Good-hearted but impulsive Tom Jones, unaware of his true parentage, survives romantic entanglements, betrayal, and misadventure before the truth about his birth emerges.

This NBC University Theater broadcast aired on February 13, 1949. It is listed as episode 28 in the archive. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Tom Conway, J. Donald Adams, Alma Lawton, Constance Cavendish, and Eric Snowdon. Other credited names include Andrew C. Love as director, Morton Friedman as radio adaptor, and Don Stanley as announcer.

The surviving recording runs about 59 minutes.

This version dramatizes Tom Jones. Henry Fielding is credited as author and Morton Friedman adapted it for radio.

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