1947 – Page 4 – Retro Radio Podcast

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Spike Jones (Spotlight Review) Jack Smith and the Clark Sisters. ep9, 471128

By Keith December 1, 2025Music, Spike Jones

It's another installment of the Spotlight Revue. With announcer Mike Wallace, Spike Jones and the City Slickers, and Dorothy Shey the Park Avenue Hillbilly. Spike starts out with, Running Wild.…

Buster Brown Gang – A Plane Called Yankee Doodle. 471213

By Keith November 22, 2025Buster Brown, Juvenile

Smiling Ed opens with a song, Hey and Hi and Ho Ho Ho. He reminds the kiddies to pick up their Buster Brown comics when they shop for shoes, and…

A fairy sitting on a flower blossom, with her wings spread out and a wand in her hand. The flower is vibrant purple and the fairy has a mischievous smile on her face.

Lets Pretend – The Enchanted Frog. ep25, 470920

By Keith November 15, 2025Juvenile, Lets Pretend

Get ready to travel to storyland on an old-fashioned hayride. A king called his three sons together, and gave the command that it's time they each marry. None are too…

Let’s Pretend – Bluebeard. ep15, 470621

By Keith November 1, 2025Juvenile, Lets Pretend

Occasionally at the beginning of the show, the announcer tells of an award for the show, or reads a letter of praise. A few weeks ago on the podcast, a…

Casey, Crime Photographer Great Grandfathers Rent Receipt. 471030

By October 29, 2025Casey Crime Photographer, Detective and Mystery

The Halloween season has Ethelbert, Ann, and Casey talking about spooks and ghosts. Casey tells a story about his old fiddle playing grandpa. In a flashback sequence to old Ireland,…

Crime Club – Murder Rents A Room. ep28, 470605

By Keith October 28, 2025Crime Club, Detective and Mystery

A Story of an old homestead that sold hospitality, until death bought her. The grand old homestead was once a successful plantation, but those better days are long in the…

Escape – Dead Of Night, Audition. 470228

By Keith October 25, 2025Drama, Escape

Audition show. A down-on-his-luck ventriloquist has a falling out with his dummy, whom he is convinced wants to dump him for bigger and better things. Based on a movie of…

Let’s Pretend – The Six Swans. 470607

By Keith October 18, 2025Juvenile, Lets Pretend

The show has just received an award for 16 years of top-notch service. The pretenders take a ride on a rocket for today's adventure into storyland. A household with 6…

Casey, Crime Photographer – The Camera Bug. ep207, 471016

By Keith September 12, 2025Casey Crime Photographer, Detective and Mystery

Casey has a fan, an amateur camera bug named Alan Forrester. In the Blue Note, Casey, Ann, and Ethelbert argue over who has it worse as they live their own…

Depiction of Jesus Christ in a purple robe, reaching out with one hand.

Greatest Story Ever Told – The Second Mile. ep7, 470309

By Keith September 6, 2025Drama, Greatest Story

Daniel and his mother discuss the ruthless nature of the Roman troops who occupy the land, it’s nothing for them to kill a local citizen. Will there be an uprising…