Best of Classic Radio 09-17-26 - The Rat Race, Fred MacMurray and Charlie, and Doctor of Poison

Wyatt Cox (0:00)

Well, I get these days right now. We're going back on this Thursday, best of Classic Radio Theater, to a Saturday, September 17th, 2022 And on that date, on our 100 radio stations across the nation, we broadcast Dana Andrews, and I Was a Communist for the FBI and The Rat Race, The Chase and Sandborn Hour with Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. And then we'll have an episode of Suspense.

Neal Cream, Doctor of Poison, starring Charles Laughton. And we'll start off a five part Yours Truly Johnny Dollar story, The Imperfect Alibi Matter. That's all coming up. Here on this Thursday, thanks for being with us.

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Now, the greatest radio shows of all time.

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

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

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Good evening, friends of the MSNBC.

Wyatt Cox (1:21)

One of our good friends listening on the Nevada Talk Network, Jed Peeler, adores the show we are going to hear today. Dana Andrews in I Was a Communist for the FBI, Going Back 70 Years to September 17, 1952, The Rat Race. We thank you for tuning in on this Saturday. This is the 17th day of September. 260th day of the year, 105 days remaining until we get to 2023 The city of Boston founded in 1630 Constitution signed in Philadelphia on this date in 1787 Francis Scott Key finished his Star Spangled Banner poem. The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge's passenger crashed. When Selfridge died, he became the very first airplane fatality. It was on this date in 1916 that Manfred von Richtopen, the Red Baron, a flying ace of the German Air Force, won his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France. In 1947, James E. Forrestal sworn in as the first Secretary of Defense. The first Space Shuttle Enterprise unveiled by NASA in 1976 It would never fly into space. Interestingly enough, that was one that was used for testing, and it did return to Earth, but it never went into orbit, if you will. The Camp David Accord signed on this date in 1978 by Israel and Egypt. In 1980, after years of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity was established. Released on this date in 1981, the German war epic Das Boot, the $12 million epic did nearly $85 million at the box office. On this date in 1983, Miss New York, Vanessa Williams became the first black Miss America.

The first version of the Linux kernel released to the internet on this date in 1991

America Online, one of the largest internet service providers in the US., announced plans to refocus the company as an advertising business on this date in 2007 and relocated its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York, New York. The dial-up business was basically gone by 2007 And broadband, whether it be fairly low speed or extremely high speed, was the way to go. Occupy Wall Street movement began on this date in 2011 in Zuccotti Park in New York City. And in 2016, two bombs exploded in Seaside Park, New Jersey and Manhattan. Thirty one people injured in the Manhattan bombing on this date in 2016

Among people passing away on this date in history, bandleader Hugo Winterhalter. Some great music that came from Hugo Winterhalter. Also Richard Bassheart, you remember him from Voyage Under the Sea. Also Vice President Spiro Agnew passing away on this date. Actor, comedian and outstanding painter Red Skelton passing away on this date. Las Vegas casino heir Ted Binion passing away in very suspicious circumstances.

Singer, songwriter, guitarist George Hamilton IV. Journalist, best-selling author Cokie Roberts. All those folks passing away on this date. Along with one of the best in wrestling that you will ever know. No, I'm not talking about Hulk Hogan.

I'm talking about the man, the legend, the brain, the weasel, Bobby Heenan.

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Yes, I am a gifted athlete and a wrestler, but I don't particularly care to wrestle. And they know that.

The whole thing is between Andre and the hell-belly and Stutt and Bundy.

And just because some goon at 7 foot 4 and 500 pounds and some dumb hick from Mudlick put their two heads together with an IQ of 10, they want me in the ring. They want to get their hands on Stutt. They want to pick up that money for a slam. They want to get rid of Bundy because they're jealous of his size and massiveness. And they want to get rid of me because they're jealous of me. My whole life everybody's been jealous of me. Everybody's been worried about me my whole life. They've done this to me.