T H E C H A S E
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1952 - 1953
First Show: Apr 27, 1952 Last Show: Jun 28, 1953
Number Shows: 59 Audition Show: none known
Series Description:
THE CHASE was an NBC anthology series that had stories of mystery,
adventure, drama, fantasy, crime, horror and science fiction. None
of the plots had much to do with the series title and signature
chase scene.
The series was created by Lawrence Klee, of MR. KEEN fame. Fred
Weihe, who directed X MINUS ONE, was the director. It had many of
the same actors and production qualities as X MINUS ONE. The
announcer was Fred Collins.
Log Comments:
Ron B. Hare supplied information upon which I based the Description
section. The broadcast date for the first show date and number of
shows in the series are from Jay Hickerson's "Ultimate History" (See
"References" section). Two sources had "last show" comments but the
AVPRO catalog listed two shows beyond this date.
Titles used are the most common found. Those titles without dates
that couldn't be matched to others are listed at the end of the list.
Chronological Log:
Date Day Num Title Avail
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........ mid-season opening ........
Apr 27, 1952 Sun 1 The Big Cat yes
Alt: Tales
May 04, 1952 Sun 2 Harry Troll's Diamond yes
May 11, 1952 Sun 3 Countess Treanna yes
May 18, 1952 Sun 4 Elliott Preston Is Framed For Murder yes
May 25, 1952 Sun 5 They Thought He Was Dead yes
Alt: Newspaper Reporter After
Germans
Alt: Reporter Pursued by Sudden
Death
Jun 01, 1952 Sun 6 Sunken Gold yes
Alt: Easy Riches, Sudden Death
Alt: A Search For Gold Bars
Alt: Sunken Nazi Treasure
Jun 08, 1952 Sun 7 Strictly For The Horses yes
Alt: Hardluck Ethel
Jun 15, 1952 Sun 8 Spy yes
Alt: Terminate Professor Kolcheck
Alt: Assassination Plot
Alt: Termination
Jun 22, 1952 Sun 9 Bald Artie Bender yes
Jun 29, 1952 Sun 10 Stephen, Monica and $1,000,000 yes
.......... Summer Series ...........
Jul 03, 1952 Thu 11 ... missing, title not known ...
Jul 10, 1952 Thu 12 Doug Burton and a Mysterious Letter yes
Alt: Agents In Havana
Jul 17, 1952 Thu 13 Joey yes
Jul 24, 1952 Thu 14 The Apprentice yes
Jul 31, 1952 Thu ... pre-empted ...
Aug 07, 1952 Thu 15 The Painting yes
Aug 14, 1952 Thu 16 The Amusement Park yes
Aug 21, 1952 Thu 17 The Promotion yes
Aug 28, 1952 Thu ... no show ...
Sep 04, 1952 Thu ... no show ...
Sep 11, 1952 Thu ... no show ...
......... Regular Season ..........
......... first usage of ..........
... "running footsteps" opening ...
Sep 21, 1952 Sun 18 Chinese Buddha yes
Alt: The Golden Buddha
Sep 28, 1952 Sun 19 Twenty Million Bum yes
Alt: Philip Courtland, $20 Million
Bum
Oct 05, 1952 Sun 20 Flight From Istanbul yes
Oct 12, 1952 Sun 21 The Cat's Meow yes
Oct 19, 1952 Sun 22 Manhunt yes
Oct 26, 1952 Sun 23 Iron Curtain Express yes
Nov 02, 1952 Sun 24 Long Distance yes
Nov 09, 1952 Sun 25 Career Girl yes
Nov 16, 1952 Sun 26 My Love Is A Ghost yes
Nov 23, 1952 Sun 27 Blackout yes
Nov 30, 1952 Sun 28 The Most Dangerous Game yes
Dec 07, 1952 Sun 29 Dangerous Journey yes
Dec 14, 1952 Sun 30 The Murder yes
Alt: Murder In His Heart
Dec 21, 1952 Sun 31 The Sound of Murder
Dec 28, 1952 Sun 32 No Contact yes
Alt: Volta
Jan 04, 1953 Sun 33 Fortune Hunter yes
Jan 11, 1953 Sun 34 Professor Calvin And The Voice yes
Jan 18, 1953 Sun 35 Killer At Large yes
Jan 25, 1953 Sun 36 The Creeper yes
Feb 01, 1953 Sun 37 Little Woman Who Wasn't There yes
Alt: Corpus Delicti
Feb 08, 1953 Sun 38 Worth More Than Life Itself yes
Alt: Pennypinching Boarding House
Owners
Feb 15, 1953 Sun 39 The Million Dollar Chase yes
Alt: The Will
Feb 22, 1953 Sun 40 Jailbreak yes
Mar 01, 1953 Sun 41 Frame For A Murder yes
Mar 08, 1953 Sun 42 Special Delivery yes
Mar 15, 1953 Sun 43 The Lady Is A Corpse yes
Mar 22, 1953 Sun 44 Woman For Man yes
Alt: Cathy Sutter Meets James Carter
Mar 29, 1953 Sun 45 Murder Row yes
Apr 05, 1953 Sun 46 Bank Robbery, Kidnapping yes
Alt: Johnny and Ellen, Killer and
Hostage
Apr 12, 1953 Sun 47 ... missing, title not known ...
Apr 19, 1953 Sun 48 Kingdom Lost yes
Alt: King Danno
Apr 26, 1953 Sun 49 Leading Man Search yes
May 03, 1953 Sun 50 Circumstantial Evidence yes
May 10, 1953 Sun ... pre-empted ...
