Best of Classic Radio 09-13-26 - The Flatbush Fagin, Dooley Surrenders, and It Pays to be Ignorant

Wyatt Cox (0:00)

Happy Sunday to you. Thanks for joining us for the best of Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox. And by the way, somebody asked again online, are we back on the radio? No, we're not. We are doing our podcasts each and every day.

But for now, we are taking a break from the radio, and it'll be a while, I'm afraid, if we're ever back on the radio. But we do have these great podcasts, and we're going back four years. We're going to have episodes of Counterspy, starring Don Maclaughlin and Mandel Kramer from 1949 William Conrad, an episode of Gunsmoke from 1954 We're also going to have another episode of Claudia, her First Check.

It Pays to be Ignorant, starring Tom Howard and the Crazy Bunch from 1950 We'll have the fourth part, the five-part US Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar story, The Confidential Matter. That's all coming up here. Thanks for still staying with us, and in a couple weeks, we'll be back with brand new shows.

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Now, the greatest radio shows of all time.

Tom Howard (1:16)

Suspense.

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The Shadow Node.

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Washington Calling.

Tom Howard (1:20)

David Harding.

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Counterspy. Classic Radio Theater.

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The Great Gilder Slave.

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Fibber McGee and Molly.

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Dragnet. Gunsmoke.

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The Lone Ranger.

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

SPEAKER_8 (1:36)

Good evening, friends of the NSNCN.

Wyatt Cox (1:40)

An episode of Counterspy from 73 years ago, September 13th, 1949 The Case of the Flatbush Fagin. Story about juvenile delinquency. And we thank you for tuning in on this Tuesday. This is the 13th day of September. It is the 256th day of the year, 109 days remaining in the year. Most popular song 75 years ago today would be thought to be extremely politically incorrect today.

In 1943, Chiang Kai-shek became president of China. In 1948, Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine elected to the Senate, becoming the first woman to have served in both houses of Congress. The four-day revolt at the Maximum Security Prison in Attica, New York ended on the state in 1971 State police, national guardsmen storming the facility, 42 people died. In 1988, Hurricane Gilbert, the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, based on barometric pressure.

In 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, shook hands after signing an historic peace agreement. In 1998, NBC's Frasier won a record fifth consecutive Emmy as TV's best comedy series. In 2001, Secretary of State Colin Powell named Osama bin Laden as the prime suspect in the terror attacks on the United States. Limited commercial flights would resume on this date in 2001, but the first time in two days. And it was on that same date in 2001, World Wrestling Entertainment's Smackdown, broadcasting live from Houston, became the first major sporting event to take place following the September 11 attacks.

In 2008, Hurricane Ike made landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island in Houston and surrounding areas. In 2018, the Merrimack Valley gas explosions, one person killed 25 injured and 40 homes destroyed when excessive natural gas pressure caused fires and explosions.

We mentioned the number one song on this date in 1947 It was an unlikely country swing tune by Tex Williams. Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette. It would become Capitol Records' first million seller and a number of artists would cover it, including Phil Harris. So there you go.

Passing away on this date in history, rapper, producer, actor Tupac Shakur, also former governor of Alabama, George Wallace, actress Dorothy McGuire and singer-songwriter Eddie Money. All passing away on this date in history. Birthdays today include the physician, biologist, the man whom the big hospital in Washington, DC is named after, Walter Reed. Also chocolate entrepreneur, Milton S. Hershey. Actress Clonic Colbert born on this date, singer Bill Monroe.

Roald Dahl, the man behind James and the Giant Peach, Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Vocalist Dick Hames, singer Mel Tormey and Nell Carter all born on this date. Miss Manners turns 84 today, Judith Martin. Blood, Sweat and Tears singer David Clayton Thomas is 81 Jacqueline Beseptifine actress is 78 Chicago singer Peter Cetera 78 From Designing Women, Jean Smart 71 Madea, yeah, Tyler Perry is 53 today. Fiona Apple 45 From Boy Meets World, Ben Savage 42 And from the WWE and fellow Kansan, Baron Corbin, born in Lenexa, Kansas just outside Kansas City, 38 Those are some of the people celebrating the 13th day of August as their birthday. And if this happens to be your birthday...

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Hi, we're the four freshmen and we just want to say, Happy Birthday to you!