What happens
The Comic Weekly Man reads aloud from Puck the Comic Weekly, a 1950 episode from the Comic Weekly Man series, first aired on November 5, 1950. He opens with a riddle about a river and then reads a series of comic strips. Archie and Snookums at a carnival are swept up by a crowd of balloons, Flash Gordon pursues the villain Zinn, Dick Adventures meets famous patriots in colonial America, Rusty Riley and Patty Miles arrive at Shark's Neck where a suspicious tutor is involved, Br'er Rabbit outwits Br'er Fox and Br'er Wolf, Roy Rogers finds a dummy in an empty town, Dagwood tries to avoid Herb Woodley's fishing trip, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith give a wedding present, and Prince Valiant is caught in an explosion.
A cheerful radio reading of the comics, moving through a carnival, outer space, colonial America, a New England coast, a folk-tale woodland, a Western town, a suburban home, a rural hamlet and medieval times.
Characters: Comic Weekly Man, Archie, Snookums, Flash Gordon, Zarkov, Zinn, Dick, George Washington
Listen for: The riddle at the start about a river, and the sequence of comic strips read aloud in turn.
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.