RADIO FOR CHAMPIONS – PART 2
Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, September 30, 1978
JACK ARMSTRONG (Episode 1600, Friday, 10-20-39) At the campsite, the search party discusses footprints Jack and Billy saw when they lost the pedometer. (13:35)
JACK ARMSTRONG (Episode 1601, Monday, 10-23-39) Trader Yates holds Jack, Uncle Jim, Billy and Betty at gunpoint. (12:05)
JACK ARMSTRONG (Episode 1602, 10-2439) Searching for the cave where they hope to find the smuggled rifles, the party must circle around to avoid native sentries. (13:45)
JACK ARMSTRONG (Episode 1603, Wednesday, 10-25-39) The entrance of the cave is guarded, so our search party goes to the rear entrance. (12:00)
JACK ARMSTRONG (Episode 1604, Thursday, 10-26-39) Jack and Billy reset the pedometer and wade along the stream to ambush their guide. (13:101
JACK ARMSTRONG (Episode 1605, Friday, 10-27-39) Persued by Chief Karang, Uncle Jim, Jack, Billy and Betty make their way down a steep hillside to the bottom of the creek. (11:05)
JACK ARMSTRONG (Episode 1606, Monday, 10-30-39) Going into the cave, Jack discovers his pedometer is missing. (13:55)
JACK ARMSTRONG (Episode 1607, Tuesday, 10-31-39) In the cave, Jack and Billy prepare to subdue an approaching sentry. (11:22)
JACK ARMSTRONG (Episode 1608, Wednesday, 11-1-39) The search party makes their way down the tunnel to the cave where they find the rifles and Lt. Rawlings. (13:30)
JACK ARMSTRONG (Episode 1609, Thursday, 11-2-39) Jack Armstrong, Billy Fairfield and Lt. Rawlings make their way back to the hiding place at the back entrance to the tunnel. (11:35) This is the final episode in our series of 24 consecutive broadcasts from October-November, 1939.
LUCKY STRIKE EXTRAS!
UNCLE DON (8-21-38) Uncle Don Carney reads the funnies from the Comic Weekly of the New York Journal-American at 10:30 a.m. Sunday morning on station WOR: Flash Gordon, Tim Tyler’s Luck, Tillie the Toiler, Skippy, Sentinel Louie, The Little King, Ace Drummond, Katzanjammer Kids. (14:25; 14:25)
CHALLENGE OF THE YUKON (5-10-55) Sgt. Preston is assigned to bring in two crooks who rob a trading post. Brace Beemer plays Preston in this show from the series’ last season on the air. Quaker Puffed Wheat and Rice. (15:15; 13:15)
Updated: 10/2/26 8:50 pm C.S.T.
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