| 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: | Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933) BORN: Franklin D. Roosevelt US President (1882) DIED: Mahatma Gandhi freedom fighter (1948) |
| Quote: | A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. (Oscar Wilde) |
| Fact: | According to the Bible Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the whale |
| Word: | epeolatry (noun) The worship of words |
| Fortune Cookie: | Keep in close touch with what your competition is doing |
| Poem: | Twilight whippoorwill ... / Whistle on, sweet deepener / Of dark loneliness / (Haiku by Basho) |
| Joke: | My doctor grabbed me by the wallet and said, "Cough!" |
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| Chandu the Magician 1933-01-30 236 - Buying Perfume | |||||||||||||
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| Jungle Jim 66 - To the Finish | |||||||||||||
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| Speed Gibson 5 - The Octopus Orders a Kidnapping | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Octopus orders his henchmen "Splinters" (Hanley Stafford) to kidnap Speed. | ||||||||||||
| Chase and Sanborn Hour 1938-01-30 - 39) Guest Boris Karloff | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy | ||||||||||||
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| The Shadow 105 - The Poison Death | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A madman threatens to poison the entire city...and signs his threat ... "The Shadow!" | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 938 - The Making Of A Coward | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 204 - The Arkansas Traveler | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A hobo comes to a small town to help a struggling newspaper. Stars: Bob Burns & Fay Bainter. Bob Burns briefly plays his bazooka. | ||||||||||||
| Jack Armstrong 1941-01-30 - The Zambo Anga Adventure ep19 | |||||||||||||
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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 309 - Nita, the Leopard Woman ep9 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1408 - School for Ranchers | |||||||||||||
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| Terry and the Pirates 1942-01-30 - 85) Under the Waterfall | |||||||||||||
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| Chase and Sanborn Program 1944-01-30 - Basil Rathbone | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy | ||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 111 - Marjorie the Actress | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Life of Riley 3 - The Butler (part 2) (Low Vol) | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Mysterious Traveler 9 - House of Death | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Two invalid sisters living with their niece and nephew become disgruntled with the isolated life in the country and make plans to move back to their former home in the city. But when one of their cats dies after eating a piece of meat and the other unexpectedly ... | ||||||||||||
| Weird Circle 23 - The Tell-Tale Heart | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An adaptation of the classic short story by Edgar Allan Poe. A dead man's heart is heard beating from under the floor boards! | ||||||||||||
| The Roy Rogers Show 1945-01-30 - 11) The Story of Tom Barnes, Texas Ranger | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Strange Dr Weird 13 - The Man Who Lived Twice | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A mad scientist undergoes a genuine brain transplant! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1215 - Is There Another ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2032 - State's Witness | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1475 - Drought in Freeville ep8 | |||||||||||||
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| Challenge of the Yukon 468 - The Gold Fang | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 230 - Three Blind Mice | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1670 - Dead Man's Secret ep13 | |||||||||||||
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| Hop Harrigan 1948-01-30 1390) - Airline Protection Racket 7 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Aviation | ||||||||||||
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| Blackstone 18 - The Vanishing Pearls | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Crime | Media / Stars | Spinoff | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Blackstone is not only able to pull fish out of thin air ... but can use them to find missing pearls! Blackstone explains the "Ice Cube On A String" trick. | ||||||||||||
| Box 13 ep24 - The Philanthropist | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A vagrant asks Dan Holiday to find a missing friend of his. The vagrant is later murdered, but Dan manages to save his friend and others from an evil scheme. | ||||||||||||
| Damon Runyon Theater 18 - Leopard's Spots | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Broadway acts as a second for Spider McCoy's fighter, Pigsfoot. | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 26 - Student Banking | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Mrs. Davis uses $25 intended to be deposited in the school savings account to buy Miss Brooks a new dress. | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 14 - Baksheesh Boy | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A frightened beggar boy takes shelter in the basement of Rocky's Cafe Tambourine and promptly disappears. Everybody wants to find that boy! Why? The secret is on the envelope! | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 347 - All Damage Covered | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An nightclub singer's invalid husband is insanely jealous. She plans to kill him by starting a fire while he sleeps. | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 459 - Skeleton Bay | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A mystery writer witnesses a murder. The killer sees the witness, who surprisingly offers to help him to dispose of the body! | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 177 - The Ugly Duckling | |||||||||||||
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| Mark Trail 1 - Lumber King of Timber Mountain | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | Non-fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Barrie Craig 18 - A Very Odd Job | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Barrie is hired to deliver a puppet for a quick $200. Watch a girl faint, discover a vintage murder and realize that the only thing tha i's as black as it is painted, is a coffin. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 429 - Mort Meets Mona | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2971 - Stranger on a Train | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 48 - Dark Horse Candidate | |||||||||||||
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| Horatio Hornblower 28 - Chasing the Blanche Fluer | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Water / Boats | War / Armed Forces | ||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3128 - Return of Cavendish | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 126 - Blood Money | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 147 - Kay Bellamy Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Why is a promising radio singer wasting her time in a Boston Burlesque house? | ||||||||||||
| Case Dismissed 1 - Criminal Liability | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man listens to bad advice and ignores a summons, which winds up costing him $25,000! The moral: see a lawyer. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 93 - Gun Smuggler | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Pawnees have killed a family of homesteaders using guns smuggled to them by a white man. Marshal Dillon, Chester and an Indian scout track the Indians, hoping to find the white gun smuggler. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on September ... | ||||||||||||
| Theatre Royal 18 - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | |||||||||||||
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| Sherlock Holmes 5 - The Second Stain | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | ord Bellinger, the Prime Minister, and Trelawney Hope, the Secretary of State for European Affairs, come to Holmes in the matter of a document stolen from Hope's dispatch box, which he kept at home in Whitehall Terrace when not at work. If divulged, this document ... | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 274 - Mr Travis's Three Acre Lot | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mrs. Davis hasn't enough money to make a payment of her mortgage. Greedy Mr. Travis also refuses to sell an empty lot next to Madison High. | ||||||||||||
| Journey into Space - The World in Peril 19 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Lemmy fails to contact Earth, but they are contacted by the Martian who tells them to enter the asteroid ship. The Martian reveals that he is the only one left of a race of giants, and explains his reasons for the invasion. A crew from the asteroid, including ... | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 316 - Flight Six Matter ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A girl so beautiful, that men are willing to kill for her. Johnny's in Mexico, investigating a deliberate plane sabotage. | ||||||||||||
| Sleep No More 12 - Jilting of Granny Weatherall - Escape | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A stream-of-consciousness tale in which a fiercely independent octogenarian, deathly ill, relives the events that forged her character... events she appears to have weathered despite suffering their psychological toll. Story by Katherine Anne Porter (1930) Ever ... | ||||||||||||
| X Minus One 86 - Caretaker | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A mission to rescue the survivor of a long lost expedition to a remote planet, discovers him not only alive and well, but engaged in a private war to protect the native humanoids from the slug-like 'Zares'. Story by: James H. Schmitz | ||||||||||||
