WMAQ): murder at a ballgame. 42-04-15 The Evening News "Kill the Umpire" is the Adventure of the Thin Man story at 8 o'clock over WEAF, when Nick Charles attends the baseball season opener and murder looks larger than the score. Nick is played by Les Damon and the role of Nora, his wife, is done by Claudia Morgan.
42-04-22	43	Title Unknown	N	42-04-22 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW
42-04-29	44	Title Unknown	N	42-04-29 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW
42-05-06	45	Arson On the Docks	N	42-05-05 The Fresno Bee Nick and Nora Charles will make the acquaintance of a new character, Captin Billy Smacker, during the Adventures of The Thin Man, opening at 9 P.M. They aid the master of an East River tugboat in clearing himself of suspicion of arson and sabotage. 42-05-06 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m. Thin Man (WMAQ): arson on the docks. 42-05-06 Lockport Union-Sun WBEN specials this evening: Nick and Nora Charles make the acquaintance of a new character, Capt. Billy Smacker, master of an East River tugboat during the Adventures of the Thin Man at 8.
42-05-13	46	Title Unknown	N	42-05-13 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m. Thin Man (WMAQ): diamond smuggling.
42-05-20	47	Title Unknown	N	42-05-20 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW
42-05-27	48	Tracking Down A Nazi Fugitive	N	42-05-27 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m. Thin Man (WMAQ): tracking down a Nazi fugitive. 42-05-27 New York PM Daily 8:00 WEAF: Adventures of the Thin Man,--newspaper headlines guide Nick and Nora Charles when they meet the escaped Nazi flier.
42-06-03	49	Title Unknown	N	42-06-03 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW
42-06-10	50	Title Unknown	N	42-06-10 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW
42-06-17	51	Title Unknown	N	42-06-17 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW
42-06-24	52	Title Unknown	N	42-06-24 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW
42-07-01	53	A Soldier's Lost Girl	N	[ This airing marks the first anniversary of The Adventures of The Thin Man over radio] 42-06-30 The Fresno Bee Les Damon and Claudia Morgan as Nick and Nora Charles, tonight will celebrate their first anniversary on the radio in The Adventures of The Thin Man. The episode confronting the happy go lucky but shrewd pair involes a search for an MP's girl friend. The program will be heard on KMJ at 9 o'clock. 42-07-01 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p. m.—Thin Man (WMAQ): seeking a soldier's lost girl." 42-07-01 New York PM Daily 8:00 WEAF: Adventures of the Thin Man--Nick (Les Damon) and Nora (Claudia Morgan) Charles are still happy in love after a year of radio sleuthing. 42-07-01 Lockport Union-Sun Marking their first anniversary on the air, Nick and Nora Charles run into romance, the Army and a subtle form of sabotage during hte Adventures of the Thin Man on WBEN at 8 this evening. Claudia Morgan, vivacious stage star, daughter of Ralph Morgan and Niece of Frank Morgan, plays the role of Nora while Les Damon, veteran radio actor and with a score of Broadway plays to his credit portrays Nick.
42-07-08	54	Test Plane Sabotage	N	"7 p. m.—Adventures of the Thin Man (WMAQ): saboteurs destroy test pianes, kill pilots." 42-07-08 Lockport Union-Sun Saboteurs destroying test planes and pilots create a good deal of excitement for Nick and Nora Charles during The Adventures of the Thin Man, on WBEN at 8.
42-07-15	55	Adrift in the Caribbean	N	Nick Charles and Nora adrift in the Caribbean
42-07-22	56	Combating Nazi Agents	N	Nick and Nora go nautical in combating Nazi agents
42-07-29	57	Hijacking Aluminum	N	42-07-29 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m. Thin Man (WMAQ): hijacking aluminum 42-07-29 New York PM Daily 8:00 WEAF: Adventures of the Thin Man--Nora gets conked; Nick gets his man.
42-08-05	58	Body, Body, Who's Got the Body	N	42-08-05 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p. m._Thin Man (WMAQ): Nick and Nora play a game, "Body, body, who's got the body." 42-08-05 Lockport Union-Sun Nick and Nora Charles play "Body, body, who's got the body" during WBEN's Adventures of the Thin Man at 8. It all starts when Nora notices a vagrant walking along the street pushing a baby carriage. Nora, ever curious, takes a look and sees, not a pink-toed baby, but a corpse under some newspapers.
42-08-12	59	Oil Field Sabotage	N	42-08-12 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p. m.—Thin Man (WMAQ): Nick and Nora detect saboteurs in oil fields."
42-08-19	60	Title Unknown	N	42-08-19 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m. Thin Man (WMAQ): domestic crisis over a redhead. 42-08-19 Lockport Union-Sun A beautiful red head gets involved with Nick and Nora Charles and causes one of those domestic crises so rare with radio's most happily married during WBEN's Adventures of the Thin Man at 8 this evening. The damsel even drops her handkerchief in what looks like a coquettish attempt to ensnare the great detective. Nick picks up the gauntlet, but the whole affair turns into a gangster's war, several murder charges and a generally tough case from which Mr. and Mrs. Charles emerge triumphant and reconciled. And the redhead pays.
42-08-26	61	Dutiful Husband	N	42-08-26 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW
42-09-02	62	Murder on a Fishing Trip	N	42-09-02 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m. Thin Man (WMAQ): murder on a fishing trip.
42-09-09	63	The Mad Plaid Coat Murder Maze	N	42-09-09 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m. Thin Man (WMAQ): a gaudy coat has a part in a couple of murders 42-09-09 Lockport Union-Sun A "mad plaid coat with a reef pleat, a drape shape and more colors than six rainbows" takes a preeiminent part in The Adventures of the Thin Man on WBEN at 8. The coat turns out to be lucky for Nick Charles as Nora, in wifely fashion, gives it away to keep him from wearing it. Nick is at his best in this episode for he keeps even Nora guessing about his solution of a couple of murders and does an O. Henry double-shuffle before he gets the case finished off.
42-09-16	64	Story of Sabotage	N	42-09-16 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m. Thin Man (WMAQ): Nick Charles runs into murder and sabotage. 42-09-16 Lockport Union-Sun A dangerous curve in the road, a box of ice cream and an unassuming old man start Nick Charles off on unraveling one of the most dastardly crimes encountered in his detective career during WBEN's Adventures of the Thin Man at 8.
42-09-23	65	Triple Murder Trails A Movie Queen	N	42-09-23 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m. Adventures of the Thin Man (WMAQ): triple murder trails a movie queen. 42-09-30 Lockport Union-Sun Nazi spies intrude on the pleasant life of Nick and Nora Charles in The Adventures of the Thin Man on WBEN at 8. The leader is dispatched to the Nazi Heaven and others are winged before the play closes.
42-09-30	66	Nazi spies seek chemical warfare secrets	N	42-09-30 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m. Adventures Of Thin Man (WMAQ): Nazi spies seek chemical warfare secrets.
42-10-07	67	Murder in a Blackout	N	42-10-07 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m. The Thin Man (WMAQ): murder in a blackout.
42-10-14	68	Nora Captive on a German Sub	N	42-10-14 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m. Adventures of Thin Man (WMAQ): an encounter with a German submarine. 42-10-14 Lockport Union-Sun The usually inseparable Nick and Nora Charles get themselves separated, but definitely, in The Adventures of the Thin Man on WBEN at 8.
42-10-21	69	Title Unknown	N	42-10-21 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW
42-10-28	70	Title Unknown	N	[ Halloween Program] 42-10-28 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW 42-10-28 Lockport Union-Sun Tombstones, graveyards, owls in the night and a corpse in the plane create some of the atmosphere for the Hallowe'en program of the Adventures of the Thin Man on WBEN at 8.
42-11-04	71	Title Unknown	N	42-11-04 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW
42-11-11	72	The Black Market Tire Racket	N	42-11-11 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m. The Thin Man (WMAQ): Nick uncovers a black market and a murderer. 42-11-11 Lockport Union-Sun Nick and Nora Charles start out on the trail of a murder, uncover a black market in automobile tires, find the murderer of a filling station operator and round up the big shot behind the racket all in one day during WBEN's Adventures of the Thin Man at 8 this evening.
42-11-18	73	Title Unknown	N	42-11-18 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW
42-11-25	74	Title Unknown	N	42-11-25 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW 42-11-25 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m. Thin Man (WMAQ): and Sheriff Eb Williams.
42-12-02	75	Honeymoon--With Murder	N	42-12-02 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m. The Thin Man (WMAQ): honeymoon--with murder
42-12-09	76	Aunt Victoria's Visit	N	42-12-09 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m. The Thin Man (WMAQ): Shoplifting, gambling, assault, arson, and blackmail result from Aunt Victoria's Visit
42-12-16	77	Title Unknown	N	42-12-16 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW 42-12-17 Clinton Courier "The Adventures of the Thin Man," which has been heard on NBC Wednesday nights in the interests of Woodbury Soap, will be discontinued after next week's broadcast. It's place (8-830 p.m.) will be taken by a new dramatic series titled "Mr. And Mrs. North," based on stories by Richard Lockridge in the "New Yorker."
42-12-23	78	Title Unknown	N	[Last NBC production] 42-12-23 Wisconsin State Journal 7:00 Thin Man--WMAQ WTMJ WLW Mr and Mrs. North takes over the timeslot 42-12-26 Rome Daily Sentinel Radio Day By Day By C.E. BUTTERFIELD . . . CBS has announced that the program to take part of the hour at 8:30 given up by Kate Smith is the Adventures of the Thin Man, which is moving from NBC, where it concluded last Wednesday.
42-12-30	--		--	42-12-30 Wisconsin State Journal Mr. and Mrs. North, the characters who achieved national fame in short stories, novels, a Broadway play, and a movie, will make their radio debut over WIBA at 7 tonight, starting a series of comedy-mystery plays in hte spot formerly occupied by the Adventures of the Thin Man. The Norths are a publisher of mystery stories and his wife, who has a penchant for being at the scene of a crime and an uncanny ability to unravel problems.

