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The Adventures of Leonidas Witherall, or simply Leonidas Witherall, was radio detective series based on the character created by Alice Tilton (the pseudonym of mystery writer Phoebe Atwood Taylor). Walter Hampden starred as Leonidas Witherall, the William Shakespeare look-alike who worked as an instructor on a boys’ school in New England. Witherall was also an amateur detective and an author at the same time. In the series, he wrote the "popular Lieutenant Hazeltine Stories."

 

The show first aired on Mutual Broadcasting on June 4, 1944, every Sunday evenings for half an hour.  It ended less than a year later, on May 6, 1945. 

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Air Date Title Synopsis
 1944-06-04  Square Nazi Jack Boot

Mutual net. Sustaining. The first show of the series on Mutual. Walter Hampden gives a short talk at the start of the show, explaining the characters in this detective series. A dead man is occupying Leonidas' closet during an afternoon tea. It turns out the Nazis are at work! Walter Hampden, Howard Merrill (writer), Roger Bower (producer).
 1944-07-30  Mrs Mullet Disappears

+ Mutual net. Sustaining. Mrs. Mollet has been kidnapped. After she escapes, she and Leonidas set out to capture the crooks. The program has also been dated June 23, 1944. Walter Hampden, Ethel Remey. 
 1944-09-07  The Four Killers

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