The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1949–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 28
- Genre
- western
CANDY MATSON, YUKON 2-8209 Candy Matson was the private eye star of Candy Matson, YUkon 2-8209 , an NBC West Coast show which first aired in March 1949 and was created by Monty Masters. He cast his wife, Natalie Parks, in the title role of this sassy, sexy PI. Her understated love interest, Lt. Ray Mallard, was played by Henry Leff while her assistant and best pal, aptly named Rembrandt Watson, was the voice of Jack Thomas. Every show opened with a ringing telephone and our lady PI answering it with "Candy Matson, YU 2-8209" and then the organ swung into the theme song, "Candy". Each job took Candy from her apartment on Telegraph Hill into some actual location in San Francisco. The writers, overseen by Monty, worked plenty of real Bay Area locations into every plot. Candy was bright, tough, and fearless. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Candy_Matson_Singles”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
6 dated broadcasts across 3 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1949, in original transmission order.
- 1. CandyM 1949-04-04 #Pilot (Audition Show) The Donna Dunham Case · 4 Apr 1949
- 2. CandyM 1949-11-10 #020 The Devil in the Deep Freeze · 10 Nov 1949
- 3. CandyM 1950-01-02 #026 NC9-8012- Insurance Crash · 2 Jan 1950
CandyM 1949-04-04 #Pilot (Audition Show) The Donna Dunham Case
4 Apr 1949 · 26 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 4 April 1949. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
CandyM 1949-11-10 #020 The Devil in the Deep Freeze
10 Nov 1949 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 10 November 1949. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
CandyM 1950-01-02 #026 NC9-8012- Insurance Crash
2 Jan 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 2 January 1950. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
CandyM 1950-06-20 #049 Symphony of Death
20 Jun 1950 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 20 June 1950. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
CandyM 1950-10-23 #056 The Egyptian Armulet
23 Oct 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 23 October 1950. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
CandyM 1951-05-21 #084 Candy's Last Case
21 May 1951 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 21 May 1951. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Candy Matson 49-07-07 (02) The Cable Car Case
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Candy Matson 49-12-10 (25) Jack Frost
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC
NBC in 1949–1951
Other series the network carried while Candy Matson, YUkon 2 was on the air.
Same seasons
western on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The adult western
Gunsmoke was sold as the first adult western: moral ambiguity, weather, silence. Serialised folk horror and long-form fiction inherited its patience.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
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