	The Adventures of The Thin Man [CBS] Program Log
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
43-01-01	--		--
43-01-08	1	Kipper The Killer	N	[CBS Network C.W. Post Sponsorship]
43-01-15	2	Babes in Gunland	N	43-01-15 Long Beach Independent NICK CHARLES and his wife Nora are awakened in the middle of the night by the cries of a small baby who was left on their doorstep. "Babes in Gunland" is the title of this story which is to be presented on the "Adventures of the Thin Man" tonight over KNX from 9:30 to 9:55 p. m. Detective Nick Charles is played by Lester Damon and his wife, Nora, by Claudia Morgan. Himan Brown is the director. 43-01-15 Schenectady Gazette The mystery of a baby left on the doorstep is solved amid cries, screams, shots and shivers in "Babes In Gunland," a dramatic comedy of real and fake infants in "The Adventures of the Thin Man," with Claudia Morgan and Les Damon. (WOKO-CBS at 8:30 p.m.). When Nick's pal, Sheriff Ebenezer Williams, arrives from the hinterland, he is preceded by an innocent looking babe, aged 3 months, whose insistant followers include gunmen, stick-up artists, counterfeiters and assorted shady characters. What may be child's play for some, turns out to be a wild day for Nick and Nora.
43-01-22	3	Rolling Stones Gather a Killer	N	43-01-22 San Mateo Times 9:30—KQW—-"Rolling Stones Gather a Killer" is title of "Adventures of the Thin Man" drama
43-01-29	4	The Case of the Boy Who Couldn't Laugh	N	[ Special broadcast dedicated to FDR's National Infantile Paralysis Foundation] 43-01-29 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): Claudia Morgan and Les Damon in "The Case of the Boy Who Couldn't Laugh." 43-01-29 Schenectady Gazette When a bearded stranger hijacks Miss Lullu, a pooch partial to back-scratching, Nick and Nora Charles, ace bloodhounds in any field, follow a trail that leads to "The Case of the Boy Who Couldn't Laugh," in a special broadcast dedicated to President Roosevelt's National Infantile Paralysis Foundation on "The Adventures of the Thin Man," (WOKO-CBS tonight at 8:30).
43-02-05	5	The Case of the Missing Pants	N	43-02-05 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Missing Pants." 43-02-05 Schenectady Gazette Thugs, drugs, and a blonde who knows her weapons lure Nick Charles on the murky trail of a bogus count in "The Case of the Missing Pants," a knock-down, drag-out episode in The Adventures of the Thin Man, (WOKO-CBS 8:30 tonight).
43-02-12	6	A Case of the Pickled Clues	N	43-02-12 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): A Case of Pickled Clues. 43-02-12 Albany Knickerbocker News Nick and Nora Charles find themselves in the middle of a bank-robbery murder mystery on the "Adventures of the Thin Man" when they take listeners with them on "A Case of Pickled Clues" (WOKO-CBS 8:30 p.m.). With an innocent man, who is the guinea pig for a vital experiment, doomed to death, Nick and Nora have less than 24 hours in which to save him. How they accomplish it makes for an exciting half hour. Nick Charles is played by Lester Damon. His wife, Nora, is portrayed by Claudia Morgan.
43-02-19	7	The Great Triangle Mystery ~~The Great Triangle Murder Case~~	N	43-02-19 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Great Triangle Mystery," which starts with a night-club brawl.
43-02-26	8	The Case of the Deadly Bumps	N	43-02-26 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 Death Valley Days--WBBM 43-02-26 Findlay Republican When a stranger sells Sheriff Ebenezer Williams a two-thousand-dollar diamond for $10 and is subsequently shot, Nick and Nora Charles have a read-made mystery and subsequently solve "The Case of the Deadly Bumps" on CBS' Adventures of the Thin Man Friday at 7:30 p.m. 43-02-26 New York PM Daily 8:30 WABC: Adventures of hte Thin Man--Nick Charles follows a bumpy murder trail; tracking down a diamond mob.
43-03-05	9	The Merchant of Venom	N	43-03-05 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Merchant of Venom," story of murder at a winter sports resort.
43-03-12	10	The Case of the Lively Corpse	N	43-03-12 Wisconsin State Journal - 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Lively Corpse."
43-03-19	11	The Case of the Angel without Wings	N	43-03-19 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): Nick and Nora run out of gas and into jail to meet "Angel Without Wings."
43-03-26	12	The Case of the Talking Coffin	N	43-03-26 Findlay Republican Nick and Nora Charles, the happiest married couple in radio, come perilously close to getting unmarried, thereby losing out on a tidy little inheritance of half a million dollar in "The Case of the Talking Coffin," the murder-and-laugh-filled chapter of The Adventures of the Thin Man for 7:30 p.m. Friday over CBS.
43-04-02	13	Double Trouble	N	43-04-02 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Adventures of the Thin Man (WBBM): Because Nick resembles a gangster, he and Nora find themselves in "Double Trouble." 43-04-02 Schenectady Gazette Nick Charles, seventh son of a seventh son, proves a good actor, but a hard one to kill, in "Double Trouble", the riotous chapter of The Adventures of the Thin Man in tonight's broadcast over WOKO-CBS at 8:30. The trouble starts when Nick and Nora get called on a trans-continental wild-goose chase which ends up with Nick being forced at the point of a gun to impersonate a notorious gangster, which he does so effectively that Nora comes closer to widowhood than she ever has before.
43-04-09	14	The Case of the Lovelorn Seal	N	43-04-09 Long Beach Independent Mystery and comedy are mixed in the exciting episode of the 'Adventures of the Thin Man," the ingredients of which are a trained seal, a coffin and two murders when the thrilling program is broadcast tonight at 9:30 over KNX 43-04-09 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Lovelorn Seal." 43-04-09 Albany Knickerbocker News Mystery and comedy are mixed in "The Adventures of the Thin Man" tonight at 8:30 over WOKO-CBS. Nick and Nora Charles are passengers on a transcontinental train and the drawing room comedy begins when Nick wanders into the wrong compartment, and the screams of the lady occupant awaken the entire Pullman. Nick is later suspected of murdering the lady, who is subsequently strangled. In his efforts to find the murderer and clear himself, Nick finds a live corpse in the baggage car. The presence of a trained seal complicate matters.
43-04-16	15	The Case of the Slippery Noose	N	43-04-16 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Slippery Noose."
43-04-23	16	The Case of the Crazy Parrot	N	[ Easter Program] 43-04-23 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): parrot catches murderer. 43-04-23 New York Post 8:30 WABC--The Adventures of the Thin Man "The Case of the Crazy Parrot," Les Damon, Claudia Morgan. 43-04-23 Schenectady Gazette Nora tries on her Easter bonnet which Nick notices is equipped with a live parrot. The bird turns out to be King Cole, whose owner has been murdered. Thus begins "The Case of the Crazy Parrot" in The Adventures of the Thin Man tonight at 8:30 (WOKO-CBS). King Cole is star witness because he was present when the crime was committed. How the wise bird helps detective Nick and his wife, Nora, to find the real murderer and free a man falsely suspected, is an ornithological oddity.
43-04-30	17	Death Gets a Brush-Off	N	43-04-30 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 Thin Man--WBBM WCCO 43-04-30 Albany Knickerbocker Shooting starts the moment Nora Charles comes home to find her husband, Nick, doing a conga with a strange woman in "Death Gets a Brush-Off" on The Adventures of the Thin Man tonight at 8:30 over WOKO-CBS. The conga woman wants Nick to find her sister. Nick and Nora begin a search and from then on completely amazing things happen in a maize of tough characters and gunfire.
43-05-07	18	The Case of the Corpse With Twelve Toes	N	43-05-07 Long Beach Independent "Evidence" in the shape of a corpse with 12 toes, starts Nick and Nora Charles on a mad, mystifying chase through another of "The Adventures of the Thin Man," tonight at 9:30 over KNX 43-05-07 Schenectady Gazette A tragedy caused by a fall guy being pushed from a 22-story window gets "The Case of the Corpse With Twelve Toes," horrendous episode of "The Adventures of the Thin Man" off to a plunging start tonight at 8:30 over WOKO-CBS.
43-05-14	19	Recipe for Murder	N	43-05-14 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "Recipe for Murder," story of a poisoned chicken dinner. 43-05-14 Albany Knickerbocker Taking everything in their own inimitable stride, Nick and Nora Charles chase three little chickens and come closer to death than they ever have before in "Recipe for Murder," the episode of The Adventures of the Thin Man tonight at 8:30 (WOKO-CBS). You might at first think that chasing chick thieves was beneath the dignity of the master-minded Mr. Charles. But that would be because you didn't know Bessie, Gwendolyn and Bertha. They are pretty important girls, playing the starring roles in an exp eriment with their owner, Professor Gilwilly, was making for the govermnent. To prove his point, the professor had injected them with large doses of death-dealing Virus X. It all adds up to a pretty exciting time.
43-05-21	20	Murder Is So Childish	N	43-05-21 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "Murder Is So Childish."
43-05-28	21	The Case of the Deadly Curves	N	43-05-28 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Deadly Curves." 43-05-28 Albany Knickerbocker The sleuthing team of Nick and Nora Charles, Incorporated, discovers that all nuts aren't fruit cakes in "The Case of the Deadly Curves," the murder-filled episode of hte Adventures of the Thin Man tonight at 8:30 over WOKO-CBS. The escaped inmate of an insane asyllum hacks, chokes and poisons three people before Nick gets him back where he started from.
43-06-04	22	The Mummy Who Wouldn't Talk	N	43-06-04 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Mummy Who Wouldn't Talk."
43-06-11	23	A-Freud to Dream	N	43-06-11 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "A-Freud to Dream."
43-06-18	24	The Clock Strikes Death	N	43-06-18 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Clock Strikes Death," in which Nick and Nora trap Nazi spies.
43-06-25	25	The Case of the Perfumed Torpedoes	N	43-06-25 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Perfumed Torpedo." 43-06-25 New York Post 8:30--WABC--The Adventures of the Thin Man, "The Case of the Perfumed Torpedoes," Les Damon, Claudia Morgan.
43-07-02	26	The Case of the Gorgeous Ghost	N	43-07-02 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): The Case of the Gorgeous Ghost.
43-07-09	27	They All Killed the Bride	N	43-07-09 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "They All Killed hte Bride."
43-07-16	28	The Case of the Disappearing Corpse	N	43-07-16 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Disappearing Corpse."
43-07-23	29	The Case of the Shady Sarong	N	43-04-23 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): deck of cards and toy dog provide clues in "The Case of the Shady Sarong."
43-07-30	30	The Case of the Midsummer Night's Scream	N	43-07-30 Long Beach Independent Two hundred and seventy-three corpses—stabbed, drugged, shot, entombed or frightened to death— mark the macabre trail of "The Adventures of the Thin Man" in the past two years the program has been on the air. And whether the total will be increased by one or remain at the odd figure for a while depends on the debonair sleuthing of Nick and Nora Charles in their newest case, the episode scheduled for tonight at 9:30 over KNX.
43-08-06	31	The Case of the Green and Purple Shorts	N	43-08-06 Long Beach Independent Nick Charles is faced with series of murders in "The Case of the Green and Purple Shorts," in "The Adventures o£ the Thin Man," tonight over KNX at 9:30 La Damon plays Nick and Claudia Morgan plays his wife Nora. Himan Brown directs and music is by Fred Fradkin.
43-08-13	32	The Case of the Prophetic Kazoo	N	43-08-13 Long Beach Independent Nick and Nora are jailed for stealing a bus, meet a murderer and save an innocent man's life all in the latest episode of "The Adventures of the Thin Man," tonight at 9:30 over KNX. It's called "The Case of the Prophetic Kazoo," because . . . well, the drama is as mysterious as its name. Les Damon and Claudia Morgan are the principals, Himan Brown directs and Fred Fradkin supplies the music.
43-08-20	33	No Noose Is Good News	N	43-08-20 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "No Noose is Good News."
43-08-27	34	The Case of the Crooner Who Croaked ~~The Case of the Crooner Who Croaks~~	N	43-08-27 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): The Case of the Crooner Who Croaked."
43-09-03	35	The Case of the Unfortunate Fortune Teller	N	43-09-03 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Unfortunate Fortune Teller."
43-09-10	36	The Case of the Misplaced Wife	N	43-09-10 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Misplaced Wife."
43-09-17	37	Gold Is What You Kill For	N	43-09-17 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "Gold Is What You Kill For." 43-09-17 Albany Knickerbocker You can't blame Nick for being skeptical when a "fake" uncle name "Klondike" leaves a gold brick in the Charles' wastepaper basket. Just the same, "Gold Is What You Kill For"--tonight's unusual chapter of the Adventures of the Thin Man--proves that things are sometimes more exciting than they seem (WOKO-CBS 8:30 p.m.)
43-09-24	38	The Case of the Glamorous Gams	N	43-09-24 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Glamorous Gams."
43-10-03	39	The Case of The Kissing Killer	N	[ Moves to Sundays for Post Toasties] 43-10-03 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Kissing Killer."
43-10-10	40	The Case of the Wandering Corpse	Y	43-10-10 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Wandering Corpse."
43-10-17	41	One Ring For Murder	N	""One Ring For Murder" is dramatized on "The Adventures of The Thin Man" at 10:30 p. m. WCHS."
43-10-24	42	The Million Dollar Figure	N	"ADVENTURES OF THE THIN MAN (9:30-10:00)—Nick and Nora Charles meet Myrna, the girl with "The Million Dollar Figure" and subsequently become involved in mysterious doings."
43-10-31	43	The Case of the Mysterious Meow	N	[AFRS Mystery Playhouse Only] "Although not by choice, Nick. Nora and Sheriff Eb Williams spend Hallowe'en in the company of a gorgeous ghost, an evil spirit and a "talking" black cat in "The Case of the Mysterious Meow," this Sunday's weird episode of "The Adventures of the Thin Man." (KFAB, 930 p. m.). In search of a murder clue, Eb Williams and the Charleses visit a deserted lighthouse which they have been warned is haunted. When their boat suddenly disappears, and then both Nora and Eb are spirited away, too, Nick wonders when the witch's wand will strike him.
43-11-07	44	Title Unknown	N	43-11-07 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): double murder and a shakedown
43-11-14	45	The Case of the Kissing Killer	N	[Repeat of 43-10-03] 43-11-14 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): Case of the Kissing Killer."
43-11-21	46	The Case of the Affectionate Corpse	N	"ADVENTURES OF THE THIN MAN A delirious girl poisoned to prevent her from exposing black market operations leads Nick and Nora Charles on a trail that nearly ends in their deaths during tonight's "Adventures of tha Thin Man" episode titled, "The Case of the Affectionate Corpse.""
43-11-28	47	The Case of the Misplaced Beard	N	"ADVENTURES OF THE THIN MAN "When the cat's away, the mice will play" fits the situation to a T, when Nora returns from a week-end visit to hear rumors of Nick's escapade with an Arabian dancer, in "The Case of the Misplaced Beard" tonight's "Thin Man" thriller."
43-12-05	48	Marriage is Murder	N	"ADVENTURES OF THE THIN MAN The machinations of a matrimonial agency racket and the murder of a French underground leader are uncovered by Nick and Nora'Charles in tonight's "Thin Man" episode titled "Marriage is Murder."" 43-12-05 Charleston Gazette The murder of a leader of the French underground in the apartment of Nick and Nora Charles precipitates an intensive manhunt that leads to the altar in "Marriage Is Murder" on the WCHS "Adventures of the Thin Man." at 10:30 tonight. Les Damon plays Nick Charles and Claudia Morgan the role of his wife Nora
43-12-12	49	The Double Talking Duke ~~Gorilla Garrety's Temple of Beauty for Gents and Ladies~~	N	43-12-12 Charleston Gazette "Nora insists that Nick develop a figure like Johnny Weismuller's, and this involves him in a triple murder when he becomes a client of "Gorilla Garrety's Temple of Beauty for Gents and Ladies" on WCHS's "The Adventures of the Thin Man" tonight at 10:30; The first occurs during Nick's "figure moulding," the others when he meets an exotic dancer and a weird character known as "The Double Talking Duke." This monicker happens to be the subtitle of the drama. Nick romps through the homicides and obtains a confession, alternately helped and hampered by his well-meaning wife."
43-12-19	50	The Case of the Misplaced Memory	N	43-12-19 New York Times 10:30-WABC--Adventures of the Thin Man: Play: Case of the Misplaced Memory, Claudia Morgan, Les Damon
43-12-26	51	Santa Leaves a Clue	N	[ Christmas Program] "THIN MAN "Santa Leaves a Clue"— and Nick and Nora Charles discover another murderer. Don't miss this inspiring episode as Nick proves that all Santa Clauses don't wear white whiskers!"
44-01-02	52	Murder, Maestro, Please	N	Apparently postponed [see below] "Nick and Nora Charles have hardly recovered from their New Year's Eve revelry when murder, mayhem and mystery gravitate to them for solution in the episode "Murder, Maestro, Please"." "Trying to sell himself on the idea of "never troubling trouble till trouble troubles you," Nick reluctantly agrees to investigate a dancehall racket in this Sunday's episode of "The Adventures of the Thin Man," entitled "Murder Maestro. Please." (WEAK, 9:30 p. m., EST."
44-01-09	53	The Case of the Talking Cake	N	"9:30 p. m.—Thin Man (WBBM): Nick trails foreign agents in "The Case of the Talking Cake.""
44-01-16	54	Murder, Maestro, Please	N	"9:30 p. m. — T h i n Man (WBBM): postponed broadcast of "Murder, Maestro, Please."" [Les Damon and Claudia Morgan had appeared on a special broadcast of The Red Cross Hour on Jan. 02, 1944]
44-01-23	55	Title Unknown	N
44-01-30	56	Moider the Bum	N	"9:30 p. m.—Thin Man (WBBM): investigates tha prizefight racket in "Moider the Bum.""
44-02-06	57	The Girl With the X-Ray Eyes	N	44-02-06 Wisconsin State Journal - 9:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Girl With the X-Ray Eyes."
44-02-13	58	The Case of the Perilous Pigeon	N	44-02-13 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Perilous Pigeon."
44-02-20	59	The Case of the Unhappy Birthday	N	"9:30 p. m. — Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Unhappy Birthday."" "David Gothard takes over the role of Nick Charles in "The Adventures of the Thin Man," beginning Sunday, now that Les Damon, who has portrayed the famous detective ever since the program was introduced on the air two and a half years ago has given up radio racket-busting for service with the United States Army. (WABC 9:30 \| EST)."
44-02-27	60	The Case of the Red Riding Hoods	N	"9:30 p. m.—Thin Man (WBBM): a blackmail story, "Case of the Red Riding Hoods.""
44-03-05	61	The Case of The Body in the Bubble Bath	N	"Altho she's accused of suffering from hallucinations, Nora finally manages to produce the disappearing corpse on "The Case of the Body in the Bubble Bath," Sunday's episode of "The Adventures of the Thin Man." (WABC, 9:30 p. m., EST)."
44-03-12	62	The Case of the Stumbling Corpse	N	44-03-12 Wisconsin State Journal - 9:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "Case of the Stumbling Corpse."
44-03-19	63	Hex Marks the Spot	N	44-03-19 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "Hex Marks the Spot."
44-03-26	64	The Case of The Shooting Stars	N	44-03-26 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Shooting Stars."
44-04-02	65	The Case of The Blazing Beauty	N	44-04-02 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Blazing Beauty."
44-04-09	66	The Case of the Phony Brain	N	44-04-08 Albany Knickerbocker Sheriff Ebenezer Williams has a real surprise for the Charleses when he introduces Crabtree County's new-fangled lie detector in "The Case of the Phony Brain," tomorrow's fast-moving episode of "The Adventures of the Thin Man" over CBS and WOKO at 10:30 p.m. Nora can't help but admire the old sage's backwood's technique, as she joins Eb in some private "detectivatin'" to capture an escaped murderer. In the meantime, however, debonair Nicky is far from being idle. After a tete-a-tete with a gal named Juke Box Judy, Nick--directing lines for himself--comes up with a surprising solution to a double murder. 44-04-09 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Phony Brain."
44-04-16	67	The Case of The Blue Clue	N	44-04-16 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Blue Clue."
44-04-23	68	The Case of the Gruesome Twosome	N	"It's not concern over beautiful damosel this time, but a deep interest in the safety of his own neck, which sets Nick Charles to solving "The Case of the Gruesome Twosome." this Sunday's brain-teasing of "The Adventures of the Thin Man." (WABC 9:30 p. m. EST.)" 44-04-23 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Gruesome Twosome."
44-04-30	69	The Case of The Disappearing Poppa	N	44-04-30 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "Case of the Disappearing Poppa."
44-05-07	70	The Case of The Deadly Potato	N	44-05-07 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Deadly Potato."
44-05-14	71	The Case of the Roomy Pants ~~The Case of The Murdering Mama~~	N	44-05-14 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "Case of the Roomy Pants," in which Nick gets wrong suit from the tailor and lands among Nazi spies."
44-05-21	72	Title Unknown	N
44-05-28	73	The Case of The Restless Yogi	N	4-05-28 Wisconsin State Journal - 9:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Restless Yogi."
44-06-04	74	The Case of The Amorous Corpse	N	[CBS End; Sundays End] 44-06-04 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Amorous Corpse;" guest, Shirley Booth, stage and radio actress. BROADWAY favorite Shirley Booth does a one-night stand as herself in the "Adventures of the Thin Man" via KFAB at 9:30 p. m.
44-06-11	75	The Case of the Naughty Necklace		44-06-11 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Naughty Necklace."

