| 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: | Henry VIII secretly marries second wife Anne Boleyn (1533) BORN: Robert Burns poet (1759) DIED: Al Capone gangster (1947) |
| Quote: | There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed. (Samuel Johnson) |
| Fact: | Ancient Egyptians wore eyepaint usually green (made from copper) or black (made from lead) , they believed it to have healing power |
| Word: | dysphagia (noun) Difficulty in swallowing |
| Fortune Cookie: | Lady luck will soon visit you |
| Poem: | Giddy grasshopper / Take care ... do not leap and crush / These pearls of dewdrop / (Haiku by Issa) |
| Joke: | Perhaps you know why women over sixty don't have babies: They would put them down somewhere and forget where they left them. |
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| Jungle Jim 13 - Jim Is Captured | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 117 - Tonight or Never | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald & Melvyn Douglas | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 936 - Indian Hostage | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Bulldog Drummond 125 - The Circus | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 22 - The Matchmaker | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Great Gildersleeve | ||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 101 - Torrid Zone | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1562 - Trail's End | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 380 - This Gun for Hire | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Joan Blondell & Laird Cregar | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 128 - Across the Pacific | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of the Sea Hound 1944-01-25 - Wrestling Match Over | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Pirates | Water / Boats | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Captain Silver has just knocked out a treacherous Japanese wrestler. Captain Silver and Jerry are battling Boom-Boom (the captain of a Nazi raider) in the waters off the coast of Chile. Senor Waldman (who has a suspicious German-Spanish accent), is in reality ... | ||||||||||||
| Hop Harrigan 1944-01-25 367) - Tank's Medical Operation | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Jack Armstrong 1944-01-26 - Spider's Lair Spotted | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Jack Armstrong 1944-01-25 - Amphibian Fire Over Jungle | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Abbott & Costello Show 85 - Lou Wants to Join the Merchant Marines | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 127 - Drury's Bones | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Scotland Yard inspector with an amnesiac past tackles his most difficult case. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1212 - Talking Cat ep13 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2030 - Outlaw's Gold, Chapter 1 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Life of Riley 141 - Riley's Honeymoon | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Sam Spade 83 - Gold Key Caper | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Miss Barnes gives Sam a gold key that had a brass key hidden inside of it. | ||||||||||||
| Nick Carter, Master Detective 324 - The Case of the Invisible Treasure | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Six bottles of 'Heavenly Sin' cologne are very important to a gang ... and to a stubborn lady in a store. | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 432 - The House That Death Built | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A lunatic ex-executioner has died and left a haunted house, filled with death traps and murders. | ||||||||||||
| Chandu the Magician 1949-01-25 152 - Under Dr Shaw's Influence | |||||||||||||
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| Philo Vance 29 - Idol Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Several people are eager to get their hands on a statue recently acquired by the museum. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 349 - Dinner with the Thompsons | |||||||||||||
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| Jeff Regan, Investigator 41 - The Barefoot Boy With Shoes, Gone | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The wealthy (and beautiful) E.P. Duffield hires the Lyons agency to find the missing artist named Thaddeus Mink. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 413 - Aria from Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle 3 - Tarzan and the Hooded Death | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lives of Harry Lime 26 - 5,000 Pengoes and a Kiss | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A dissident's wife engages Harry to help her to escape from Hungary to Austria. | ||||||||||||
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 119 - The Al Brenners Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Diamond joins forces with "Tiny" Gillespie, an unsavory partner, to collect a reward for the capture of Al Brenners. Dick sings, "With Plenty Of Money and You" after the story. | ||||||||||||
| The Roy Rogers Show 1952-01-25 - 17) Downed Wires | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Wild Bill Hickok 47 - Mark of a Killer | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Heroes | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Escape 167 - Diary of a Madman | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Mixed Bag | Horror | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 865 - People Will Talk | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Cary Grant & Jeanne Crain | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2706 - Herbert Selby Seeks Helen Powers' Assistance | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 536 - Want Ad | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1955-01-25 - 263) Gold at Bitter Creek | |||||||||||||
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| Hancock's Half Hour s1 13 - A House on the Cliff | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The Lad is after a new home, but is it really the best idea to get Sid to build it? | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 907 - Sangaree | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Arlene Dahl & Cesar Romero | ||||||||||||
| The FBI in Peace and War 539 - The Silver Pearl | |||||||||||||
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| X Minus One 35 - The Parade | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An ad agency is hired by a man insisting he is from Mars to promote an upcoming parade marking the arrival of Martians on Earth. Of course, he must be lying, or simply crazy... As well as their own version, X Minus One also re-broadcast the version originally ... | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 313 - Duke Red Matter ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The case feels like a man full of bullet wounds ... which is just the case. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 355 - The Boots | |||||||||||||
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| Hancock's Half Hour s5 10 - Election Candidate | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Hancock has become fixed on collecting a series of plastic guardsmen given away free with his breakfast cereal when his breakfast is interrupted by the local Liberal Party, who requests Hancock to stand as their local candidate in the East Cheam by-election. ... | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 10 - The Teacher | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A school teacher insists on teaching the truth, which almost gets her school-house burned down! | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 787 - Four of a Kind | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 621 - Doting Dowager Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A cheap statue has been stolen ... and held for ransom in New York! | ||||||||||||
