Wally Maher

As police, hospital workers, morgue personnel, and bystanders follow the case through the city, time becomes the central concern.

From CBS, with Wally Maher, Junius Matthews, Robert Bailey, Kathy Lewis, and Verna Felton, this is Suspense: Dead Ernest, Episode 205, originally broadcast August 8th, 1946.

The script is by Merwin Gerard and Selig Lester.

Bill Spear produced and directed.

Dr. Theodore J. Weldon left, uh, Honey at the switchboard and walked upstairs to the intern quarters and settled down to reading the sports page of the afternoon paper.

At that moment, if anyone had been in Receiving Room B of Vetter General Hospital, where the body of Ernest Bowers lay on the patient carriage, they could have seen a fly crawl slowly across the face of the dead man, and they would've seen his nose twitch.

[dramatic music] For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you an all-star cast of Hollywood radio players, headed by Wally Maher, in Dead Ernest, a radio play by Seely Lester and Merwin Gerard.

Roma Wines' presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense.

The Adventures of Michael Shane, Private Detective.

[instrumental music] The people who make the new 76 Gasoline and Triton Motor Oil, Union Oil Company present [instrumental music] The Adventures of Michael Shane, Private Detective, starring Wally Maher and Kathy Lewis.

[instrumental music] If Mike Shane were a painter, right now he might be gazing raptly from his office window at the sun setting directly into San Francisco's Golden Gate.

If Mike Shane were a poet, he might be gazing dreamily at Phyllis Knight, his office associate.

Why, Angel.

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Tune in again next week at 8:00 for another adventure with Michael Shane: Private Detective, starring Wally Maher and Kathy Lewis, with Joe Forte as the Inspector.

Tonight's story was written by Richard DeGraff and based on the character created by Brett Halliday.

The request leads through old family correspondence, a pair of confidence men, and document expert Ben Sanford in the premiere, episode one, of NBC's The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe.

Originally broadcast October 20th, 1950, it stars Sydney Greenstreet as Wolfe and Wally Maher as Archie Goodwin.

Alfred Bester wrote the script.

And now our story begins.

At the Hawks Ranch, details around the barn leave the sheriff uncertain of what has happened, and Ranger Pearson begins examining the scene and questioning those connected with the ranch.

The supporting cast includes Tony Barrett, Byron Kane, Betty Lou Gerson, Jeff Corey, and Wally Maher.

Here is the original broadcast.

The National Broadcasting Company presents Joel McCrea in Tales of the Texas Rangers.

The Adventures of Michael Shane, Private Detective.

[dramatic music] The people who make 76 Gasoline and Triton Motor Oil, Union Oil Company present [dramatic music] The Adventures of Michael Shane, Private Detective, starring Wally Maher and Kathy Lewis.

[dramatic music] On those rare evenings when Mike Shane and his lovely associate, Phyllis Knight, are not eagerly in pursuit of a criminal, they are just as eagerly in pursuit of pleasure.

But tonight they are not even together, and the reason seems a little mysterious.