	The Adventures of The Thin Man [NBC Summer Run] Program Log
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
44-06-16	1	The Case of The Glamorous Clue	N	[AFRS-U.N. Only] 44-06-16 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p. m.—Thin Man (WIBA):"The Case of the Glamorous Clue," premiere on NBC network at new time and day.
44-06-23	2	The Case of the Celloid Wolf	N	44-06-16 Lima News Nobody's more surprised than Nick when he discovers that his own beloved Nora is responsible for throwing him right into the arms of a famous movie star in The Case of the Celluloid Wolf, Friday's episode of "The Adventures of the Thin Man." (WEAF 8:30-9 p. ni., K\VT).
44-06-30	3	Help Murder, Valise!	N	44-06-30 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p. m.—Thin Man (WIBA): ''Help, Murder, Valise!"
44-07-07	4	The Case of The Blazing Blonde	N	44-07-07 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p. m. — Thin Man (WIBA): "The Case of the Blazing Blonde."
44-07-14	5	The Case of The Crazy Cruise	N	44-07-14 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p. m. — Thin Man (WIBA): "Case of the Crazy Cruise."
44-07-21	6	Title Unknown ~~The Case of the Deadly Girdle~~	N	Apparently postponed [see below] 44-07-21 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p. m. — Thin Man (WIBA): "Case of the Deadly Girdle."
44-07-28	7	The Case of the Deadly Girdle	N	44-07-28 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p. m. — Thin Man (WIBA): postponed drama, "The Case of the Deadly Girdle."
44-08-04	8	The Case of the Merchant of Venom	N	44-08-04 Findlay Republican Accustomed as she is to murder, Nora Charles is a mighty scared sleuth when she tries writing a mystery thriller and finds the plot coming true in every gruesome detail, in Friday's 8:30 p. m. NBC episode of "The Adventures of the Thin man"
44-08-11	9	The Case of the Worthless Nude	N	44-08-11 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p. m. — The Thin Man (WIBA): Nora buys a nude, Nick is kidnaped in a coffin. 44-08-11 Lima News The "Thin Man" Solves Oil Painting Mystery Friday Indulging Nora's whim to redecorate their apartment costs Nick a pretty penny when his impulsive spouse outbids a blonde to the tune of $3,000 for a painting in "The Case of the Worthless Nude," Friday's exciting episode of "The Adventures of the Thin Man." (WEAF 8:30-9 p. m., EWT.) But when Nora goes temperamental to the extent of refusing triple profit on the oil and a trio of thugs tries to kill them off, Nick knows he's in for some serious sleuthing.
44-08-18	10	The Case of the Passionate Pinball	N	44-08-18 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p. m. — . . ."The Thin Man (WIBA): "The Case of the Passionate Pinball."
44-08-25	11	The Case of the Jitterbugging Cop	N	44-08-25 Lima News Jitterbugging Cop Offers Plot For 'Thin Man" Drama An innocent lesson in the latest dance craze sends Nick and Nora Charles stepping right into the arms of the law in "The Case of the Jitterbugging Cop," Friady's amusing episode of "The Adventures of the Thin Man." (WEAF 8:30-9 p.m., EWT.) But it turns out to be a red letter day for Detective Charles when he discovers that police headquaters has been robbed, and, instead of calling the cops, Inspector Gallagher reluctantly relies on Nick to crack the case.
44-09-01	12	The Case of the Sneaky Sphinx	N	44-09-01 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p. m. — Thin Man (WIBA): "The Case of the Sneaky Sphinx."
44-09-08	13	The Case of the Kissing Clue	N	[NBC Summer Run End] 44-09-08 New York PM Daily 8:30 WEAF: Adventures of the Thin Man--"The Case of the Kissing Clue."

