Radio Retropolis

One of the funniest episodes where Liz finally takes a driving lesson which results in a few classic scenes with Lucille Ball and Frank ("Yeeeesssss") Nelson.  Lucille Ball showed early signs of Lucy Ricardo and Nelson was the perfect foil. NOT TO BE MISSED!

A secretary tells Friday and Smith that her employer has suddenly left town and taken all the company records with him. Commentary on character flaws in the writing due to Jack Webb focusing on the television series. Plus, Black Monday 1929.

Robbins and Doc, a man who was part of the mob but realized the lynching was not justice but murder and helped him escape, find themselves in a barn that is now set ablaze by the mob. A countdown of the Best and Worst Live Action Superman costumes.

A cheating wife and her lover leave town in her husband’s car only to be terrorized by a mysterious trucker on a lonely stretch of road.  Commentary on the similarities between this and the Steven Spielberg movie Duel about a motorist terrorized by an unknown trucker.  Also, why this episode is great horror by comparing the great horror movies of our past.

A woman shoots her husband dead in cold blood and places the blame on someone else with only the sound of fingernails scraping that haunt her.  Commentary on star Agnes Moorehead.

The intolerant extremists who abducted Robbins from the police are planning to lynch him.  With Superman nowhere in sight, is there someone to stop this madness? Commentary on the commendation given to Superman during the live broadcast.

A two-year-old baby has been poisoned and her mother is nowhere to be found.  Commentary on Frank complaining about easy living in 1955.

At the insistence of Lattimer, his stooge, Governor Wheeler, reassigned Sam Robbins to an upstate jail in which the area is a hotbed for Lattimer extremists.  Commentary on the recent loss of an iconic TV and film exterior set.

In this pre-Nazi era episode, a doctor comes up with a strange formula that allows the old to regain their youth. But for one in absolute power this could be the answer to building a super race!