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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
03.10.1942	terry and the pirates (112) duplexus plantation	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. Pat and Terry are inspecting an ancient temple, ...
03.11.1942	terry and the pirates (113) april arrives	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. April Kane has arrived in Lao Kai, along with Co...
03.12.1942	terry and the pirates (114) dillon kane found	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. The man behind the door in the temple basement t...
03.13.1942	terry and the pirates (115) message to yellow hair	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. Baron De Plexus and Slugger Dunn have an argumen...
03.16.1942	terry and the pirates (116) escape from temple	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. Baron De Plexus is aware that someone has entere...
03.23.1942	terry and the pirates (121) using a net	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. Pat Ryan and Terry are expecting San Jac. A boat...
03.24.1942	terry and the pirates (122) sanjack holds april	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. April is out of her trance, and a prisoner of Sa...
03.25.1942	terry and the pirates (123) baron and slugger	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. San Jac is holding April Kane a prisoner. Slugge...
03.26.1942	terry and the pirates (124) following the baron	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. Pat and Terry approach the island, as done Baron...
03.27.1942	terry and the pirates (125) baron and slugger	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. On San Jac's island, Slugger Dunn and Baron De P...
03.30.1942	terry and the pirates (126) sanjack's island burns	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. Pat has been shot in the shoulder by Baron De Pl...
03.31.1942	terry and the pirates (127) rescued from river	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. Everyone has been rescued from the sinking boat,...
04.01.1942	terry and the pirates (138) smythe heatherstone	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. Mr. Smyth-Heatherstone owns the ship and invites...
04.02.1942	terry and the pirates (129) terry nurses dragon lady	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice. The Dragon Lady has been shot and asks Terry for...
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...
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...
04.07.1942	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...
04.08.1942	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...
04.09.1942	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...
04.10.1942	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...
04.16.1942	terry and the pirates (139) mind reading act	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice (Rainbow Pencil premium). The Dragon Lady has esc...
04.20.1942	terry and the pirates (141) jigger	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Tomato Juice (Big Stoop's Code Writer premium). Pat has helped...
04.21.1942	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...
04.22.1942	terry and the pirates (143) rescued by slugger	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Juices (Big Stoop code-writing colored pencil premium). In the...
04.23.1942	terry and the pirates (144) smiley knocked out	+ WGN, Chicago. Sponsored by: Libby's Juices (Big Stoop code-writing colored pencil premium). Terry ...

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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