The Radio Planet

After school, before dinner

What Children Listened To

The daily quarter-hour slot built specifically for young listeners — adventure, comic strips and moral instruction, sold with a cereal box top.

1937 – 1962 · 3 stops · 1h 28m

  1. 1

    Fairy tales, dramatized weekly for a Saturday-morning audience.

    Let's Pretend · Radio

    Why the Sea is Salty

    22 Aug 1942 · 29 min

  2. 2

    A children's variety hour built for the same slot.

    No School Today · Radio

    Day Before Christmas

    24 Dec 1955 · 30 min

  3. 3

    The fairy-tale strand's own Christmas edition.

    Lets Pretend at Christmas · Radio

    House of the World

    26 Dec 1942 · 29 min