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Sex Education; Top Secret Radar; $20 in Library Book
Airdate: Saturday - April 30, 1966

Limelight Show
Original Airing

audio

Last Update: 05-01-2024

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends
Come on let's hear it. . .
Show Description
[ Courtesy: Max Schmid - 05-01-2024 ] Concert series, Agnes Moorehead for Navy Waves ID @45 - it's 10:30 Shep starts - Good & Evil fighting it out again! May First - Spring! Starling - sniping butts! Bluebird of Happiness - Mother's favorite record Washington Zoo has talking Myna bird - that swears! Miss Crystal Reader-biology teacher when he wa HS Freshman Alex Josway - Pickled Earthworm, Pearl Date with Dorothy Anderson at Brookfield Zoo - Rhino unloads, camel spits back in 5 mins ID 29:15 - Palisades-Demins, Shadows of Knight ID 30:17 Time Signal 30:31 Ed Pettit with 11 pm news - Sen Pat McNamara dead, cab strike pending, newspaper deadlock, racial violence coming, Viet Nam, drug testing, MLK, sports - cinema nine plug Flying Leathernecks, weather-rain upper 40s ID 35:40 LL resumes: booing, apology to listeners for behavior of audience at Limelight. Army Story: Signal Corps-Top Secret Radar SCR268 - for tracking airplanes Shipped to tropical swamp-time to spot submarines! Mosquitoes coming in V formation. So big the radar would pick them up! Short-stopping milk & SOS. On scope with Gasser & Edwards - rumor of sterilization from standing too close to equipment. Librarian Miss Easter - a human cake of yeast Summer means reading on the porch. He finds a $20 bill in library book! Makes big plans to spend it-a new bicycle Speaking of middle aged fat bottomed couples... crowd ID 1:07:20 Cmml: Imprevu perfume - 1:08:25 back to show: parents fighting, he describes kitchen layout. feeding Randy, everybody WHINE!! Father comes home, starts stripping. Sits down to supper with glass of beer. Reads newspaper. Phillies losing streak. Ironing board broken-Mom needs new one. Scrimping Shep works on his "cute look" Aunt Min gives him bunny slippers. Cuts off 1:29:20 PaLISADES, ID & Time Signal 1:30:31 start of Sandy Lesberg NIGHTTIME
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• 1:07:20 Speaking of middle aged fat bottomed couples...
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Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used
Category Date Title Comments Time
Army Army
People Reeder, Miss
People Josway, Alex
People Anderson, Dorothy
People Gasser, Herbert
People Edwards, Roswell T
People Shepherd, Randy
People Min, Aunt
Plots / Story Lines Bunny Slippers / Pajamas
Army Radar SCR-268
Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)
Date Title  
April 30, 1966
Recno: 562
Sex Education; Top Secret Radar; $20 in Library Book Original Airing
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Limelight 4
LL-38
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