Based on the comic strip of the same name, Terry and the Pirates tells the story of Terry Lee, a teenager with an adventurous streak, who lives in the Far East. Along with best pals Pat Ryan, Flip Corkin, Connie the coolie and Hotshot Charlie, Terry fights villains across the Orient, including those run by the beautiful but terrible Dragon Lady, played by Marion Sweet.
- Radio brought the news directly into listeners’ living rooms. Among the major news stories broken on radio: the Scopes monkey trial, carried live by Chicago station WGN in 1925; the Hindenburg zeppelin disaster, covered by WLS Chicago in 1937; and Edward R. Murrow’s CBS reports on the Blitz of Britain, airing in 1940.