| Choose A Day |
Here is a little addition to our Yesteryear Listening Guide. We've looked at all our radio shows, and have grouped them into the day of the year they were broadcast. As a little bit fun we've also added some small snippets. See what was on the airwaves on your birthday, or other memorable dates in your year. Happy Listening!
| On This Day: | Hindenburg destroyed in New Jersey 36 people killed (1937) BORN: Sigmund Freud psychiatrist (1856) DIED: Marlene Dietrich actress (1992) |
| Quote: | In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. (Laurence J. Peter) |
| Fact: | Wimbledon is the world's oldest tennis tournament. It has been held at the All England Club in the London suburb Wimbledon since 1877 |
| Word: | mulligrubs (noun) 1: Grumpiness; colic; low spirits; sullenness 2: An ill-tempered person |
| Fortune Cookie: | As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time |
| Poem: | Glorious the moon... / Therefore our thanks dark clouds / Come to rest our necks / (Haiku by Basho) |
| Joke: | I phoned the gym to teach me to do the splits. They asked, 'How flexible are you?' I said, 'I can't make Tuesdays or Thursdays' |
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| The Lone Ranger 823 - Kidnapped Boy | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 123 - Speed, Clint and Carlos in a Bad Storm | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A warm welcome is planned for the Secret Police in Marakesh. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 37 - Airplane Disasters at Bridger Field ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen investigate the strange circus. Fodor the strongman attacks Clark Kent...no contest! | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 262 - Our Town | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A classic American play about life in a small town. Stars: William Holden & Martha Scott. This broadcast took place two years after the play opened, but only seventeen days before the premier of the film. This was the last program that The Lux Radio Theatre ... | ||||||||||||
| Jack Armstrong 1942-05-06 - Lost Inca City | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1449 - Outlaw Point | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-05-06 - 153) Planespotting Contest | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures by Morse 18 - The Living Image of Cambodia | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Spy / Espionage | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Cobra King Strikes Back Part 5 | ||||||||||||
| Old Gold Comedy Theater 27 - Hired Wife | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Sealed Book 8 - Stranger in the House | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A couple moves into a haunted house and the man falls in love with a beautiful ghost. The script was also used on "The Mysterious Traveler" on January 29, 1952 | ||||||||||||
| Weird Circle 75 - The Red Hand | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1283 - Hate Mongers Organization ep15 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2073 - The Crimson Prophet (part 2) | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 296 - Bachelor Mother | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Sherlock Holmes (Rathbone & Bruce) 214 - Man with the Twisted Lip | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 206 - Bright Horizon | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Uncle Harvey is a concert pianist who never reads the legal papers he signs. Now, how to get him to sign his own suicide note? | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1543 - Phantom of the Sea ep7 | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1739 - Ghost Brigade ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| Ellery Queen 352 - One Diamond | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Red Ryder 1948-05-06 - The Rainmaker | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Lobo Kennedy is trying to drive the Indians out of Tomahawk Valley during a drought. Not if Red has anything to say about it! | ||||||||||||
| Straight Arrow 1 - Stage From Calvaydos | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Native Americans | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Randy Culver seems to have robbed the stage to Calvados. He was framed, but it will take Straight Arrow to prove him innocent. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2543 - King of the County | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Dimension X 5 - Knock | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Aliens who have no concept of natural death have wiped out humanity, literally to the last man and woman, whom they put in a zoo as public curiosities. Versions of this story also appeared on X Minus One, Future Tense, 2000X (not to be confused with 2000 Plus) ... | ||||||||||||
| The Falcon 332 - Flaming Club | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Spy / Espionage | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Dean wants The Falcon to follow his partner Larrabee. But Dean is found dead when his nightclub burns down. Suspicion falls on the nosy bartender. | ||||||||||||
| Comic Weekly Man 211 - Spring is Here, First Comic - Hopalong Cassidy | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Tales of the Texas Rangers 42 - No Living Witnesses | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | The story is based on the events of November, 1939 (?). A doctor is found murdered in his office, a cowboy is found murdered too. What's the connection? | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 466 - Two and One Makes Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Mildred Wiley is determined to marry her boss Phillip Taggart. When he marries someone else, Mildred goes to great lengths to sabotage the match. | ||||||||||||
| Wild Bill Hickok 6 - A Cave at Careful Smith's Mine | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Heroes | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 1004 - Gold Legacy | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| The Lineup 83 - Babs the Baggy Bungling Brunette Bombshell | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Babs has been identified as the one who held up a drugstore and shot and killed a cashier. When it turns out Babs was a stripper, it's easy to imagine what the mug shots must have looked like. | ||||||||||||
| Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 37 - Danger in Deep Space ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | On a trip to Alpha Centauri, two crooks try to take over the Polaris. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 495 - Anniversary Present | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Wild Bill Hickok 152 - Cash in Bat Wing Cave | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Heroes | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Escape 211 - The Adversary | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Mixed Bag | Horror | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2779 - Gus Hears Editor's Confidential Recording | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Roy Rogers Show 1954-05-06 - 15) Song - Old Man River | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Six-Shooter 32 - Anna Norquist | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A story about a mail-order bride from Sweden who arrives to find her pen-pal groom about to be hanged for murder. Harry Bartell is billed as Harry 'Killer' Bartell. | ||||||||||||
| Fort Laramie 15 - Never the Twain | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The daughter of Spotted Tail and a soldier fall in love. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 213 - The Photographer | |||||||||||||
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| Our Miss Brooks 340 - New Girl in Town | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | School | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Dolores Roberts has come to Madison High and seems to have caught the eye of Mr. Boynton and Walter Denton. | ||||||||||||
| Hancock's Half Hour s5 16 - The Junk Man | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Hancock decides to have a clean out and starts with a drawer of rubbish. But he puts almost everything back! When Sid James calls in the guise of his new profession as a rag and bone man, Miss Pugh sells some of Hancock's treasured possessions to him whilst ... | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 788 - Burma Red Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Oscar Mayfield has made a heist on a the Burma Red a ruby large enough to choke a horse and insured for half a million dollars. Johnny Dollar had tangled with him before and Mayfield had made him a promise that if he ever interfered with his business ... | ||||||||||||
