Best of Classic Radio 09-19-26 - Till The Day I Die, Extra! Extra!, and David Has a Fight

Wyatt Cox (0:00)

Oh, thanks for being with us here on this Sunday, Monday episode of Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox.

As we go back all four years ago for the show we did for National Syndication on this Saturday, we're hearing this Monday show with an episode of Suspense, Dane Clark from 1946, Till The Day I Die. Also, Box Thirteen starring Alan Ladd, Extra, Extra, an episode of Fibber McGee and Molly, Your Three Minutes are Up, and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet from 1945 David has a fight with the Jones Boy, and we'll wrap it all up with an episode of part three of the five part years, Truly Johnny Dollar story, The Imperfect Alibi Matter. Thanks for being with us on this Saturday.

SPEAKER_2 (1:02)

Now, the greatest radio shows of all time. 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. And now, step back into a time machine with your host, Wyatt Cox.

William Spear (1:26)

Good evening, friends of the NSXN.

Wyatt Cox (1:30)

Radio's outstanding theater of thrill, Suspense, an episode starring Dane Clark, Kill the Day I Die from 76 years ago today, September 19, 1946 And a happy Monday to you. Thanks for tuning in on this 19th day of September, the 262nd day of the year. We have 103 days remaining until we get to 2023 George Washington made his farewell address on this date in 1796 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid committed their first robbery together in 1900 Mickey Mouse made his film debut in Steamboat Willie in 1928

In 1934, Bruno Hopman arrested for the murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. The US barred Charlie Chaplin from reentering the country on this date in 1952 after a trip to England. The first US underground nuclear bomb test on this date in 1957 And in 1959, Nikita Khrushchev barred from visiting Disneyland. The biggest hit record of the 60s hit number one on this date in 1960, The Twist. Hank Ballard and the Midnighters originally recorded the song but couldn't appear on Dick Clark's American Bandstand. Clark found a local artist to re-record the song, a fellow named Ernest Evans. But everybody called him Chubby. Yeah, he'd performed a Fats Domino impression and Dick Clark's wife came up with Chubby as in Checkers. While the word play stuck based off Fats Domino, Ernest Evans became Chubby and became a Checker. Flipper premiering on this date on TV in 1964 In 1981, Paul Simon Art Garfunkel reunited in 1981 for a free concert in New York City's Central Park.

Tipper Gore and other political wives from the Forum, the Parents Music Resource Center on this date in 1985

On that same date, Frank Zappa and other musicians testified at congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.

Frank Zappa (3:37)

The PMRC proposal is an ill-conceived piece of nonsense which fails to deliver any real benefits to children, infringes the civil liberties of people who are not children and promises to keep the courts busy for years dealing with the interpretational and enforcemental problems inherent in the proposal's design.

Wyatt Cox (3:55)

And considering that nothing has changed, in fact it's gotten worse, there will never be clean music. I mean it won't, it just can't happen because of that pesky little First Amendment. Do I like obscene music? Do I like the filth? No, not at all. But it's a constitutional thing. Alrighty, the pilot episode of the hit medical drama ER aired in the US on NBC on this date in 1994 It became one of the most watched shows of all time, ER did.

The Washington Post, New York Times published the Unabomber's Manifesto in 1999 The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill sealed in 2010

And on the 32nd anniversary of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, a powerful earthquake struck Mexico City on this date in 2017 370 deaths, 6,000 injuries, extensive damage. Among those passing away on this date in history, publisher Conde Nast, also singer Red Foley, musicians Graham Parsons, the Eye in the Sky, Skeeter Davis, The End of the World, the champ saxophonist Chuck Rio, Bob Hope's wife Dolores Hope, and novelist Jackie Collins, all passing away on this date in history. This is the birthdate of Adam West.

Adam West (5:20)

From that day forward, I vowed to avenge my parents' fate by devoting my life to fighting crime. I worked hard at it, building my body, and I studied too. Countless hours, I learned that criminals are a cowardly lot, which gave me the idea to wear a disguise that would strike fear in their hearts. But what disguise?