	The Adventures of The Thin Man [CBS] Program Log
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
44-09-15	1	The Case of the Pesky Painter	N	[Begin CBS Season Four] 44-09-14 New York Sun Who Dat? "Dat" is dat smooth Nick Charles, heading right into your living room! Nick and wife, Nora, will arrive via your loud-speaker on "Adventures of the Thin Man" every Friday night at 8:30 on WABC. Remember that time and let them in tomorrow!
44-09-22	2	A Star is Shorn	N	44-09-22 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "A Star Is Shorn."
44-09-29	3	Case of the Lonely Fifty-Grand	N	"THIN MAN DRAMA: "Case of the Lonely Fifty-Grand;" WEEI, 8.30."
44-10-06	4	The Case of The Suspicious Hangover	N	[AFRS Mystery Playhouse Only] 44-10-06 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "Case of the Suspicious Hangover."
44-10-13	5	The Case of the Gorgeous Ghost	N	44-10-13 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "Case of the Gorgeous Ghost."
44-10-20	6	The Case of the Gruesome G-String	N	44-10-20 Mason City Globe-Gazette NICK AND NORA CHARLES, the adventurous couple of Dashiell Hammett's detective fiction, really plunge into the lower depths when they encounter murder and mystery in "The Case of the Gruesome G-String," during the broadcast of another episode in the "Adventures of the Thin Man," to be aired over KGLO-CBS on Friday at 7:30 p.m. The death of one Serena Barton places Nick and Nora where they like to be--at a night club and in the thick of a mystery. Suspects multiply as the astute couople attempt to trace the source of the rare poison which caused the murder. When Nora finds a G-String where it was never inteded to be--wrapped around her own throat with intent to strangle, and Nick traces a horn player to a dope den in Harlem, the action becomes most merry and mystifying. A claustrophobic chorus girl, addicted to the study of astrology, provides the final clue for a smash-bang clearing up of hte problems. David Gothard and Claudia Morgan are heard as Nick and Nora Charles. Hi Brown produces and directs, with Fred Fradkin providing atmospheric background music.
44-10-27	7	The Case of the Kibitizing Cowboy	N	44-10-27 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Kibitzing Cowboy."
44-11-03	8	The Case of the Murderous Toothache	N	44-11-03 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "Case of the Murderous Toothache."
44-11-10	9	The Case of The Peculiar Powder	N	44-11-10 Mason City Globe-Gazette Maxwell House Coffee "NICK CHARLES, intrepid detective, and his lovely wife Nora are off on an exciting chase as they combine their sleuthing talents in apprehending a criminal in "The Adventures of the Thin Man" over KGLO-CBS Friday, at 7:30 p. m. David Gothard and Claudia Morgan are starred as Nick and Nora Charles. Hi Brown produces and directs. Music is by Fred Fradkin's orchestra." 44-11-10 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "Case of the Peculiar Powder."
44-11-17	10	The Case of the Blazing Pajamas	N	44-11-17 Lowell Sun "THIN MAN DRAMA: "Case of the Blazing Pajamas;" WEEI. 8:30." 44-11-17 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "Case of the Blazing Pajamas."
44-11-24	11	The Case of the Disastrous Dinner	N	44-11-24 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): Nick and Nora save an Indian chief from racketeers in "The Case of the Disastrous Dinner."
44-12-01	12	The Case of The All-American Menace	N	[AFRS Globe Theatre only] a.k.a. Blackmail Murder The Case
44-12-08	13	The Case of the Crazy Psychiatrist	N	44-12-08 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Crazy Psychiatrist."
44-12-15	14	The Case of the Purple Macushia	N	44-12-15 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Purple Macushia."
44-12-22	15	The Case of the Misplaced Santa Claus	N	[Chirstmas Program] 44-12-22 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "Case of the Misplaced Santa Claus."
44-12-29	16	The Case 0f The Goofy Ghost ~~The Case of the Goofy Goat~~	N	44-12-29 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Goofy Ghost."
45-01-05	17	The Case Of The Sensitive Nose	N	[Begin C.W. Post Sponsorship] 45-01-05 Wisconsin State Journal - 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Sensitive Nose."
45-01-12	18	The Case of The Cultured Corpse	N	[11:44:24 AM] Dee: 45-01-12 Wisconsin State Journal - 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "Case of the Cultured Corpse."
45-01-19	19	The Case of The Deadly Dancer	N	45-01-19 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Deadly Dancer."
45-01-26	20	The Case of the Missing Lulu ~~The Little Boy Who Wouldn't Laugh~~	N	45-01-26 Brooklyn Eagle MARCHING DIMES (To War Against Polio)--Script of tonight's "Adventures of the Thin Man" was written to aid the March of Dimes campaign. 45-01-26 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): brings happiness to paralysis victim in "The Case of the Missing Lulu."
45-02-02	21	The Case of the Beguiling Butler ~~The Case of the Beguiling Butter~~	N	45-02-02 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): captures spies in "The Beguiling Butler."
45-02-09	22	The Case of the Boogie Woogie Murder	N	[AFRS Mystery Playhouse Only] 45-02-09 Mason City Globe-Gazette "NICK AND NORA CHARLES, sleuthsome twosome of the airwaves, take the down beat, get in the groove, and trap a killer in "The Case of the Boogie-Woogie Murder" on "The Adventures of the Thin Man" over KGLO-CBS Friday, at 7:30 p. m. Les Tremayne has replaced David Gothard as Nick. Claudia Morgan appears as Nora. Hi Brown produces and directs. Music is by Fred Fradkin's orchestra. Dwight Weist announces." 45-02-09 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Boogie Woogie Murder."
45-02-16	23	The Case of the Befuddled Baritone	N	45-02-16 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Befuddled Baritone."
45-02-23	24	The Case of the Four Million Dollar Heel	N	45-02-23 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Four Million Dollar Heel."
45-03-02	25	The Case of the Long Lost Legs	N	45-03-02 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Long Lost Legs."
45-03-09	26	The Case of the Goofy Ghost	N	45-03-09 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Goofy Ghost."
45-03-16	27	The Case of the Hilarious Hat	N	45-03-16 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Hilarious Hat."
45-03-23	28	The Case of the Talking Teddy Bear	N	45-03-23 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): Jerry Wayne, baritone, plays dramatic role in "The Case of the Talking Teddy Bears."
45-03-30	29	The Case of the Crazy Carnations	N	45-03-30 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Crazy Carnations."
45-04-06	30	The Case of the Delirious Daisy	N	45-04-06 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Delirious Daisy."
45-04-13	31	Title Unknown ~~The Case of the Looney Lion~~	N	45-04-13 Mason City Globe-Gazette "THAT DARING young detective, Nick Charles, rides a flying trapeze in a breath-taking adventure as he solves a double murder at the circus in 'The Case of the Looney Lion" on "The Adventures of the Thin Man" over KGLO-CBS Friday,-at 7:30 p m. Les Tremayne has the title role. Claudia Morgan is Nora, his lovely wife and partner sleuth. Hi Brown produces and directs music is by Fred Fradkin's orchestra" 45-04-13 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Looney Lion."
45-04-20	32	The Case of the Looney Lion	N	45-04-20 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): postponed story, "The Looney Lion."
45-04-27	33	The Case of the Goofy Grandma	N	45-04-27 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Goofy Grandma."
45-05-04	34	The Case of the Batty Birthday	N	45-05-04 Mason City Globe-Gazette "NICK AND NORA CHARLES plan a quiet celebration of the sleuth's birthday but get sidetracked into solving a double murder as they take "The Case of the Batty Birthday" on "Adventures of the Thin Man" over KGLO-CBS Friday, at 7:30 p. m. Les Tremayne and Claudia Morgan co-star as Nick and Nora. Hi Brown produces and directs, music is by Fred Fradkin."
45-05-11	35	The Case of the Cock-Eyed Ears	N	45-05-11 Mason City Globe-Gazette "WHAT STARTS out as a pleasant taxi ride through the park turns into a grim manhunt as Nick and Nora Charles take "The Case of the Cock-eyed Ears," on "The Adventures of the Thin Man" over KGLO-CBS Friday, at 7:30 P- m. Claudia Morgan and Les Tremayne, as Nick and Nora, provide chills and chuckles as they mnlch wits with a ruthless killer and his Beautiful accomplice. Hi Brown produces and directs. Music is by Fred Fradkin's orchestra. Dwight Weist is narrator."
45-05-18	36	The Case of The Killer-Diller Kiss	N	45-05-18 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Killer-Diller Kiss."
45-05-25	37	The Case of the Sour Licorice Stick	N	45-05-25 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Sour Licorice Stick."
45-06-01	38	The Case of the Combustible Corpse	N	45-06-01 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Combustible Corpse."
45-06-08	39	The Case of the Homicidal Husband	N	45-06-08 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Homicidal Husband," with Simone Simon, guest.
45-06-15	40	The Case of the Beautiful Bond ~~The Case of the Beautiful Blonde~~	N	45-06-15 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Beautiful Bond."
45-06-22	41	The Case of the Sinister Suggestion	N	45-06-22 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Sinister Suggestion."
45-06-29	42	The Case of the Bleeding Blonde	N	45-06-29 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "Case of the Bleeding Blonde."
45-07-06	43	The Case of the Gooney Gazelle	N	45-07-06 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Gooney Gazelle."
45-07-13	44	The Case of the Left Handed Killer	N	45-07-13 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Left-Handed Killer."
45-07-20	45	The Case of the Deadly Wrong Number	N	45-07-20 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Deadly Wrong Number."
45-07-27	46	The Case of the Sinister Steak	N	45-07-27 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "Case of the Sinister Steak."
45-08-03	47	The Case of the Passionate Corpse	N	45-08-03 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Passionate Corpse."
45-08-10	48	The Case of the Wandering Pajamas	N	45-08-10 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Adventures of the Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Wandering Pajamas."
45-08-17	49	The Case of the Happy Homicide	N	45-08-17 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Adventures of the Thin Man (WBBM): murder catches up with Nick and Nora at a seaside resort. 45-08-17 Mason City Globe-Gazette WHEN MURDER catches up with Nick and Nora at a seaside resort, before they've so much as had time for a swim, it's the usual busman's holiday for Detective Charles this Friday, in "The Case of he Happy Homicide," the August 17th episode of "The Adventures the Thin Man," over KGLO-CBS at 7:30 p..m. Casually telling a blonde how to get rid of an undesirable husand doesn't seem the "joke" Nick intended it io be, when the law loses in, accusing him-of the crime. From there on in it's a case of tricking the killer into a confesion, which not only clears the Charles name, but uncovers a cruel extortion racket as well.' Claudia Morgan and Les Tremayne play the Charleses, under diection of Hi Brown. Fred Fradkin composes and conducts the musical backgrounds. Ron Rawson announces.
45-08-24	50	The Case of the Talking Horse	N	45-08-24 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Talking Horse."
45-08-31	51	The Case of the Phony Finagler	N	45-08-31 Wisconsin State Journal "Thin Man (WBBM): searches for a million dollar platinum monkey wrench in "The Case of the Phony Finagler""
45-09-07	52	The Case of The Green Hair	N	45-09-07 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Green Hair."
45-09-16	53	The Case of the Dead Man's Double-Talk	N	[Moves to Sundays] 45-09-16 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): program at new time and day, presents "Case of the Dead Man's Double-Talk;" Kate Smith welcomes Nick and Nora to her former time period.
45-09-23	54	The Case of the Choosey Chantoosey	N	45-09-23 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Choosey Chantoosey," with Hildegarde as guest.
45-09-30	55	Title Unknown	N
45-10-07	56	The Case of the Sinister Samba	N	45-10-06 Janesville Gazette Sunday Highlights 6:00p.m.--WBBM--Adventures of The Thin Man, "The Case of the Sinister Samba," drama 45-10-07 New York PM Daily 7:00 WABC: Adventures of the Thin Man--Margo is featured in "The Case of the Sinister Sambo." 45-10-07 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Sinister Samba," with Margo as guest.
45-10-14	57	The Case of The Left-Handed Corpse	N	[NOT A Repeat of 45-07-13] 45-10-14 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Left-Handed Corpse."
45-10-21	58	Title Unknown	N	[Stars Boris Karloff]
45-10-28	59	Title Unknown	N
45-11-04	60	The Case of The Double Trouble	N	[Stars Victor Moore] 45-11-04 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): Victor Moore, guest, in "The Case of the Double Trouble."
45-11-11	61	The Case of the Bellowing Baby	N	45-11-11 San Antonio Express "When the doorman delivers a bouncing baby girl to the Charles' apartment, Nick is just as surprised as Nora in this Sunday's "Adventures of the Thin Man" episode entitled "The Case of the Bellowing Baby," to be heard at 7 p. m. Sunday over WABC. Kidnapping and murder go hand in hand, until an underworld character named "Sammy the Sneak" gives detective Charles the lowdown on a phoney politician." 45-11-11 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Bellowing Baby."
45-11-18	62	The Case of The Frantic Four Minutes	N	45-11-18 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Frantic Four Minutes."
45-11-25	63	The Case Of The Moon Murderers	N	45-11-25 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Moon Murders."
45-12-02	64	The Case of the Crazy Corsage ~~The Case of the Crazy Corange~~	N	45-12-02 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Crazy Corsage.
45-12-09	65	The Case of the Hypnotized Horse	N	45-12-09 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of hte Hypnotized Horse."
45-12-16	66	The Case of the Shooting Stars	N	45-12-16 Mason City Globe-Gazette "With only one flimsy clue to the murder of a handsome movie star, Nick Charles applies real "Hawk- shaw" strategy in solving the "Case of the Shooting Stars," during the blood-curdling chapter of "The Adventures of the Thin Man" heard at 7 p. m. Sunday over CBS. Altho Detective Charles agrees to take the case when four people receive warning in the form of a black veil, it's not until his name and Nora's are added to the death list that he realizes the killer isn't kidding." 45-12-16 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "Case of the Shooting Stars."
45-12-23	67	The Case of the Slippery Santa Claus	N	45-12-23 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "Case of the Slippery Santa Claus."
45-12-30	68	The Case of the Neurotic New Year	N	45-12-30 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "Case of hte Neurotic New Year."
46-01-06	69	The Case of the Sinister Sneeze	N	46-01-06 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Sinister Sneeze."
46-01-13	70	The Case of the Unsuitable Suit	N	46-01-13 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Unsuitable Suit."
46-01-20	71	The Case of the Cockeyed Concerto	N	46-01-20 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Cockeyed Concerto."
46-01-27	72	The Case of the Flying Corpse	N	46-01-27 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Flying Corpse."
46-02-03	73	The Case of the Apple-Cheeked Apollo ~~The Case of the Apple Cheek Apollo~~	N	46-02-03 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Apple-Cheeked Apollo."
46-02-10	74	The Case of the Burning Opal	N	46-02-10 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Burning Opal."
46-02-17	75	The Case of the Killing Kiss	N	46-02-17 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "Case of the Killing Kiss."
46-02-24	76	The Case of the Bungling Burglar	N	46-02-24 The Lima News Finding their apartment ransacked on their return fiom the theatre, sends those dapper detectives Nick and Nora Charles on a midnight manhunt to solve the "Case of the Bungling Burglar," at 7 p. m. Sunday over CBS
46-03-03	77	The Case of the Helpful Hoodlum	N	46-03-03 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Helpful Hoodlum."
46-03-10	78	The Case of the Goofy Groom ~~The Case of the Goofy Ghost~~	N	46-03-10 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Goofy Groom."
46-03-17	79	The Case of the Screwy Sisters	N	46-03-17 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "Case of the Screwy Sisters."
46-03-24	80	The Case of the Nylon Knockout	N	46-03-24 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Nylon Knockout."
46-03-31	81	The Case of the Homicidal Portrait	N	46-03-31 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Homicidal Portrait."
46-04-07	82	The Case of the Girl on the Flying Trapeze	N	46-04-07 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Girl on the Flying Trapeze."
46-04-14	83	The Case of the Deadly Derby	N	46-04-14 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Deadly Derby."
46-04-21	84	The Case of the Thirteen Pennies	N	46-04-21 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Thirteen Pennies."
46-04-28	85	The Case of the Wily Widow	N	46-04-28 Wisconsin State Journal 5 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Wily Widow."
46-05-05	86	The Case of the Missing Screwball	N	46-05-05 Wisconsin State Journal 5 p. m. — Thin Man (WBBM): Les Damon returns from military service to play leading, role in "The Case of the Missing Screwball.""
46-05-12	87	The Case of The Poisoned Playboy	N	46-05-12 Wisconsin State Journal 5 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "Case of the Poisoned Playboy."
46-05-19	88	The Case of The Deadly Waltz	N	46-05-19 Wisconsin State Journal 5 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "Case of hte Deadly Waltz."
46-05-26	89	The Case of The Sleepy Detective	N	46-05-26 Wisconsin State Journal 5 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Sleepy Detective."
46-06-02	90	The Case of The Complaining Corpse	N	46-06-02 Wisconsin State Journal 5 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Complaining Corpse."
46-06-09	91	The Case of The Homicidal Hitchhiker	N	46-06-20 Angelica Advocate "The Adventures of the Thin Man" is being substituted for the "Fanny Brice Show over CBS Sunday nights starting Aug 11, marking the beginning of the sixth year this show has been on the air. There have been three "Nick Charles," Les Damon, David Gothard and Les Tremayne; Les Damon and Claudia Morgan, the original "Nick" and "Nora," now on the program, will continue. 46-06-09 Wisconsin State Journal 5 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Homicidal Hitchhiker."
46-06-16	--		--	46-06-16 Wisconsin State Journal 5:00 Thin Man--WBBM WCCO 46-06-16 New York Times WABC--Gene Autry Show

