Best of Classic Radio 09-29-26 - Psychopathic Murderer, A Leaky Faucet, and The Vicious Visitor

Wyatt Cox (0:00)

Thanks for being with us on this edition of Classic Radio Theater, the best of Classic Radio Theater. And while the program we're airing is from Thursday, September 29th, 2022, this is a Tuesday. And, you know, we're glad we started a new week. We have two more of these to go, and then on Thursday, we should be back to normal. We're going to have an episode of Wanted! And The Case of Gladys Tibbett Glasgow Stewart.

This is a weird one.

And the last show of the series of Wanted! Also, Stan Freberg, How to Fix a Leaky Faucet. We'll also have an episode of Claudia, Counterspy, and The Case of the Vicious Visitor. And we'll also have an episode of Fibber McGee and Molly. That's all straight ahead over the next two plus hours. Thanks for making us a part of your day. And we'll be back to original productions of Classic Radio Theater coming up as I said on Thursday. But that's it. Enjoy this episode.

SPEAKER_2 (1:24)

Now, the greatest radio shows of all time.

SPEAKER_3 (1:27)

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

SPEAKER_2 (1:42)

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

SPEAKER_4 (1:47)

Good evening, friends of the NS Angkor.

Wyatt Cox (1:51)

An episode of the NBC program Wanted!, Going Back 72 Years, September 29, 1950, and The Case of Gladys Tibbett Glasgow Stewart.

A little more complicated, almost as complicated as the name. We thank you for joining us on this Thursday, 29th day of September, 272nd day of the year, 93 days remaining till we get to 2023 War Department first established regular army with the strength of several hundred men in 1789 First Congress also adjourned on that same date. Cornerstone laid at Washington National Cathedral on this date in 1907

General Eisenhower, Italian Marshal Pietro Bagoglia signed an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson off the shore of Malta. Dobie Gillis, the many loves of Dobie Gillis, the television show premiered on this date. Mack Schulman's short stories adapted as scripts for the show. Dwayne Hickman starred as Dobie. His best friend Maynard G. Krebs was played by Bob Denver. He would later become Gilligan on Gilligan's Island. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew on this date in 1973 declared he was totally innocent of the charges that he accepted bribes when he was the governor of Maryland.

SPEAKER_4 (3:17)

I am innocent of the charges against me.

I want to make another thing so clear that it cannot be mistaken in the future. Because of these tactics which have been employed against me, because small and fearful men have been frightened into furnishing evidence against me, they have perjured themselves. In many cases, it's my understanding.

SPEAKER_5 (4:06)

I will not resign if indicted.

SPEAKER_4 (4:08)

I will not resign if indicted.

Wyatt Cox (4:15)

On October 10th of that same year, 1973, he was allowed to plead no contest to a single charge that had failed to report almost $30,000 of income in 1967

With the condition that he resigned the office of Vice President, Nixon later replaced Agnew by appointing House Minority Leader Gerald Ford as Vice President. A Tylenol scare began on this date in 1982 when the first of seven individuals died in Metropolitan Chicago after ingesting extra strength Tylenol that had been deliberately contaminated with cyanide.

SPEAKER_6 (4:54)

It's very obvious that these capsules were tampered with. It was not an accidental thing. It was not a product defect. It was not something that was occurred in a stream of distribution. It was willful and wanton. Very deadly.

Wyatt Cox (5:07)

Johnson & Johnson spokesman Tyrone Thanner. Crime was never solved. It changed the way a lot of things happened. Of course, tamper-proof bottles. And they basically got rid of using capsules that would easily dissolve, going to the harder tablets and the caplets, which didn't dissolve as well as capsules did.

That happened on this date. Oh, NASA resumed space shuttle flights that had been grounded after the Challenger disaster on this date in 1988

SPEAKER_5 (5:44)

We have the start. Three, two, one, zero, and liftoff.

SPEAKER_7 (5:52)

Liftoff.

SPEAKER_5 (5:53)

Americans return to space as Discovery clears the tower.

SPEAKER_7 (5:57)

Discovery kicks and goes straight up into a Florida blue sky atop a tower of flame and smoke. Almost three years after the Challenger tragedy, the space shuttle is flying again.

All five astronauts pushed back in their seats. Now the power of seven and a half million pounds of frost. You can hear the roar from the launch pad across the rings here. Discovery roars up into the Florida sky, now rolling over, headed for space.