| 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: | Apollo 5 takes first Lunar module into space (1968) BORN: Sir Francis Bacon writer and philosopher (1561) DIED: Queen Victoria (1901) |
| Quote: | For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else. (Sir Winston Churchill) |
| Fact: | Anemology is the study of winds |
| Word: | woof (noun) 1: The threads that run crosswise in a woven cloth. 2: Texture of a fabric |
| Fortune Cookie: | Life always gets harder near the summit |
| Poem: | Far across low mist / Intermittently the lake / Lifts a snow-white sail / (Haiku by Gakoku) |
| Joke: | My attitude is maybe hard work never killed anyone, but why chance it? |
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| Cruise of the Poll Parrot 18 - Volcano Erupts | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | "Old Smokeymouth" finally erupts. | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 56 - Monoplane is Airborne | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Airborne sabotage to Tibet. | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 3 - Can We Forget | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Bette Davis, Robert Montgomery, Basil Rathbone, Louise Beavers. Melodrama about a young widow who cannot forget her first husband. Frank Capra (director), | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 156 - Valley of the Living Dead | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A man has become absolute ruler of an isolated valley and has made zombies of the inhabitants. | ||||||||||||
| Captain Midnight 230 - Mysterious Voice 5 - Captain Has a Plan | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Plans and daydreams for the future ... a Capt. Midnight Airplane? | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 247 - Bachelor Mother | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A comedy about a shop girl who finds herself in possession of a baby, no matter how hard she denies her motherhood! Stars: Ginger Rogers & Fredric March. Joel McCrae was supposed to be featured on this broadcast, but was replaced at the last minute (due ... | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 149 - Black Pearl of Osiris ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Miss Rycroft is accused of stealing 'The Black Pearl Of Osirus'. Tumbleweed Jones tries to rescue her and is shot! Superman to the rescue! | ||||||||||||
| Jack Armstrong 1941-01-22 - The Zambo Anga Adventure ep13 | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1248 - Hanged but Not Dead | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Aldrich Family 1942-01-22 - 129) Girlfriend | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Children / Teenagers | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 429 - Trouble in Athabascus ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Jack Armstrong 1943-01-22 - Great Safari | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1561 - Sheriff by Proxy | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures by Morse 3 - The Body That Walked Off | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Spy / Espionage | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The City of the Dead Part 3 | ||||||||||||
| Ellery Queen 161 - Scarecrow and the Snowman | |||||||||||||
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| Nick Carter, Master Detective 41 - Records of Death | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | aka "The Mystery Of The Unclaimed Box" | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1874 - Partners in Crime | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 467 - Tender Comrade | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Olivia de Havilland & June Duprez | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 229 - Love Before Breakfast | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 139 - Seascape | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The wife of a lighthouse keeper admits she's a murderess. Just to complicate matters one of her old lovers is shipwrecked onto the lighthouse, making a strange threesome. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1209 - Talking Cat ep10 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 54 - The Disappearing Body | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | There's a dead body in Blackie's apartment. After Blackie is lured out with a decoy telephone call, the body disappears. Then, stolen pearls find their way into Blackie's safe! | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1946-01-22 - 740) George Haven's Secret | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 254 - The Confession | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A dying bank robber gives an impoverished pharmacist a taste of death and murder. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1469 - Drought in Freeville ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Dick Tracy 1947-01-22 - 1006) The Case of the Moth and the Flame | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 233 - Dancing School | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2185 - Rays of the Sun - Meteor IV | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1664 - Dead Man's Secret ep7 | |||||||||||||
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| Dick Tracy 1948-01-22 - 1247) The Case of the Positive Negative | |||||||||||||
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| Hop Harrigan 1948-01-22 1384) - Airline Protection Racket 1 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Philip Marlowe 17 - The Orange Dog | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The multiple murders and a strange Chinese statuette produce a trail of violence that leads to counterfeiter's plates. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Frank Race 39 - Night Crawler | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Treachery in the live bait business. Race sees that the worm turns! | ||||||||||||
| Hopalong Cassidy 4 - Mystery of Skull Valley | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Media / Stars | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Gold coins lead Hoppy and California to a red-bearded killer and a missing archaeologist. | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 76 - Walter's Radio | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | School | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Miss Brooks becomes Mrs. Boynton! Well, not really. Mr. Boyton has applied for a professorship and mentioned that he was married. Now, he needs a wife in a hurry. | ||||||||||||
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 39 - Martin White Sees Dead Men | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Martin White asks Diamond to help him find Paul Jarvis, a murderer and a deserter from the army during the war. Even though White saw Jarvis killed in action, White is sure Jarvis is attending college with him! After the drama, Dick Powell sings, "Hush, Little ... | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 64 - The Face of Diana | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 399 - The Go-Between | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A complicated tale of double murder, blackmail, and more, as a man tries to decide whether to murder his secretary or his wife. | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 228 - Knock on Wood | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2811 - The Eagle Feather | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 730 - Broken Arrow | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Burt Lancaster & Debra Paget | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 974 - The Streets Are Guarded | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Mysterious Traveler 340 - Change of Address | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A henpecked husband buys a "house made for murder" on the shore of the Pacific Ocean. | ||||||||||||
| Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 7 - Shanghaied on a Deep Spacer ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Tom Corbett is shanghaied aboard the 'Constellation,' a ship heading for deep space. An attempted escape on Venus fails. | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1953-01-22 - 54) Run on the Bank | |||||||||||||
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| The Roy Rogers Show 1953-01-22 - 22) The Meanest Thief | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3281 - Good Indian | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 203 - Phantom of Gun Valley | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 145 - Sins Of The Fathers | |||||||||||||
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| The Charlie McCarthy Show 1956-01-22 - Rudy Whistler, Cecil Zong | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy | ||||||||||||
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| Fort Laramie 1 - Playing Indian | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Captain Quince baits a trap for a band of horse thieves and murderers who are trying to make the cavalry think they are Arapahos. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 198 - Romeo | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 459 - Hard Virtue | |||||||||||||
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