Undated Broadcasts Identified: Cecil and Sally (100% Series Completion)
With the completion of this update (26 broadcasts, Sequences 1688 through 1713), our archival restoration of Cecil and Sally (starring Johnny Patrick and Helen Troy) reaches 100% comprehensive completion: all 1,713 broadcasts in the archive…
Undated Broadcasts Project — Cecil and Sally 100% Completed
With the completion of This update (26 broadcasts, Sequences 1688 through 1713), our archival restoration of Cecil and Sally (starring Johnny Patrick and Helen Troy) reaches 100% comprehensive completion: all 1,713 broadcasts in the archive are now fully dated, titled, contextualized, and resolved.
Across 30 dedicated updates (Updates 26 through 55), we have methodically reconstructed six broadcast seasons spanning 1928 through May 1934, tracking daily transmissions across KPO/KYA in San Francisco and nationwide electrical transcription syndication.
This final cohort resolves Episodes 1331 through 1356 (April 6 to May 5, 1934), taking the family on an exuberant Pacific Northwest road trip:
- Tight Boots and St. Regis Misadventures: Traveling to Seattle, Cecil's stiff new riding boots swell on his feet, leading to an accidental holding-cell stay when a policeman mistakes him for a curb vagrant. In their hotel suite, an effort to pull the boots off splinters a mahogany bedpost.
- Otis Up the Flagpole: Young Otis scales the hotel roof parapet and climbs the brass flagpole ten stories above the street, drawing an enormous crowd while Sally faints repeatedly on the pavement below.
- The Spokane Hearse Collision: Demonstrating proper road safety on a Spokane boulevard, Cecil steps backwards directly into a slow-moving funeral hearse, resulting in a flurry of chocolate fudge, crossword puzzles, and hospital bedside pampering from Sally.
- The Grand Finale (Episode 1,356): With travel funds exhausted, Cecil schemes to drop a novelty rubber cockroach into the dining room soup to evade the bill. Bracing for arrest when the police chief and hotel manager approach their table, the couple are instead astonished to receive a civic cash bounty and medals for unwittingly unmasking and capturing a notorious international hotel jewel thief!
Reaching 2,715 broadcasts resolved across the master project ledger, Cecil and Sally joins This I Believe as completely dated and standardized.
1. Broadcasts
| Episode / Title | Airdate | Credited Background & Role | Pure Narrative Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shopping for a Riding Habit | 1934-04-06 | Daily Comedy Serial (Ep. 1331) | Sally's enthusiasm for horseback riding runs into a haughty boutique clerk as she tries on velvet habits. |
| Tight Boots on the Seattle Coach | 1934-04-07 | Daily Comedy Serial (Ep. 1332) | Riding the interstate motorbus to Seattle, Cecil's stiff new leather boots swell painfully tight on his feet. |
| Mistaken for a Vagrant | 1934-04-09 | Daily Comedy Serial (Ep. 1333) | Unable to walk into the luxury hotel in stockinged feet, Cecil sits on the curb, where a beat cop mistakes him for a beggar. |
| Sally's Runaway Horse | 1934-04-11 | Daily Comedy Serial (Ep. 1335) | At the equestrian stables, Sally's mount bolts across the bridle paths, taking her on a wild and screaming ride. |
| Otis Up the Flagpole | 1934-04-14 | Daily Comedy Serial (Ep. 1338) | Otis shimmies up the hotel flagpole; Sally faints three times on the pavement before firefighters coax the boy down. |
| Tangled Fishing Lines | 1934-04-17 | Daily Comedy Serial (Ep. 1340) | In a small wooden skiff on the sound, Cecil, Sally, and Otis hopelessly tangle their reels, casting hooks into hats. |
| Cooking Trout in the Suite | 1934-04-19 | Daily Comedy Serial (Ep. 1342) | Sally fries the day's catch on a smuggled electric hot plate, filling the plush hotel corridor with thick, pungent smoke. |
| The Hearse Collision | 1934-04-23 | Daily Comedy Serial (Ep. 1345) | Demonstrating safe pedestrian crossings on a Spokane boulevard, Cecil steps backwards directly into a slow-moving hearse. |
| The Rubber Cockroach in the Soup | 1934-05-04 | Daily Comedy Serial (Ep. 1355) | Cecil schemes to avoid paying for dinner by dropping a novelty beetle in the soup, but the head waiter intercepts him. |
| The Hotel Jewel Thief Reward | 1934-05-05 | Daily Comedy Serial (Ep. 1356) | Bracing for arrest, Cecil and Sally are stunned when the police chief hands them a cash bounty for capturing a hotel jewel thief. |