This is a snippet from Breaking Walls Episode 112: Drama At NBC (1949 - 1950)

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The last series we’ll examine from the 1949-50 season made it’s NBC debut on Sunday June 11th, 1950 at 7:30PM. It had begun on CBS in 1945, but like many shows launched by NBC this year, it was most recently airing on The Mutual Broadcasting System.

It starred radio, film, stage, and TV legend Vincent Price.

The series we’re speaking about is Price’s only continuous starring role: as Simon Templar in The Saint. Leslie Charteris created the character as a suave private eye. He was a dapper dresser, equally at home at the wheel of a fast car, in an airplane, or on horseback.

Sometimes the Saint simply broke the law, if the result justified it.

This episode “The Corpse Said Ouch” aired on Sunday August 6th opposite The Amazing Mr. Malone on ABC, and Hit The Jackpot on CBS. Shirley Mitchell was Francis Blake and Lawrence Dobkin was Louie the Cabbie.