Retro Radio Podcast

Though his father has yet to arrive, Abner frets over having to let his wife know. Today we find him talking with grandpap about a weight lifter in the clean and jerk competition. What is that anyway? Abner tries to compose a letter to his wife to break the news about his poppa coming, but grandpap keeps interrupting with facts about the weight lifter.

The old gent wonders why Abner bothers with a letter, when he could just phone home. He also goes on about how he hates and dispises it when people interrupt, or read out loud crazy, unrelated facts.

Forcing the issue, grandpap rings Lizabeth, and puts Abner on the spot with his wife. False starts abound as he works up courage to break the news of his poppa coming to town. Won’t grandpap bail him out? Will Abner’s agony ever end?

Notable quote: Well I’ll be a monkeys knock kneed uncle. (Grandpap)

Bob “Hollywood Canteen” Hope. Has returned home after touring military bases. He stills has a few military related jokes. Starlets, dating, uniforms, dancing, and military life are topics. Life in the Hollywood Canteen, with the starlets give way to red carpet affairs.

Francis Langford sings, At Last. Bette Davis, president of the Hollywood Canteen, joins Bob to tell about her work there. How did the canteen get started? War bond sales, movie love scenes, women in the workforce, all make the topics. As Bob runs out of gas, he encounters a girl attendant at the pumps, Bette. Skinny Ennis sings, Kalamazoo.

Meet the Navy, when Bob gives a chance for a Yeoman to talk to him on the stage. Wanting to meet a movie star, the sailor meets Vera Veg. Jerry Colonna is the waiter, and soon they are joined by Francis Langford and Skinny Ennis as well.

Reliving another New Years eve, Watson tells about the one in 1899. On a train, and with several hours of travel ahead of them, Holmes hears the word on the latest mystery from Watson. A matter of an inheritance being passed on at the 21st birthday. How does a leap year figure to complicate the matter? Arriving at the castle, our sleuths are greeted warmly.

The midnight ceremony means opening the iron box, and will officially announce a wedding engagement. Preparations are made, all the players in place, and excitement runs high. Holmes explains why 1900 is not a leap year, and Watson tells that the new century doesn’t actually begin until 1901.

Disappointment falls on the young folks. Can Sherlock bring any resolution? As Watson tries his best to cheer up the young couple, a murder kicks up the stakes, and Holmes is in pursuit of a killer. Who pushed grandfather out the window, into the moat?

Billy Mills opens with, Shine.

Fibber and Molly read the newspaper headlines. To solve a matter of confusion, the dictionary is needed from the hall closet. Despite the claim it’s locked, Molly proves it isn’t, and gets buried alive. Fibber wants to put it all back, but Molly wants to get rid of the stuff they don’t need. Teeny arrives to say she has to go back on a baby sitting deal with Fibber. Not to mention other troubles with her little brother.

After a bit of hard sale from Harlowe Wilcox, the McGee’s look through their sentimental things, and the Old Timer visits. Will the McGee’s let him rent a room? He tells it the way he her’d it about the hit film, Gone with the Wind. Turning to the photo album, and family photos, the McGee’s are interrupted by Harlowe and another commercial.

The next visitor is Gracie Allen. She tells about her campaign for president. Molly learns about the Surprise Party and the cabinet Gracie plans. The Kingsmen sing, Kapusalem.

As the clean up continues, the phone rings. It’s Mirt the phone operator who tells hbout her missing uncle. Mrs Uppington arrives with news of a concert. Gildersleeve is next to interrupt. He spars with Fibber about their Boy Scout days. Once the closet is all packed back in, then Fibber remembers why he got into it to begin with. Stand by for more clean up.

Note: Elsewhere on this site, or other places on the web, this show may be dated for the following week. The date indicated here is the correct one.

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Abner’s father is expected in Pine Ridge any day, but he hasn’t arrived yet. Today we find Lum on the phone, taking orders. The beaded handbags are a way of Phinus being helpful, but it only stirs up trouble. What will the gents do with all the beaded handbags? Will there be conflict with Lizabeth over the bags, or with Phinus.

Where will Phinus stay while he’s in town? Abner doesn’t want him, but trying to pawn him off on Lum doesn’t sit well with Lum. As crazy about each other as Abner claims. somehow Lizabeth and his poppa just can’t get along. Even after the farm tools to help her get along, Abner can’t figure why she won’t cooperate.

Abner tells some of the things his poppa does that drives Lizabeth nuts. Just thinking of the potential conflict has him all choked up. In his mind, he already has her packed up, and moving to her brother’s down in Texas for the duration.

Reviewing the events of her date, Connie Brooks tells Mrs Davis about seeing the movies with Mr Boynton. Will Connie be able to hire herself out as a tutor for a Frenchman? On the way to school, Walter shares that he thinks the exciting trip to Paris will be a great opportunity for a qualified teacher. Will there even be temptation for Mr Conklin to leave Madison high for a lucrative life in France?

