FLIGHT TO ENGLAND – PART 2

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, September 26, 1998

MYSTERY IN THE AIR (8-14-47) “The Lodger” starring Peter Lorre and Agnes Moorehead in the story of Jack the Ripper. Lorre is the mys­terious Mr. Sleuth at a London boarding house at which Moorehead is the proprietess. Camel Cigarettes, NBC. (28:00)

FLYWHEEL, SHYSTER AND FLYWHEEL (1991) First program in the British Broadcasting Corporation series based on scripts used by Groucho and Chico Marx on the Five Star Theatre in 1932. Michael Roberts is Groucho Marx as Waldorf T. Flywheel and Frank Lazarus is Chico Marx as Emmanuel Ravelli, with Lorelei King as Miss Dimple. Music by the David Firman orchestra. BBC. (27:03)

LIGHTS OUT (9-7-43) “Lord Marley’s Guest” is Arch Oboler’s story about an American movie starlet staying at an English Lord’s summer home. On a boat ride, they encounter a “devil fish,” an octopus larger than their boat. Ironized Yeast, CBS. (29:06)

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (9-10-50) On this first show of the 1950-51 season, Jack has returned from a London trip where he appeared at the Palladium. While he was gone, he finds that television has taken over at CBS! Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Dennis Day, Don Wilson, Sportsmen, Joe Kearns, Mel Blanc, Frank Nelson. Lucky Strike Cigarettes, CBS. (26:33)

ESCAPE (7-10-54) “The Birds” with Ben Wright, Virginia Gregg, John Dehner. “You are in a farmhouse on the southern coast of England. The autumn countryside around you is desolate and bleak, and you know that in the dusk outside —waiting patiently for you, silently watching for you— is an enemy from whom there may be no escape!” This is the story on which Alfred Hitchcock later based his famous film by the same name. Sustaining, CBS. (28:11)

YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR (6-22-50) “The London Matter” stars Edmund O’Brien as the man with the action-packed expense account. He’s on his way to England at the request of the U.S. Treasury Department, Narcotics Division. Cast includes Herb Butterfield, Wally Maher, Virginia Gregg, Ben Wright. Wrigley’s Gum, CBS. (28:34)

NOTE— Ken Alexander is again guest host for this program while Chuck Schaden and some TWTD listeners continue vacationing in England.