What happens
The Comic Weekly Man visits a boy and his friend Miss Honey and reads them the comics, starting with a birthday party and Hopalong Cassidy. Hoppy buys the Madeira Hacienda to save it for Don Ramon, then trails the outlaw Sloat, who escapes from the house. Prince Valiant and his companions face an avalanche while crossing the Alps. Donald Duck rigs a radio to a bull's horns, Dagwood Bumstead's roast goes missing, Roy Rogers pursues an outlaw stealing a steer, Flash Gordon lands on the moon, Dick is swept back to John Paul Jones's battle, and Rusty and Tex confront a man who has stolen a painting. The series is Comic Weekly Man, first aired on April 15, 1951.
A boy's home in the 1950s, read to from comic strips covering California ranches, the Alps, a farm, the moon, the sea, and the American West.
Characters: Comic Weekly Man, Miss Honey, Hopalong Cassidy, Don Ramon, Felipe, Sloat, Prince Valiant, Donald Duck
Listen for: Listen for the Comic Weekly Man reading each strip aloud, with the comic-strip panels described in order.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.