Best of Classic Radio 09-18-26 - The Black Cat, Archie's In Love, and Weekend Activity

Wyatt Cox (0:00)

The best news of the day is it's Friday, and we're here with Classic Radio Theater, the best of, as we're going back to Sunday, September 18, 2020, two, four years ago, for shows we did for broadcast nationally. Mystery in the Air starring Peter Lorre, Bob Hastings in The Adventures of Archie Andrews, The Challenge of the Yukon, and the story of Big Bill, Father Knows Best starring Robert Young, and Speed Gibson of the International Secret Police.

That's what's coming up on this episode of Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox. The best of, thank you so much for making us a part of your day. Yeah, we're missing an episode, I guess, of yours truly, Johnny Dollar, but we'll get back to it here. Thanks so much for being with us.

SPEAKER_2 (0:58)

Now, the greatest radio shows of all time.

SPEAKER_3 (1:02)

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

SPEAKER_2 (1:17)

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

SPEAKER_4 (1:22)

Good evening, friends of the Inner Sanctum.

Wyatt Cox (1:26)

We go back 75 years to hear Peter Lorre in an episode of Mystery in the Air, September 18, 1947, The Black Cat. We thank you for tuning in on this Sunday, 18th day of September, 261st day of the year, 104 days remaining until we get to 2023 Congress passing the Fugitive Slave Act on this date in 1850, which required the return of escaped slaves to their soldiers, or owners, I should say. In 1851, the first edition of the New York Daily Times, which later became the New York Times.

The Columbia Broadcasting System, founded on this date in 1927 by William S. Paley. The National Security Act, which unified the Army, Navy and Air Force, passed in 1947 Secretary General of the UN, Dog Hammershould, killed in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia.

SPEAKER_5 (2:29)

In keeping with the spirit which typified the dedicated efforts of Mr. Hammershould, the Secretariat is carrying on with a full sense of its duty.

May I add that I am sure I interpret the feeling of all my colleagues and all our fellow workers in this house and wherever the United Nations is at work in the cause of peace. To say that this is a tragic loss for the United Nations, for the cause of peace everywhere, and for humanity.

SPEAKER_6 (3:20)

I know that I am speaking for all of my fellow Americans, expressing our deep sense of shock and loss in the untimely death of the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Dag Hammershaw. Dag Hammershaw's cause, dedication to the cause of peace, his untiring labors to achieve it, his courage under attack, his willingness to accept all responsibility in trying to strengthen the United Nations and make it a more effective instrument for the aspirations of the hundreds of millions of people around the globe who desire to live out their lives. Those efforts of his are well known. It is tragic and ironical that his death came during a mission he was undertaking in order to bring a ceasefire in Katanga.

I am hopeful that the members of the United Nations, recognizing his untiring labors, will attempt in the coming sessions and in the years to come to try to build the United Nations into the effective instrument for peace which was Dag Hammershaw's great ambition. I express my sympathy to his country, the government of Sweden, and I hope that all of us will recognize the heavy burst his passing leases upon us.

Wyatt Cox (4:42)

Brazilian Undersecretary for Public Information H. Travaras de Shaw followed by President Kennedy Hammershold, 56 Questions remain to this date about that plane crash.

It was on this date in 1999 Sammy Sosa became the first player in Major League Baseball history to hit 60 home runs in two seasons. 2-2.

SPEAKER_7 (5:09)

Hit deep to center.

Wyatt Cox (5:23)

The call from WGN Television, Sosa would repeat the feat in 2001, becoming the only player to have hit 60 or more home runs in a single season three times. The first mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey on this date in 2001, in the 2001 anthrax attacks. Among those passing away on this date in history, actor Frank Morgan, actor, singer, producer, French Chauton, also Jimi Hendrix, director, producer, screenwriter Russ Meyer, and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

This is the birthdate of Rochester, Eddie Anderson.

SPEAKER_3 (6:05)

Ladies and gentlemen, the Columbia Broadcasting System invites you to sit back, relax, and listen to Eddie Anderson in the private life of Rochester Van Jones. Rochester, you look sad.