SKY KING

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OLD TIME RADIO - 1 CD-ROM - 10 mp3 - Total Playtime: 3:20:57

Sky King is an American radio and television adventure series. The title character is Arizona rancher and aircraft pilot Schuyler "Sky" King. The series is likely based on a true-life personality of the 1930s, Jack Cones, the "Flying Constable" of Twentynine Palms in San Bernardino County, California, although this claim is unverified.
Although the series has strong western elements, King mostly captures criminals and spies and finds lost hikers with the use of his airplane, the Songbird. Although the airplanes that were used were changed during the course of the series, the later model was not given a number, but was still known as the Songbird.
King and his niece, Penny (and sometimes Clipper, his nephew), live on the Flying Crown Ranch, near the (fictitious) town of Grover, Arizona. Penny and Clipper are also pilots, although they are inexperienced and look to their uncle for guidance. Penny is an accomplished air racer and rates as a multi-engine pilot, whom Sky trusts to fly the Songbird. In the third TV episode, Penny refers to Clipper as "my brother."
The musical score is largely the work of composer Herschel Burke Gilbert.
The radio show, which began in 1946 and is based on a story by Roy Winsor, is the brainchild of Robert Morris Burtt and Wilfred Gibbs Moore, who also created Captain Midnight. Several actors play the part of Sky, including Earl Nightingale and John Reed King.
As is the case with regard to many radio shows of the day, "radio premiums" were offered to listeners. On November 2, 1947, in the episode "Mountain Detour," the Sky King Secret Signalscope is used. Listeners are advised to get their own for only 15 cents and the inner seal from a jar of Peter Pan Peanut Butter, which was produced by the sponsor, Derby Foods. The Signalscope included a glow-in-the-dark signaling device, whistle, magnifying glass and Sky King's private code. With the Signalscope, one could also see around corners and trees.[2] The premiums were innovative, such as the Sky King Spy-Detecto Writer, which had a "decoder" (cipher disk), magnifying glass, measuring scale, and printing mechanism in a single package slightly over 2 inches long. Other notable premiums were the Magni-Glo Writing Ring, which had a luminous element, a secret compartment, a magnifier, and a ballpoint pen all in the crownpiece of a "fits any finger" ring.
The radio show ran until 1954, having been aired simultaneously with the first portion of the television version.

EPISODES LIST

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Sky King 470714 Army of Blue Men
Sky King 470723 The Stolen Pearls
Sky King 470731 Capture of the Pearl Thief
Sky King 471204 A Message in Code
Sky King 471213 Shoot Down a German Plane In Mexico
Sky King 500000 The Black Circle
Sky King 510412 The Lady Sheriff
Sky King 510417 The Mark of El Diablo

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This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 17 April, 2014.