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Terry and the Pirates was an adventure radio series based on Milton Caniff’s comic strip. It ran from 1937 to 1948, enthralling lots of fans and listeners.

The series' lead character was Terry Lee, portrayed by various actors including Cliff Carpenter, Bill Fein, Owen Jordan, and Jackie Kelk. Terry has a partner named Pat Ryan, also played by different actors such as Larry Alexander, Warner Anderson, Bud Collyer, and Bob Griffin. Terry's and Pat's adventures included fighting numerous villains, the worst of which was the Dragon Lady. The actresses that starred as the Dragon Lady at different times were Adelaide Klein, Agnes Moorehead, Mina Reaume, and Marion Sweet. Click here to read more about Terry And The Pirates

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Please enjoy these 164 old time radio episodes:

Air Date	Title	Synopsis
12.11.1946	terry and the pirates (041) apprehending cuthney	+ Sponsored by: Quaker Puffed Wheat Sparkies. Cuffney is overpowered and arrested for the murders ...
12.09.1946	terry & the pirates (41) search for dr. quil
12.06.1946	terry & the pirates (40) search for dr. quil	+ Sponsored by: Quaker Puffed Rice and White Sparkies. Duncan is hired to find Dr. Quill, before S...
12.05.1946	terry & the pirates (39) ventura yacht murders fatal evidence
12.04.1946	terry and the pirates (038) representative moss bunker	+ Program #38. Sponsored by: Quaker Puffed Rice Sparkies, Quaker Puffed Wheat Sparkies. Representa...
12.02.1946	terry and the pirates (037) bugging of room 301	+ Program #37. Sponsored by: Quaker Puffed Wheat Sparkies. A series of startling admissions is ove...
09.24.1945	terry and the pirates (xxx) green fog	+ Blue Network. "The Adventure Of The Thirteen Keys". Sponsored by: Quaker cereals. Terry and Pat Ry...
05.08.1945	terry and the pirates (xxx) returning to the usa	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Quaker Puffed Rice Sparkies. We learn that Terry has never been to the...
10.19.1944	terry and the pirates (xxx) air attack	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Quaker Puffed Wheat Sparkies, Quaker Puffed Rice Sparkies. Flip has be...
09.27.1944	terry and the pirates (xxx) search for abner kane	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Quaker cereals. Terry and his friends are in Bombay, on the trail of A...
02.03.1944	terry and the pirates (xxx) real baron is alive	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Quaker cereals. Terry and Pat approach the shore of Japan, dressed in ...
01.27.1944	terry and the pirates (xxx) pat's disguise uncovered	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Quaker cereals. Pat and Terry are disguised as Nazis. They are on thei...
01.10.1944	terry and the pirates (xxx) the baron in disguise	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Quaker cereals. Pat and Terry are starting out on "a big show that's g...
03.31.1943	terry and the pirates (xxx) the battle continues against captain blaze	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Quaker cereals. The continuing battles against Captain Blaze and his d...
07.06.1942	terry and the pirates (xxx) on enemy ground
05.29.1942	terry and the pirates (170) pat appointed colonel	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice (Airplane Spotter premium, final offer). Terry ha...
05.28.1942	terry and the pirates (169) planes heard overhead	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice (Airplane Spotter premium). Terry and Dude are re...
05.27.1942	terry and the pirates (168) bridge collapses	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice (Airplane Spotter premium). Pat Ryan departs from...
05.26.1942	terry and the pirates (167) enemy marching	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice (Airplane Spotter premium). Dude is warned before...
05.25.1942	terry and the pirates (166) driving invader tank	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice (Airplane Spotter premium). Burma tells April, "N...
05.20.1942	terry and the pirates (163) jap patrol boards junk	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice (Airplane Spotter premium). "The Invaders" soldie...
05.19.1942	terry and the pirates (162) escaping from yankuk	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice (Airplane Spotter premium). Aboard a boat on a da...
05.18.1942	terry and the pirates (161) teaching slugger	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice (Airplane Spotter premium). Where did Pat Ryan ge...
05.15.1942	terry and the pirates (160) dude and terry escape	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice (Airplane Spotter premium). Dude and Terry runs f...
05.14.1942	terry and the pirates (159) plane shot down	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice (Airplane Spotter premium). Terry and Dude are tr...

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Featuring all of the existing episodes from this adventure series in very good high code sound. This radio serial was adapted from the newspaper comic strip of the same name that was created in 1934 by Milton Caniff. With storylines of action, high adventure and foreign intrigue, the popular radio series enthralled 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 cookie (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 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 was sponsored by Libby's, and was broadcast 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 NBC Blue (later ABC). It was broadcast 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.

TERRY AND THE PIRATES