Best of Classic Radio Theater 09-23-26 - Farm Sale Day, Celebration, and Getting Locked in the Attic

Wyatt Cox (0:00)

FYI, we're going to do one more week of this, and then I'll get back to Original Shows. It has been great. Thank you all for listening to these best of Classic Radio Theater podcasts and letting me get a little rest because I have needed it. I really have.

Today on this episode, we're going to go back to Friday, September 23rd, 2022, four years ago. Episodes of Rogers of the Gazette and Farm Sale Day. Also an episode of Suspense, Robert Young, Virginia Bruce in a Celebration. We'll have an episode of Claudia, My Favorite Husband starring Lucille Ball and Richard Denning, and Fibber McGee and Molly. That's all straight ahead on this edition of Classic Radio Theater. Thank you so much for being with this best of edition.

SPEAKER_2 (0:58)

Now, the greatest radio shows of all time.

SPEAKER_3 (1:01)

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.

SPEAKER_2 (1:16)

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

SPEAKER_4 (1:22)

Good evening, friends of the NSXN.

Wyatt Cox (1:25)

Will Rogers Jr. starring in an episode of Rogers of the Gazette from 69 years ago, September 23, 1953, Farm Sale Day.

And we thank you for tuning in on this TGI Friday Edition, 23rd day of September, 266th day of the year, and 99 days remaining until we get to 2023, the first day of autumn. British Major John Andre arrested as a spy by American soldiers on this date in 1780, exposing Benedict Arnold's treason. Lewis and Clark returned to St. Louis on this date in 1806 after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The discovery of Neptune by French astronomer Urbain Jean-Joseph Levers and British astronomer John Couch Adams on this date in 1846

Herman Hollerith patented his mechanical tabulating machine on this date in 1884, the first adding machine. First day of the September, well, first mechanical adding machine, you know, the you would have to consider the abacus before that. First day of the September, Mattenkow to action on Guadalcanal in 1942 as Marine forces attacked Imperial Japanese Army units along the Mattenkow River. President Roosevelt opened the 1944 presidential campaign on this date in 44, speaking at a dinner with the International Teamsters Union in Washington and made a star of a companion of his.

SPEAKER_5 (3:03)

These Republican leaders have not been content with a tax on me or on my wife or on my son. No, not content with that. They now include my little dog, Fowler.

Well, of course, I don't resent a tax. And my family don't resent a tax. But Fowler does resent a tax.

Wyatt Cox (3:42)

The joke was suggested by Orson Welles, the speech broadcast nationwide and is credited with FDR winning his fourth term. Facing serious opposition within his own party, then Republican Vice Presidential candidate Richard Nixon went on national television in the fight for his political life against the backdrop of accusations.

SPEAKER_6 (4:07)

I own a 1950 Oldsmobile car. We have our furniture. We have no stocks and bonds of any type. We did get something, a gift. It was a little Cocker Spaniel dog, black and white, spotted. And our little girl Trisha, the six year old, named it Checkers. And I just want to say this right now that regardless of what they say about it, we're going to keep it. Wire and write the Republican National Committee, whether you think I should stay on or whether I should get off. I'm going to continue this fight. I'm going to campaign up and down in America until we drive the crooks and the communists and those that defend them out of Washington. Time purchase for this program is now elapsed.

Wyatt Cox (4:44)

Yep, even political speeches ran over time.

That was the checkers' speech. And it kept the American people responded positively to what the then vice president said. Jetsons premiering on this date in 1962 And in 2002, the first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox was released. In 2002, 2011, the soap opera All My Children broadcast its final episode on ABC ending a 41-year run. And in 2019, the British travel company Thomas Cook Group declared bankruptcy, leaving employees without jobs and stranding 600,000 customers abroad. Hotels throughout the world stuck with $4.3 million in unpaid bills. Passing away on this date in history, the neurologist psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, also actor-comedian Cliff Arquette, best remembered as Charlie Weaver, and Joanna on Newhart, Mary Fran, all passing away on this date in history. Walter Pigeon, born on this date, as was Mickey Rooney, musician Ray Charles, Ebb on Greenacres, Tom Lester, and Michelle Thomas. Happy birthday number 79 to Julio Iglesias.