Radio Retropolis

Liz is determined not to be left out of the baseball game at the Annual Bank Outing, so she persuades her neighbor Mr. Wood to teach her how to play the game.

A large hospital in Los Angeles is held up and $10,000 in high-grade narcotics is stolen.  The trail leads to a Hollywood set where fiction and truth collide. Great commentary on how the answers we want are prolonged by LIFE as one's daily routine may prolong the anticipation of the dramatic conclusion of another life. The answer we want is prolonged by LIFE outside our realm. A beautifully written script.

With Superman desperately searching for Jimmy and Beanie who are trapped in the burning building, he realizes there is more to this racket that goes much deeper into corruption than he thought. Commentary on why this is a most relevant serial for 1946 America.

A college student and her friend go pay a surprise visit on an aunt she hasn't seen for a while. But it is they who get the surprise when they encounter the aunt's cat.

An evil businessman kidnaps his partner and keeps him in a burial vault. He wants him to sign a confession stating how he killed himself by drowning.

A woman, Barbara, who married for money meets Alex whom she instantly falls in love with. At the same time an old boyfriend resurfaces who still has feelings for her. Seeing an opportunity to escape her marriage to be with Alex, she schemes to frame her old boyfriend for the murder of her husband. JR speaks on what could have been a better plot twist than what was heard.

Jimmy and Beanie's peril becomes more frightening as they find themselves tied in a building engulfed in flames and nobody knows they are there. JR comments on the marketing trick used in the Pep Cereal Comic Buttons.

Liz and George arrive home from vacation to find that someone has been ordering strawberry ice cream from the milkman every day, and the pink trail leads to the doorstep of their new neighbors, Mr. & Mrs. Wood, and their ten children.

Detective Sergeant Joe Friday in homicide detail. Investigates the brutal knifing murder of a woman in her own home and the unusual circumstance around it. Commentary on the simplicity of story which made it even more interesting along with the real story of Mendocino State Hospital and the connection to a very famous cult, plus part 3 with Bill Roddy on one of his biggest radio gaffes, and Jack Webb's smoking habit.

Kent is unaware of the serious danger Jimmy and Beanie are in as an even bigger threat is looming that will hasten their demise. JR comments on the importance of Jimmy Olsen in the radio episodes and what each of the main characters brings to the series.