Author's Playhouse - The Kracken (07-08-44)
Author\u2019s Playhouse - Famous stories by celebrated authors: among them, Elementals (Stephen Vincent Benet), The Piano (William Saroyan), and The Snow Goose (Paul Gallico).March 5, 1941 till June 4, 1945, NBC;\xa0 Blue Network until mid-October 1941, then the Red Network.\xa0 Many briefly held 30m timeslots, including Sundays at 11:30, 1941-42;\xa0 Wednesdays at 11:30, 1942-44; \xa0 Mondays at 11:30, 1944-45.\xa0 Sponsor was Philip Morris, 1942-43. Cast:\xa0 John Hodiak, Fern Persons, Arthur Kohl, Laurette Fillbrandt, Kathryn Card, Bob Jellison, Nelson Olmsted, Marvin Miller, Olan Soule, Les Tremayne, Clarence Hartzell, Curley Bradley, etc.\xa0 Orchestra:\xa0 Rex Maupin, Roy Shield, J6seph Gallicchio. Creator:\xa0 Wynn Wright.\xa0 Directors:\xa0 Norman Felton, Fred Weihe, Homer Heck, etc.
THIS EPISODE:
July 8, 1944. NBC network. "The Kraken". Sustaining. A science fiction tale\nabout a British submarine captured by a huge sea monster. Frederick\nEnglehart (author). 1/2 hour.
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