Airchecks
This Airchecks focuses on radio shows from old time radio to current shows written as plays or when a radio show was recorded. A showcase of radio programming that may have been lost over the decades if it hadn’t been recorded and preserved for future generations. In the radio and television industry, recordings of radio shows were fairly common anywhere from transcription discs for later replay or to make sure a commercial has been played on the air for the salesman to show their client. And sometimes it’s not just audio theatre, it can be music as well. Some items previously aired and some items that were never aired, but recorded. Airchecks is a three hour program that is uploaded into a podcast on Saturdays.
Episodes
April 22, 2025 • 177 mins
Just a little bit of a housekeeping note. This will be the last episode of Airchecks until we are back on June 1, 2025 as we need to make some adjustments to the new radio station, Purdy Spit Radio at purdy spit dot o r g.
In this episode:
In this episode:
- From December 30, 1964, New Year's dates are something special. What will happen in the year 2000 when a new century starts? Memories of "The Star and Garter. " Army story: New Year's Eve...
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April 16, 2025 • 227 mins
In this episode of the Jean Shepherd Show Marathon, we will hear:
- From September 15, 1964, A remote broadcast from the Disney exhibit and the I. B. M. "People Wall" at the New York's World's Fair.
- From October 16, 1964, Remembering Al Pearce as a poor salesman. Selling seeds is not an easy task. Why painters drink too much. Parts of the opening and closing themes have been deleted.
- From November 7, 1964, The program ori...
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April 11, 2025 • 212 mins
In this episode we listen to:
- From August 4, 1964, The Sultan of Zanzibar has failed his driver's license test. The characteristics of the "Slobbus Americanus, " a portrait in great detail.
- From August 13, 1964, Memories of Vic and Sade, Blue Tooth Johnson, Four-Fisted Frank Fuddleman, Gloria Golden.
- From August 18, 1964, Monster mothers. The literary scene and the undue influence of the New York Times Book Review. Part...
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April 4, 2025 • 217 mins
In this episode of the Jean Shepherd Marathon on Airchecks, we present:
- From February 5, 1964, The story of a kid who shot down an airliner with a .22 The myth of marrying a Japanese woman. Americans don't listen to shortwave radio.
- February 14, 1964, The different types of love. Shepherd announces that he will be broadcasting live from "The Limelight" (for the first time? ). Playing bass in a really lousy symphony orchestra...
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March 28, 2025 • 184 mins
Welcome to Airchecks! Here is more of the Jean Shepherd Marathon on W O R in New York City.
- From December 19, 1963, Shepherd scats along with, "The Stars and Stripes Forever" and "The Okeh Laughing Record" while doing a poor imitation of Clem McCarthy. News from Britain in Shep's Winston Churchill voice. Tattoos. The sergeant and the pearl-handled grooming kit.
- December 23, 1963 (no description).
- From December 25, 1963, Thin...
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March 21, 2025 • 182 mins
In this episode we feature:
- From April 26, 1963, Graffiti, Why Hud? Life is not only a magazine, it's a cereal! "If you can't beat City Hall, flood it! " Schwartz's father: a vice president and a most effective lay leader. Part of the opening theme has been deleted.
- From August 29, 1963, The program was on tape last night, because Shepherd participated in the day's march on Washington, D. C. He describes the bus ride...
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March 14, 2025 • 162 mins
Here is more of the Jean Shepherd Marathon on W O R in New York City.
- From April 24, 1962, The literati today discuss films, not books. Chicago chop suey joints.
- From, September 19, 1962, here is "Elephant Foot".
- From March 15, 1963, Goldwater, Romney and Rockefller are also not running. Shep hasn't much patience with his engineer "Walt" (or anyone else in the studio). Underdogs? That's pure Orwell! A broadcast showi...
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March 7, 2025 • 182 mins
In this episode of the Jean Shepherd Marathon:
- From February 15, 1962, "The human race is. . . " First days are very important. The first day at the steel mill, a job gotten through a ham radio contact. "Life isn't exactly the way it seems to be. " Great Shepherd!
- From February 19, 1962, At auction: a genuine elephant's leg umbrella stand. A St. Louis man breaks into the zoo and frees forty-six cages of snakes. Talking ...
