| 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: | First Apple Macintosh goes on sale (1984) BORN: Neil Diamond singer (1941) DIED: Caligula Emperor of Rome assassinated (41 AD) |
| Quote: | I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. (Groucho Marx) |
| Fact: | Sea snakes don't have gills but can remain underwater for several hours by obtaining dissolved oxygen from water that they swallow |
| Word: | rident (adjective) Laughing; cheerful |
| Fortune Cookie: | It's kind of fun to do the impossible |
| Poem: | Old dark sleepy pool... / Quick unexpected frog / Goes plop! watersplash! / (Haiku by Basho) |
| Joke: | Guy walks into a bar with jumper cables around his neck. Bartender says, "All right, I'll let ya stay---but don't start nuthin." |
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| Lux Radio Theater 160 - Clarence | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Bob Burns & Gail Patrick | ||||||||||||
| Captain Midnight 231 - Mysterious Voice 6 - Smoke Floating Over Nearby Ridge | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Aviation | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A prospector with a supply of dynamite gives Chuck an idea to save Bud Conley. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 150 - Black Pearl of Osiris ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of Superman | ||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Tumbleweed Jones is kidnaped from the hospital. Clark Kent is told that Sidney Rycroft was never registered in her hotel! | ||||||||||||
| Jack Armstrong 1941-01-24 - The Zambo Anga Adventure ep15 | |||||||||||||
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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 1249 - Along the El Paso Trail | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Ripley's Believe It or Not 1942-01-24 - 2) Mexico | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Non-fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Ripley's Believe It or Not 1942-01-24 - 1) Emperor of Brazil Helped Develop Telephone | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 66 - Sabotage | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 37 - Mind over Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man receives psychic messages from an author, who seems to be held prisoner. Surprise ending. | ||||||||||||
| Captain Midnight 930 - Prisoner of the Japanese | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Aviation | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Captain Midnight and Ichabod are pulled out of the water and taken prisoner by the Japanese. Chuck describes how the Japanese Zeroes managed to shot down thirteen Flying Fortresses. Captain Midnight is brought before the Japanese admiral! | ||||||||||||
| Hop Harrigan 1944-01-24 xxxx) - Stolen Patrol Car | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 423 - Casablanca | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Hedy Lamar, John Loder & Alan Ladd | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1875 - Killer's Reward | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1211 - Talking Cat ep12 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 416 - Jane Gets Her Man | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 177 - My Dear Niece | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1471 - Drought in Freeville ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| All-Star Western Theatre 77 - The Sheriff | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The Riders" deliver a suspicious herd of cattle for the local sheriff. | ||||||||||||
| Gang Busters 513 - Case of Joe Fletcher | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Judy Canova Show 1948-01-24 - 137) Judy Hasn't Made Progress Romantically | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Leading Ladies | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Life of Riley 185 - Babs Quits School | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Life of Riley 184 - Lay-Offs (aka 1945-09-08 77 Layoffs) | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 281 - The Black Angel | |||||||||||||
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| Challenge of the Yukon 604 - Mystery in the Cave | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Chandu the Magician 1949-01-24 151 - Dr Shaw in Calcutta | |||||||||||||
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| Inner Sanctum Mystery 406 - The Deadly Dummy | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The ventriloquist's wife and her lover kill the man but not the mannequin. | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 124 - Till Death Do Us Part | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Escape 95 - Treasure Incorporated | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Mixed Bag | Horror | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Philo Vance 81 - Music Box Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Two wealthy men have been killed with a rope, their safes have been robbed, and their music boxes taken. | ||||||||||||
| Crime Does Not Pay 68 - Love Is Not All | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A fraud operating a Lonely Hearts Union cheats a woman out of $20,000 to start a nationwide fencing operation. He learns that Crime Does Not Pay! | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 390 - Marjorie's Baby Shower | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Harold Peary 18 - Harold Gets Engaged | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Harold gets engaged ... twice, as a matter of fact! | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2812 - The Train from Independence | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 975 - Downriver Adventure | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle 55 - The Trail of Death | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 8 - Shanghaied on a Deep Spacer ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Tom organizes a mutiny aboard the "Constellation". | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 40 - The Old Lady | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Ellen Henry, a bitter widow with a drunken son, has a secret that involves stolen cattle. | ||||||||||||
| Space Patrol 1953-01-24 - 17) The Scavenger of Space | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | In Lowell City on the planet Mars is the head office of Carlyle McKay, president of a very profitable interplanetary business—a business of reclaiming and repossessing metals and chemicals. At this moment he is sitting at his desk, looking over a report ... | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 233 - Foreign Teachers | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | School | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A plague of foreign teachers has descended on Madison High, rudely too. | ||||||||||||
| The Six-Shooter 19 - Helen Bricker | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Helen Bricker is ostracized by the town because of her outlaw husband. A mob plans to burn her out after her husband is hanged. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 606 - Garvey's Folly | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A Broadway producer lays an egg and goes broke. A faked jewelry robbery banks his next play; his wife's murder rings down the curtain. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 634 - The Cellar Door | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A story about a two-year-old boy trying to free his parents who are trapped in the basement. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 312 - Duke Red Matter ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Proof that things are as wrong and as dangerous as they can get. | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1957-01-24 - 475) Senor Bullfrog | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 407 - Bless Me Till I Die | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A traveling minister named Cole Treadwell comes to Dodge and has a run-in with Nate Bush. Bush accuses Treadwell of being an escaped convict ... and he's right! | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 62 - Nataemhon | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The search for Dr. Amos Bradbury, disgraced ten years ago and living with the Indians. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 837 - Turnabout | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 673 - Nuclear Goof Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny tries to recover stolen radioactive material before it explodes ... but makes one mistake after another! | ||||||||||||
