Best of Classic Radio 09-12-26 - Meet Miss Sherlock, Gildy and the War Bond Drive, and Actor's Alibi

Wyatt Cox (0:00)

And your weekend is here. It's a Saturday, 12th day of September. Thanks for being with us for another Best of Classic Radio Theater.

We're going to hear some unusual stuff today as we go back to the radio programs that we broadcast back in 2022 This was broadcast four years ago today, and we're going to go back to 1946 Sondra Gair as Jane Sherlock in an episode of a short run show called Meet Miss Sherlock. We'll also have Harold Peary as The Great Gildersleeve in a Bond Drive show from 1943 We'll also have Fibber McGee and Molly from 1954

This is Never End a Sentence with a Premonition. That's what this is all about. Alan Ladd in an episode of Box 13, and the third part of a five part years truly Johnny Dollar story, The Confidential Matter, and this is a sad one. Thank you for being with us on this Saturday edition of Classic Radio Theater as we're doing our best of, so I can take just a little while off, you know?

SPEAKER_2 (1:21)

Now, the greatest radio shows of all time.

SPEAKER_3 (1:25)

Suspense, The Shadow Node, Washington Calling, David Harding, Counter-Spy, Classic Radio Theater, The Great Gildersleeve, Fibber McGee and Molly, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, The Lone Ranger.

SPEAKER_2 (1:39)

Now, step back into our time machine with your host, Wyatt Cox.

SPEAKER_3 (1:45)

Good evening, friends of the Inner Sanctum.

Wyatt Cox (1:49)

We're going back to September 12, 1946, 76 years ago, for an episode of Meet Miss Sherlock, a short run series starring Sondra Gair as Jane Sherlock and Wilma and the Widow. We thank you for tuning in. On this Monday, this is the 12th day of September, 255th day of the year. We have 110 days remaining till the end of the year. David Atunga's former fiancee turns 40 today. Do you know who that fiancee is? We will tell you that Elizabeth Barrett eloped with Robert Browning on this date in 1846 Screen Actors Guild implemented an anti-communist loyalty oath in 1947

In 1953, Nikita Khrushchev, elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Bonanza premiered on this date in 1959

It ran in color. The first regularly scheduled program premiering in color ran from 1959 to 1973 Fourteen seasons, four hundred thirty-one episodes of the second longest running Western right behind Gunsmoke. On this date in 1960, presidential candidate John Kennedy addressed his Catholic religion in front of a group of Protestant ministers in Houston.

John F. Kennedy (3:08)

Contrary to common newspaper usage, I am not the Catholic candidate for president. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president.

Wyatt Cox (3:17)

Kennedy went on to say, quoting, I believe in America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president should he be Catholic, how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote, where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference, and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

Space Shuttle Endeavor launched on this date in 1992, the 50th shuttle mission. May Carol Jemison, the first African American woman in space on board that mission. Frank Eugene Corder crashed a Cessna 150 into White House South Lawn striking the West Wing and killing himself. UN lifting sanctions against Libya on this date in 2003, after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 A commuter train engineer ran a red light on this date in 2008, while text messaging on his cell phone and struck a freight train head on in Los Angeles, killing himself and 24 others. National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York City opened to the public on this date in 2011, and NASA confirmed on this date in 2013, Voyager 1 became the first man-made object to enter interstellar space. Passing away on this date, hop along Cassidy, Bill Boyd, Psycho's Anthony Perkins, Raymond Burr passing away on this date. He knew him from Perry Mason and Ironside on TV, and you know him here from his role on Fort Laramie. The seven-year-old Itch star Tom Ewell and the man in black, Johnny Cash, all passing away on this date in history. This is the birthday of weapons inventor Gatling, the Gatling gun, the first automatic repeating gun. Also, journalist author HL. Mencken, singer-actor Maurice Chevalier, thank heaven for little girls. Also, Jesse Owens, a true American patriot.

Would you like to have been there? A black man in Germany and winning Olympic gold and standing up to the right.