Editing Damon Runyon (section)

===Radio===
''The Damon Runyon Theater'' radio series dramatized 52 of Runyon's short stories in weekly broadcasts running from October 1948 to September 1949 (with reruns until 1951).<ref name=digideli>{{cite web|url=http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Damon-Runyon-Theatre.html |title=The Damon Runyon Theatre |publisher=The Digital Deli Too |access-date=March 9, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127043041/http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Damon-Runyon-Theatre.html |archive-date=January 27, 2012 }}</ref><ref>Goldin, David J. (2012). [http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=The+Damon+Runyon+Theatre "The Damon Runyon Theatre"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111108050654/http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=The+Damon+Runyon+Theatre |date=November 8, 2011 }}, radioGOLDINdex database. Retrieved March 9, 2012.</ref> The series was produced by [[Alan Ladd]]'s Mayfair Transcription Company for syndication to local radio stations. [[John Brown (actor)|John Brown]] played the character "Broadway", who doubled as host and narrator. The cast also comprised [[Alan Reed]], [[Luis Van Rooten]], Joseph Du Val, [[Gerald Mohr]], [[Frank Lovejoy]], [[Herb Vigran]], [[Sheldon Leonard]], [[William Conrad]], [[Jeff Chandler]], [[Lionel Stander]], [[Sidney Miller (actor)|Sidney Miller]], [[Olive Deering]] and [[Joe De Santis]]. [[Pat O'Brien (actor)|Pat O'Brien]] was initially engaged for the role of "Broadway". The original stories were adapted for the radio by [[Russell S. Hughes|Russell Hughes]].

"Broadway's New York had a crisis each week, though the streets had a rose-tinged aura", wrote radio historian [[John Dunning (detective fiction author)|John Dunning]]. "The sad shows then were all the sadder; plays like ''For a Pal'' had a special poignance. The bulk of Runyon's work had been untapped by radio, and the well was deep."<ref name="Dunning">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fi5wPDBiGfMC&dq=%22The+Damon+Runyon+Theater,+dramatic+anthology%22&pg=PA189 |last=Dunning |first=John |author-link=John Dunning (detective fiction author) |title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio |date=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-19-507678-3 |page=189 |edition=Hardcover; revised edition of ''Tune in Yesterday'' (1976) |access-date=October 4, 2019}}</ref>{{Rp|189|date=May 2013}}