What happens
The Comic Weekly Man reads the funnies aloud to a young listener named Miss Honey as Halloween approaches. He introduces several comic strips in turn. Hopalong Cassidy and his cavalry troop are attacked by Indians on their way to a stage relay station and find its stockade under threat. Prince Valiant reconnects with his young son Prince Arn, while Donald Duck finds a stork nesting in his fireplace. Dick's adventures follow Dick, who escapes from pirate captivity and plots to stop the pirates from using the Philadelphia against the Americans. Rusty Rally and Texan suspect a rigged race at the county fair. Dagwood gets his hand stuck in a mailbox, Roy Rogers and Jack Sprat investigate a cattle conflict, Flash Gordon is captured on Mars, and Alice meets the March Hare.
A living room introduced by the Comic Weekly Man, with comic strip episodes set in the American West, medieval Britain, a pirate port in Tripoli, a county fairground, a suburban street, Mars, and Wonderland.
Characters: Comic Weekly Man, Miss Honey, Hopalong Cassidy, Prince Valiant, Prince Arn, Donald Duck, Dick, Rusty Rally
Listen for: The Comic Weekly Man introducing each strip, and the cliffhanger endings that tell listeners to return next week.
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.