Made by Don Quinn, the co-creator of Fibber McGee & Molly, The Halls of Ivy was a predicament comedy series that ran on NBC radio from 1950 through 1952. Originally slated to superstar Gale Gordan and Edna Best, the lead tasks went to English husband-and-wife actors Ronald and Benita Colman. The Colman’s had been well versed at humor and already a hit with radio enthusiasts having played Jack port Benny’s next-door-neighbor around the Jack Benny Program for a long time. Ronald Colman performed William Todhunter Hall, the about The Halls of Ivy, Collection 1 urbane president of small, rural Ivy University. Benita, played his wife Victoria, a previous British musical comedy superstar. The series chronicled their relationships with students, friends, and university trustees. Others in the solid were Supplement Butterfield as testy board chairman Clarence Wellman, Willard Waterman (after that starring in The Great Gildersleeve) as board member John Merriweather and Alan Reed (television’s Fred Flintstone) as stuffy British teacher, Teacher Heaslip. Bea Benaderet, Gloria Gordon, Virginia Gregg, Lee Patrick, Jean Vander Pyle (tv’s Wilma Flintstone), Sam Edwards, Arthur Q. Bryan (the voice of Elmer Fudd), Barton Yarborough and Jerry Hausner appeared in supporting assignments. The sponsor was the Joseph Schlitz Making Company (“The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous”). Nat Wolff created and directed the series and Ken Carpenter was the announcer. The Halls of Ivy received a Peabody Prize in 1950 and produced a changeover to CBS television in 1954, bowing out in 1955. 3/3/50 “The Halls Give Advice towards the Lovelorn”

3/10/50 “The House Fires or the Footlights”

3/17/50 “The Prexy Runs Political Offenders Out of Town”

3/24/50 “Untangling a Triangle”

3/31/50 “The Prexy Dabbles in Music”

4/7/50 “The Prexy and Wife Play Hooky”

4/14/50 “A Lost Dog Worth a Million Dollars”

4/21/50 “Speeding Ticket and a pleasant Bunch of Coconuts”

5/10/50 “Brutal Truth”

5/24/50 “The Medical College student and The Champ”

5/31/50 “The George Sexton Endowment”

6/21/50 “The Bentheimers as well as the Census”