Terry and the Pirates | |
Available Episodes: | 165 |
Latest Episode: | Terry and the Pirates 1942-04-02 - 129) Terry Nurses the Dragon Lady | Uploaded: Jul 20, 2014 |
Categories: | Children/Teenagers | Adventure |
Terry and the Pirates radio serial was adapted from Milton Caniff's 1934 comic strip. With storylines of action, high adventure and foreign intrigue, the series entralled listeners from 1937 through 1948. The central character, Terry Lee, was portrayed at various times by Jackie Kelk, Cliff Carpenter, Owen Jordan, and Bill Fein. Terry's buddy Pat Ryan was played by Bud Collyer, Warner Anderson, Bob Griffin, and Larry Alexander. Others characters were Flip Corkin (Ted de Corsia), Elita (Gerta Rozan), Burma (Frances Chaney), Hotshot Charlie (Cameron Andrews) and Connie the coolie (Cliff Norton, John Gibson, Peter Donald). The main villain was the Dragon Lady (Agnes Moorehead, Adelaide Klein, Marion Sweet, Mina Reaume). When the late afternoon series began, it was heard at 5:15pm, three times a week, sponsored by Dari-Rich, airing on NBC Red Network from November 1, 1937 to June 1, 1938. It switched to NBC Blue Network on September 26, 1938, continuing until March 22, 1939. Absent from the airwaves for over two years, it returned shortly before the Attack on Pearl Harbor, heard in the Midwestern United States on the Chicago Tribune's WGN. That series, sponsored by Libby's, aired five days a week from October 16, 1941 to May 29, 1942. With increasing popularity during World War II, the show next took off at a fast pace on Blue Network, airing daily for 15 minutes on weekday afternoons beginning February 1, 1943. The Quaker Puffed Wheat and Puffed Rice "shot from guns" commercials often had a patriotic pitch. Douglas Browning was the announcer during the mid-1940s. After 1945, with no wartime villains for Terry and his pals to fight, ratings began to drop in the post-WWII period until the final episode on June 30, 1948. (Source: wikipedia.org) |
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