Author's Playhouse - The Kracken (07-08-44)

<b>Author’s Playhouse</b> - Famous stories by celebrated authors: among them, Elementals (Stephen Vincent Benet), The Piano (William Saroyan), and The Snow Goose (Paul Gallico).March 5, 1941 till June 4, 1945, NBC;  Blue Network until mid-October 1941, then the Red Network.  Many briefly held 30m timeslots, including Sundays at 11:30, 1941-42;  Wednesdays at 11:30, 1942-44;   Mondays at 11:30, 1944-45.  Sponsor was Philip Morris, 1942-43. Cast:  John Hodiak, Fern Persons, Arthur Kohl, Laurette Fillbrandt, Kathryn Card, Bob Jellison, Nelson Olmsted, Marvin Miller, Olan Soule, Les Tremayne, Clarence Hartzell, Curley Bradley, etc.  Orchestra:  Rex Maupin, Roy Shield, J6seph Gallicchio. Creator:  Wynn Wright.  Directors:  Norman Felton, Fred Weihe, Homer Heck, etc.<br><br><b>THIS EPISODE:</b><br><br>July 8, 1944. NBC network. "<i><b>The Kraken</b></i>". Sustaining. A science fiction tale about a British submarine captured by a huge sea monster. Frederick Englehart (author). 1/2 hour.<br><br><!-- FreeTellaFriend - BEGIN --> <a href="http://www.freetellafriend.com/tell/?u=4625" onclick="window.open('http://www.freetellafriend.com/tell/?u=4625&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'&url='+encodeURIComponent(document.location.href), 'freetellafriend', 'scrollbars=1,menubar=0,width=617,height=530,resizable=1,toolbar=0,location=0,status=0,screenX=210,screenY=100,left=210,top=100'); return false;" title="Tell a Friend" target="_blank"><img alt="Tell a Friend" src="http://serv1.freetellafriend.com/button_red3.gif" border="0"></a> <!-- FreeTellaFriend - END -->