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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
05.13.1942	terry and the pirates (158) klang uses plane	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice (Airplane Spotter premium). Pat Ryan tells the Dr...
05.12.1942	terry and the pirates (157) dude and terry captured	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. After a forced landing, Terry and his friends ar...
05.11.1942	terry and the pirates (156) dude and terry	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. Dude and Terry fly over an enemy camp. Clang and...
05.08.1942	terry and the pirates (155) japs use pat and terry	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. Dude's aerobatics have saved Terry and Pat Ryan,...
05.07.1942	terry and the pirates (154) japs plan a trap	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. Terry and the Dragon Lady spot a most unusual en...
05.06.1942	terry and the pirates (153) planespotting contest	: + WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. A scout plane from "the invaders" spots the co...
05.05.1942	terry and the pirates (152) terry's planespotter	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. Terry's idea is airplane spotting cards, to help...
05.04.1942	terry and the pirates (151) dude leaves	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. Dude takes off with Dr. Fu Ling. The Dragon Lady...
05.01.1942	terry and the pirates (150) rescuing fu ling	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. Dr. Fu Ling has been rescued by Terry and his fr...
04.30.1942	terry and the pirates (149) searching for fu ling	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. Wong is leading Pat, Terry and Dude through the ...
04.29.1942	terry and the pirates (148) dude teaches terry	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. Dude will have to teach the Chinese commandoes h...
04.28.1942	terry and the pirates (147) pat addresses troops	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. Terry and Pat Ryan and have joined forces with t...
04.27.1942	terry and the pirates (146) capturing invader car	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. The Dragon Lady, Terry and his friends enter her...
04.24.1942	terry and the pirates (145) pat to lead chinese commandos	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice (Rainbow Pencil premium). The Dragon Lady is comm...
04.23.1942	terry and the pirates (144) smiley knocked out	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Juices (Big Stoop code-writing colored pencil premium). Terry ...
04.22.1942	terry and the pirates (143) rescued by slugger	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Juices (Big Stoop code-writing colored pencil premium). In the...
04.21.1942	terry and the pirates (142) pat and terry captured	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice (Big Stoop's Code Writer premium). Pat is now a m...
04.20.1942	terry and the pirates (141) jigger	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice (Big Stoop's Code Writer premium). Pat has helped...
04.16.1942	terry and the pirates (139) mind reading act	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice (Rainbow Pencil premium). The Dragon Lady has esc...
04.10.1942	terry and the pirates (135) slugger uses rainbow	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. Slugger Dunn has Big Stoop's "Rainbow Stick" pen...
04.09.1942	terry and the pirates (134) kidnapping	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. Did Foo Ling leave a trail of scraps of paper to...
04.08.1942	terry and the pirates (133) april and fu ling	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. While heading to the hotel, April and the magici...
04.07.1942	terry and the pirates (132) dragon lady comes	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. Foo Ling shows April how the "Rainbow Stick" can...
04.06.1942	terry and the pirates (131) april will sing	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. In Yang Kuk, April Kane asks Mr. Ling to help Bi...
04.03.1942	terry and the pirates (130) dragon lady's secet	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. Slugger Dunn tracks down Terry and finds the Dra...

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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