Retro Radio Podcast

The scene goes live to Jack’s dressing room at the movie studio where he is making a new film. Rochester is on hand to give Jack a hard time over his clothing, quality of dressing room, and life in genral. Jack complains about the classiness of his dressing room when Phil enters to learn of Jack’s latest wardrobe malfuncion. Kenny phones in, so Jack tunes in the radio to hear Kenny sing, Why Haven’t I Told You. Hey, wasn’t that song done again by someone in the 1960’s?

As Jack awaits his leading lady, Joan Bennet, the rest of the cast pop in to see what’s happening, and to tease Jack. When Joan arrives, she and Mary have a minor moment of friction. Sassy, and cute.

Phil plays some travelling music and the gang all go to the studio to witness a scene from Jack’s latest film. At the studio, the gang keep up their teasing of Jack as they have run ins with studio executives who can’t remember names.

Real life director of the film, Mitch Lightner is on hand to help the rehearsal of Jack and Joan’s lines. The gang gets to watch the fun, and makes jokes as the scene unfolds. Finally, Jack is left hanging. Literally, he’s hanging out the window, as the cast all take a break.

Don offers more Jello recipe tips, and a closing epilog has Jack and Mary going on a double date with Joan and Mitch.

* An eager young man enters an office to talk to the attractive woman seated at the desk.

* Bugs Baer presents his character from Rough Town, Whatttaman. The tough boxer has been missing.

* Sam Helman who writes about the Updike family shares this scene. The uppercuts family shares the woes of yachting, and sharing a box seat.

* OO Macintyre tells behind the scenes eccentricities of marriages of the literary and artistic types.

* Will Rogers discusses a round the world flier, and his return home, as depicted in this little drama.

* Milt Gross features Joe Runt. The soft spoken man pays a visit on his childhood sweetheart, Effie.

The announcer reminds the kiddies how to get their very own birthstone ring, just like Annie got for her birthday last week. Just send in the required labels from the sponsor… oh yeah, and hop into your time machine to return to the year 1935. Good luck.

Standing on Main street in Simmons Corners, Annie and Joe decide to visit a store keeper. Mr Kasslin is on the phone, trying to get Jake to pay for a newspaper ad.

Meanwhile, Annie shows off her new ring, and learns more about Jake nd his troubles.

It isn’t that Jake doesn’t want to pay his bill, but he is sick, and has troubles that the local doctor may not be able to cure.

If Jake goes away, who’ll run his store while he’s gone? Mr Kasslin has an idea.

Backing the great Army and Navy on the battle front is our invisible force of counterspies who guard the Homefront. In Washington DC a coward betrays his country, and commits suicide. Or is it as simple as that? David Harding investigates to see just how bad the situation really was.

His finding is that the suicide wasn’t over health, or finances, and a search for woman trouble is begun.

A paper trail of the whereabouts of Mr Terrace connects him to a mysterious, dark, attractive woman. The high society woman doesn’t quite match, and David Harding investigates personally. Avery Rollins may be on the look out for a new mark, and David approaches a man who might make good bait.

The colonel is traced traveling around the country with the dark woman, but her description doesn’t match Avery Rollins. What is it that has the red flags raised for David? Will the colonel be in the same danger as Mr Terrace?

A trap is planned, but is the colonel having second thoughts? Can Miss Rollins really be as evil as David makes the charming woman out to be? How will Harding be able to force the issue, and prove to the colonel how the dangerous spy ring works. t

Just when Lum and Abner have thought they exhausted their means at finding out the babies identity, or what the coat of arms with him means, a new hope may arrive. Abner wonders why Lum is acting so strange and refuses to sit down. After some coaxing, Lum talks about the broken down horse he bought. He feels he needs to practice his horsemanship skills, so he’ll fit in with the rest of the dukes, and knights, when their royal baby is reunited with his kingdom.

Squire Skimp arrives, but will he have some information, or just want to sell a king sized insurance policy to the gents for the baby?

Lum feels offended that Squire took liberties to send off to a genealogy company to investigate the insignia of the coat of arms.

Both Lum and Abner think Squire has suspicions that the baby is a king, and only wants to horn in. A postcard comes that proves to add even more to the mystery of the baby.

Two aristocratic Frenchmen, D’Toukfel and Beaumont, travel America in 1831, to observe democracy, and culture. The flags, church bells, and sound of gun shots are marveled at, as the Frenchmen observe the celebration of the Revolutionary war… actually, the war of Independence. For the Frenchmen, revolutionary wars are grounds for both celebration and remorse.

