| 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: | Queen Victoria institutes Victoria Cross (1856) BORN: Thomas Paine revolutionary (1737) DIED: Alan Ladd actor (1964) |
| Quote: | An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. (Laurence J. Peter) |
| Fact: | Rice paper is normally made from fibers from the bark of the mulberry tree |
| Word: | inhume (verb) To bury; to place in a grave |
| Fortune Cookie: | Hone your competitive instincts |
| Poem: | Afternoon shower... / Walking and talking in the street: / Umbrella and raincoat! / (Haiku by Buson) |
| Joke: | People who live in stone houses shouldn't throw glasses. |
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| Cruise of the Poll Parrot 19 - It Starts to Rain | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Fortunately, it starts to rain ... which extinguishes the volcano! Ezekial Kipp is about to shoot! | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 57 - Speed Talks with the Octopus Via Radio | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Speed Gibson, follow the Dragon! Forty seconds have been deleted from the start of the program. | ||||||||||||
| Chase and Sanborn Hour 1939-01-29 - 91) Guests Maureen O'Sullivan, Sterling Holloway | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 4 - Variety Review 2 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Frank Morgan, Marlene Dietrich, Mary Boland, Cliff Nazarro. Marlene sings "Falling In Love Again," the song that made her famous. | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 157 - Prelude to Terror | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A gang injects a colorless, explosive gas into light bulbs all over town. When the lights go on, the gas goes off! | ||||||||||||
| Captain Midnight 233 - Mysterious Voice 8 - Dynamiting the Trees | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The last tree falls and Chuck starts his perilous take-off. | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 248 - Intermezzo | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A married virtuoso violinist who falls in love with his accompanist. Stars: Herbert Marshall & Ingrid Bergman | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 152 - Black Pearl of Osiris ep7 | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of Superman | ||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Hoomi kidnaps Tumbleweed and locks Jimmy in the closet. Who is the real Sidney Ryecroft? Who is, "The Whisperer"? | ||||||||||||
| Jack Armstrong 1941-01-29 - The Zambo Anga Adventure ep18 | |||||||||||||
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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 1251 - Ambushed Ambushers | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Aldrich Family 1942-01-29 - 130) Henry's Secret Admirer | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Children / Teenagers | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-01-29 - 84) Truck Crashes in River | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1564 - Red Uprising | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures by Morse 4 - Old Clawfoot Again | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Spy / Espionage | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The City of the Dead Part 4 | ||||||||||||
| Nick Carter, Master Detective 42 - The Unwilling Accomplice | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | aka "Nick Carter and The Mystery Of The Society Burglar." | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 954 - Mystery of the Sleeping Beauty ep11 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1877 - The Deacon Agrees | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 468 - Lady in the Dark | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Ginger Rogers & Ray Milland | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 140 - Murder on Paper | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A gambler married to a cheap heiress comes to the obvious conclusion, and a Chrysler convertible soon goes over the cliff. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1214 - Is There Another ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 55 - The Jim Williams Inheritance Case | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Inspector Faraday is accused of beating the witness at the murder trial of the killer of Mrs. Williams. | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1946-01-29 - Escape for Revenge | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 256 - Blood of Cain | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A woman graduates from poisoning pigeons to learning that she is the latest in a long line of murderers. "That was no lady ... that was my knife"" | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1474 - Drought in Freeville ep7 | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 234 - Marjorie's Hotrod Boyfriend | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1669 - Dead Man's Secret ep12 | |||||||||||||
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| Hop Harrigan 1948-01-29 1389) - Airline Protection Racket 6 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Philip Marlowe 18 - The Easy Mark | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A hunt for a blackmailer leads Marlowe to a French femme named Nannette. | ||||||||||||
| Frank Merriwell 121 - Mystery of Green Hill | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Inza and her Aunt Belle discover a haunted house and a pile of bones, but Frank suspects things aren't quite all they seem. | ||||||||||||
| Gang Busters 565 - Case of the Counterfeit Combine | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Frank Race 40 - Kettle Drum | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A heart condition, a gambling den, and a murder keep Frank busy. | ||||||||||||
| Hopalong Cassidy 5 - Renegades of the San Rafael | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Media / Stars | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | What are the evil plans of the Triangle Water Company, and a strange signature. | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 77 - School on Saturday | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | School | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Mr. Conklin calls a school session on Saturday and may get hanged in effigy! The script was reused on the program of January 29, 1956. | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 65 - An Air of Death | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 400 - Burden of Guilt | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The secretary of one of the world's richest men has taken $50,000, but the rich man's wife has even bigger plans. A good story of embezzlement, murder and escape. | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 229 - Christmas in January | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2814 - Renegade Rifles | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 731 - Treasure Island | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: James Mason & Bobby Driscoll | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 1926 - Case of the Deadly Double (part 2) | |||||||||||||
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| Challenge of the Yukon 976 - One Man's Meat | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Mysterious Traveler 341 - Stranger in the House | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | This is the story of a young couple named Jane and Rodger Barton who are in search of a family house. They stumble across Wickford Manor close to Woodford, Vermont. which appears to be their ideal home. But it is complete with a beautiful ghost. Rodger was in love ... | ||||||||||||
| Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 9 - Operation Hide and Seek ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The cadets track down a gang of vanadium hijackers to the dark side of Mercury. | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1953-01-29 - 56) According to Law | |||||||||||||
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| The Roy Rogers Show 1953-01-29 - 23) The Shack | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2710 - Perry Outlines Plan to Staff | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 205 - Case of the Dead Man's Dollar | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Heroes | ||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 146 - Young Love | |||||||||||||
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| The Charlie McCarthy Show 1956-01-29 - Stan Erwin, Dale Evans | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
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| Fort Laramie 2 - Boatwright's Story | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Captain Quince takes out a patrol to stop the sale of Henry rifles to Yellow Knife. | ||||||||||||
| Gene Autry's Melody Ranch 1956-01-29 - Champion Saves Gene's Life aka Ringo Mine | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Media / Stars | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 199 - Bureaucrat | |||||||||||||
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| Frontier Gentleman - Remittance Man | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Ben Wright audition. This script was broadcast again with slight changes, but the same cast as "The Shelton Brothers". Kendall takes on the entire Shelton gang in a small town in the Montana Territory. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 460 - Harriet | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 723 - Short Term Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny is back on the trail of Larry "Fingers" Moody and the $33,000 that's still missing. Johnny gets his bad back hauled off to a New Jersey jail. | ||||||||||||
