| 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: | Samuel Colt makes first production-model revolver (1836) BORN: Rosa Luxemburg revolutionary (1871) DIED: Joseph Stalin Soviet leader (1953) |
| Quote: | Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. (Lincoln) |
| Fact: | George Stibitz in November of 1937 built a relay-based calculator the first to use binary circuits to perform an arithmetic operation |
| Word: | testudinate (adjective) 1: Slow-moving, like a turtle 2: Curved like the shell of a turtle |
| Fortune Cookie: | Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise |
| Poem: | Take the round flat moon / Snap this twig for handle... / What a pretty fan! / (Haiku by Sokan) |
| Joke: | Did you hear about the duck who asked for a double whisky and told the barman to put it on his bill? |
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| Police Reporter 6 - The Case of The Mounties | |||||||||||||
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| Cruise of the Poll Parrot 24 - Captain Dalton is Captured | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Captain Dalton is captured by Dirk Briscoe, who takes over Galto Island, planning to catapult dynamite onto Captain Dalton's crew. | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 62 - The Secret Police are Jailed | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Left in a Tibetan jail while The Octopus escapes! | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 9 - Bridge of Mercy | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson, Lionel Atwill, Luis Alberni, Harry Bradley, Wheaton Chambers, John Miljan, Russell Gleason. A most unusual radio drama dealing with euthanasia. | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 162 - Sabotage by Air | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Lamont Cranston uses a home disc recorder to record a strange radio transmission. He deciphers coded plans to steal a new warplane. aka "Death By Violence". | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 167 - Last of the Clipper Ships ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Jack Armstrong 1941-03-05 - Missing, Professor Loring ep1 | |||||||||||||
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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 1266 - A New Leaf | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Red Ryder 1942-03-05 - 14) Trouble at Iron Horse Junction | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Ace Hanlon is stirring up trouble in Iron Horse Junction. He's being paid by a rival railroad to have the Pawnees stampede all the buffalo. | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-03-05 - 109) Hanoi Train Station | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1579 - The Fat Man | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Chase and Sanborn Program 1944-03-05 - Cecil B DeMille | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Weird Circle 28 - The Murder of the Little Pig | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Based on a story by Emile Gaboriau in which a detective discovers that the only witness to a crime is a little dog! aka "Henri Coudrai, the Little Hairdresser". | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 473 - Disputed Passage | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Alan Ladd & Akim Tamiroff | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 235 - Double Indemnity | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 145 - Danger is a Beautiful Blonde | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man walking along the street is picked up by a beautiful, rich woman and finds ... murder! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1239 - Radar Rocket ep13 | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 60 - Tom Evers Murder with an Alibi | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | John Blake seems to have committed the perfect crime. He has killed Thomas Evers, just as he told Blackie that he would. Blake also has a perfect alibi and seems to be making a fool out of Blackie! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1499 - Knights of the White Carnation ep6 | |||||||||||||
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| Ellery Queen 312 - Nikki Porter, Suspect | |||||||||||||
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| Ellery Queen 312 - Nikki Porter, Murderer | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 239 - The Crooner | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2203 - Tombstone Newton | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1695 - Kingdom Under The Sea ep13 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2360 - Holly Hill Holdup | |||||||||||||
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| Philip Marlowe 23 - The Friend from Detroit | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Betty Pryor has disappeared, a cheap gambler has been found shot to death, and there is a missing $25,000 trust to spice up the case. | ||||||||||||
| Buster Brown Gang 1949-03-05 - Alamo, The Race Horse | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | Children / Teenagers | Spinoff | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Escape 58 - Conqueror's Isle (David Ellis) | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Mixed Bag | Horror | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Frank Merriwell 124 - Championship Game | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Frank and Bart use a stern-wheel excursion boat as an ice-breaker to get them to "the big game" during a snowstorm. | ||||||||||||
| Frontier Town 1 - Return to Dos Rios | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Chad Remington is a two-fisted lawyer in the town of Dos Rios. His sidekick, Cherokee O'Bannon (Wade Crosby), speaks in a W.C. Fields accent. Either Bob Mitchell or Ivan Ditmars at the organ. Chad gets revenge on his father's killers and clears the name of the innocent ... | ||||||||||||
| Hopalong Cassidy 10 - Ten Strike Gold | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Media / Stars | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 82 - Letter from the Education Board | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | School | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | It's 'National Clean-Up, Paint-Up, Fix-Up Week' at Madison High. A six-year-old letter puts a sudden fear into Mr. Conklin. | ||||||||||||
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 44 - Louis Spence Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A good story about Louis Spence, a madman with a bomb who wants the Major to jump out of a window at City Hall. Dick sings, "There's No Tomorrow." | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 70 - The Secret of Wong Lee | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A venerable Chinaman invites Rocky to visit ... and to witness a murder. It's the end of a phoney passport blackmail scheme. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 405 - Chinese Elephant Puzzle | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A wooden puzzle, filled with diamonds, proves a most elusive prize. | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 234 - The Public Eye | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 736 - Panic in the Street | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Richard Widmark & Paul Douglas | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 434 - House Guest Bullard | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 58 - Phantom of the Gold Circle | |||||||||||||
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| Challenge of the Yukon 1080 - SOS from Panamint | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
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| The Roy Rogers Show 1953-03-05 - 28) Apache Warpath | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2735 - Gordy Plays Recording of Kate for JT | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 215 - Blue Valley Rustlers | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 151 - Kite's Reward | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3350 - The Colonel's Daughter | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 341 - Plantagent Matter ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | In Vicksburg, a beautiful girl dies in Johnny's arms, while asking him for help! | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1957-03-05 - 486) The Fresno Fire | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 465 - Melinda Miles | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 728 - Morning After Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Even though an ex-millionaire disappeared seven years ago, Johnny only has a few days to find him! | ||||||||||||