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February 28, 2025 • 204 mins
In this episode of the Jean Shepherd Marathon:
- From February 27, 1961, Native rights, a lady cab driver, a beatnik asks for "vanilla, " a Manhattan tradition, three thousand golf scores, a matter of time.
- From March 1, 1961, H. G. Grubbage and the news, a crack in suburban Philadelphia. "Ricky and Debby in Sardine Land. " A nose flute solo, Babe Ruth and the wooden pig.
- From March 2, 1961, A chat with Mother Nature. ...
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February 21, 2025 • 193 mins
In this episode of the Jean Shepherd Marathon, we present:
- From September 11, 1960, "Listen Baby, " air conditioned graves? A reading from "Fu Manchu. " Shep mentions that "this is the last of the Sunday night shows, " and that his new air time will be 12:15 A. M. to 4:00 A. M. Memories of his recent trip to Guantanemo Bay, Cuba. Fall Haiku.
- From September 18, 1960, What not to name the baby, the water polo game of lif...
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February 14, 2025 • 176 mins
In this Jean Shepherd Marthanon we will play:
- From September 3, 1960, The MONY sign, Shep plans to make the first purchase at the new Paperbook Gallery. Three hundred copies of "I Libertine" will be given away. Og and Charlie on the shore of Lake Titicaca: the first clam is eaten. The commercial for "The Electronic Workshop" (one of the sponsors) features a monaural component system for $150!
- From September 4, 1960, A ride o...
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February 7, 2025 • 242 mins
In this Jean Shepherd marathon, we present:
- Shep talks about: the chain on the door, the steel mill and "Terry and The Pirates." Permanent protection from the elements. WOR is breaking in a new fifty thousand watt transmitter after the show (the one in current use was put into service in 1923). Mom's cookie cutter, The New York Times asks Shepherd for assistance. Whitey Ford pitches to a loser. Fu Manchu for president! Chinese w...
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January 31, 2025 • 231 mins
In this Jean Shepherd episode:
- The recording begins with Dwight Weist reading the WOR News. Grand Prix auto racing, fishing, air races, dance marathons. (June 25, 1960)
- The July 4th weekend, old Wallace Beery movies, Druids at Stonehenge, "We are being inundated by a wave of creeping meatballism." Shep asks all listeners who are using a portable radio to wave a white handkerchief or towel in the air. Shep refers to Del Sharbutt a...
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January 24, 2025 • 205 mins
In part 2 of the Jean Shepherd Marathon, we will present:
- Coney Island: the man in the batting cage, a visit to Germany, the Cincinnati Human Fly, grandmother's eyeglasses, "Excelsior, You Fathead." (April 9, 1960)
- Jean has been locked out of his office at WOR! Angry cab drivers, a world filled with agents, Aunt Theresa's Jell-O molds, Aunt Theresa and Uncle Fred. "There are elements of Ahab in each of us!" (April 16, 1960)
- A movi...
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January 17, 2025 • 230 mins
Aichecks is featuring a Jean Shepherd Marathon, where we play as many shows as we can from the late 1950s to 1977 on WOR in NYC. In this episode, you will hear:
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January 10, 2025 • 200 mins
This week on Airchecks, this is the final part of a two part series of Ripley's Believe It Or Not.
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January 2, 2025 • 183 mins
In this episode of Airchecks, we will be playing part one of two of Ripley's Believe It Or Not.
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December 27, 2024 • 173 mins
This is the New Year's Eve Special. In this episode we feature:
- Abbott & Cosetllo
- Our Miss Brooks
- The Aldrich Family
- Father Knows Best
- Harold Peary
- The Jack Benny Show
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December 20, 2024 • 223 mins
This is the Christmas Special of Airchecks! In this episode we feature:
- Hercules Poirot's Christmas (BBC, December 24, 1986)
- A Christmas Carol (Campbell's Playhouse, CBS, December 24, 1939)
- Marley's Dead (BBC Comedy, December 24, 2010)
- The Night Before Christmas (NBC Radio City Playhouse, December 15, 1949)
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December 13, 2024 • 212 mins
Here is the final second half of the Cinnamon Bear. More Christmas programming next week!
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