Traveler's Checks, Hold That Ghost and Road safety

Don't Touch That Dial for October 17, 2026: Traveler's Checks, Hold That Ghost and Road safety. 13 pieces (vintage commercials and promos, songs and theme tunes): Traveler's Checks, Hold That Ghost, Road safety and more, with Ricky Voltage. In this episode: 0:00 Don't Touch That Dial on Stupid Potato 0:09 Ricky Voltage opens the show 1:37 Traveler's Checks (commercial) 1:47 Hold That Ghost (trailer, 1941) 3:23 Road safety (PSA) 3:38 Ricky Voltage on The Beverly Hillbillies 3:49 The Beverly Hillbillies (TV theme, 1962) — The Beverly Hillbillies was an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962 to 1971. The show starred Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas and Max Baer Jr. as the Clampetts, a poor family from the Ozark Mountains who relocate to Beverly Hills, California when they discover oil on their property. 5:50 American Motors Rambler (commercial, 1967) 6:53 Twin Peaks - One Armed Man's Theme 8:55 Disprin (commercial) 9:16 Ricky Voltage on Hawaii Five-O 9:27 Hawaii Five-0 (TV theme) — The "Hawaii Five-O Theme" is an instrumental piece written by Morton Stevens for the CBS series Hawaii Five-O, which ran from 1968 to 1980. Many people regard it as one of the greatest television themes ever made. The Ventures released a cover version in 1968 that reached the top five on the singles charts in the United States and Canada and became one of their most successful recordings. 12:47 Safety Helmet (PSA) 13:01 Strange Behavior (trailer) — Strange Behavior is a 1981 slasher film written and directed by Michael Laughlin, who co-produced it with Bill Condon as co-writer. The movie stars Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher and Dan Shor and depicts a series of strange killings targeting teenagers in a small Midwestern town while a nearby university secretly conducts mind control experiments on young people. 14:44 Volkswagen Beetle (commercial) 15:46 Ricky Voltage on Braun (commercial, 1986) 16:03 Braun (commercial, 1986) 16:33 Don't Touch That Dial on Stupid Potato 16:42 Bootlegger Jeans (commercial, 1983) Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 61 free 24/7 channels and 190 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com .