| 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: | Barbie doll makes debut at American International Toy Fair (1959) BORN: Yuri Gagarin cosmonaut (1934) DIED: George Burns comedian (1996) |
| Quote: | Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. (Abraham Lincoln) |
| Fact: | Leaders' bodies embalmed and still publically viewable: Lenin (d 1924) Mao Zedong (d 1976) Ho Chi Minh (d 1969) and Kim Il Sung (d 1994) |
| Word: | nugatory (adjective) 1: Of little value; trifling 2: Having no force; invalid |
| Fortune Cookie: | He who seeks will find |
| Poem: | To see a World in a grain of sand And a Heaven in a wild flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour (Blake) |
| Joke: | We have a quiet home life. I don't speak to my wife and she doesn't speak to me. |
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| Speed Gibson 167 - Safe Take-Off | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The Octopus will rule the world in only one month! | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 77 - Variety Show | |||||||||||||
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| The Shadow 218 - Murder Underground | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A gang is breaking into confiscated slot machines and stealing the nickels inside. "The Shadow" is thrown into a waterfront pit filled with vicious rats! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 325 - A Mystery for Superman ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1424 - Drexel's End | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-03-09 - 111) Slugger Delivers Crate | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Abbott & Costello Show 55 - Missing Script with Blondie and Dagwood | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Blondie and Dagwood are collecting for the Waste Paper Drive, and accidentally take Abbott and Costellos' radio script with them. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of the Sea Hound 1944-03-09 - Phantom Raider Escape | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Pirates | Water / Boats | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Diego throws an armed hand grenade at Captain Silver, who catches it and throws it out an open window. Platinum is being stolen from sunken ships And Captain Silver has to escape from the police. The men aboard the Sprayhound are shot at while under a building! | ||||||||||||
| The Aldrich Family 1944-03-09 - 228) Warmest Day in March | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 319 - The Vallera Diamond | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 82 - The Defense Rests | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An ex-con named Robert Tasca gets a job working for law partners Max Krieger and Arthur Hines, the latter being the one who sent Tasca to prison in the first place. When Hines is murdered, Tasca falls under suspicion and must now clear his name before he is sentenced ... | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1946-03-09 - The Letter - aka Clearing the Mayor of Graft | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Life of Riley 103 - Babs Music Scholarship | |||||||||||||
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| All-Star Western Theatre 31 - Alias Mary Smithers - Virginia Mayo | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The owner of the dude ranch where the boys are working comes West incognito to check on the rodeo that the boys are holding. | ||||||||||||
| Chase and Sanborn Program 1947-03-09 - Monty Woolley | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy | ||||||||||||
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| Mysterious Traveler 94 - Woman in Black | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A newspaper reporter keeps sighting the same woman at the scene of several murders and suspects her of having an intimate connection to all of them - and countless more. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1697 - Kingdom Under The Sea ep15 | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman v2 14 - Case of the Double Trouble | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Clark Kent is accused of stealing a $50,000 art collection. He's identified by his voice, then Lois Lane is accused of a crime! | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 217 - Dolly Preston Calls For Help | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman who's been dead for several years had $600,000 stashed away. Blackie investigates. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 318 - Summerfield 1903 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Mr Keen 1281 - The Case of the Melody of Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Who is the Antwerp Strangler? The key to the crime is in a pianist's hands! | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 375 - Banquo's Chair | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Sam Spade 238 - Spanish Prisoner Caper | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Marjorie Loveland has fallen for the Spanish Prisoner Swindle. Spade has no patience with another attempt to pull the con game. | ||||||||||||
| Dr Kildare 59 - Edward Carlton's Dog Bite | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Romance | Medical Romance | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Edward Carleton has been bitten by a dog. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2831 - The Tarantula's Web | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| New Adventures of Nero Wolfe 20 - Disappearing Diamonds | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A sneak thief, Willie Inch, hires Nero Wolfe to prove that he didn't commit a murder; while burgling a house during a party. | ||||||||||||
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 86 - The Butcher Shop | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Diamond uses plenty of 'beef' to get at the 'marrow' of a butcher shop protection racket. | ||||||||||||
| The Falcon 368 - Killer's Key | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of the Falcon | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Spy / Espionage | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | "If love laughs at locksmiths, it may be because death holds the key!" | ||||||||||||
| Comic Weekly Man 255 - Tree Riddle, First Comic - Hopalong Cassidy | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 161 - Minerva's Husband | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | School | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Minerva, Mrs. Davis' cat, has had 8 kittens. Miss Brooks tries to find them a new home. | ||||||||||||
| Tales of the Texas Rangers 69 - Dream Farm | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The story is based on the events of June 12, 1941. An Iowa farm family stops in Texas to help a stranger, who then kills the man and woman and wounds their twelve-year-old boy. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 510 - Breakaway | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A hit-and-run driver in jail makes a try for freedom ... several tries in fact! | ||||||||||||
| Whitehall 1212 ep16 - Case of Dr Duncan Allen | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A bottle of The Glenlivet in the Black Museum is the exhibit in a case of stolen uranium! | ||||||||||||
| Bobby Benson & The B Bar B Riders 1953-03-09 - The Unwanted | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Children / Teenagers | ||||||||||||
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| Hall of Fantasy s2 16 - The Masks of Ashor | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A messenger from the netherworld, and a bargain declined. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3144 - The Herd Stealers | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 819 - The People Against O'Hara | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Walter Pidgeon & Janet Leigh | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 503 - The Dead Alive | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1954-03-09 - 171) Blazing Guns on the Railroad - middle missing) | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2737 - Perry and Della See Ed at Bank | |||||||||||||
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| Rocky Fortune 22 - The Twice-Murdered Man | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The vice-president of an insurance company confesses to an inebriated Rocky that he has strangled his blonde girlfriend. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 205 - Terrified Taun Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny flies To Kuala Lumpur to prevent the murder of a plantation owner's wife | ||||||||||||
| Barrie Craig 176 - Corpse on the Town | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A dishonest Broadway producer is saved by marrying his main investor. The new Mrs. Stanton Bishop is found dead almost immediately thereafter - with a broken neck! | ||||||||||||
| The FBI in Peace and War 493 - Hot Ice | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3352 - Mysterious Mission | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 345 - Plantagent Matter ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The conclusion of the story. All the evidence comes true, as a dead girl gets her help. | ||||||||||||
| Frontier Gentleman 6 - Claim Jumpers | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A widow has only a week to get a claim-jumper off her property, or she'll lose it all. The claim-jumper has problems of his own. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 309 - Laughing Gas | |||||||||||||
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| Luke Slaughter 3 - Yanceys Pride | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Rancher Drake McArdle plans to lynch a cattle rustler, who turns out to be Yancy, Luke's old army buddy. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 741 - The Chain | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 577 - Wayward Moth Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A secret rocket fuel lab, hidden in the Everglades, is the scene of a mysterious explosion. Was it sabotage? | ||||||||||||
