A 1945 radio series of at least 13 original half-hour episodes ( none of which apparently adapt any Christie stories ) transferred Poirot from London to New York and starred character actor Harold Huber, perhaps better known for his appearances as a police officer in various Charlie Chan films.

The result was 640 half-hour radio documentaries, broadcast in the final weeks of the millennium, and one of the largest single oral history collections in Europe, the Millennium Memory Bank ( MMB ).

* September 26 – Street and Smith Publications launches a half-hour radio program, The Shadow, with Orson Welles in the title role.

The NBC radio series Favorite Story, hosted by Ronald Colman, broadcast a half-hour adaptation with Joan Loring as " Becky Sharp ".

There are a number of structural and detail differences between the radio adaptation and the book, mostly to aid the comprehension of the story when split into six half-hour episodes ; this adaptation is a considered step away from the original " Shada " story structure.

In 1956, CBS created a half-hour Gerald McBoing-Boing Show, with well-known radio announcer Bill Goodwin narrating.

The Bishop's Wife was dramatized as a half-hour radio play on the March 1, 1948 broadcast of The Screen Guild Theater with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven in their original film roles.

In those early days, it was customary for a corporation to sponsor an entire half-hour radio program, placing its commercials at the beginning and the end.

Penny Serenade was dramatized as a half-hour radio play on the November 16, 1941 broadcast of The Screen Guild Theater, starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne in their original roles.

The show presented half-hour radio adaptations of recently successful film comedies, beginning with Palm Beach Story with Claudette Colbert and Robert Young.

But the show's half-hour format — which meant the material might have been truncated too severely — and Lloyd's sounding somewhat ill at ease on the air for much of the season ( though he spent weeks training himself to speak on radio prior to the show's premiere, and seemed more relaxed toward the end of the series run ) may have worked against it.

On May 18, 1946, Rosalind Russell and Janet Blair reprised their roles in a half-hour radio adaptation of the 1942 film for the CBS Radio anthology series Academy Award Theater.

Vancouver radio station CKNW also broadcasts time signals, using a chime every half-hour.

FAIR also produces CounterSpin, a half-hour radio program hosted by Janine Jackson, Steve Rendall, and Peter Hart, recorded at MercerMedia in NYC.

Series one of The Tripods, broadcast in 1984, which had 13 half-hour episodes written by the well-known author of many radio plays Alick Rowe, covers the first book, The White Mountains ; the 12-episode second series ( 1985 ) covers The City of Gold and Lead.

The Blue Dahlia was dramatized as a half-hour radio play on the April 21, 1949 broadcast of The Screen Guild Theater, starring Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd in their original film roles.

This then relatively novel format, of what was in effect a single sketch each week lasting the entire half-hour ( though in the radio version James and the others sometimes played different roles ), was reflected in the show's title, which aptly described the series as Hancock's " half-hour ".

The Newark entertainment started at 7 o ' clock: a children's half-hour of music and fairy stories ; 7 :, Hawaiian airs and violin solo ; 8: 00, news of the day ; and at 8: 20 a radio party with nationally known comedians participating ; 9: 55, Arlington time signals and 10: 01, a government weather report.

He subsequently produced / presented a half-hour show on that station called " So you want to run a radio station.

The Greatest Story Ever Told originated as a U. S. radio series in 1947, half-hour episodes inspired by the Gospels.

Pressing the Angle button during Episode 3 unveils brief, intermittent visual descriptions of the episode by Andy Hodgson and Jennifer Reinfrank, whilst a half-hour interview with Steve Coogan, conducted by Mark Radcliffe on the January 17, 1994 edition of his radio show, can be accessed through the Extended Scenes menu.

In 1999, Biggers created a new episode of Underdog as a half-hour radio show, narrated by veteran Boston newsman Tom Ellis with new original music composed by Biggers.

He worked the comedy circuit for several years, and then in 1992 presented a satirical radio show The Mark Steel Solution on BBC Radio 5, consisting of half-hour monologues which offered solutions to social problems.

The name was also applied retroactively to the half-hour 1955 television drama The Indiscreet Mrs. Jarvis starring Angela Lansbury when it was released on VHS in 1992.

In the desultory field of filmed half-hour drama, however, Mr. Serling should not have much trouble in making his mark.

Beginning around 1969 in the US, however, there was a brief spate of half-hour shows that purposely alternated between comedy and drama and aired without a laugh track, as well as some hour-long shows such as CHiPs in the late 70s to early 80s.

George returned to television in 2008 in the HBO half-hour drama In Treatment, co-starring Gabriel Byrne and Dianne Wiest, receiving a 2009 Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries, or Television Film, and also received a nomination for " Best Actress " at the 2009 Australian Film Institute Awards.

The late evening edition of Aktuellt is shown at 9pm, followed at 9. 30 by a half-hour drama and entertainment slot.

Writers Mark Farrell and Robert Sheridan received the 2008 Canadian Screenwriting Award for best half-hour drama series on April 14, 2008.

In late 1956 CBS Radio retooled the show, which reverted to a weekly half-hour drama, airing on late Sunday afternoons.

X Minus One was a half-hour science fiction radio drama series broadcast from April 24, 1955 to January 9, 1958 in various timeslots on NBC.

" Noon Wine " was made into an hour drama in early 1948 and two years later " Flowering Judas " and " Pale Horse, Pale Rider " each were produced in half-hour dramas on an episode of the hour long program.

Curtis also co-starred with Larry Pennell in the 1961-1963 syndicated television series Ripcord, a half-hour drama about a skydiving service company.

On rare occasions when a program was unavailable ( sometimes due to network technical difficulties or if fill time was available before or after a network sportscast ), a half-hour series entitled Star Performance, consisting mostly of drama pilots from the 1950s, would air.

is the title of a half-hour American television crime drama of the 1960s set in the context of the New York City Police Department.

Sounds Like Canada aired from 10: 00 to 11: 30 weekday mornings, and was followed by a half-hour information or radio drama series.

The Sullivans attracted critical acclaim and was also one of Australia's most popular drama series, screening in half-hour episodes at 7. 00 pm.

In 2008, the duo ( with writer Evan Dunsky ) created the series Nurse Jackie, a half-hour drama about a " flawed " emergency room nurse in a New York City hospital.

Replacing reruns of the cult crime drama The Fugitive ( an unusual offering on daytime television ), Dream House began on April 1, 1968 at 1: 00 PM ( 12: 00 Central ); its competition depended on each local market, as both NBC and CBS went down for a half-hour in order for their affiliates to run newscasts, homemakers ' or farm shows, or syndicated programming.

His final credit was for a half-hour supernatural drama called House of Glass, which was made by Television South in 1991.

The song inspired the name of an episode of the popular teen drama One Tree Hill, and the name of an episode of the paranormal drama " Supernatural ", as well as an episode of popular half-hour comedy That 70s Show, and one from the action drama " Covert Affairs ".

* In a half-hour radio drama, Butter in a Lordly Dish ( 1948 ), Agatha Christie has her protagonist drug a lawyer's coffee ; after revealing her true identity, she hammers a nail into his head.

“ The half-hour program mixed courtroom drama, science experiments, and humor to teach fundamental concepts in elementary and middle school science such as the water cycle, work, matter, gravity, flight, and energy.