AVIATION CENTENNIAL

Originally broadcast on WDCB
Saturday, September 20, 2003

FIBBER MC GEE AND MOLLY (6-4-46) Jim and Marian Jordan star as the McGees, who decide to go to the Aviation Show at the Wist­ful Vista Airport. Cast includes Gale Gordon (Mayor LaTrivia), Arthur Q. Brian (Doc Gamble), Bill Thompson (Wallace Wimple), Bea Benaderet (Mrs. Carstairs), Harlow Wilcox, King’s Men, Billy Mills and the orchestra. Johnson’s Wax, NBC. (30 min)

AIRPLANES TODAY (1960) Arthur Godfrey presents a radio documentary about progress in the air over the years, featuring aircraft and their sounds. CBS. (16 min)

TAILSPIN TOMMY (10-5-41) “Flying Actor Murder” featuring “Tailspin” Tommy Tompkins, “ace hero of the skies” and his pals “Skeets” Mulligan and Betty Lou Barnes. A motion picture company comes to the town of Three Point to film an aviation picture. Sustaining, CBS. (29 min)

LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE #1164 (6-16-36) Iso­lated episode. Shirley Bell stars as Annie. While Mr. Bond tells Annie and Joe the story of the Wright Brothers and their airplane, lots of mysterious things are happening in Simmons Corners. Pierre Andre announces. Ovaltine, NBC BLUE. (15 min)

NEWS SPECIAL (3-2-49) Frank Buckholzer re­ports as NBC goes to Carswell Air Force Base in Ft. Worth, Texas, where “Lucky Lady II,” an Air Force B-50 bomber, has just completed the first non-stop flight around the world, re­fueling in flight four times in its 24,000-mile trip around the globe. The crew reports from I he briefing room in the 11th Bomber Com­mand Headquarters. NBC. (15 min)

DUFFY’S TAVERN (1950s) Ed Gardner is Archie, the manager of the tavern, with Char­lie Cantor as Finnegan. Archie’s old friend, Slippery McGuire, agrees to sell Archie an air­plane — a helicopter. NBC. (27 min)

OUR SPECIAL GUEST is transportation historian CURTIS L. KATZ, who will talk about the history of aviation.