Mr and Mrs North | Old Time Radio

Mr and Mrs North at the Radio Microphone What began as a light comedy about a nice, normal professional couple living in Greenwich Village, New York City, turned into a mystery show the next season. That did the trick, and it became so popular it rivaled the big detective show, Mr. District Attorney, for ratings.

Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin played Pam and Jerry North. Later in the show's decade, Richard Denning and Barbara Britton did the roles. The couple seems to always be getting involved in a crimenot there own, of course, but others. Luckily, they have a good and honest crime counselor in Lt. Bill Weigand of homicide.

Alice Frost

Frank Lovejoy, who went on to Nightbeat, first played Weigand. Walter Kinsella acted Weigand's assistant, the often frustrated and short-fused Sgt. Mullins. The boys from homicide take care of many of the details, but Pam is really good at getting details about the situation that just seem to add up. Jerry, whose day job is a book publisher, is helpful and thorough in his own way, and he knows that you can't tell a bookah well. Mandel Kramer did a great New York cabby by the name of Mahatma McGloin, to a turn. Solid actors make the show fun to listen to.

The couple in crime detection is a wonderful way to get an audience involved. You allow the audience to play along with each of the clue-hunters, and match wits with both of them before turning up the guilty party. Mr. and Mrs. North is lighthearted radio mystery entertainment, and for those who like their thrills with a smile, this is a good bet.

(Please note that many of the rare recordings in this collection may be of inferior sound quality.)

For more husband and wife crime fighters, see also: Adventures of the Abbotts, Its a Crime Mr Collins, and Thin Man.