Aunt Mary was a soap opera that follows a story line which appears to have been broadcast in 1945 and early 1946. The plot features a love triangle, and involves a young woman in a failing marriage who pays an extended visit to "friends" in Los Angeles in order to conceal a dark secret from her father and others back in Wakefield. Mary Lane owns a small farm on the outskirts of Wakefield, where she raises chickens and acts as a steadying influence on her live-in niece Peggy and hired hand Lefty Larkin, who has quite a secret of his own. We learn a lot about the farm and the daily routine of life there. A typical breakfast, for example, consists of hot coffee, fried eggs, and fresh-baked muffins right from the oven served with butter and strawberry preserves. An abundance of such details is one of the attributes which elevate Aunt Mary above the ordinary domestic daytime drama. Broadcast History: Networks: 00/00/42 to 00/00/51 NBC (approximately) 01/21/46 to 01/17/47 Mutual (at 9:15 a.m.) Directors: George Fogle, Edwin H. Morse Announcers: Dicks Welles, Hugh Brundage, Marvin Miller, Vincent Pelletier Writers: Lee Crosby, Virginia Crosby, Gil South Theme Music: Dear Old Girl Sponsors: Albers Oats, Ben Hur Coffee, Kitchen Craft Flour Cast: Jane Morgan as Aunt Mary Lane Fred Howard as Lefty Larkin Jane Webb as Peggy Douglas Mead Patrick McGeeham as Ben Calvert, Josephine Gilbert, Vivi Janiss as Kit Calvert Jack Edwards, Bob Bailey as Bill Mead Irene Tedrow as Jessie Calvert Jay Novello as David Bowman