46-08-02	--		--	46-08-02 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 Grand Jury--WBBM
46-08-09	92	The Case of the Talking Shoe	N	[Begin Season Six; Continues on CBS] 46-08-09 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): return of series, new time and day; Les Damon stars as Nick, and Claudia Morgan as Nora; premiere, "The Case of the Talking Shoe."
46-08-16	93	The Case of the Careless Chorus Girl	N	46-08-16 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Careless Chorus Girl."
46-08-23	94	The Case of the Lost Dinner	N	46-08-23 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): Nick held as hostage while Nora seeks a slayer
46-08-30	95	The Case of the Frozen Stiff	N	46-08-30 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Frozen Stiff."
46-09-06	96	The Case of the Wandering Head	N	46-09-06 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Wandering Head."
46-09-13	97	The Case of the Haunted Detective	N	46-09-13 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Haunted Detective."
46-09-20	98	The Case of the Luscious Legs	N	46-09-20 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Lucious Legs."
46-09-27	99	The Case of the Wet Corpse	N	46-09-27 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Wet Corpse."
46-10-04	100	The Man Who Died Twice	N	46-10-04 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Man Who Died Twice."
46-10-11	101	The Blonde and the Bum	N	46-10-11 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Blonde and the Bum."
46-10-18	102	The Case of the Invisible Infant	N	"THIN MAN Adventure tonite at 7:30 In The Case of the Invisible Infant. Nick Charles gets a yogi lesson and his wife Nora learns how to diaper a baby... and it's quite a tale, too! ....."
46-10-25	103	The Case of the Frightened Fullback	N	46-10-25 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Frightened Fullback."
46-11-01	104	The Case of the Puzzled Politican	N	46-11-01 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Puzzled Politician."
46-11-08	105	The Case of the Cookoo Cookie	N	"At 7 30 — THE THIN MAN Nick & Nora Charles that gay romantic mystery team teaming up to find a 'Cookie' in a friends shower & catch a killer with a slide trombone in 'The Case of the Cookoo Cookie' whose shower is Just a 'Stall'"
46-11-15	106	The Case of the Lost Apartment	N	"Thin Man (7;30 p. m.) Gentleman detective Nick Charles solves a murder in order to find a hotel suite for Nora's aunt, in "The Case of the Lost Apartment" on "The Adventures of the Thin Man." A new 1946 sedan is the bribe for an apartment, and Nick is compelled to tackle, a murder problem before he can throw the black marketeers for a loss."
46-11-22	107	The Case of the Blonde in Black	N	"A blonde, a hotel key, and a red-headed corpse lead Nick and Nora into "The Case of the Blonde in Black.""
46-11-29	108	The Case of the Terrible Turkey	N	[ Thanksgiving Program] "(7:30 p. m.) Nick and Nora try champagne with their left-over turkey and discover that drumsticks make them dizzy, in "The Case of the Terrible Turkey." An explosive young lady with a purse full of dynamite forces Nick and Nora to solve the dual murder of her father and his business partner."
46-12-06	109	The Case of the Chilling Chewing Gum	N	[Sponsored by Sanka Coffee] 46-12-06 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Chilling Chewing Gum."
46-12-13	110	The Case of the Bleeding Lipstick	N	46-12-13 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Bleeding Lipstick."
46-12-20	111	The Case of the Complaining Crook	N	"7:30 p. m. Thin Man (WBBM): "The Complaining Crook.""
46-12-27	112	The Case of the Careless Killer	N	46-12-27 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Careless Killer."
47-01-03	113	The Case of the Screaming Eagle	N	47-01-03 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Screaming Eagle."
47-01-10	114	The Case of the Tiny Tootsies	N	"(7:30 p. m.) A newly imported Parisian night club singer is the alluring object of Nick Charles' attention when 2 of her ardent admirers are slain in "The Case of the Tiny Tootsies," mystery-comedy episode in "The Adventures of the Thin Man.""
47-01-17	115	The Case of the Baffed Boxer	N	47-01-17 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Baffled Boxer."
47-01-24	116	The Case of the Blue Rose	N	47-01-24 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Blue Rose."
47-01-31	117	The Case of the Sinister Perfume	N	47-01-31 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Sinister Perfume."
47-02-07	118	The Case of the Betraying Blonde	N	47-02-?? Clinton Courier Mercedes McCambridge shocked everybody at a rehearsal of "The Adventures of the Thin Man" by announcng that she's quitting radio, maybe forever. She's decided to settle in the West Indies with her novelist husband, William Fifield, and John, her five-year-old son. 47-02-07 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Betraying Blonde."
47-02-14	119	The Case of the Mysterious Valentine	N	[Valentine's Day Program] "Nick and Nora Charles celebrate Valentine's day and discover that Cupid's love darts sometimes lead to murder in "The Case of the Mysterious Valentine," mystery-comedy episode in "The Adventures of the Thin Man." Nick and Nora receive a corpse for their Valentine."
47-02-21	120	The Case of the Eighteen Kisses	N	"(7:30 p. m.) Nick Charles dances with a corpse and traps a killer with a tune when he and Nora run smack into the "Case of the Eighteen Kisses." The killer tries to murder Nick and Nora, and in tracking him down, their principal informant is murdered, but not before Nick gets the clue he wants."
47-02-28	121	The Case of the Lovely Liar	N	"(7:30 p.m.) Nick gets kissed by a homicidal beauty, and Nora suffers some unwelcome embraces, in "The Case of the Lovely Liar," on "The Adventures of the Thin Man." The story involves a dead millionaire, blackmail and a paroled convict."
47-03-07	122	The Case of the Deadly Melody	N	"Nick and Nora buy an antique jewelry box and thereby gain the interest of a gang of international jewel robbers—in "The Case of the Deadly Melody.""
47-03-14	123	The Case of the Missing Link	N	47-03-14 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Missing Link."
47-03-21	124	The Case of the Flying Corpse	N	47-03-21 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Flying Corpse."
47-03-28	125	The Case of the Terrified Tap Dancer	N	47-03-28 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Terrified Tap Dancer."
47-04-04	126	The Case of the Passionate Pocketbook	N	47-04-04 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Passionate Pocketbook."
47-04-11	127	The Case of the Looney Moon	N	47-04-11 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Looney Moon."
47-04-18	128	The Case of the Vanishing Monkey	N	47-04-18 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Vanishing Monkey."
47-04-25	129	The Case of the Jealous Detective	N	47-04-25 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): sharpie takes a shine to Nora.
47-05-02	130	The Case of the Gorgeous Ghost	N	47-05-02 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Gorgeous Ghost."
47-05-09	131	The Case of the Disappearing Wolf	N	47-05-09 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Disappearing Wolf."
47-05-16	132	The Case of the Talking Horse	N	47-05-16 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Talking Horse."
47-05-23	133	The Case of the Bloodstained Rug	N	"(6:.30 p.m.) Nick and Nora Charles get a bloodsatined rug from a designing decorator and capture a corpse who had too many friends, in "The Case of the Bloodstained Rug," a mystery-comedy episode in "The Adventures of the Thin Man.""
47-05-30	134	The Case of the Sinister Spree	N	"(6:.30 p.m.) Nick and Nora Charles go on a vacation and find their rest on the farm disturbed by "The Case of the Sinister Spree," final mystery-comedy of the current season on "Adventures of The Thin Man.""
				End of CBS Season Six Begin CBS Season Seven
47-08-01	135	The Case of the Careful Corpse	N	"Les Damon and Claudia Morgan are co-starred in the mystery-comedy series, "Adventures of the Thin Man. "' "The Case of the Careful Corpse," story of strange happenings involving a bathing beauty marks the opening of the program's 7th year."
47-08-08	136	The Case of the Reckless Record	N	47-08-08 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Reckless Record."
47-08-15	137	The Case of the Sinister Siren	N	47-08-15 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): a cow helps solve a murder.
47-08-22	138	The Case of the Deadly Nightmare	N	47-08-22 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Deadly Nightmare."
47-08-29	139	The Case of the Scared Spook	N	47-08-29 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): and more spooks.
47-09-05	140	The Case of the Exploding Gangsters	N	47-09-05 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Exploding Gangsters."
47-09-12	141	The Case of The Sizzling Letters	N	47-09-12 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): slight mistake in timing foils a criminal.
47-09-19	142	The Case of the Crowded Cemetary	N	47-09-19 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Crowded Cemetery."
47-09-26	143	The Case of the Sinister Sapphire	N	47-09-26 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Sinister Sapphire."
47-10-03	144	The Case of the Foolish Firebug	N	47-10-03 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Foolish Firebug."
47-10-10	145	The Case of the Sinister Spinster	N	"(7:30 p. m.) An old woman's, unreasoning fear of her neighbor's dogs puts Nick and Nora Charles, the sleuthing sophisticates, on the trail of an unusual blackmail and homicide plot, in "The Case of the Sinister Spinster." Les Damon and Claudia Morgan are Nick and Nora."
47-10-17	146	The Case of the Revealing Record	N	47-10-17 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--The Thin Man (WBBM): finds recorded clues point the wrong way.
47-10-24	147	The Case of the Extra Wife	N	47-10-24 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): cracks a blackmail case.
47-10-31	148	The Case of the Flying Baby	N	47-10-31 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Flying Baby."
47-11-07	149	The Case of the Gruesome Twosome	N	47-11-07 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): crime in a flood-isolated town.
47-11-14	150	The Case of the Vain Vampire	N	"Faced with a pair of seemingly unreiated crimes, gentleman sleuth Nick Charles makes use of his knowledge of feminine psychology to prompt the culprit to fit the puzzle together for him, in "The Case of the Vain Vampire." Les Damon and Claudia Morgan star as Nick and Nora Charles."
47-11-21	151	The Case of the Dancing Corpse	N	47-11-21 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "Case of the Dancing Corpse."
47-11-28	152	The Case of the Magic Perfume	N	47-11-28 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Case of the Magic Perfume."
47-12-05	153	The Case of the Double Death	N	47-12-05 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): a bank robbery leads to "Double Death."
47-12-12	154	The Case of the Wonderful Wallop	N	47-12-12 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Wonderful Wallop."
47-12-19	155	The Case of the Bleary Bookie	N	47-12-19 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Bleary Bookie."
47-12-26	156	The Case of The Sinister Santa	N	[Christmas Program] "(7:30 p.m.) Kris Kringle comes a day late for Nick and Nora Charles, who investigate "The Case Of The Sinister Santa" on "Adventures Of The Thin Man." Les Damon and Claudia Morgan star as the sleuthing pair." 47-12-26 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WBBM): "The Sinister Santa."
48-01-02	--		--	[End of Season Seven; End of CBS Network broadcasts] New York, Jan. 1—For some days CBS has been talking about what its doing to make its Friday schedule "for the family," and now the time finally is coming when it happens. So this is what is takes place: A new show, the Danny Thomas comedy variety, goes in at 8:30 in place of the Thin Man. The Morgan - Ameche - Langf ord program is moved from Wednesdays into 9 o'clock.

