Retro Radio Podcast

Evening has come, and Abner isn’t motivated to leave the store to go home. Lum gets him confused over comparing his home to a hornet’s nest. Abner has half a mind to go up in the mountains and hermit himself. He still gets confused over the hornets nest, thinking its something his poppa brought home.

Abner tells how his poppa is thrifty to the point of not wanting to throw things away. A handle off a railroad hand car, colored glass, and the clutter he brings home trips Abner as he tries to walk through his home at night..

Still worried about the hornet’s nest, Abner fears he’ll have to sneak in the back door tonight. Can Lum ever convince him there’s no hornet’s nest? Though he has been complaining about the random things his poppa brings home, a phone call finds Abner racing out to collect his own oddities to take home.

Billy Mills plays, I Wanna Be Happy.

Spring has sprung, and Fibber greets the first buds of the season. Digging in his garden, Fibber communes with nature as he plants a hedge. The Old Timer visits to offer seeds from his catalog. Does anyone want to hear it the way he does? Even when it’s about Molly being one of the well dressed women? Gildersleeve pops in with a dispute over the boundaries of their lawns. Party of the First Pot McGee brags about his skill with a green thumb. Harlowe spends time in some hard sales of the sponsor product.

Teeny takes a short cut and tells the latest about her dog, Margret. Suddenly a noise from the chimney brings a surprise, and a commercial moment from Harlowe. A stranger with a tripod shows up, is Nick Dipopolos also a surveyor? He tells about confusion on the golf course. Outside, Fibber and Gildersleeve bicker over who gets to look through the telescope. When Molly learns the guys are spying on Abigail Upington and Billy Mills, she shoves them aside to see it for herself.

The Kingsmen sing, All the Things You Are. When Abigail Uppington shows up, she seems to be showing signs of what the telescope revealed. What dignified way of explaining herself will she share? The surveyor has news that gives Gildy the upper hand, although there may be surprises for him as well.

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On a foggy morning, the Saint meets a movie starlet who claims to be giving up her career. Though Barbara goes over board on the ferry, Simon ends up with a thump on the head for his efforts to save her. A psychiatrist listens as Simon regains consciousness, and recounts how he knew Barbara. She was a woman in trouble, but refusing it if it meant dragging anyone else into it.

Threats of death greet Simon as he does his own prying. The doctor admits his own crush on the actress. Dames drop dead around Simon, the latest a card sharp. Continuing his story in flashback to the doctor, Simon tells of encounters with thugs.

The events of the previous, moonlit night are revisited. Thugs, thumps on the head, and the doctor. Simon has a handle on the cash that is the focus of the mystery, as well as having the pieces put together. The lights go dark, a gunshot blasts, and Simon knows who the color blind killer is.

Bonus Tracks

* The Rtrobots have to correct Keith about the feature today.

* Thanks, and notice is given to various supporters of the podcast.

* Ozzie and Harriet Short 1948 The Third Degree.

After most of the season without a sponsor, the show begins its run with RCA Victor.

Its Easter, and the family has just returned from church. The girls and Alice talk about how the service went. Even Phil and Willie get in on the discussion of fashions. Dresses, hats, pearls, youthful looks, and other exotic styles. Frankie arrives with gifts for the holiday. His generous mood leads to Phil singing, Dig Dig Dig for Your Dinner.

Out of gratitude for all that Alice has done for him, Frankie wants to take her and Phil out to dinner. Julius arrives to get in his wisecracks at the offer of dinner. Instead of a swanky hot spot, Frankie knows a better place. Alice sings, I Hear Singing.

The Italian restaurant is now run by Grogan. Alice is less than pleased with the dirty dump, and the menu selections. Fast forward and our heroes enjoy a meal in a French restaurant, where Phil shows off his language skills. With the language barrier being too much, Frankie has one more place to visit.

Discussing the bashful biologist over breakfast, Mrs Davis learns about the misadventures of dating Mr Boynton. Before Connie can plan her next moves to advance the relationship, Boynton phones with a proposition. Of course, the dinner date isn’t what Connie thinks it’s going to be.

Though Walter knows the truth, he is silenced by Connie. He does know the secret, doesn’t he? Crossed wires make it seem that the teachers eloped. The proposal involves real estate, but will the remote location work for Connie’s purposes? Has the rumor mill worked its powers of gossip to perpetuate the elopement story?

When the teachers are late in coming home, the gang worry that something may have happened. Will Connie be greeted as a new bride? The confusion between marriage, and real estate property sets up awkward moments of confusion.

To review, Don teases Jack about his acting lessons with Orson Wells last week. Phil Harris and Dennis Day arrive to hear the review by Ed Sullivan in the newspaper. Attention turns to Phil’s band, and the class of music he plays. Mary Livingstone is back after her cold, and tells about her cute doctor. She tells secrets on Jack showing off after his high class show, and performance last week. Phil and Mary sing, Holy Smoke Can’t You Take a Joke.

