 At the peak of the show's success in the 1940s, it was adapted into a string of feature films.A 1959 attempt to adapt the series to television with a different cast and new writers was both a critical and commercial failure, which, coupled with Marian Jordan's death shortly thereafter, brought the series to a finish.The stars of the program were real-life husband and wife team James "Jim" Jordan (1896–1988) and Marian Driscoll Jordan (1898–1961), who were natives of Peoria, Illinois.