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Program: Halls of Ivy
Episode: Reappointment (First Show)
Original Airdate: 01/06/1950
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Halls of Ivy: Reappointment
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Episode Summary:
Will Doctor Hall,played by Ronald Colman, be reappointed as president of the University? He seems a shoe-in, but Ivy League society is horrified that his wife, played by Ronald’s real wife Benita Hume, is an ex-actress. AN ACTRESS! This story describes how William Todhunter Hall met his wife Victoria when she was a London actress and he was on a trip from the states and saw her performance 27 times. In truth, the dramatic tension over his reappointment is somewhat diminished when you realize that this is the first episode of the program.
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Program Summary:
The Halls of Ivy was an NBC radio sitcom that ran from 1949-1952. It was created by Fibber McGee & Molly co-creator/writer Don Quinn before being adapted into a CBS television comedy (1954-55) produced by ITC Entertainment and Television Programs of America. British husband-and-wife actors Ronald Colman (1891-1958) and Benita Hume (1906-1967) starred in both versions of the show.
Quinn developed the show after he had decided to leave Fibber McGee & Molly in the hands of his protege Phil Leslie. The Halls of Ivy's audition program featured radio veteran Gale Gordon (then co-starring in Our Miss Brooks) and Edna Best in the roles that ultimately went to the Colmans, who'd shown a flair for radio comedy in recurring roles on The Jack Benny Program in the late 1940s.
The Halls of Ivy featured Colman as William Todhunter Hall, the president of small, Midwestern Ivy College, and his wife, Victoria, a former British musical comedy star who sometimes felt the tug of her former profession, and followed their interactions with students, friends and college trustees. Others in the cast included Herbert Butterfield as testy board chairman Clarence Wellman; Willard Waterman (then starring as Harold Peary's successor as The Great Gildersleeve) as board member John Merriweather; and, Elizabeth Patterson and Gloria Gordon as the Halls' maid.
The series ran 110 half-hour radio episodes from January 6, 1950, to June 25, 1952,
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