| 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: | Japanese forces invade Burma (1942) BORN: Edgar Allan Poe author (1809) DIED: William Congreve English playwright (1729) |
| Quote: | Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. (Theodore Roosevelt) |
| Fact: | A male mink is called a 'Boar' |
| Word: | guttle (verb) To eat voraciously; to gorge; to gormandize |
| Fortune Cookie: | The gambler is like the fisherman both have beginners luck |
| Poem: | Fever-felled half-way, / My dreams arose to march again... / Into a hollow land / (Death-song Haiku by Basho) |
| Joke: | Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman. |
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| The Lone Ranger 779 - Crooked Banker And Sheriff | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Captain Midnight 229 - Mysterious Voice 4 - Bud Must Go to the Hospital | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Aviation | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Bud Conley's temperature continues to rise ... to 105! | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 70 - Magnificent Obsession | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 211 - The Shadow Challenged | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Professor Rice has been murdered and a valuable Hindu manuscript has been stolen ... by the Shadow! Lamont Cranston gets a phone call ... from the Shadow! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 304 - Nita, the Leopard Woman ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of Superman | ||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1403 - Old Woman's Call | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 335 - The Devil and Miss Jones | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Lionel Barrymore & Lana Turner | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-01-19 - 76) Rescuing Cheery | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 426 - Tin Men ep12 | |||||||||||||
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| Red Ryder 1943-01-19 - Red Fights Homesteader Trouble | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Red defends homesteaders from the evil Mr. Bendix. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 25 - The Devil's Saint | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Everyone who sleeps in "The Tapestry Room" dies an inexplicable death, but, to win the woman he loves, a man agrees to spend the night there. Story by: John Dickson Carr | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 687 - Green Death ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1873 - The Hobs and the Pinafore | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Dick Tracy 1946-01-19 - 14) The Case of the Dark Corridor | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| All-Star Western Theatre 24 - Trail City Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | "The Riders" visit a ranch where a killer is trapped when he fails to give himself a big enough piece of the loot! | ||||||||||||
| Danger Doctor Danfield 23 - Mental Hospital | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Dr. Danfield has himself committed to an asylum to foil the plans of an evil doctor. | ||||||||||||
| Chase and Sanborn Program 1947-01-19 - 10th Anniversary Show | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Nick Carter, Master Detective 271 - The Case of the Gold-Headed Cane | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A visitor to a South African diamond mine gets away with a few samples. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1661 - Dead Man's Secret ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| Hop Harrigan 1948-01-19 1381) - Secret Of Lakeville Bell 22 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2340 - The Silver Spoon | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 599 - The Yearling | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Gregory Peck & Jane Wyman | ||||||||||||
| My Friend Irma 41 - The Book Crook | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Leading Ladies | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 371 - Ivy | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 210 - A Boat in the Street | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A movie publicity stunt backfires when a body is found on a boat parked in the middle of town. | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 602 - Jimmy's Birthday Cake | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Chandu the Magician 1949-01-19 148 - Saves Lao Sing | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 311 - Leroy's Toothache | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2497 - Ring, No 1 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Casey 324 - Wanted - A Gun | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Casey, Crime Photographer | ||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A young man gets a gun from a pet shop and becomes involved with murder. | ||||||||||||
| Mr Keen 1274 - The Bride and Groom Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A bride of only a few days is pushed off a fourteen story roof. It later is discovered she was a millionaire. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 368 - The Escape of Lacey Abbott | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Sam Spade 231 - Cloak and Dagger Caper | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | While visiting Sam Shalamar dies from cyanide while drinking with Sam and his cat. The drink was meant for Sam. | ||||||||||||
| Dr Kildare 52 - Dr Conlon Quack | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Romance | Medical Romance | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2810 - The Midnight Rider | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| New Adventures of Nero Wolfe 14 - Calculated Risk | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Dave hires Nero Wolfe to find his murderer if he dies while trying to kill the man in the morning. | ||||||||||||
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 79 - The Man With The Scar | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A man with a scar has been murdered by the son of a member of the parole board ... or was he? | ||||||||||||
| Hopalong Cassidy 96 - Danger Wears Two Faces | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Media / Stars | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Hoppy and California ride to recover a stolen herd of cattle. A gunfighter named Lacey plans to shoot them, and are betrayed by a tin salesman named Jasper. There's a big shoot-em-up at the end. | ||||||||||||
| Hall of Fantasy s2 9 - The Cask of Amontillado | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Fortunato, a loudmouth drunkard, insults the family honor of Montresor on several occasions. When Fortunato does so in the presence of a lady fair, he has finally gone too far and Montresor vows revenge. Montresor picks the one weakness Fortunato cannot resist ... | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3123 - The Young Prospector | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 812 - Appointment with Danger | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: William Holden & Colleen Gray | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 496 - Gold on the Adomar | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 123 - Windmill on the River | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Heroes | ||||||||||||
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| Barrie Craig 120 - Strange Vision | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Barrie must travel to Greensville, Ohio, to investigate five mysterious fires at the Dexter Dean Chemical Company. Barrie has to go undercover to see what's going on. | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1954-01-19 - 157) The Avalanche and Morbid Jones | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2702 - Guard Takes Frances Riley to Meet Mason | |||||||||||||
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| Rocky Fortune 15 - The Museum Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Rocky's running a tour through a New York museum. He finds a corpse and adventure in a mummy case. | ||||||||||||
| 21st Precinct 80 - The Notes | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Kennelly and the Secret Service work to break up a counterfeit ring passing phony $20 bills. | ||||||||||||
| The FBI in Peace and War 486 - Last Will and Testament | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 309 - Ricardo Amerigo Matter ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A trio of musicians ... which one's story is playing a little flat? | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 302 - Moo Moo Raid | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 734 - The Crowded Void | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 570 - Eleven O'Clock Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The owner of an advertising agency has received a death threat. Was it from his partner? | ||||||||||||
