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Ma Perkins

10 episodes · 1950 · CBS · Soap Operas

Radio Hall of Fame inductee. (Wikipedia)

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Ma Perkins was a daytime serial of the kind that gave the soap opera its name: Oxydol soap paid for it until 1956. It began on August 14, 1933, on WLW in Cincinnati, joined NBC that December, and ran until November 25, 1960: 7,065 episodes. Ma ran a lumber yard in Rushville Center, a town of 4,000, with her best friend Shuffle Shober close by. Virginia Payne took the role at 19 and played it for all 27 years without missing a performance.

Sources: Ma Perkins, Wikipedia

Episodes

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1950

• Cousin Sylvester, Part 1 1950 · CBS · 15 min
  Cousin Sylvester is quietly winning Ma's trust while he schemes to cheat Fay, Willie and Evey.
• Cousin Sylvester, Part 2 1950 · CBS · 15 min
  Sylvester talks Willie into quitting his job at the lumber yard and putting his money into a phony stock.
• Cousin Sylvester, Part 3 1950 · CBS · 15 min
  Shuffle is too far away to visit Ma. Willie, stung by Cousin Ed's lies about Ma, edges closer to Sylvester's trap.
• Cousin Sylvester, Part 4 1950 · CBS · 15 min
  Sylvester gets hold of a stack of worthless stock certificates, ready to cheat Willie out of his savings.
• Cousin Sylvester, Part 5 1950 · CBS · 14 min
  Sylvester is one step away from getting Willie's $2,000.
• Fay Tells Ma of Sylvesters Proposalaka August 29, 1950 · 15 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
• Ma Asks Evey Willie About Sylvester Investmentaka August 30, 1950 · 15 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Worried About Proposal.”
• Ma Cant Believe Sylvester Badaka August 31, 1950 · 15 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Shuffles Learns of the Investment.”
• Ma Ed Discuss Sylvesteraka October 15, 1950 · 14 min
• Evey Willies New Yrs Partyaka December 25, 1950 · 13 min