15 minute serialized/adventure show
Terry and the Pirates was a radio serial adapted from the comic strip of the same name created in 1934 by Milton Caniff. With storylines of action, high adventure and foreign intrigue, the popular radio series entralled listeners from 1937 through 1948. With scripts by Albert Barker, George Lowther and others, the program's directors included Cyril Armbrister, Wylie Adams and Marty Andrews.
The central character, Terry Lee, was portrayed at various times by Jackie Kelk, Cliff Carpenter, Owen Jordan and Bill Fein. Terry's buddy Pat Ryan was played by Bud Collyer, Warner Anderson, Bob Griffin and Larry Alexander. Others in Terry's Far East entourage were Flip Corkin (Ted de Corsia), Elita (Gerta Rozan), Burma (Frances Chaney), Hotshot Charlie (Cameron Andrews) and Connie the coolie (Cliff Norton, John Gibson, Peter Donald). Throughout the Orient, they encountered plenty of evildoers, including the Dragon Lady (Agnes Moorehead, Adelaide Klein, Marion Sweet), in such adventurous episodes as "Pirate Gold Detector Ring," "Deadly Current," "The Mechanical Eye" and "The Dragon Lady Strikes Back."
When the late afternoon series began, it was heard at 5:15pm, three times a week, sponsored by Dari-Rich, airing on NBC's Red network from November 1, 1937 to June 1, 1938. It switched to NBC Blue on September 26, 1938, continuing until March 22, 1939. Absent from the airwaves for over two years, it returned shortly before the Pearl Harbor attack, heard in the midwest on the Chicago Tribune's WGN. That series, sponsored by Libby's, aired five days a week from October 16, 1941 to May 29, 1942.
With increasing popularity during the WWII years, the show next took off at a fast pace on ABC Blue, airing daily for 15 minutes on weekday afternoons beginning February 1, 1943. The Quaker Puffed Wheat and Puffed Rice "shot from guns" commercials often had a patriotic pitch. Douglas Browning was the announcer during the mid-1940s. After 1945, with no wartime villains for Terry and his pals to fight, ratings began to drop in the post-WWII period until the final episode on June 30, 1948.
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Episode List
Terry-and-the-Pirates_411201 Snow Bound.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_411202 Icy Winds Of China.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_411203 Mountain Madness.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_411204 Hi-De-Ho.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_411205 Rescued.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_411208 Charming Mr. Pennington Hook.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_411209 Intrigue In Min Chow.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_411210 Missing Scientist.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_411211 Clue In The Snow.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_411212 Amazing Gas Of Destruction.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_411215 Terry's Fatal Mistake.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_411216 Midnight Stranger.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_411217 Locked In The Gas Chamber.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_411218 SOS Reveals The Villain.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_411219 Hook Captured.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_411222 Doctor Found.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_411223 Poison Gas Explosion.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_411224 Gas Destroys Steel.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_411225 Christmas Presents Exchanged.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_411226 Secret Formula Safe.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_420209 China.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_420219 Capt Blaze prgm.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_420706 The Baron Von Krell.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_440110 Mock Interrogation.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_440127 Trouble at Sea.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_440203 On to Yokohama.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_440927 Search for Abner Kane.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_441019 Air Attack.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_450508 Returning to the USA.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_450924 Green Fog.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_461202 Bugging of Room.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_461204 Representative Moss Bunker.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_461211 Aprehending Cuthney.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_461213 Fatal Evidence.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_461216 The Man Who Never Sleeps.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_461220 Meeting in Hong Kong.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_461223 Race to Find Dr Quill.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_461225 Christmas Show In Rhyme.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_461226 In Chung King China.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_470110 The Man Who Never Sleeps.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_470113 Baiting a Trap.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_470114 Springing the Trap.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_470115 Abduction of Ginger Lee .mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_470116 Mind Slave.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_470520 Puzzle of the 13 Orphans.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_470529 Adventure of the Limestone Ledge.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_470714 TCOT Goofy Gosling.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_470801 Escape in August.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_470912 Pirate Gold Detector Ring.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_471014 Deadly Current.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_471017 The Mechanical Eye.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_471024 The Dragon Lady Strikes Back.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_471031 Interrogation.mp3
Terry-and-the-Pirates_The Dragon Lady Strikes Back.mp3