Symbols in the parade are explained. From the wagons, to flags of various nations on display. Other observations that set American democracy apart from French democracy are made. Honor is upheld for George Washington, and that there have been no counter revolts, and orderly progression of government has occurred are noteworthy. Listen to an old veteran of the war tell about the war from his practical viewpoint of it. The honors of the day are for all who served, from soldier to general.

Speeches remind the Frenchmen of their less than honorable outcome of their revolution in the past July. In America, everything begins with a prayer. The Declaration of Independence is read, and with an electric feel from the listeners that was no theatrical production.

The speeches could have stopped there for our French visitors. To them the rest was the kind of nauseous pomp they might have found in their homeland.

Nick has a score to settle with a rat with a wooden leg, and takes the case from Mrs Wallace. The place to start is the old soldier’s tavern. Using his skill at cards, Nick wins, but also makes a friend. Or has he just set himself up for a trap?

Armed with new information, Nick checks out a shady cab. Posing as a drunk, Nick becomes an easy mark for being picked up, but what game is this? What’s happening to the missing passengers of the cab? Nick has answers, but he still smells a rat.

Joined by his cop friend, Penny, Nick discovers where Mr Wallace is, but he needs to rescue him from death. A trap is set, and secrets are revealed about who is really behind the disappearances, and why.

Sade wants Vic to put up the porch swing. Vic, however, seems to be reluctant to do it. Eventually Sade takes on the job herself.

This episode is special because it represents the debut of Russell Miller into the Gook family.

We find out by doing some research that Russell is the orphaned nephew of Vic’s boss, Mr. Buller, at Consolidated Kitchenware. How and why he’s there at the Gook house seems beyond research as there is simply no way of knowing what exactly he is doing there in terms of the plot line. At any rate, Russell is now a part of the Gook household, at least for the better part of a year.

The part of Russell was played by David Whitehouse and there’s not much information available about him to be found anywhere… We do know the real reason he’s been added to the family; he’s an extra body, a son-figure.

Russell is certainly no clone of Rush but he does a pretty good job.

Trivia:

* Mr. Bainbridge from Dixon, McClellan and Pete McStingel are mentioned but nothing else was said about them. I’m going to assume that McClellan is the train conductor that Uncle Fletcher gave a cupcake to in this episode.

* Uncle Fletcher tells the story of Ernie Spotters from Belvidere. He could play the violin, guitar and mouth organ. The gang tried to play a trick on him by giving him an anvil to play but he just sat there. He wore a pair of shoes for six weeks then tried to take them back to the store. He loved apples but hated fish. He was right-handed and left-handed both. He never trusted smoking tobacco; was afraid it would explode.

* Uncle Fletcher tells of Minnesota Hoosh who would smoke but he wouldn’t chew tobacco.

* Uncle Fletcher says that Harry Wool knew a man that knew Fred Stembottom.

–Review provided by Jimbo, as found at: The Crazy World of Vic and Sade. Visit the page for more links and pictures of Vic and Sade.

Letters from strangers, expected phone calls about the baby, and plenty of jumping to conclusions have the gents believing the baby in their care is royalty. Will their expected caller be the queen? Today Lum and Abner worry over whether they’re doing the right thing. Will rich rewards await them for their care of the baby? Maybe even propose marriage to Lum?

Imaginations run rampant, thinking of their brush with celebrity, and the fame it will bring them. Is there some kind of protocol that Lum ought to follow in talking to a queen? He and Abner try their hand at role playing a pretend call.

The phone rings, nerves run high. Will secrets be revealed? What does that coat of arms mean? The man on the other end talks in hushed tones, and warns of danger. The woman who dropped off the baby is his aunt, not his mom. A gunshot is heard! The phone call is dropped before more secrets can be revealed.

As Joe Corntassle keeps Annie busy, all her friends meet in the home of Ma and Pa Flowers for a surprise birthday party. Leaping lizards, Annie’s disappointment over not seeing a beaver is replaced with surprisewhen her friends fill the house to greet her.

Her gifts even include one from Daddy Warbucks as he travels the world, and not able to make the party. Leaping lizards! Its a ring with a fancy birthstone for Annie.

As Annie turns to open her other gifts, we learn from the announcer how to get your very own birthstone ring.