History Trivia / LetsPretend

* UnderageCasting: Originally, Nila Mack only hired children and teenagers to act out the stories. This might not be immediately obvious to modern listeners as most of the surviving episodes are from the end of the run, and because the vinyl records eschewed the process by hiring adult voice actors. It also helps that many of the actors sounded older than they actually were.[[note]]To give a little context, series regular Miriam Wolfe once got cast as a witch in another radio show; production kept getting delayed until one of the higher-ups explained they were waiting on Wolfe, only for her to step out and explain she'd been there the whole time. No one realized she was just a teenager and assumed she was an old woman.[[/note]]

* UnderageCasting: Originally, Nila Mack only hired children and teenagers to act out the stories. This might not be immediately obvious to modern listeners as most of the surviving episodes are from the end of the run, and because the vinyl records eschewed the process by hiring adult voice actors. It also helps that many of the actors sounded older than they actually were.[[note]]To give a little context, series regular Miriam Wolfe once got cast as a witch in another radio show; production kept getting delayed until one of the higher-ups explained they were waiting for Wolfe, only for her to step out and explain she'd been there the whole time. No one realized she was just a teenager.[[/note]]

** Due to being a '30s-'40s radio show, some of the episodes have been lost to time. One such episode was an adaptation of "The Girl Without Hands."

** Due to being a '30s-'40s radio show, some of the episodes have been lost to time.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** Literature/SnowWhite is referred to as Snowdrop, her name from the earliest English translations. This might have also been an attempt to distinguish the ''Let's Pretend'' version from the already wildly popular [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Disney film.]]
** The record covers, which were from the 1970's, have very psychedelic imagery.

** Literature/{{Snow White|and the Seven Dwarfs}} is referred to as Snowdrop, her name from the earliest English translations. This might have also been an attempt to distinguish the ''Let's Pretend'' version from the already wildly popular [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Disney film.]]

** Literature/{{Snow White|and the Seven Dwarfs}} is referred to as Snowdrop, her name from the earliest English translations. This might have also been an attempt to distinguish the ''Let's Pretend'' version from the already wildly popular [[Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Disney film.]]
** The record covers, which were from the 1970's, have very pyschadelic imagery.

** The ''Literature/{{Bluebeard}}'' episode was later pulled from reairing after parents complained about it, despite the episode explicitly have the wives be rescued (they were kept prisoner in the chamber instead of being killed). This was pointed out on the air after a child wrote a letter to the show asking why the episode never played. Despite this, it was released on records.

* MissingEpisode: The ''Literature/{{Bluebeard}}'' episode was later pulled from reairing after parents complained about it, despite the episode explicitly have the wives be rescued (they were kept prisoner in the chamber instead of being killed). This was pointed out on the air after a child wrote a letter to the show asking why the episode never played. Despite this, it was released on records.
** Due to being a radio show, some of the episodes have been lost to time.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Literature/{{Snow White|and the Seven Dwarfs}} is referred to as Snowdrop, her name from the earliest English translations. This might have also been an attempt to distinguish the ''Let's Pretend'' version from the already wildly popular [[Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Disney film.]]

* MissingEpisode: The Bluebeard episode was later pulled from reairing after parents complained about the series, despite the episode explicitly have the wives be rescued (they were kept prisoner in the chamber instead of being killed), which was pointed out after a child wrote a letter to the show asking why the episode never played. Despite this, it was released on records.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Literature/{{Snow White|and the Seven Dwarfs}} is referred to as her original English name, Snowdrop.

* MissingEpisode: The Bluebeard episode was later pulled from reairing after parents complained about the series. Despite this, it was released on records.