Author's Playhouse - The Kracken (07-08-44)

Published: Nov. 21, 2009, 4:23 a.m.

b'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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