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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
08.22.1942	why the sea is salty	"Why The Sea Is Salt". Miriam Wolfe mentions that the show's theme song is titled, "Fairy Tales," ...
08.10.1946	story of faithful john	+ "The Story Of Faithful John". Sponsored by: Cream Of Wheat. + Let’s Pretend to travel by roller...
08.23.1947	meliot	+ "Mellilot". Sponsored by: Cream Of Wheat. Three brothers are changed into half-frogs by an evil w...
05.18.1946	let's pretend the frog prince (record)
06.21.1952	let's pretend king thrushbeard(r)
N/A	let's pretend douban the physician(r)	+ The Let's Pretenders travel on pogo stick in to their magic land to hear the story of Douban The ...
10.09.1954	let's pretend hansel and gretel	+ "Hansel and Gretel". Two starving kids munching on the old witch's split level. From New York Ci...
10.02.1954	let's pretend king arthur (rebroadcast)	+ "King Arthur and How He Won His Sword". The story of how Arthur met his sword "Excaliber" and me...
06.19.1954	let's pretend ondine
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...
04.10.1954	let's pretend the magic cuckoo
01.09.1954	let's pretend robin hood	+ "Robin Hood". Robin and his merry men outwit the Sheriff of Nottingham... again. An announcement...
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...
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...
11.28.1953	let's pretend ceres and proserpina	+ "Ceres and Proserpina". Based on the Greek myth of how winter came to be.
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.
06.11.1953	let's pretend (1045) cinderella	+ "Cinderella". Little girl ash-wise splashes big time. Fey Godmother sez boffo! The script was su...
12.27.1952	let's pretend the husband who was to mind the house
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...
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...
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...
N/A	let's pretend the juniper tree(r)
N/A	let's pretend sleeping beauty(r)
N/A	let's pretend magic carpet, the(r)
N/A	let's pretend golden fleece(r)

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Recently, I kept hearing the Cream of Wheat commercial song in my head and couldn't remember the name of the radio program all my family and friends faithfully listened to every Saturday morning in Chicago. Thank you, Old Time Radio, for bringing back 'Let's Pretend' with these precious memories of my childhood. We sure could use this type of programming for today's kids. It so stimulated imagination, curiosity and a desire to read books. Unfortunately, TV and video games, etal, have taken over the attention of kids and, I believe, stymied their creativity. Sad.

Carol

This children's program was created and hosted by Nila Mack on CBS from 1934 to 1954. It is one of the most respected juvenile programs ever broadcast. "Heel-looo, Pretenders! Helllloooo, Uncle Bill!"

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