Don presents a one act play to pitch the sponsor. Jack and Mary are honeymooners, who start their elopement with romance, and marital bliss… until Jello enters the picture. Andy Divine arrives to tell about his diet, and new suit. After jokes on fashion, Andy has to run, and take his ma and pa out on the town. Phil Harris plays, Do I Love You.

Jack gets ribbed, then gives it back to Fred Allen, and the eagle that got loose in his studio. In introducing the play for next week, Jack gets himself sidetracked. The phone rings, and Rochester adds to the interruptions. Carmichael the polar bear has been acting up again. Finally, a few highlights of the play are shared.

A dispute over a baby picture of his girlfriend, Helen, is interrupted by a little woman who needs the help of Richard Diamond. She tells about a problem when her daughter Gloria found a package of money. Is Bill involved in something illegal? Is he just a hard worker who sends cash to his mom to help her? Doing his good deeds of the day, Richard returns the picture, and begins investigating for the little woman to get to the bottom of her troubles.

At the police station, Walt already has his corpse on his hands, but the aggravation sets in, when its Bill Kirby. To make it worse, the victim’s mother and sister got beat up. Now Richard leads the way, with Walt to get at the core of the matter. The important package doesn’t contain cash, only a shoe. There may be no helping Bill, but Richard is in it for revenge, and justice for Mrs Kirby.

A trail of clues is begun, when Richard talks with Gloria. Thugs soon find Richard, and after a thump on the head, Diamond gets back on the trail. Is there progress with the crime lab, and learning the secret of the shoe? Danger is sure to be in store for Richard as he turns up his next step in the case.

Secrets explode to the surface about robbing a gold shipment. Will knowing the gang’s operation do any good if Richard ends up dead? Gunplay, chases, and freshly captured thugs to hand over to Walt and the cops.

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Jim Brandon and Fern tune in a radio broadcast to dedicate the opening of a traffic tunnel. A helicopter reports the first car to make the trip is the mayor. The car goes in, but nobody comes out! How did it disappear? It may take some telepathic ability of the Avenger to figure it out.

A warning pinned to a guard claims the tunnel is a death trap. After a cost of $15 Million, will the city close the tunnel? Jim looks into the clues, and talks to safety inspectors. Is a model of a gold smelter on the engineer’s desk important to the case? An old property dispute shows up. A steel mill, and a young, new owner add to the picture. The city council thinks all the publicity has been a stunt, or a hoax. But when another threat comes in, Jim and Fern rush to the scene.

There isn’t a second to lose, and Jim crashes the tunnel gate. What should Fern look for as they silently cruise the tunnel” back in his lab, Jim studies up on the clues he has found. He shares the connections with Fern, but there’s more to make before the guilty party will show themselves in his trap. Not to mention an appearance by the Avenger.

In the Jot Em Down store, Lum and Abner round up grocery orders. Abner can’t keep his mind on the job, worrying over the little things his poppa does around the house to annoy Lizabeth. He misplaces things, and interfere with Lizabeth in keeping up with her soap operas. Although Abner seems to know the latest happenings on Hearts Aflame.

Why can’t Abner just come out flat footed, and tell his poppa how he’s disrupting things? When Phinus enters, Abner figures he’ll let Lum do all those things he has been advising Abner to do. The rambling speech is endless, and goes nowhere from phrase to phrase. He manages to be coherent enough to ask Lum for his honest input.

Is Phinus being a burden on Abner and Lizabeth? Well? He tries his best to fit in, and knows he’s old and doesn’t want to be a burden. Will Lum be able to be the go between to patch things up? With Abner back from the post office, its now Lum who can’t keep his mind on the grocery order.

Coming across the scene of an ambushed wagon, Bill pieces together how it happened. Valuable cargo is left behind in the wake of explosions and a dead driver. What kind of road agents are our heroes up against?

In Pistol Springs, Bill learns about extortion that until now had committed no crimes, other than terrorizing the citizens. Finding a damsel in distress, Bill resorts to gun play to get an apology for Miss Harvey. It turns out that rounding up the bad guys isn’t a problem, but getting people to testify against them is. The protection racket has its ring leaders hanging out in the saloon, and Bill lays down the law to them. He even has a plan to protect his witnesses.

In a switch, Bill has the good guys locked in jail, and the bad guys on the loose. Still, the bad guys have a plan to dynamite the jail and do away with their foes. Will Bill outsmart them? Guns blaze, but watch out, explosives have been placed around the jail. Trouble may not be easy to diffuse. Will Bill manage to swap the situation to end up with a jail full of bad guys?