Jerry Bandages' Vintage Radio Logs

     Post or Modify Date: October 14, 01



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 Series: "THE WONDER WOMAN SHOW"
        a.k.a. "THE GRAPE NUTS FLAKES PROGRAM"
        NBC RED    GRAPE NUTS FLAKES        Sundays 7:00 - 7:30pm
        STARRING: Agnes Moorehead as Wonder Woman
        ANNOUNCER: Don Wilson
        ORCHESTRA LEADER: Phil Harris
        CAST: Militant Mary Livingstone, Eddie "Rochester X" Anderson
        SINGER: Dennis Day
        Live from the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel (except where noted)

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6974 A1  "WW ROUNDS UP THE GANG IN         1  10-04-42  :29:00  WW sings "Buckle Down, Winsocki" 
         THE INVISIBLE PLANE"

6974 A2  "WW TAKES TWO WACS TO             2  10-11-42  :30:00  Barbara Stanwyck 
         BARBARA STANWYCK'S HOUSE"

6974 A3  "WW INADVERTANTLY DONATES HER     3  10-18-42  :30:00  Fred Allen
         INDESTRUCTIBLE BRACELETS ON 
         SCRAP METAL COLLECTION DAY"

6974 B1  "MALES OF MANHATTAN"              4  10-25-42  :29:00  Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia

6974 B2  "WW AND MARY GO GIRDLE            5  11-01-42  :29:00  Lord Bertrand Russell
         SHOPPING"

6974 B3  "TWINKIE FAMILY"                  6  11-08-42  :29:10  WW vs. Twinkie the Kid

6974 C1  "TWINKIE FAMILY  PART TWO"        7  11-15-42  :29:00  Captain Cupcake, Fruitpie the Magician

6974 C2  "GEORGE WASHINGTON - RACIST MASS  8  11-22-42  :29:00  Haskell Indian College Chorale sings
         MURDERER - SLEPT HERE"                                 "There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving 
                                                                Somewhere"

6974 C3  "WW DISCOVERS SHE HAS             9  11-29-42  :29:00  Kate Smith sings "Big Fat Mama"
         PURCHASED AN OSTRICH FOR
         THANKSGIVING DINNER"

6974 D1  "LIBERTY SHIP"                   10  12-06-42  :29:00  WW joins the Merchant Marines

6974 D2  "WW BECOMES DOG CATCHER OF       11  12-13-42  :29:00  From Beverly Hills, CA
         BEVERLY HILLS"

6974 D3  "WW PLANTS A VICTORY GARDEN"     12  12-20-42  :29:00  Phil Spitalny & His All Girl Orchestra
                                                                play "Praise The Lord And Pass The 
                                                                Ammunition"

6975 A1  "NEW YEARS EVE SKIT"             13  12-27-42  :28:50* Guy Lombardo

6975 A2  "WW WORRIES WHEN RED TORNADO     14  01-03-43  :29:00  The Red Tornado and Scribbly
         GETS HER OWN RADIO SHOW"
 
6975 A3  "WW VISITS THE BATCAVE"          15  01-10-43  :29:00  The Batman sings "Humpty Dumpty Heart"

6975 B1  "SPOOF ON 'MIDGET WRESTLING'"    16  01-17-43  :29:00  From Carnegie Hall

6975 B2  "WW GOES TO OLYMPUS"             17  01-24-43  :29:00  Aphrodite, Zeus, Hermes, Sonny Tufts

6975 B3  "PURPLE HEALING RAY              18  01-31-43  :29:00  Dr. Charles Drew of the Red Cross
         DEMONSTRATION"

6975 C1  "WW IS LATE FOR THE PROGRAM"     19  02-07-43  :29:00  A. J. Muste

6975 C2  "VICTORY THROUGH AIR POWER"      20  02-14-43  :29:00  Walt Disney advocates the mass murder
                                                                of innocent civilians via air strikes

6975 C3  "O.P.A. ISSUES GAS RATIONING     21  02-21-43  :29:00  Office of Price Administration staff;
         CARD FOR INVISIBLE PLANE"                              WW sings "Barrelhouse Bessie From 
                                                                Basin Street"

6975 D1  "AMAZON OLYMPICS"                22  02-28-43  :29:00  Queen Hipployta & Her Amazons play
                                                                "(I've Got A Gal In) Kalamazoo"

6975 D2  "HOST: GRACIE ALLEN"             23  03-07-43  :29:40  WW loses powers & is off for the
                                                                next 5 weeks. Guest hosts take over.

