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Mayor of the Town

Comedy Drama

Broadcast History:

• Sept. 6-Sept. 27, 1942, NBC. 30m, Sundays at 7:30.  Rinso.

• Oct. 7, 1942-May 31, 1947, CBS.  30m, Wednesdays at 9:30, 1942;  at 9, Jan. 6-Dec. 29, 1943.  Rinso. Returned March 11, 1944, Saturdays at 7;  Mondays at 9, July and Aug. 1944;   Saturdays at 7, 1944-45;  at 8, mid-1945; at 8:30, 1945-47.  Noxzema.

• Oct. 8, 1947-June 30, 1948, ABC.  30m, Wednesdays at 8.  Noxzema.

• Jan. 2-JuIy 3, 1949, Mutual.   30m, Sundays at 7:30.  Mutual Benefit Insurance.

Cast:  Lionel Barrymore as the mayor of the town of Springdale.  Agnes Moorehead as Marilly, his housekeeper.  Conrad Binyon as the mayor's ward, Butch.  Gloria McMillan as Sharlee Bronson, Butch's best girl.  Priscilla Lyon as Holly-Ann, the mayor's granddaughter.  Also:  Will Wright, Sharon Douglas, Irvin Lee, Marjorie Davies, and other Hollywood actors.
Producer:  Murray Bolen;  later Knowles Entrikin.
Director:  Jack Van Nostrand.
Writers:  Jean Holloway, Leonard St. Clair, Howard Blake, Erna Lazarus, etc.;   Howard Breslin and Charles Tazewell wrote alternate weeks, ca. 1945.
Orchestra:.  Gordon Jenkins (ca. 1943);  Bernard Katz (1945);   Frank Worth.
Sound Effects:  David Light, Mary Ann Gideon.

Mayor of the Town was a perfect vehicle for Lionel Barrymore: rich with warmhearted humor, and good-natured grumbling, its "mayor" had a fierce bark but a mushy heart when confronted with the plight of an orphan or a stray dog.  The mayor cared little about political advantage:  he even found time, once a year, to turn the town of Springdale into a special theater, to give his traditional performance as Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.