| 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: | John Wesley charters the Methodist Church (1784) BORN: Blondin tightrope walker (1824) DIED: Henry James author (1916) |
| Quote: | Nature does nothing uselessly. (Aristotle) |
| Fact: | The human brain has around 100 trillion synaptic connections |
| Word: | megillah (noun) 1: Scroll containing the biblical narrative of the Book of Esther 2: A long, tedious account |
| Fortune Cookie: | Love is like wildflowers, it is often found in the most unlikely places |
| Poem: | Lover. Your beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh, Add light to some small star. |
| Joke: | Women like silent men, they think they're listening. |
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| Police Reporter 5 - Die with the Old Year | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 165 - Forsaking All Others | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Bette Davis & Joel McCrea | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 8 - Atomic Fuel Cylinders Stolen | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of Superman | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Dr. Dahlgren's Atomic Beam fuel cylinders have been stolen by, "The Yellow Mask." | ||||||||||||
| Captain Midnight 246 - Mysterious Voice 21 - Chuck Learns Sharks Sinister Plan | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Ivan Shark is landing ... but where? Will he finally get Capt. Midnight off his trail? | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 165 - Dragon's Teeth ep9 | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of Superman | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Lois Lane has some unkind words for her oriental captors, as Superman continues on her trail. Hoffman abandons Lois and Hu Ling during a dust storm! | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1264 - Doctor Buckaroo | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Lone Ranger | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Mandrake the Magician 48 - Mandrake Swears Revenge | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Mandrake the Magician | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Superhero | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Mandrake swears revenge on Captain X. Mandrake uses multiple thought projections when Captain X shoots at him. | ||||||||||||
| Red Ryder 1942-02-28 - 12) Indians on the Warpath Near the Bonanza Mine | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Ace Hanlon and old man Grant sell rifles and fire water to the Indians. | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 428 - Guadalcanal Diary | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Preston Foster & William Bendix | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 185 - Three Men on a Horse | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan - Senor Chavez | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A Spaniard named Chavez has many strange boxes in the basement. They are filled with many, gold, precious stones. Is this a plan to help escaping Nazi war criminals? Rocky gets a broken arm. 'There are a lot of Krauts in Istanbul, posing as neutrals. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1236 - Radar Rocket ep10 | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of Superman | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 420 - The Shamaness | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Challenge of the Yukon | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1496 - Knights of the White Carnation ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Escape - Out Of This World (Audition) | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Mixed Bag | Horror | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2201 - Jack's Horse Blackie | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 520 - Silvertip | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Challenge of the Yukon | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Gang Busters 518 - Case of John Frederick Benson | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | aka The Case of the Dakota Badman | ||||||||||||
| The Judy Canova Show 1948-02-28 - 142) Judy Wants More Publicity | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Judy Canova | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Leading Ladies | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 286 - The House by the River | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 619 - River Pirates | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 129 - Your Money or Your Life | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 647 - Apartment for Peggy | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Jeanne Crain & William Holden | ||||||||||||
| Philip Marlowe 73 - The Big Step | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of Philip Marlowe | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A newspaper story causes a female chemist to vanish and a downtown traffic accident leads to a deathbed confession and an industrial theft! | ||||||||||||
| Escape 100 - The Man Who Won the War | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Mixed Bag | Horror | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Philo Vance 86 - The Big Nick Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | partial | ||||||||||||
| Crime Does Not Pay 73 - Operation Payroll | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Mickey Brook starts a protection racket by breaking the window of a candy store five times in ten days. He moves up to armed robbery. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 394 - Trying to Name Twins | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Great Gildersleeve | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Harold Peary 23 - Willis Can't Pass the Physical | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Harold Peary Show | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Waiting for Willis ... with a bodyguard. | ||||||||||||
| Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle 60 - Tarzan and the Simba Hudari | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Tarzan - Lord of the Jungle | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Jungle | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 18 - Trial in Space ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Tom Corbett, Space Cadet | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The cadets are shipwrecked on Mars. Astro saves them while proving he's cured of Space Fever. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 45 - Trojan War | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The Pueblo Gang comes to Dodge, robs the stage and kills two drivers and a lady passenger! | ||||||||||||
| Space Patrol 1953-02-28 - Strange Gift of the New Star | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | Botar OTR | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Few spaceships venture beyond Pluto, the most remote planet in the solar system, but as one veteran space pilot put it, 'Only a comet has the time and the fuel to go poking around out there in outer space'. But in recently commercial spaceships on the Neptune-to-Pluto ... | ||||||||||||
| The Charlie McCarthy Show 1954-02-28 - June Allyson and Dick Powell | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 611 - Feature Story | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Where is the $75,000 left by a recently deceased ex-convict? Just a minute...is that convict really dead? Perhaps a little blackmail is in order? | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 639 - The Diary of Captain Scott | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 337 - Fathom-Five Matter ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A lady weeps, a lover curses, and a strange grim relic is brought up from the sea! | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 412 - Prescribed Killing | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Myra Kirby is convinced that her husband Luke is going to kill her. She knows that he's more interested in the widow Holland and would like to get rid of her. | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 67 - Doll House in Diamond Springs | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Paladin is hired to get back the $20,000 taken during the Diamond Springs bank robbery. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 842 - Lt Langer's Last Collection | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 678 - Look Before The Leap Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Ex-Lax. Johnny has just a day to find a crook hiding in Paris...and bring him back to New York. | ||||||||||||
