Mister District Attorney debuted on the radio 4-3-1939
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Today in 1939 Mr. District Attorney was heard for the first time on the radio.
The radio crime-adventure serial followed the ‘champion of the people’ and was originally a 15-minute nightly program. In this broadcast, Mr. DA (Dwight Weist) goes after protection racketeers (Jay Jostyn as one of the bad guys.)
Later that summer (June of 1939), the program went to a half-hour weekly format and aired through 1952.
Please enjoy the first broadcast of this series entitled “The Restaurant Killers.”
Today in 1936, the soap-opera serial Mary Noble, Backstage Wife made a move across the dial and switched networks (from the Mutual Broadcasting System to NBC.) The soap opera continued to air for the next 23 years.
