On This Day, September 6: Just a Minute and John Steele
Also featured: Young Widder Brown.
September 6 Update
This report documents the historical provenance, broadcast scheduling, commercial sponsorship, credited cast, production personnel, alternate circulating titles, and pure narrative synopses for broadcasts transmitting on September 6 across two comedy panel broadcasts on BBC Radio 4's Just a Minute (1999, 2004), two globe-trotting espionage assignments on John Steele, Adventurer (1949, 1955), daytime serial drama on Young Widder Brown for Sterling Drug (1950), and romantic daytime serial drama on Hearts in Harmony for Kroger Grocery (1946).
All episode titles maintain strict standard naming, with credited panellists, cast, and sponsors recorded in the narrative description:
1. Broadcasts
| Title | Network, Airdate & Showtime | Sponsor & Commercial Ads | Credited Cast & Performers | Director, Writers & Crew | Genres | Story Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Speakeasy" | BBC Radio 4 1999-09-06 6:30 PM BST |
BBC Sustaining Panel Game Show |
Parsons, Freud & Merton | Edward Taylor (Producer) | ["Comedy", "Panel Show", "Just a Minute", "Nicholas Parsons", "BBC"] |
Nicholas Parsons challenges Clement Freud, Peter Jones, Paul Merton, and Linda Smith to speak for sixty seconds without hesitation, repetition, or deviation. |
| "Being a Celt" | BBC Radio 4 2004-09-06 6:30 PM BST |
BBC Sustaining Panel Game Show |
Parsons, Merton & Noble | Claire Jones (Producer) | ["Comedy", "Panel Show", "Just a Minute", "Nicholas Parsons", "BBC"] |
Nicholas Parsons referees comedic panel banter as Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth, Ross Noble, and Fred MacAulay riff on Celtic heritage and mythology. |
| "Check and Double Check" | Mutual (WOR) 1949-09-06 8:00 PM EDT |
Sustaining Espionage Adventure |
Don Douglas (Steele) | Robert Monroe (Director) | ["Adventure", "Espionage", "John Steele Adventurer", "Don Douglas", "Mutual"] |
John Steele recounts the perilous espionage mission of an undercover chess grandmaster smuggling cipher codes across the Iron Curtain. |
| "The Cairo Courier" | Mutual (WOR) 1955-09-06 8:00 PM EDT |
Sustaining Espionage Adventure |
Don Douglas (Steele) | Robert Monroe (Director) | ["Adventure", "Espionage", "John Steele Adventurer", "Don Douglas", "Mutual"] |
John Steele tracks a missing diplomatic courier carrying classified Middle East treaty documents through the labyrinthine bazaars of Cairo. |
| "Ellen Opens the Registered Letter" | NBC (WNBC) 1950-09-06 4:30 PM EDT |
Sterling Drug Inc. Haley's M-O & Bayer |
Florence Freeman & Cast | Frank & Anne Hummert | ["Soap Opera", "Drama", "Young Widder Brown", "Florence Freeman", "Sterling Drug"] |
Ellen Brown receives an ominous registered legal letter containing new demands regarding her small-town tearoom in Simpsonville. |
| "Flight to New York" | Syndicated / Mutual 1946-09-06 10:15 AM CST |
Kroger Grocery & Baking Clock Bread |
Jone Allison (Penny) | Kroger Radio Studio | ["Soap Opera", "Drama", "Hearts in Harmony", "Jone Allison", "Kroger"] |
Penny Randolph boards an eastbound flight to Manhattan to audition for a national radio sponsor while wrestling with romantic loyalties back home. |