Originally known as Aunt Jymmie and Her Tots in Tottyville, Let’s Pretend was an award-winning children’s show created in October 1928 by CBS Director for Children’s Programs Nila Mack. Aired every saturday morning, the show featured various fairy tales, which were narrated by Aunt Jymmie to a group of young kids called “the tots.” While being told the story, the tots travelled to the fantasy world of “Tottyville,” where kings and queens, princes and princesses, witches, and other characters live. The show retained this title and format until February 1929, before it was replaced by The Children’s Club Hour, who had Howard Merrill as the host and scriptwriter, and lasted until June 1929.
The show underwent several title changes after that, before it came to its final title Let’s Pretend. Among the titles used were The Adventures of Helen and Mary and Land O’ Make Believe. The show started airing under the title Let’s Pretend on March 1934. In the next two decades, the show went on to adapt popular and classic fairy tales such as Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin, The Sleeping Beauty, and Thumbelina. Cream of Wheat remained the show’s main sponsor from the first time it aired, until its last episode on October 1954. The show won lots of awards, including the prestigious Peabody Award, not just once but twice. Click here to read more about Let's Pretend
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Please enjoy these 54 old time radio episodes:
| Air Date | Title | Synopsis | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07.12.1947 | let's pretend the brave little tailor |
+ "The Brave Little Tailor". The program is strangely not referred to as "Let's Pretend" at the st... | |
| 07.19.1947 | let's pretend rapunzel |
+ Program #95. CBS net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "Rapunzel". The classic of the beautiful girl ... | |
| 07.26.1947 | let's pretend the chinese nightingale |
+ "The Chinese Nightingale". A Chinese emperor prefers a mechanical songbird to the real thing. + ... | |
| 08.16.1947 | let's pretend the youth who learned to shiver and shake |
+ "The Youth That Learned To Shiver and Shake". The story of the young man who doesn't know what i... | |
| 08.23.1947 | meliot |
+ "Mellilot". Sponsored by: Cream Of Wheat. Three brothers are changed into half-frogs by an evil w... | |
| 08.30.1947 | aladin and the wonderful lamp |
+ "Aladdin and The Wonderful Lamp". Sponsored by: Cream Of Wheat. The classic story about the genie... | |
| 09.06.1947 | let's pretend the twelve months |
+ "The Twelve Months". Sponsored by: Cream Of Wheat. A Russian fairy tale about a beautiful peasant... | |
| 09.13.1947 | let's pretend the donkey, the table, and the stick |
+ "The Donkey, The Table, and The Stick". Sponsored by: Cream Of Wheat. A young man leaves to seek ... | |
| 09.20.1947 | let's pretend the enchanted frog |
+ "The Enchanted Frog". Sponsored by: Cream Of Wheat. Uncle Bill gets an "enchanted frog" in his th... | |
| 04.03.1949 | let's pretend the princess and the pea (rebroadcast) |
+ Program #54. CBS net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "The Princess and The Pea". How to select a qu... | |
| 04.16.1949 | let's pretend snowdrop and the 7 dwarfs |
+ Program #63. CBS net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "Snowdrop and The Seven Dwarfs". The date is s... | |
| 07.09.1949 | let's pretend the tinderbox |
+ Program #90. CBS net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "The Magic Tinderbox". Soldier Howard has been... | |
| 06.21.1952 | let's pretend king thrushbeard(r) | ||
| 08.16.1952 | let's pretend the white cat |
+ Once upon a time in the enchanted land of Philanovia an aging king had three devoted sons. One day... | |
| 11.29.1952 | let's pretend one eye, two eye, three eye |
+ "One Eye, Two Eye, Three Eye". Sponsored by: Cream Of Wheat. Good triumphs again in a Cinderelles... | |
| 12.27.1952 | let's pretend the husband who was to mind the house | ||
| 06.11.1953 | let's pretend (1045) cinderella |
+ "Cinderella". Little girl ash-wise splashes big time. Fey Godmother sez boffo! The script was su... | |
| 06.18.1953 | let's pretend (1046) the emperor's new clothes |
+ The Emperor’s New Clothes is a fairy tale by Hans Christian Anderson. | |
| 11.28.1953 | let's pretend ceres and proserpina |
+ "Ceres and Proserpina". Based on the Greek myth of how winter came to be. | |
| 12.05.1953 | let's pretend puss and boots (record) |
+ Once upon a time in the magic land just west of the singing rivers a very poor miller man died. To... | |
| 12.12.1953 | let's pretend snow queen |
+ "Drake's Tail". The evil and greedy king borrows money from the wrong guy. There’s always time... | |
| 12.19.1953 | let's pretend t'was the night before christmas |
+ "The Night Before Christmas". The famous poem is dramatized from the standpoint of three mice (w... | |
| 01.09.1954 | let's pretend robin hood |
+ "Robin Hood". Robin and his merry men outwit the Sheriff of Nottingham... again. An announcement... | |
| 04.10.1954 | let's pretend the magic cuckoo | ||
| 06.05.1954 | let's pretend beauty and the beast |
+ "Beauty and The Beast". A poor man's faithful daughter volunteers to live with a beast to save h... |
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