What happens
The Comic Weekly Man reads the funnies from Puck the Comic Weekly to a young listener, Miss Honey, on this episode of the Comic Weekly Man series, first aired on August 9, 1953. He opens with a few jokes about alarm clocks and hammers before presenting strips. Beetle Bailey is a recruit whose sergeant lets a magazine photographer put him through rough exercises for pictures. Roy Rogers pursues outlaws who robbed a railroad payroll, and Donald Duck's nephews play a trick on him involving a bottle of pop. Flash Gordon and Dale escape a giant on the planet Titan, and Dagwood's neighbor Herb struggles with a broken radio. Each strip stops at a cliffhanger.
A living room, where the Comic Weekly Man reads Puck the Comic Weekly comic strips aloud to children.
Characters: Comic Weekly Man, Miss Honey, Beetle Bailey, Roy Rogers, Donald Duck, Flash Gordon, Dale, Dagwood
Listen for: The comic strip readings and the cliffhanger endings that leave each story for the following 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.