NBC Blue
Captain Flagg and Sergeant
Quirt
December
7, 1941, 7:30 pm EST
The excerpt included here is highlighted in white.
| Captain Flagg and
Sergeant Quirt had a Marine Corps setting.
The two Marines spent a lot of time bragging
and arguing with each other over some girl.
The real Marine Corps complained about the
show, particularly about the concept of a
sergeant being insubordinate to an officer.
Quirt was dropped from the show and replaced
by sergeant Bliss, but the show still only
lasted a total of six months. In this episode,
Flagg accidentally gets hypnotized by Quirt,
who is trying to hypnotize sergeant Bliss
into thinking he's a wildflower in order to
avoid a fight. There are several interruptions to the show, but it sounds as if the engineer accidentally kept switching over to The Fitch Bandwagon being broadcast on the Red network. **Note--The same bulletins can be heard in NBC Red's broadcast of The Fitch Bandwagon** 0:00: Starts off with one of those "we'll interrupt this program as necessary" remarks, then cuts to Fitch Bandwagon for about two seconds, followed by a lengthy silence and "one moment please" as the engineers get their act together. It cuts back to Fitch Bandwagon again, then more silence. They join a Mennen commercial in progress, which lead into the Marine Corps Hymn. 1:30: Program begins. 2:52: Program interruption: The engineer was late and this bulletin is joined in progress. You can hear the full bulletin in The Fitch Bandwagon program being broadcast simultaneously on NBC Red: The mayor of San Francisco has declared that San Francisco is in a state of emergency tonight, and he demands the immediate cessation of all strikes in order to present a united front. The border has been closed to Japanese nationals and restrictions have been placed on financial transactions by Japanese aliens. 3:15: Program resumes. |
| 21:25: Program interruption: Bulletin from Washington: Preliminary estimate of 104 dead in army forces alone in the Japanese attack on Hawaii. Civilian casualties are not included. |
21:48: Program resumes, but the engineer cuts back to Fitch Bandwagon again. 21:11: Program resumes. |