	The New Adventures of The Thin Man [NBC] Program Log
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
48-06-15	--		--	"June 15 -- New York: EDDIE CANTOR will close his current series at 8:00 tonight with a top guest star lineup. Included In the list are Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Hllllard, and Lena Horne. The program will be replaced next week by the Adventures of the Thin Man comedy drama series."
48-06-22	1	Nick's 50th Birthday	N	"Les Tremayne and Claudia Morgan return to the air tonight in "New Adventures of the Thin Man." This summer series will present Nick in a new light. Nora will turn up fascinating jobs in the comedy situations arising from her successful efforts to turn Nick from detective to a new career as a businessman." "The second premiere stars Claudia Morgan and Les Tremayne in 'The New Adventures of the Thin Man," starting at 6:00 P. M. The Thin Man was created by Dashiell Hammett, who still supervises the scripts, which are written by Milton Lewis. Myrna Loy and William Powell created the screen characters of Nick and Nora Charles. Nick and Nora return in the, midst of Nora's attempt to get her husband to give up the hazards of a detective's life. She persuades Nick, long the most dashing and gallant of gentleman detectives, to renounce his career of solving killings, murders and robberies."
48-06-29	2	Title Unknown	N	"7 p. m. — The Thin Man (WMAQ): baby-sitter becomes kidnap suspect."
48-07-06	3	The Adventure of The Passionate Palooka	Y	48-07-06 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--The Thin Man (WMAQ): and a brooding prize-fighter (on WIBA at 8).
48-07-13	4	The Adventure of The Haunted Hams	Y	48-07-13 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Thin Man (WMAQ): "The Adventures of the Haunted Hams."
48-07-20	5	Title Unknown	N	48-07-20 Wisconsin State Journal WMAQ 7:00 To Be Announced
48-07-21	6	The Adventure of the Multiple Marriage	N	[Moves to Wednesdays at 10:30 p.m.] "Apparently the Thin Man as a non-detective yarn just hasn't worked out. Effective tonight this NBC summer replacement changes from Tuesdays at 9 to a later time of 10:30 and reverts to crime scripts. At the former time the mystery angle had been eliminated to meet the the new program code of the National Association of Broadcasters 9:30 network curfew on mysteries." "JANE PICKENS, honey-blonde singer formerly heard Sunday afternoons on the WKBH stations, is moving her show to the 8:00 p. m. Tuesday night WKBH-NBC time spot. The program replaces the Thin Man series, which has been shifted to allow use of mystery plots late Wednesday evenings." 48-07-21 Wisconsin State Journal WMAQ 8:30 Thin Man
48-07-28	7	The Adventure of the Misplaced Memory	N	48-07-28 Wisconsin State Journal 8:30 p.m.--The Thin Man (WMAQ): and a misplaced memory (on WIBA at 9:30).
48-08-04	8	Title Unknown	N	48-08-04 Wisconsin State Journal WMAQ 8:30 Thin Man
48-08-11	9	Title Unknown	N	48-08-11 Wisconsin State Journal 8:30 p.m.--Thin Man (WMAQ): sees a "baby," finds a murder victim (on WIBA at 9:30).
48-08-18	10	The Adventure of the Kissing Killer	N	48-08-18 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--The Thin Man (WMAQ): investigates a press agent's murder (on WIBA at 9:30)
48-08-25	11	The Adventure of the Lonely Fifty Grand	N	48-08-25 Wisconsin State Journal - 7 p.m.--The Thin Man (WMAQ): finds a fortune in a cab (on WIBA at 9:30).
48-09-01	12	The Adventure of the Gorgeous Gunman	N	48-09-01 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--The Thin Man (WMAQ): and "the Gorgeous Gunman" (on WIBA at 9:30).
48-09-08	13	The Adventure of the Exploding Hat	N	48-09-08 Brooklyn Eagle 10:30--Adventures of the Thin Man. Les Tremayne, Claudia Morgan. "The Exploding Hat," WNBC.
48-09-15	14	The Adventure of the Talking Tomb	N	48-09-15 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--The Thin Man (WMAQ): hitchhiker involves Nick and Nora in "The Adventure of the Talking Tomb" (on WIBA at 9:30).
48-09-22	15	Title Unknown	N	48-09-22 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--The Thin Man (WMAQ): two dancers slain, another saved (on WIBA at 9:30).
48-09-29	--		--	48-09-29 Wisconsin State Journal WMAQ 8:30 Mr District Attorney