May 17, 1953 Sun 51 The Holdup yes
May 24, 1953 Sun 52 Tiger Lily yes
May 31, 1953 Sun 53 The Evil Puppet yes
Alt: Lucifer
Jun 07, 1953 Sun 54 Million Dollar Hunt yes
Jun 14, 1953 Sun 55 The Playboy yes
Jun 21, 1953 Sun 56 The Monster yes
Jun 28, 1953 Sun 57 Harry, The Talking Horse yes
(last show)
........ questionable dates ........
Sep 20, 1953 The Empty Ash Tray Murder Case yes
Sep 27, 1953 The Society Writer Murder Case yes
...... unknown broadcast dates .....
Money Up In Smoke yes
Greed yes
Alphabetical Listing:
Title Date Num
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Agents In Havana 52-07-10 12
Amusement Park, The 52-08-14 16
Apprentice, The 52-07-24 14
Assassination Plot 52-06-15 8
Bald Artie Bender 52-06-22 9
Bank Robbery, Kidnapping 53-04-05 46
Big Cat, The 52-04-27 1
Blackout 52-11-23 27
Career Girl 52-11-09 25
Cat's Meow, The 52-10-12 21
Cathy Sutter Meets James Carter 53-03-22 44
Chinese Buddha 52-09-21 18
Circumstantial Evidence 53-05-03 50
Corpus Delicti 53-02-01 37
Countess Treanna 52-05-11 3
Creeper, The 53-01-25 36
Dangerous Journey 52-12-07 29
Doug Burton and a Mysterious Letter 52-07-10 12
Easy Riches, Sudden Death 52-06-01 6
Elliott Preston Is Framed For Murder 52-05-18 4
Empty Ash Tray Murder Case, The 53-09-20 ??
Evil Puppet, The 53-05-31 53
Flight From Istanbul 52-10-05 20
Fortune Hunter 53-01-04 33
Frame For A Murder 53-03-01 41
Golden Buddha, The 52-09-21 18
Greed unknown ??
Hardluck Ethel 52-06-08 7
Harry Troll's Diamond 52-05-04 2
Harry, The Talking Horse 53-06-28 57
Holdup, The 53-05-17 51
Iron Curtain Express 52-10-26 23
Jailbreak 53-02-22 40
Joey 52-07-17 13
Johnny and Ellen, Killer and Hostage 53-04-05 46
Killer At Large 53-01-18 35
King Danno 53-04-19 48
Kingdom Lost 53-04-19 48
Lady Is A Corpse, The 53-03-15 43
Leading Man Search 53-04-26 49
Little Woman Who Wasn't There 53-02-01 37
Long Distance 52-11-02 24
Lucifer 53-05-31 53
Manhunt 52-10-19 22
Million Dollar Chase, The 53-02-15 39
Million Dollar Hunt 53-06-07 54
Money Up In Smoke unknown ??
Monster, The 53-06-21 56
Most Dangerous Game, The 52-11-30 28
Murder In His Heart 52-12-14 30
Murder Row 53-03-29 45
Murder, The 52-12-14 30
My Love Is A Ghost 52-11-16 26
Newspaper Reporter After Germans 52-05-25 5
No Contact 52-12-28 32
Painting, The 52-08-07 15
Pennypinching Boarding House Owners 53-02-08 38
Philip Courtland, $20 Million Bum 52-09-28 19
Playboy, The 53-06-14 55
Professor Calvin And The Voice 53-01-11 34
Promotion, The 52-08-21 17
Reporter Pursued by Sudden Death 52-05-25 5
Search For Gold Bars, A 52-06-01 6
Society Writer Murder Case, The 53-09-27 ??
Sound of Murder, The 52-12-21 31
Special Delivery 53-03-08 42
Spy 52-06-15 8
Stephen, Monica and $1,000,000 52-06-29 10
Strictly For The Horses 52-06-08 7
Sunken Gold 52-06-01 6
Sunken Nazi Treasure 52-06-01 6
Tales 52-04-27 1
Terminate Professor Kolcheck 52-06-15 8
Termination 52-06-15 8
They Thought He Was Dead 52-05-25 5
Tiger Lily 53-05-24 52
Twenty Million Bum 52-09-28 19
Volta 52-12-28 32
Will, The 53-02-15 39
Woman For Man 53-03-22 44
Worth More Than Life Itself 53-02-08 38
Additional:
The Radio Showcase catalog also lists "NBC EXPERIMENT IN DRAMA:
Experiment 2 - Long Distance", 12/22/63. Steve Kelez comments that
"This is probably a rebroadcast of an episode of The Chase."
References:
* "The Ultimate History of Network Radio Programming and Guide To All
Circulating Shows", by Jay Hickerson, Box 4321, Hamden, CT 06514
* OTR club and vendor catalogs or web sites:
* Edward J. Carr, 216 Shaner Street, Boyertown, PA 19512
* Radio Showcase, Steve Kelez, PO Box 4357, Santa Rosa, CA 95402
* Great American Radio, Gary Kramer, PO Box 504, Genesee, MI 48437
* North American Radio Archives, 134 Vincewood Dr., Nicolasville,
KY 40356
* AVPRO, Don Aston, PO Box 1392, Lake Elsinore, CA 92531-1392
* Jerry Haendiges Productions, Jerry Haendiges, 13808 Sunset Dr.,
Whittier, CA 90602
* Radio Memories, Ted Davenport, 1600 Wewoka St., North Little
Rock, AR 72116
* Vintage Broadcasts, Andy Blatt, PO Box 50065, Staten Island, NY
10305
Other Logs or Books:
* THE CHASE log, Jerry Haendiges Productions, 13808 Sunset Dr.,
Whittier, CA 90602 (http://www.otrsite.com)
Reader Feedback:
* Dick Judge corrected the date for "Agents in Havana" and some
alternate titles.
Last Update: May 26, 2004
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