| 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: | Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone (1876) BORN: John Herschel mathematician and astronomer (1792) DIED: Aristotle philosopher (322 BC) |
| Quote: | You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato) |
| Fact: | A female salmon is called a 'Hen' |
| Word: | diurnation (noun) 1: The habit of sleeping or being dormant during the day (eg:bats) 2: Continuance during the day |
| Fortune Cookie: | In human endeavor, chance favors the prepared mind |
| Poem: | 'Twas twilight, and I bade you go, But still you held me fast; It was the time of roses-- We pluck'd them as we pass'd! (Thomas Hood) |
| Joke: | When a newly married man looks happy, we know why. But when a ten-year married man looks happy, we wonder why. |
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| Police Reporter 7 - The Case of Rudoph Falk | |||||||||||||
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| Jungle Jim 19 - Lil and LaBarr Have Shootout | |||||||||||||
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| Dick Tracy 1938-03-07 - 46) Case Of The Firebug Murders | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | There has been a recent spate of suspicious fires in the warehouse district which have been keeping Dick Tracy busy day and night. He is just leaving Snowflake and Vitamin 's home when he receives a phone call from.Gravel Gertie who is at another big fire at River ... | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 797 - Jim Murdock's Mine | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 166 - Poppy | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: W.C. Fields & Anne Shirley | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 168 - Last of the Clipper Ships ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Jack Armstrong 1941-03-07 - Missing, Professor Loring ep3 | |||||||||||||
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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 1267 - Flag in the West | |||||||||||||
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| Mandrake the Magician 51 - Lothar and Tommy are Alive | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Lothar and Tommy haven't been drowned after all. Mandrake is still hiding within the submarine. Tommy tries to use the shortwave set to call for help, but shots ring out. | ||||||||||||
| Red Ryder 1942-03-07 - 15) Terror in Pecos Valley | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Red saves a stampeding herd of cattle from running off a cliff. Ruth Rankin's ranch has been plagued by six "accidents." | ||||||||||||
| Chase and Sanborn Program 1943-03-07 - Sydney Greenstreet | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy | ||||||||||||
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| The Green Hornet 1943-03-07 - The Corpse That Wasn't There | |||||||||||||
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| Inner Sanctum Mystery 114 - Black Sea Gull | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A dying woman promises her husband that she will return from the grave. She does return ... several times! | ||||||||||||
| The Judy Canova Show 1944-03-07 - 34) Building Judy's New House | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Leading Ladies | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Abbott & Costello Show 126 - Discover Uranium | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1241 - Radar Rocket ep15 | |||||||||||||
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| Challenge of the Yukon 421 - Mad Wolf | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 183 - The Black Path of Fear | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1501 - Knights of the White Carnation ep8 | |||||||||||||
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| Hop Harrigan 1947-03-07 xxxx) - Escaping from Jungle Island | |||||||||||||
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| Escape 31 - Jimmy Goggles, the God (national broadcast) | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Mixed Bag | Horror | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
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| Nick Carter, Master Detective 330 - The Case of the Absent Clue | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A numbers racket leads to a murder. | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 438 - The Beast of Darrow House | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A thirty-year-old elkhound defends the mansion of his dead master, and the money hidden somewhere inside the house! The villain sounds like Gale Gordon. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman v2 13 - Mystery of the Flying Monster | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The sponsor's product is a mail-order offer. You make your own greeting cards and then sell them to your friends and neighbors. Jimmy Olsen has taken off in a rocket ship, tricked by Professor Joshua Fields. Superman heads into outer space in pursuit. Jackson ... | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 130 - The Roundabout Murder | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2517 - A Cake for Skinner | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 648 - Red River | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: John Wayne & Joanne Dru | ||||||||||||
| Philip Marlowe 74 - The Monkey's Uncle | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Lesley McDuff tries to hire Marlowe to save Cornelius, a chimpanzee, (who was purchased from McDuff) to portray an English butler, from being taken out of town. | ||||||||||||
| Philo Vance 87 - Church Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Sidney Church, a practical joker who loves exploding cigars and whoopee cushions is murdered, and the suspect is obviously the killer. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 39 - Alec Jefferson, The Youthful Millionaire | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny is looking for a missing policy holder Alec Jefferson in Los Angeles, California. aka Rebel Wildcatters. | ||||||||||||
| Crime Does Not Pay 74 - Diamonds Trumped | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Diamond smugglers in South Africa have several unique methods to get the stones into the U. S. A. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 395 - Bringing The Twins Home | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Harold Peary 24 - Red Cross Drive | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Harold has sworn off women, especially Florabelle. He is in charge of the Red Cross fund drive in Melrose Springs. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2830 - The Colonel's Strike | |||||||||||||
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| The Lives of Harry Lime 32 - Turnabout is Foul Play | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Harry plans to cheat an ex-Nazi of his $30,000 but he's foiled by his honest daughter. | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2215 - Chambermaid Testifies | |||||||||||||
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| The Roy Rogers Show 1952-03-07 - 23) Mine Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 59 - Thunder on the Plain | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 46 - Absalom | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Billy Mallor, along with his father and his father's Texas gang, shoot up Dodge. Most of the townsfolk want Marshal Dillon to let him get away with it! | ||||||||||||
| Space Patrol 1953-03-07 - Seed Crystals of Zeldabran | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Botar OTR | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Swinging in a wide orbit around the planet Saturn is the artificial satellite, Comm Relay 4, a powerful communications relay centre. Serious trouble between two men assigned to duty at the space station has brought Commander Corry and Cadet Happy to investigate... | ||||||||||||
| The Six-Shooter 24 - Cheyenne Express | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Wilbur English, the man who shot Floyd Winters, needs protection from Winters' brother. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 612 - Hudson Bay Incident | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The accidental shooting of a Japanese diplomat may cause an international incident ... and definitely complicates a triangular relationship. An interesting twisted double-cross is topped by a surprise ending! | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3351 - Young Investigator | |||||||||||||
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| X Minus One 41 - A Gun for Dinosaur | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A safari into the Cretaceous to hunt for Tyrannosaurus Rex is endangered by a reckless glory hound, whose ineptitude and arrogance are matched only by his capacity for murder. Story by: L. Sprague de Camp | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 343 - Plantagent Matter ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A dead girl's .38 automatic comes to life! | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1957-03-07 - 487) The Phineas Boys | |||||||||||||
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