NBC Presents: Short Story

NBC Presents: Short Story is a half-hour American radio program offering dramatizations of contemporary American short stories that began on NBC on February 21, 1951, and ended on May 30, 1952.[1]

Broadcasting from Hollywood, the series premiered on February 21, 1951, on NBC with an adaptation of "Fifty Grand" by Ernest Hemingway.[1] Script editor for the series was Hugh Kemp, who supervised scripts by George Lefferts, Ernest Kinoy, Claris A. Ross, and Vincent McConnor. The series was first heard on Wednesdays at 10:30 p.m. EST and then moved in May to Fridays at 8 p.m. Featuring stories by Conrad Aiken, Ring Lardner,[1] Sherwood Anderson, Stephen Vincent Benét, and John Steinbeck, the first series continued until July 13. The dramas were directed by Andrew C. Love.[1] Overall supervision of production was by Margaret Cuthbert and Wade Arnold. Lamont Johnson, Don Stanley and John Wald were the announcers.[1]

Second series

Moving to Fridays at 9:30 p.m. EST, the second series ran from November 23, 1951,[1] to March 14, 1952, with William Welch as script editor and Wade Arnold as executive producer. The College by Radio plan was discontinued. Stories in the second series were by Benét, Ray Bradbury ("The Rocket"), James M. Cain, Erskine Caldwell. John Cheever, Anton Chekhov, John Galsworthy, Graham Greene, Lardner, Steinbeck, Frank Stockton, Ben Ames Williams and others.

Third series

The third series ran from April 11 to May 30, 1952, with stories by Nell Bell, John Collier ("De Mortuis"), Eric Knight, William Daniel Steele, James Street, James A. Michener and James Thurber,

Brooklyn College cooperated with NBC by scheduling a literary appreciation course with a Short Story tie-in. This was part of NBC's College by Radio plan.[2]

Cast members included Parley Baer, Jeff Corey, Howard Culver, John Dehner, Georgia Ellis, Paul Frees, Virginia Gregg, Jack Kruschen, Dan O'Herlihy and Barney Phillips.

Similar programs

There were several related shows that also offered literary adaptations: Best Plays (1952–53), Short Short Stories and The World's Great Novels (1944–48). With "the best published short shorts... originals by famous authors", Short Short Stories was a 15-minute daytime drama series that aired three days a week.

References
  1. Dunning, John (May 7, 1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 481. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3. Retrieved July 22, 2023.
  2. Widner, Jim. "NBC's Short Story". Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine

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