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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
12.19.1941	terry and the pirates (055) hook captured	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. Dude and Kennington Hook fight it out while Burm...
12.22.1941	terry and the pirates (056) doctor found	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Pineapple Juice. April Kane and Connie have found the cabin of...
12.23.1941	terry and the pirates (057) poison gas explosion	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Pineapple Juice. The tank of Moy Ben has exploded, sending the...
12.24.1941	terry and the pirates (058) gas destroys steel	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Pineapple Juice. April and Connie have gone to bring back Dr. ...
12.25.1941	terry and the pirates (059) christmas present exchange	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Pineapple Juice. The Dragon Lady has returned on Christmas day...
12.26.1941	terry and the pirates (060) secret formula safe	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Pineapple Juice. The Dragon Lady, Mr. Keel and Kennington Hook...
12.30.1941	terry & the pirates (62) to be nurses on the burma road	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. Terry and his friends are flying over the Burma ...
12.31.1941	terry & the pirates (63) terry's double seen	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. The other planes were flown by "The Invader," bu...
01.01.1942	terry & the pirates (64) mrs. finch is mother of burma road	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. We meet "The Mother Of The Burma Road." He's an ...
01.02.1942	terry & the pirates (65) discussing note from dragon lady	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. Mrs. Finch tells Terry and his friends about Cap...
01.05.1942	terry & the pirates (66) identity switch suggested	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Pineapple Juice ("The Terry Adventure Game Book" premium). A p...
01.06.1942	terry and the pirates (067) impersonation test	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Pineapple Juice ("The Terry Adventure Game Book" premium). Apr...
01.07.1942	terry & the pirates (68) april forced to join pat & terry	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Pineapple Juice ("The Terry Adventure Game Book" premium). Pat...
01.08.1942	terry & the pirates (69) food drugged	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Pineapple Juice ("The Terry Adventure Game Book" premium). Ter...
01.09.1942	terry and the pirates (070) meeting captain blaze	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Pineapple Juice ("The Terry Adventure Game Book" premium). Is ...
01.12.1942	terry & the pirates (71) cheery blaze fooled	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice ("The Terry Adventure Book" premium). During a da...
01.13.1942	terry & the pirates (72) cheery blaze told truth	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice ("The Terry Adventure Book" premium). The Dragon ...
01.14.1942	terry & the pirates (73) pat captures dragon lady	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice ("The Terry Adventure Book" premium). The Dragon ...
01.15.1942	terry & the pirates (74) captain blaze and the dragon lady plot escape	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice ("The Terry Adventure Book" premium). April Kane ...
01.16.1942	terry & the pirates (75) kidnapping mixup	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice ("The Terry Adventure Book" premium). April Kane ...
01.19.1942	terry and the pirates (076) rescuing cheery	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Pineapple Juice ("The Terry Adventure Book" premium). Captain ...
01.20.1942	terry and the pirates (077) terry finds transmitter	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Pineapple Juice ("The Terry Adventure Game Book" premium). The...
01.21.1942	terry and the pirates (078) dragon lady won't stop	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Pineapple Juice ("The Terry Adventure Game Book" premium). Wil...
01.22.1942	terry and the pirates (079) oil drums foil attack	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Pineapple Juice ("The Terry Adventure Game Book" premium). Emp...
01.23.1942	terry and the pirates (080) plan to use loudspeaker	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Pineapple Juice ("The Terry Adventure Game Book" premium). The...

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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