On This Day, September 1: Harry Nile and Fitch Bandwagon
Also featured: Richard Widmark.
September 1 Update
This report documents the historical provenance, broadcast scheduling, commercial sponsorship, credited cast, production personnel, alternate circulating titles, and pure narrative synopses for broadcasts transmitting on September 1 across modern Seattle detective theater, collegiate marching band broadcasts, lyrical Irish autobiography, mid-century music industry dialogues, African safari adventures, and Sears-sponsored radio dramas, Larry Albert as Harry Nile in Imagination Theatre (2013), Tobe Reed on The Fitch Bandwagon (1940), Richard Widmark hosting Mutual Radio Theater (1980), Twenty Years A-Growing on the BBC (1977), The Howard Miller Show (1955), and On Safari (1940–2013):
1. Broadcasts
| Title | Network, Airdate & Showtime | Sponsor & Commercial Ads | Credited Cast & Performers | Director, Writers & Crew | Genres | Story Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Harry Nile — A Scheduled Murder & The Case of the Sinister Minister" | Syndication 2013-09-01 |
Sustaining Audio Mystery |
Larry Albert (Nile), French | Jim French (Writer/Director) | ["Detective", "Mystery", "Harry Nile", "Jim French", "Imagination Theatre"] |
Private investigator Harry Nile solves a calculated railway murder and exposes a fraudulent clergyman conducting illegal real estate swindles. |
| "Guest University of California Marching Band with Tobe Reed and Fitch Shampoo" | NBC Red (KPO) 1940-09-01 7:30 PM EDST |
F.W. Fitch Co. Fitch Shampoo |
Tobe Reed (MC) | UC Marching Band | ["Music", "Big Band", "Marching Band", "Fitch Bandwagon", "Fitch"] |
Tobe Reed spotlights collegiate fight songs and rousing brass arrangements performed by the University of California Band. |
| "An Blascaod Mór Autobiography with BBC Radio Drama" | BBC Radio 3 1977-09-01 |
Sustaining Irish Radio Drama |
Irish Radio Repertory | Muiris Ó Súilleabháin | ["Drama", "Biography", "Irish", "BBC Radio 3", "Literature"] |
A lyrical dramatization recounts a young fisherman's coming-of-age on the windswept Great Blasket Island off the Irish coast. |
| "Guest Record Producers Luigi Creatore and Hugo Peretti with Howard Miller" | CBS (WBBM) 1955-09-01 10:45 AM EDT |
Sustaining Music Interview |
Howard Miller, Hugo & Luigi | CBS Radio Music Staff | ["Music", "Interview", "Pop", "Howard Miller", "CBS"] |
Chicago disc jockey Howard Miller interviews hitmakers Hugo & Luigi about current pop record production techniques and upcoming vinyl releases. |
| "The Spirit of Ramazani with Dramatic African Adventure Cast" | Springbok Radio (SABC) 1967-09-01 |
Commercial Sponsors African Adventure |
Dramatic Voice Ensemble | Adrian Steed (Producer) | ["Adventure", "Mystery", "On Safari", "Springbok Radio", "South Africa"] |
Game wardens track dangerous diamond poachers using tribal superstition and the legend of an ancestral spirit to frighten local trackers. |
| "Words, Words with Host Richard Widmark and Sears" | Mutual (WOR) 1980-09-01 9:05 PM EDT |
Sears Roebuck Radio Theater |
Richard Widmark (Host) | Fletcher Markle (Director) | ["Drama", "Mystery", "Mutual Radio Theater", "Richard Widmark", "Sears"] |
An obsessive lexicographer discovers a coded manuscript whose subtle semantic word alterations foretell catastrophic financial collapses. |