| 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: | Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10 (2003) BORN: Stendhal author (1783) DIED: Arthur Guinness brewer (1803) |
| Quote: | Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. (Eleanor Roosevelt) |
| Fact: | Jupiter has 63 moons that have been identified (but a lot of these are very small) |
| Word: | parol (noun) A spoken statement; utterance |
| Fortune Cookie: | If you continually give, you will continually have |
| Poem: | Ah! I intended / Never never to grow old ... / Listen: new year's bell! / (Haiku by Jokun) |
| Joke: | I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian |
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| Jungle Jim 65 - Tiger's Claw Strikes | |||||||||||||
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| Speed Gibson 4 - A Shooting Attempt | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A midnight visitor ... with a gun! | ||||||||||||
| Chase and Sanborn Hour 1938-01-23 - 38) Guest Alice Brady | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy | ||||||||||||
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| The Shadow 104 - The Society of the Living Dead | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A good story about a businessman kept prisoner in a burial vault by his evil partner. Attempting a rescue, the Shadow nearly drowns in a flooded mausoleum. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 935 - Enemy Of Justice | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 203 - Cardinal Richelieu | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The intrigues of the French court, and of the wily Cardinal. Stars: George Arliss & Florence Arliss. The intermission guest is Edward Lambert, who supervised the costumes for the film version of "Cardinal Richelieu" and also did the costumes for "The Birth ... | ||||||||||||
| The Aldrich Family 1941-01-23 - 80) The Pen Pal | |||||||||||||
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| Jack Armstrong 1941-01-23 - The Zambo Anga Adventure ep14 | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 306 - Nita, the Leopard Woman ep6 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1405 - Crystal Canyon | |||||||||||||
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| Terry and the Pirates 1942-01-23 - 80) Plan to Use Loudspeaker | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Let's Pretend 1943-01-23 - The Golden Touch | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Fantasy / Whimsey | ||||||||||||
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| Chase and Sanborn Program 1944-01-23 - Greer Garson | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy | ||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 110 - Does Leroy Need a Mother | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Weird Circle 22 - A Terrible Night | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Two friends lost in the north woods seek shelter in the house of the strange "Joel". | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 212 - Death Is an Artist | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Four dead cats and a man are found in an apartment ... all with their throats slit or their heads cut off! The story of the human victim involves a hated wife and murder. | ||||||||||||
| The Strange Dr Weird 12 - Survival of the Fittest | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Four men are trapped in the Alaskan wilderness, lost in the snow and out of food. Which will live? | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1210 - Talking Cat ep11 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2029 - The Man on Top | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Meet Corliss Archer 1946-01-23 - Dexter's Rival | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Humor | Leading Ladies | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Corliss wants Princess Zoroaster to tell her fortune. Who will take Corliss to the dance? Princess Zoroaster will tell Corliss. . . for Dexter's $2. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1470 - Drought in Freeville ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| Challenge of the Yukon 467 - A Question of Ethics | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 229 - One Way Street | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1665 - Dead Man's Secret ep8 | |||||||||||||
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| Hop Harrigan 1948-01-23 1385) - Airline Protection Racket 2 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2342 - Steam Pressure | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Blackstone 17 - The Phantom Intermezzo | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Blackstone, The Magic Detective | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Crime | Media / Stars | Spinoff | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A Japanese medium can bring back an accordion-playing ghost from the spirit world! Blackstone explains the "Selecting One Out Of Three In A Hat" trick. | ||||||||||||
| Box 13 ep23 - Three To Die | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A foreman asks Day to investigate sabotage on his tunnel project. Includes some fascinating information about how tunnels are constructed. | ||||||||||||
| Damon Runyon Theater 17 - Blonde Mink | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Slats Slaven comes back from the dead. | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 25 - New Head of English Department | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The position of head of the English department is up for grabs, and Miss Brooks would very much like to grab it. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 346 - Impulse | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A meek college professor from New Haven realizes that he's no longer in love with his wife. He's then given a chance for a new life in Bermuda, with a new identity and lots of money. The story has a surprisingly happy ending. | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 458 - The Hitch-Hiking Corpse | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A motorist driving west meets a strange and beautiful hitch-hiker. | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 176 - The Floaters | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2655 - The Would-be Outlaw | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 686 - I'll Be Yours | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: William Bendix & Ann Blyth | ||||||||||||
| Barrie Craig 17 - The Deadly Fight | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Craig is hired to confidentially purchase Boxer Doyle's diamond championship belt at auction. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 428 - Alone with Paula | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2968 - In His Father's Footsteps | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 46 - Revenge of Red Man | |||||||||||||
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| Horatio Hornblower 27 - Into the Baltic | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Water / Boats | War / Armed Forces | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3125 - Change for the Better | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 124 - Voice in Hawkin's Well | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 146 - Marigold Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A friend of Johnny's has been murdered. As a loan collector, he wasn't the most popular guy in town. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 92 - Nina | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An army scout named Cuff Peters leaves his pregnant Mexican wife in Dodge. Hank Lawson causes a miscarriage while annoying Mrs. Peters. | ||||||||||||
| Space Patrol 1954-01-23 - Martian Masquerade | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Botar OTR | ||||||||||||
| Description: | In Commander Corry's central office at Space Patrol headquarters on the man-made planet Terra, Cadet Happy is attempting to explain a sudden change of plans to Carol Carlisle, daughter of the Secretary-General of the United Planets... | ||||||||||||
| Theatre Royal 17 - Lord Saville's Crime | |||||||||||||
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| Sherlock Holmes 4 - A Case of Identity | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The story revolves around the case of Miss Mary Sutherland, a woman with a substantial income from the interest on a fund set up for her. She is engaged to a quiet Londoner who has recently disappeared. Sherlock Holmes's detective powers are barely challenged ... | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 273 - PenPal Project | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Madison High has started a pen-pal club. Mr. Boynton has been corresponding with a French woman. Yvette Juvay is the French woman, but she's really Miss Brooks. She's 'coming to America' and Mr. Boynton will have to choose between Connie and Yvette. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 658 - One Dark Night | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man kills his wife, only to find himself "partners" with his next door neighbor, who saw the whole thing. The victim adds a new twist. | ||||||||||||
| Journey into Space - The World in Peril 18 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The asteroid fleet increases speed and overtakes Freighter #1. Jet records a warning to Earth, to be transmitted on a loop. Attempts to hypnotise the crew fail, so the Martian contacts the crew using their voices. Freighter #1 crashes onto the surface of a large ... | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 311 - Duke Red Matter ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The death of a valuable race horse, a case for Johnny! | ||||||||||||
| Sleep No More 11 - I Am Waiting - Browdean Farm | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A sixty-seven year old man with no career, no outstanding achievements, never married, and never in love—by his own standards, a complete failure—develops the ability to glimpse future events. Story by: Christopher Isherwood (1939) Two men seeking ... | ||||||||||||
| X Minus One 85 - Open Warfare | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A champion golfer accepts a challenge to play a round against a robot built and programmed to play a perfect game. Story by: James E. Gunn | ||||||||||||
