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Radio Daze: Some “Green Hornet” For Your Old Radio Listening Pleasure!

Howdy Folks! It’s The Kendog here with another episode of Radio Daze! This episode features a popular crime-fighting series that ran from 1936 to 1952. It’s known as The Green Hornet and it spawned a short lived TV series that launched the career of Bruce Lee, as well as an underrated movie starring Seth Rogan! Using “The Bee” as it’s overture and featuring the classic sound effect of a buzzing hornet, it tells the tale of newspaper publisher Britt Reid, a crusader for justice who fights crime under the guise of the Green Hornet. With his faithful Filipino valet Kato, he fights criminals with his gas gun and the powerful car known as The Black Beauty. Two episodes from 1939 are on the docket tonight and both are entertainingly cheesy in the best of ways. Enjoy!

Radio Daze: “The Cisco Kid” A Fun Throwback Classic Western For Your Old Radio Listening Pleasure!

Howdy Folks! It’s The Kendog here with another edition of Radio Daze. This edition features a couple of episodes of “The Cisco Kid” O’Henry’s western criminal reimagined as a western Robin Hood character. “Oh Cisco, oh pancho!” became a popular catchphrase during the series run, which peaked in the early 1950s. Pancho was The Cisco kids portly and amusing sidekick and their adventures were a little more lighthearted than the serious nature of, say, Gunsmoke. With it’s jaunty organ music and some clever scripts, “The Cisco Kid” is an enduring classic that evokes a great feeling of nostalgia! Enjoy! So Sayeth The Kendog!

Radio Daze: A Little “Dragnet” For Your Old Radio Listening Pleasure!

Howdy Folks! It’s The Kendog here with another edition of Radio Daze. This time I’m featuring a couple of classic episodes of the popular police procedural “Dragnet.” Created by series star Jack Webb, the popular show would also have a long life on television. With it’s recognizable theme music and it’s pool of “true stories” (with the names changed to protect the innocent”) “Dragnet” is an iconic cop show that is still entertaining all of these decades later! Enjoy! So Sayeth The Kendog!

Radio Daze: Some More Jack Benny For Your Old Radio Listening Pleasure!

Howdy Folks! It’s The Kendog here with the first episode of Radio Daze for the New Year! I’m starting 2025 out with a couple of offerings from my favorite radio comedian of all time, one Mr. Jack Benny. These two classic episodes feature a New Year’s Eve party and a guests appearance by the legendary Groucho Marx. Both of these episodes are just before Jack made the jump in sponsors to the Lucky Strike Program in the fall of 1944! Both episodes feature Benny’s classic timing and his penchant for giving his fellow cast members some of the funniest lines in the show. Enjoy with a cup of cocoa and a warm blanket on those cold winter evenings! So Sayeth The Kendog!

Radio Daze: Some Classic Jack Benny For Your Old Radio Listening Enjoyment!

Howdy Folks! It’s The Kendog here with another edition of Radio Daze. It’s no secret that Jack Benny is my favorite radio comedian of all time. I love every iteration of this show, but folks who know of the Jack Benny program are pretty much familiar with the Lucky Strike program that ran in the 1940s. In fact, Jack started on the air in 1932 and had a very popular run with Jello as a sponsor during the mid to late 1930s. This edition of Radio Daze features two porgrams from February of 1939. The first one features another episode of the long-running comic feud between Jack and radio comedian Fred Allen. The second episode features Benny and his sick polar bear Carmichael (voiced by the incomparable Mel Blanc) It’s a great episode featuring a fine performance by Eddie Anderson as Benny’s valet Rochester. Enjoy these two classic old radio episodes and enjoy the cool fall weather! So Sayeth The Kendog!

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