On This Day, August 22: Molle Mystery Theatre and Fitch Bandwagon
Also featured: Light Crust Doughboys.
August 22 Exhaustive Update
This report documents the comprehensive provenance, broadcast scheduling, commercial sponsorship, credited cast, production personnel, alternate circulating titles, and story synopses for 6 historical broadcasts transmitting on August 22 across American network and syndicated broadcasting history (1943–2010):
1. Broadcasts
| Title | Network, Airdate & Showtime | Sponsor & Commercial Ads | Credited Cast & Performers | Director, Writers & Crew | Genres | Story-First Plot Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Offering of the Gulls" | Imagination Theatre 2004-08-22 (XM Satellite) |
National Syndication | John Patrick Lowrie (Holmes), Lawrence Albert (Watson), Rick May | M.J. Elliott (Writer), Jim French (Director), Terry Rose (Music) | ["Mystery", "Detective", "Victorian", "Anthology"] |
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate an eerie murder at an isolated Cornish lighthouse where an eccentric watchmaker's body was discovered surrounded by circling gulls and intricately disassembled chronometers. |
| "Danno O'Mahony: Ransom & Harry Nile: The Case of the Desperate Dealer" | Imagination Theatre 2010-08-22 (KIXI Seattle) |
National Syndication | Larry Albert (Harry Nile), Pat French (Murphy), John Armstrong (Danno) | Jim French (Writer & Director), Terry Rose (Music) | ["Detective", "Mystery", "Noir", "Anthology"] |
A syndicated radio drama double-feature pairing a high-stakes kidnapping case investigated by Dublin detective Danno O'Mahony with a Seattle noir mystery where Harry Nile must protect an art collector hunted by a desperate antiquities dealer. |
| "Freddie Martin and his Orchestra: 'Tonight We Love' (Fitch Bandwagon)" | NBC (WEAF) 1943-08-22 7:30 PM EWT |
F.W. Fitch Company Fitch's Dandruff Remover Shampoo |
Freddie Martin Orchestra, Clyde Rogers (Vocalist), Freddie Martin (Sax) | Ward Byron (Director), Toby Reed (Announcer) | ["Music", "Big Band", "Swing", "Variety"] |
Master of Ceremonies Toby Reed welcomes Freddie Martin and his Orchestra to the Fitch Bandwagon, performing Martin's chart-topping Tchaikovsky swing adaptation 'Tonight We Love' alongside vocal features by Clyde Rogers for Fitch Shampoo. |
| "The Outcasts (Texas Western Swing with Light Crust Flour)" | Texas Quality (WBAP) 1946-08-22 12:30 PM CST |
Burrus Mill & Elevator Light Crust Flour ("Best Biscuits") |
The Light Crust Doughboys, Cecil Brower, Smokey Montgomery, Parker Willson | Burrus Mill Radio Division, Mel Gallagher (Announcer) | ["Western", "Country", "Western Swing", "Music"] |
The legendary Light Crust Doughboys deliver Texas western swing tunes and country humor from Fort Worth, fiddling through 'The Outcasts' and 'Pappy's Old Banjo' while promoting Light Crust Flour for midday homemakers. |
| "The Case of the Talking Pillow" | NBC (WEAF) 1944-08-22 9:00 PM EWT |
The Centaur Co. / Sterling Mollé Brushless Shaving Cream |
Bernard Lenrow (Geoffrey Barnes), Frank Lovejoy, Lesley Woods, Joseph Julian | Frank Telford (Director), Dan Seymour (Announcer) | ["Mystery", "Detective", "Drama", "Crime"] |
Geoffrey Barnes presents the macabre murder of an insomniac pharmaceutical executive whose embroidered feather pillow was wired with an electro-acoustic speaker by his resentful partner to drive him to insanity before suffocating him. |
| "Man Hunt (Adapted from Geoffrey Household's 'Rogue Male')" | NBC (WNBC) 1947-08-22 10:00 PM EDT |
The Centaur Co. / Sterling Mollé Brushless Shaving Cream |
Bernard Lenrow (Geoffrey Barnes), Karl Swenson, Anne Seymour, Mandel Kramer | Geoffrey Household (Author), Lawrence Klee (Adapter), Frank Telford (Director) | ["Thriller", "Suspense", "Drama", "Mystery"] |
Geoffrey Barnes introduces an adaptation of Rogue Male, chronicling an aristocratic British big-game hunter who attempts an assassination of a European dictator, only to be hunted across the Dorset countryside by ruthless secret police assassins. |