6975 D3  "HOST: ORSON WELLES"             24  03-14-43  :29:30  "Julius Caesar" w/ all-Latino cast

6976 A1  "HOST: ORSON WELLES"             25  03-21-43  :29:00  "War of the Worlds" w/ Mars, God of War

6976 A2  "HOST: ORSON WELLES"             26  03-28-43  :29:00  "Citizen Kane" w/ Brit Reid & Kato as
                                                                Charles Foster Kane & Mr. Bernstein

6976 A3  "HOST: ORSON WELLES"             27  04-04-43  :29:00  "Casino Royale" w/ All-Star cast

6976 B1  "WW RETURNS AFTER REGAINING      28  04-11-43  :29:00  Orson Welles receives spanking
         POWERS"

6976 B2  "WW OPENS SWIMMING POOL FOR      29  04-18-43  :29:30  Esther Williams; WW sings "Strip Polka"
         THE SEASON"

6976 B3  "WW PREPARES FOR APPEARANCE      30  04-25-43  :29:37  WW sings "I Left My Heart At The Stage
         ON QUIZ KIDS"                                          Door Canteen"

6976 C1  "RENTING EDDIE CANTOR'S HOUSE"   31  05-02-43  :28:50  Eddie Cantor; Green Lantern and his Power 
                                                                Ring Orchestra perform "The Filla Da Gusha 
                                                                Song"

6976 C2  "WW JAMS WITH LOUIS              32  05-09-43  :29:00  Louis Armstrong, SONG: "Skylark"
         ARMSTRONG"

6976 C3  "RANCHO MUJER MARAVILLA"         33  05-16-43  :29:00  WW sings "New San Antonio Rose"

6976 D1  "WW LEARNS THIS WILL BE HER      34  05-23-43  :29:40  14-year-old Noam Chomsky of Philadelphia
         LAST SEASON FOR GRAPE NUTS"                            debunks America's wartime propaganda

4307 A1  "GUEST: DEANNA DURBIN"           35  05-30-43  :20:00  Deanna Durbin duets with WW on
                                                                "I'll Take Tallulah"

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   Total Number of Titles:   35                               * running time is approximate only
   Total Number of Programs: 35
   Total Possible Episodes:  35         Missing Programs: None   
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From: "Jerry Haendiges" 
To: [email protected]
Subject: "Wonder Woman" Radio series
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:55:58 -0800

Hello there,

The log you have listed as ""The Wonder Woman Show" 
- 1942-43 Radio Log"" (1st Season) is a complete 
fabrication.  There never was any such series. In 
essence this is my Log of the Jack Benny show's 
1942 - 1943 season, but with "THE WONDER WOMAN 
SHOW" listed instead of "THE JACK BENNY SHOW" and 
"STARRING: Agnes Moorehead as Wonder Woman" added.  

In addition many of the titles have subtle (and 
sometimes not so subtle) changes.  for instance 
in episode 1, the actual title was changed from 
"JACK ROUNDS UP THE GANG IN THE MAXWELL" to "WW 
ROUNDS UP THE GANG IN THE INVISIBLE PLANE" and in 
episodes 6 and 7 "THE TWINK FAMILY" was changed to 
"THE TWINKIE FAMILY," etc. If you want to see the 
rest of the changes, you can go to my Jack Benny 
Show log at http://otrsite.com/logs/logj1007.htm 
and go down to the 1942 - 1943 season. Even the 
Location numbers (6974, 6975, 6976, etc.) are my 
Open Reel numbers for that Jack Benny series.  In 
later Logs, I use the catalog numbers of 95241, 
95242, etc., but those numbers were directly from 
my log in 2001.

I guess this is someone's idea of a funny joke 
or prank, but personally I think it stinks.  I am 
requesting you to remove this travesty so that 
more people (then have contacted me) are not misled 
into thinking there actually was a "Wonder Woman" 
radio series starring Agnes Moorehead.  Or to make 
it clear on the page that this is all made-up 
material and actually a highly modified version of 
my Jack Benny Log.

You should also probably contact everyone else 
that has used this misinformation as gospel and so 
posted it to their Sites.

If you have any questions, please feel free to 
contact me.

Thank you,

Jerry

Jerry Haendiges
Jerry Haendiges Productions
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Whittier, CA  90602

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