Will Boynton be grief stricken to hear that Connie may be leaving the country for a year? Will it force him to show his romantic side? Mr Bouvier is interested in Connie, but she needs to be fluent in French. The meeting at Connie’s house is arranged, and the clash in culture is about to begin.

Crossed signals make the Frenchman think that Conklin is Connies dad, and Boynton is her husband. The assumed marriage could work in the favor of Connie and Boynton. What if they prove it, by claiming Walter is their son? One possible problem is in getting Conklin to cooperate.

After making his film Wabash Avenue, a year and a half ago, Phil waits by the phone, hoping for word about making another. From their discussion of her duties on the set, apparently Darrel Zanuk may not have been entirely impressed with either Phil or Alice. Visiting the director in the studio, he is more impressed with getting Alice to come back to work. What would it take to make a movie of Alice’s life? Why doesn’t Phil have the same appeal as someone like Gregory Peck? Alice sings a medley, You’ll Never Know, and Alexanders Ragtime Band.

Should Phil take the advice seriously and do something to change his face? Alice figures a good make up job is all it should take. Trying out new looks, will Phil be mistaken for Valentino? Frankie isn’t fooled, it’s Groucho, right? How about Louie Armstrong? Maybe a nose job would be an improvement?

Not wanting any change, Alice phones to have the doctor do her a favor. Meanwhile, on the way Phil meets up with Julius. The jokes about altering appearances continues. Receding chins, wrinkles, nose jobs, and more. If Phil is beginning to have doubts, he should really think things through when Grogan hits the scene. Fast forward and the surgery has been a success, and what about that favor that Alice wanted?

Back in Hollywood after enjoying the winter sports in Yosemite, the cast teas Jack about his prowess on the slopes, and in doing it the hard way. Mary Livingstone, and Phil Harris turn the jokes towards being stingy as well. Dennis Day is still cheerful, and asks Jack about his accident. Before Dennis can sing, Don brings up Jack’s disappointments over not winning at the Academy Awards. Dennis sings, Make Love with a Guitar.

The teasing over the Oscars continues. Mary tells secrets on Jacks disappointments, and bad behavior at the award ceremony. Could he have acted the parts in some of the hit boviesbetter than the leading men in them? Jack tries to introduce the play, but Andy Devine pops in for an appearance. He tells about the vaudeville act that he and his family have put together. After an interruption from a telegram from Jack’s father, Phil Harris plays, I Got My Eyes on You.

Jack wants to clarify whether Phil is recycling his band numbers, but Phil has to ask the boys in the band. Jack keeps trying to introduce the play, but this time he’s interrupted by Gracie Allen. She tells about her presidential campaign. The matter of tossing her hat into the ring gets Gracie and Mary in a discussion of styles and fashions. Can she count on the cast, and the Waukegan vote for support? Even Jack’s abbreviated play is interrupted with a phone call from Rochester. Carmichael the polar bear is fighting with Trudy the ostrich.

After sharing about some of the loudly colored fashions of the day, Richard shifts to a matter of Harry Baker becoming involved with his private secretary. Is Connie moving too fast, or pushing the issue with Harry too far? Dropping into the police station, Richard teases his cop friends, and enjoys a comedy of errors regarding a nonexistent corpse.

On a shopping trip with his girlfriend Helen, Richard spots a petty kleptomaniac. Is the shoplifter something to worry about, or report? Mrs Baker is one of the stores better customers, an eccentric, and the store sends bills to her husband to cover for her.

Meanwhile, a serious robbery has taken place, and Richard spots the scam.. though the crime has been stopped, Richard checks out the store for other signs of conspiracy. Is Mrs Baker involved somehow? Back in the police station, word of a suicide comes in, but Richard smells a rat with the death of Mrs Baker. Doing his own checking, Richard turns up another body. Dots are soon connected, and a confrontation is in store. With the details laid bare, the heat is turned up to expose the scheme of murder.

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Thugs return to the scene of a past crime, choosing the morbid hiding place of a graveyard. Their plan to break through a wall, and bypass a bank alarm is slowly revealed. Kapper and Bates seem to have all their bases covered. There’s just one dame who could ruin their plans.

Elsewhere, Jim Brandon and Fern get ready for a date. Their friend Janice feels her father’s untimely death was never investigated well. The friends set out to meet up with Bill, who is working in the bank building. What danger will Janice be in when Kapper notices her, and demands pictures she has?

Nabbing the two dames, the thugs take them for a ride. Will Fern and Janice be doomed? Brandon finds a problem at Bill’s office, but will he be able to do anything about it? Have the thugs managed a foolproof set up? They haven’t counted on the invisibility powers of the Avenger. Even the Avenger may need extra help to rescue Fern and Janice.