	The Adventures of The Thin Man [MBS] Program Log
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
48-10-21	--		--	48-10-21 Wisconsin State Journal WKOW 9:00 Family Theater
48-10-28	1	Title Unknown	N	[Moves to Mutual Broadcasting System; Sponsored by Kaiser-Frazier Dealers] 48-10-28 Wisconsin State Journal 9 p.m.--The Thin Man (WKOW): on new schedule.
48-11-04	2	The Case of the Love-sick Bear	N	48-11-04 Wisconsin State Journal 9 p.m. The Thin Man (WKOW): bear Tschaikowsky falls in love with Nora.
48-11-11	3	The Case of the Luscious Landscape	Y	[1st 17 min only] "When Nick picks up a tattooed lady and Nora buys a deadly slip, the gay Charles family becomes knee-deep in another comedy-mystery, "The Case of the Luscious Landscape," which will be heard during Mutual's "Adventures of the Thin Man" broadcast tonight (10 to 10:30 o'clock). It all starts when Nick (Les Tremayne) offers to drive around the block while his better half, Nora, dashes into a lingerie shop to make her purchase. She returns to find a handsome blonde occupying her seat in the car. The trouble Nick has explaining this incident is nothing compared to his predicament when he finds the same blonde has a valuable map tattooed on her shoulder blades. Listen tonight at 10 o'clock for "The Adventures of the Thin Man" over WOOB."
48-11-18	4	The Case of the Sinister Stocking	N	48-11-18 Auburn Citizen-Advertiser 10:00--ADVENTURES OF THE THIN MAN--'Twas only a silk stocking, but it became the "Case of the Sinister Stocking" for Nick and Nora Charles (Les Tremayne and Claudia Morgan). It all happens when Nick is Kidnapped by a striking blonde, an even Nora disproved. "Drive Against Leaving Keys In Ignition Washington, D. C., Nov. 18— Drive against motorists' carelessness in leaving keys in their cars, which accounts for 90 per cent or more of all car thefts, is the principal theme of a new nationwide radio contest to be launched November 18 with participation by the American Automobile Association and affiliated clubs, the A A A reported today. "The contest, with a factory fresh new car and a year's motor club membership as prizes, will be featured on the mystery and adventure program, 'Adventures of the Thin Man' heard Thursday nights at 9:30 p. m. over the Mutual Network," said the announcement. "It involves the fictional theft of a car from Nick Charles, hero of the series; a brief description of the car will be given over the air with additional clues in each succeeding program. A car answering the description will be driven over the roads somewhere in the U. S. and the first person to spot it will be the contest winner "Throughout the contest and related dramatization there will be stress on the fact that with few exceptions the cars stolen are those with keys left in the ignition switch and the car doors unlocked; that failure of motorists to guard their cars encourages 'joyriding' by teen-agers and contributes to juvenile delinquency; and that, under some circumstances, a car owner can be held responsible when his stolen car injures a pedestrian or causes other damage. "The American Automobile Association many years ago sponsored adoption of the Dyer AntiTheft Act which makes interstate movement of stolen cars a Federal offense and many A.A.A. clubs offer cash rewards for the recovery of cars stolen from club members.""
48-11-25	5	The Case of the Lost Appetite	N	[Thanksgiving Program] 48-11-24 Auburn Citizen Advertiser Tomorrow's Highlights 10:00--ADVENTURES OF THE THIN MAN--Can you imagine? It's the "Case of the Lost Appetite" on this Thanksgiving Day. 48-11-25 Wisconsin State Journal WKOW 9:00 The Thin Man
48-12-02	6	The Case of the Phony Funeral	N	48-12-02 Auburn Citizen-Advertiser 10:00--ADVENTURES OF THE THIN MAN--"The Case of the Phony Funeral" provides some exciting listening as Nick and Nora Charles (Les Tremayne and Claudia Morgan) provide the amusing solution to the goings-on
48-12-09	7	The Case of the Frozen Felon	N	48-12-09 Auburn Citizen-Advertiser 10:00--ADVENTURES OF THE THIN MAN--Nora (Claudia Morgan) Charles participates on a quiz program, wins a deep freeze unit and involves herself and hubby Nick (Les Tremayne) in the "Case of the Frozen Felon."
48-12-16	8	The Case of the Crooked Corpse	N	48-12-16 Auburn Citizen Advertiser 10:00--ADVENTURES OF THE THIN MAN--"The Case of the Crooked Corpse" provides some exciting listening as Nick and Nora Charles (Les Tremayne and Claudia Morgan) investigate a case that started with a kiss under a eucalyptus tree.
48-12-23	9	Title Unknown	N	[Christmas Program] "Thin Man For on that program it will be re- that Moire of St Louis Mo found Nick Charles stolen car. How he found it is proof of his abilities as an amateur eye" 48-12-22 Auburn Citizen-Advertiser 10-10:30--ADVENTURES OF THE THIN MAN--Tonight's the night some fortunate person in the country will find out he or she is getting a brand new car for Christmas--as a reward for having found Nick Charles' lost vehicle. 49-12-23 Auburn Citizen Advertiser 10:00--ADVENTURES OF THE THIN MAN--Les Tremayne and Claudia Morgan as "Nick and Nora Charles" will help some listener have a merry Christmas when they award a new car to a "Thin Man" mystery fan. 48-12-23 Wisconsin State Journal WKOW 9:00 The Thin Man
48-12-30	10	Title Unknown	N	48-12-30 Wisconsin State Journal WKOW 9:00 The Thin Man
49-01-06	11	The Case of the Bisected Woman	N	49-01-06 Janesville Gazette "Bisected A lady is murdered, and there's no doubt but that a butler Is the guilty party. But since "The Case of the Bisected Woman" takes place at a Butler's Ball, Nick and Nora Charles have a thousand suspects on their hands during tonight's "Adventures of the Thin Man" at 9 on WCLO— Mutual. Les Tremayne and Claudia Morgan star as Nick and Nora, the gay two-some who mix humor with murder, mayhem with romance."
49-01-13	12	The Case of the Deadly Dream	N	"Slay tuned at 9:00 for radio's outstanding comedy-mystery, "The Thin Man." Don't miss the comic capers of your favorite family mystery, the merry, laughing, suave, sophisticated and exciting Thin Man over WOOB at 9:00 o'clock tonight." 49-01-13 Wisconsin State Journal WKOW 9:00 The Thin Man
49-01-20	13	Title Unknown	N	[End of Mutual Network run] 49-01-20 Wisconsin State Journal WKOW 9:00 The Thin Man
49-01-27	--		--	49-01-27 Wisconsin State Journal WKOW 9:00 The Thin Man
49-02-03	--		--	49-01-27 Wisconsin State Journal WKOW 9:00 The Ed Wilson Show

	The Adventures of The Thin Man [ABC] Program Log
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
50-06-16	--		--
50-06-23	1	Title Unknown	N	[Fridays, 8:00 pm.;Summer Replacement for Ozzie and Harriet; Sponsored by Heinz; Stars Joe Curtin and Claudia Morgan] 50-06-23 San Antonio Express KABC 8:00 Thin Man
50-06-30	2	Title Unknown	N	50-06-30 San Antonio Express KABC 8:00 Thin Man
50-07-07	3	Title Unknown	N	50-07-07 San Antonio Express KABC 8:00 Thin Man
50-07-14	4	The Mystery of the Undecided Aunt	N	[ Script date 50-07-11] 50-07-14 San Antonio Express KABC 8:00 Thin Man
50-07-21	5	Title Unknown	N	50-07-14 San Antonio Express KABC 8:00 The Breakfast Club 50-07-21 Long Beach Press-Telegram 9 P.M. KECA--"Thin Man."
50-07-28	6	The Mystery of the Carbonated Corpse	N	[ Script date 50-07-25] 50-07-28 San Antonio Express KABC 8:00 Thin Man
50-08-04	7	Title Unknown	N	50-08-04 San Antonio Express KABC 8:00 Thin Man
50-08-11	8	Title Unknown	N	50-08-11 San Antonio Express KABC 8:00 Thin Man
50-08-18	9	Title Unknown	N	50-08-18 San Antonio Express KABC 8:00 Thin Man
50-08-25	10	Title Unknown	N	50-08-25 San Antonio Express KABC 8:00 Thin Man
50-09-01	11	Title Unknown	N	[ Last Program ] 50-08-25 San Antonio Express KABC 8:00 President Truman
50-09-08	--		--	50-08-25 San Antonio Express KABC 8:00 Ozzie and Harriett

	AFRS The Frontline Theatre: Adventures of The Thin Man Program Log
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
42-xx-xx	--	The Strange Case of Professor Wanger	Y

	AFRS The Globe Theatre: Adventures of The Thin Man Program Log
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
44-12-01	12	The Case of The All-American Menace	Y

	AFRS [U.N.]: Adventures of The Thin Man Program Log
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
44-06-16	1	The Case Of The Glamorous Clue	Y	AFRS U.N. #2

	AFRS Mystery Playhouse: Adventures of The Thin Man Program Log
Date	AFRS #	Title	Avail.	Notes
43-10-31	43	The Case of the Mysterious Meow	Y
44-10-06	4	The Case of the Suspicious Hangover	Y
45-02-09	22	The Case of the Boogie Woogie Murder	Y

	Lux Radio Theatre: The Thin Man Movies Program Log
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
36-06-08	084	The Thin Man	Y
40-06-17	268	After the Thin Man	Y

	The Thin Man Movies [Sound Tracks] Program Log
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
	03	Another Thin Man [1939]	Y
	04	The Shadow Of The Thin Man [1941]	Y
	05	The Thin Man Goes Home [1945]	Y
	06	The Song Of The Thin Man [1947]	Y

Adventures of The Thin Man Biographies

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (Creator) (1894-1961) Birthplace: St. Mary's County, Maryland, U.S.A. Education: Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. Radiography: 1936 Lux Radio Theatre 1942 Suspense 1944 Adventures Of the Thin Man 1946 The Fat Man 1946 Lady Esther Screen Guild Theatre 1946 The Adventures Of Sam Spade 1948 Studio One 1948 The New Adventures Of the Thin Man	Dashiell Hammett in San Francisco, ca. 1923 Dashiell Hammett was a Pinkerton man until turberculosis caught up with him. Dashiell Hammett's first novel, The Maltese Falcon, ca. 1934 Dashiell Hammett's fifth and final novel, The Thin Man, ca. 1934 Lillian Hellmann, Dashiell Hammett's muse for the remainder of his life, ca. 1935 Alex Raymond drawn, Secret Agent X-9, another Dashiell Hammett creation, ca.1935 Article about 'Dash' enlisting in the Army at the age of 49, ca. 1943 [Click image for the .pdf approx. 9.0 Mb ] David vs. Goliath. Mental midget McCarthy swears in Mental Giant Hammett during HUAC hearing, ca. 1953 Dashiell Hammett tells the HUAC what they can do with their fascist committee, ca. 1953	Samuel Dashiell Hammett was born in 1894, in St Mary's County, Maryland, to Richard Hammett, a farmer and self-styled politician and Annie Bond Dashiell, a trained nurse. One of three children in the Hammett home, young Sam dropped out of Baltimore Polytechnical Institute at the age of 14 to run off and see the world. Quite understandably, 'the world' soon presented him with a series of menial jobs-- newsboy, freight clerk, laborer, messenger, stevedore, and advertising manager--from which he was usually fired. Responding to a 1915 advertisement, Hammett signed up with the Baltimore branch office of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, whose motto, "We Never Sleep" proved a prophetic mantra for much of Dashiell Hammett's life. Simply 'Sam' Hammett to the other Pinkerton operatives, Hammett didn't adopt his middle name as a pen name until he began writing. Pinkerton's sent him to the western U.S. and he soon found himself as a Pinkerton Operative in Butte, Montana. After being offered a contract to kill the local Union organizer, the organizer was lynched before Hammett could decline the contract. The lynching left Hammett unnerved and he quit Pinkerton's for the first of several times over his career. When World War I suddenly arrived, Hammett enlisted in the U.S. Army Ambulance Corps in June 1918, initially posted to a camp just 20 miles from Baltimore. The camp wasn't 'home' and he soon caught a form of flu. Hospitalized for the flu, he contracted tuberculosis while recovering in the Veteran's Hospital. The Army cashiered him out as an invalid in 1919, and 'Dash' retured to Pinkertons. Hammett returned to the Northwest, eventually entering the veterans hospital near Tacoma, Washington, in 1920 with further complications from his tuberculosis. Upon his release, he worked at the nearby Pinkerton's Spokane branch. Hospitalized on and off with with tuberculosis, he met and courted a local nurse, Josephine Dolan. In February 1921, the Veteran's Department moved Hammett to an Army hospital near San Diego, California. Upon that release, Hammett married the now pregnant Josephine, "Jose", in San Francisco. Hammett began working for the San Francisco branch of Pinkerton's, but left Pinkerton's in 1922, again due to ill health. Hammett remained in the area, took a writing course and sold commercial vignettes to The Smart Set during 1922, and some short stories to a few other other magazines. He began to sell detective stories to The Black Mask beginning in 1923. When their second daughter arrived in 1926, Hammett gave up freelance writing for the greater security of a job writing advertising copy for San Francisco jeweler, Albert Samuels. Hammett was yet again forced to resign after only six months due a recurring outbreak of Tuberculosis. The illness ultimately forced Hammett to live apart from Jose and his daughters and their marriage began to crumble. But it was during this period that Hammett began to introduce his 'Continental Op' or Continental Operative, fashioned rather baldly on his own career as a Pinkerton operative. The Continental Op was a short, pudgy, but brilliantly deductive--and inductive-- investigator. His Continental Op soon proved to be the most convincingly believable American detective that pulp fiction had seen in years. And of course one can see the outline of Dashiell Hammett's The Fat Man taking shape as well. After Hammett's Red Harvest and The Dain Curse (1929), Hammett set his sights on his new fictitious detective, Sam Spade of the detective firm Spade and Archer. Hammett's Sam Spade evolved into The Maltese Falcon, Hammett's first great, widely acclaimed detective novel which was republished in novel form by Alfred Knopf. In 1929, Hammett moved to New York. After the success of The Maltese Falcon novel , Hammett was engaged as a writer by Paramount and moved to Hollywood, where he met Lillian Hellman. The Maltese Falcon was soon after translated into the 1931 Film, Dangerous Female starring Ricardo Cortez in the role of Sam Spade, Bebe Daniels as 'Ruth Wonderly', Dudley Digges as Casper Gutman and Una Merkel as Effie Perrine. He returned to New York in 1931, where he wrote The Glass Key. The Thin Man was published as a magazine serial in 1933. Hammett was encouraged by William Randoph Hearst to write the Secret Agent X9 comic strip, 1934-35, his last original work. The Maltese Falcon was remade as a rollicking farce in 1936's Satan Met A Lady, starring Warren William and Bette Davis, but by then The Thin Man (1934) had been released and that franchise took off like a home run from The Natural. Making $2 Million from a movie that took only fourteen days to film, made every penny they'd invested in The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett, and his retinue well worth every penny. During the next five years Dashiell Hammett collaborated on two more of the Thin Man screenplays: After the Thin Man(1936) and Another Thin Man (1939). By 1940, interest was heating up in yet more sequels to the Thin Man franchise, NBC began talking about a Radio version of The Thin Man, and 1941's The Maltese Falcon was being filmed with Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and Elisha Cook, Jr. With the salad days now pretty much underway, Dashiell Hammett, ever the adventurer, determined to enlist in the Army and get into World War II before it was over, over there. So in 1942, Hammett re-enlisted in the army, was posted to Aleutians where he edited The Adakian. When discharged in 1945, he returned to New York and became President of the New York Civil Rights Congress. Hammett's salad days came to an end with the end of World War II and the last Thin Man movies. From that point forward Dash's life would move inexorably downhill. Hammett had collaborated over his last screenplay with Lillian Hellman--Watch On the Rhine (1943)--and nothing else was on the horizon. Lillian Hellman's star continued to accelerate, Hammett's continued to decelerate. In July 1951, Hammett was called to testify on Civil Rights Congress bail fund, and was subsequently jailed for refusing to answer questions. Upon his release, the IRS demanded $111,000 in back-taxes. His health then failing precipitously, he lived on and off with Lillian Hellman. Admitted to Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, Dashiell Hammett died, ultimately penniless, 10 January 1961.

