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Mr. and Mrs. North

Mr. and Mrs. North
Barbara Britton Richard Denning Mr. & Mrs. North.jpg
Richard Denning and Barbara Britton on the set of the television show
Genre Mystery/comedy
Directed by
Starring
Theme music composer John Rarig
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 57 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
Producer(s) John W. Loveton
Cinematography
Running time 30 min
Production company(s)
  • Bernard L. Schubert Productions
  • Federal Telefilms
Distributor
Release
Original network
  • CBS (Season 1)
  • NBC (Season 2)
Picture format Black-and-white
Audio format Monaural
Original release October 3, 1952 (1952-10-03) – May 25, 1954 (1954-05-25)

Mr. and Mrs. North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple was featured in a series of 26 Mr. and Mrs. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture and several radio and television series.

The characters originated in 1930s vignettes written by Richard Lockridge for the New York Sun, and he brought them back for short stories in The New Yorker. These stories were collected in Mr. and Mrs. North (1936). Lockridge increased the readership after he teamed with his wife Frances on a novel, The Norths Meet Murder (1940), launching a series of 26 novels, including Death Takes a Bow, Death on the Aisle and The Dishonest Murderer. Their long-run series continued for over two decades and came to an end in 1963 with the death of Frances Lockridge. The series was unusual in that it was Mrs. North who often solved the cases, while Mr. North was just background much of the time. In his article, "Married Sleuths," Charles L.P. Silet captured the flavor of the novels:

Albert Hackett and Peggy Conklin had the title roles in the Broadway production Mr. and Mrs. North, which ran 163 performances at the Belasco Theatre from January 12, 1941, to May 31, 1941. Alfred De Liagre, Jr. produced and directed the play written by Owen Davis. In that version, the North's apartment is located on Greenwich Place, Manhattan, realized in a scenic design by Jo Mielziner.

The Owen Davis play became a 1942 MGM movie (Mr. and Mrs. North), starring Gracie Allen and William Post, Jr. with Millard Mitchell repeating his role of Detective Mullins from the Broadway production. Others in the cast were Paul Kelly, Rose Hobart and Keye Luke.


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