Saturday, February 16, 2019

Saturday Night Radio Drama - Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe





Mavor Moore, Nero Wolfe
Don Francks, Archie Goodwin
August Schellenberg, Dazy Perrit 
Cec Linder, Inspector Cramer 
Jayne Eastwood, Angelina Murphy aka Violette Perrit
Frank Perry, Fritz
Alfie Scopp, Saul

I can't recognize the rest of the players by voice and the recording cuts off before the credits are given.

I've posted a lot of this series produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in the 1980s adapted and directed by Ron Hartman, I don't think this is one of those I posted before.  This series was about the only radio version of Nero Wolfe that stuck close to the novels.  I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't inspire the justly famous series starring the treat Maury Chaykin and Timothy Hutton and a great cast of actors - a thesaurus of great acting.  I don't know if they got the idea from the radio version but they also used some fine actors* to play different roles in the series.   

* Lally Cadeau, Jack Creely, Neil Munro, Eric Peterson, Fiona Reid, Jayne Eastwood, August Schellenberg, Maria Loma, Jackie Burroughs, Brian George, Arch McDonnell, Barbara Hamilton, Terry Tweed, Lynne Griffin, Sandy Webster, Martha Gibson, Charmion King, Budd Knapp, Ailine Seaton, Mary Peery, Patricia Hamilton, Meana E. Meana, Helen Hughs, Brent Carver 

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