[10] In July 1941, his musical radio play Eight to the Bar, a tribute to boogie woogie and its pioneer, Pinetop Smith, aired over the NBC Red Network, starring Eddie Green and narrated by Canada Lee.
[14][15] Brown's next assignment came in August of that year, on composer Meredith Willson's self-titled, six-week series, which served as the summer replacement for NBC's The Aldrich Family.
That fall, Brown became director of Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue,[16] In the fall of 1951, Brown—together with Frank Telford and Joseph Scibetta—became one of three alternating directors on Schlitz Playhouse of Stars,[17] The following year, in episodes airing February 1 and May 16, respectively, he produced and directed the TV debuts of screen star Ann Sothern—in "Lady With a Will" (based on the like-named Ward Morehouse-Peggy Wood play)—and singer Polly Bergen.
[18][19][20] In January 1954, Brown signed with CBS, succeeding John Claar as director of the sitcom Life With Father, based on the like-named Broadway play and its 1947 film adaptation.
Guiding a cast led by Dick Powell, Teresa Wright, and Cesar Romero, Brown's direction was dubbed "imaginative and vigorous" by Hollywood Reporter critic Milton Luban, who described the work itself as "beautifully acted and directed, and loaded with suspense," and deemed the episode clearly superior to any of the previously released big screen Chandler adaptations.