Lester 'Les' Tremayne (Nick Charles) Radio, Television, Film and Stage Actor (1913-2003) Birthplace: Balham, London, England, UK Radiography: 1936 The First Nighter Program 1941 Helen Hayes Theatre 1942 Columbia Workshop 1943 The Bob Crosby Show 1943 Lux Radio Theatre 1944 NBC War Bond Parade 1944 The Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne Show 1944 The Adventures Of the Thin Man 1945 Adventures Of the Falcon 1945 Inner Sanctum 1945 Treasury Salute 1945 Kraft Music Hall 1945 The Chesterfield Supper Club 1945 The Raleigh Room 1945 The Danny Kaye Show 1945 The Eddie Cantor Show 1945 The Adventures Of the Thin Man 1946 Stars In the Afternoon 1947 Radio Reader's Digest 1947 Quiet Please 1947 The Big Story 1947 Hallmark Playhouse 1947 Guest Star 1948 Ford Theatre 1948 Your Playhouse Of Favorites 1948 Joyce Jordan, M.D. 1948 Marine Story 1948 The New Adventures Of the Thin Man 1948 Decision Now! 1948 Drew Pearson 1949 Great Scenes From Great Plays 1949 Theatre U.S.A. 1949 I Love A Mystery 1950 Cavalcade Of America 1950 Cloak and Dagger 1950 Dimension X 1951 The Whistler 1951 The Harold Peary Show 1951 MGM Theatre Of the Air 1951 The Woman In My House 1951 This Is Your FBI 1952 Errand Of Mercy 1953 Cousin Willie 1953 Confession 1953 You Were There 1954 That's Rich 1954 Stars Over Hollywood 1954 Inheritance 1954 Fibber McGee and Molly 1956 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 1959 Heartbeat Theatre 1973 Hollywood Radio Theatre 1974 The Tomorrow Show 1975 CBS Radio Mystery Theatre 1979 Sears Radio Theatre Sound Off Your Playhouse Of Favorites Treasury Salute Horizons West [Trivia Note: Also appearing in North by Northwest were Golden Age Radio actors: Ken Lynch Edward Platt Edward Binns Patrick McVey Larry Dobkin Carleton Young Frank Wilcox Walter Greaza The screenplay was written by CBS Radio Staff writer Ernest Lehman and famous Golden Age Radio Music Director Bernard Herrmann penned the score. All in all a treasure trove of Golden Age Radio talent in one of Film's greatest thrillers.]	Les Tremayne publicity photo, ca 1936 Les Tremayne , ca. 1939 Lester Tremayne entry from the October 1940 edition of Lew Lauria's Radio Artists Directory Les Tremayne and Claudia Morgan at a CBS mike for The Adventures of The Thin Man, ca. 1944 Les Tremayne close-up from The War of The Worlds, ca. 1953 Two Radio legends--Olan Soulé and Les Tremayne, in one frame from Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959) Closeup of Tremayne, exasperated by Cary Grant's erratic bidding in North by Northwest, (1959)	Born an English subject, Lester Tremayne and his family emigrated to the U.S. when Tremayne was only four years old. His mother, Dolly Tremayne, had been a stage actress in England. Tremayne, told to quit school by his father, began working in community theater, performing in Vaudeville and as a barker in area amusement parks. At the age of seventeen, Les Tremayne landed his first job in Chicago Radio, going on from there to scores of appearances in serial melodramas, adventures and variety and drama revues of the era. But it wasn't until 1936 that Tremayne appeared as a lead; he replaced Don Ameche in the popular Drama anthology, First Nighter. He moved to Los Angeles in 1943, then to New York. It was in New York that he starred with Bob Crosby on The Old Gold Show until Crosby had to enter military service in 1943 for two years. The young--and relatively unknown--Jackie Gleason replaced Bob Crosby. Les Tremayne also appeared in the Thin Man adventures and The Falcon adventures, trading places with Les Damon and vice versa over the run of both programs, as Les Damon left for his own military service in the AAF. The two actors often found themselves filling in for each other during the 1940s and 1950s. Tremayne divorced his first wife, Lenore Kingston, and married his second wife, beautiful young Radio actress Alice Reinhardt, remembered for her early starring appearances in Radio's Flashgun Casey. Tremayne and Reinhardt also performed together on the WOR-Mutual Broadcasting morning breakfast show, The Tremaynes. With as many as 35 to 45 appearances a week for much of the late 1930s and early and late 1940s, Les Tremayne was quickly becoming one of America's most often heard Radio personalities. Some wag has circulated an estimate that Tremayne appeared in over 30,000 Radio episodes during his career. Even at a solid average of forty-five appearances a week, that would have him doing nothing else for over thirteen and a half years. The actual number of Radio appearances is probably a third to half of that number, but still kept Les Tremayne one of New York's busiest Radio performers. Tremayne later appeared on Stage in Heads or Tails (1947) and for an 18 month Broadway run of Detective Story (1949). Possessed of one of Radio's most authoritative voices, Tremayne's transition to a long line of Television and Film appearances was a natural progression. Tremayne's Film work included The Racket (1951), the sci-fi masterpiece, The War of the Worlds (1953), A Man Called Peter (1955), and North by Northwest (1959) as the frustrated auctioneer forced to cope with Cary Grant's ridiculous bidding. No stranger to bad guy roles, Tremayne was just as versatile in roles as shifty executives, cheating husbands, and scheming middlemen as he was in roles as doctors, generals and judges. He took on all roles with equal aplomb in such popular Television staples as Perry Mason (1957), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955), 77 Sunset Strip (1958), and a bewildring array of another 400 Television appearances over his forty year career in Television. Having completed a thirty year career in Radio and a forty year career in Television, Tremayne went into semi-retirement in the 1980s, still appearing occasionally for voice-overs and documentaries. He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1995. Les Tremayne passed away from natural causes at the age of 90. One of Radio's most enduring--and surviving--voice talents, Les Tremayne's powerful, yet mellow, voice is still heard tens of thousands of times daily by Golden Age Radio fans both old and new. In that respect Les Tremayne's body of work remains a timeless contribution to the Performing Arts of the 20th Century.

Claudia Morgan [Claudeigh Louise Wuppermann] (Nora Charles) Stage, Radio, Television and Film Actor (1911-1974) Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. Radiography: 1935 Secret Agent K-7 Returns 1936 Court of Human Relations 1940 Under Cover *1941 The Adventures Of the Thin Man* 1943 Treasury Star Parade 1945 The Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre 1945 Inner Sanctum 1945 The Raleigh Room 1946 Stars In the Afternoon 1947 Quiet Please 1947 The Right To Happiness 1948 The New Adventures Of the Thin Man 1949 Radio City Playhouse 1950 Cavalcade Of America 1955 The Adventures Of the Abbotts 1964 NBC Expriment In Drama Guest Critic Series Pepper Young's Family	Claudia Morgan, ca. 1939 Claudia Morgan with her father Ralph Morgan, ca. 1938 Claudia Morgan as Christy Allen Cameron in the daily serial, Against the Storm, ca. 1939 Claudia Morgan featured in Movie Radio Guide of June 1942	Claudia Morgan was born in Brooklyn, NY to Ralph Morgan [Wupperman], a Stage and Film character actor--and the spitting-image older brother of actor, Frank Morgan--and Grace Arnold, a stage actress. Born with greasepaint in her veins, Claudia debuted onstage while still a teenager. Against her father's advice, she left school to join the Belasco and Shubert Stage companies, ultimately appearing in twenty-four Broadway plays between 1929 and 1952. Though most active on Stage and in Radio, she did eventually appear in six films as well. In Vanity Street (1932) she played Lou, opposite Mayo Methot, the soon to be wife of Humphrey Bogart, known for his role as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1941) Dashiell Hammett's second huge big screen hit after the Thin Man series of Films. Only ten years later, Morgan would be playing the lead in Radio's the Thin Man adventures and Methot would be on the brink of divorcing Bogey. In her lead role in That's My Story (1937) she appeared with her father, Ralph Morgan, one of the founders of The Screen Actors' Guild. A strikingly attractive young Stage and Screen star by then, throughout the 1940s and 1950s she also became one of Radio's most beloved female leads. In 1941's The Adventures of the Thin Man, she played Nora Charles, wise-cracking wife of Nick Charles, a role she would continue to play for nine seasons of the Thin Man adventures. But she was also known for her regular leading appearances in the Peabody Award-winning Against The Storm, David Harum, The Right to Happiness, and Grand Central Station. Morgan debuted in Radio over WEAF in New York, appearing in several of NBC-Red's earliest network Radio programs, among them, Secret Agent K-7 Returns (1935-1938) with a young Walter Pidgeon. Also in 1935 she played her first Radio role with her uncle, distinguished actor Frank Morgan in Radio Theatre's "The Queen's Husband." Throughout the 1950s Claudia Morgan stayed busy on the Stage, over Radio and in Television, eventually compiling over 200 Television credits, including most of Television's most prestigious early Drama anthologies and ending her Television career with a long-running role as Mildred Breyer in The Edge of Night (1952-1959). An avid tennis player and Hollywood socialite, young Claudia was thrice married by the time she began playing Nora Charles on Radio. Regrettably, none of Claudia Morgan's four marriages yielded an heir to the greasepaint bloodline of her acting family. When Claudia ultimately passed away in 1974, she was the last actor in the Morgan [Wupperman] family.

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