| 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: | Mahatma Gandhi starts 200-mile march (1930) BORN: Jack Kerouac author (1922) DIED: Cesare Borgia general and statesman (1507) |
| Quote: | A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out. (Samuel Johnson) |
| Fact: | Evidence suggests the production of wine, made by fermenting grapes, took place in in Georgia and Iran, from as early as 6000 BC |
| Word: | shivaree (noun) A noisy, mock serenade for a newly married couple. Often involving the banging of kettles, pots and pans |
| Fortune Cookie: | Consume less. Share more. Enjoy life |
| Poem: | A saddening world: / Flowers whose sweet blooms must fall... / As we too, alas... / (Haiku by Issa) |
| Joke: | My wife is so ugly I took her to the zoo and the guy at the door said 'Thanks for bringing her back.' |
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| Police Reporter 8 - The Case of Jesse Ingram | |||||||||||||
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| Cruise of the Poll Parrot 25 - Dirk Tries to Sink the Poll Parrot | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Dirk Briscoe tries to sink the "Poll Parrot" with dynamite! Mr. Hollings is in trouble, Captain Dalton tries to save him. | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 63 - The Octopus Reaches Secret House | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Speed and his friends convince the Police Chief that they're not spies, while the Octopus arrives at his new hideout. | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 10 - Tailored by Toni | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Spring Byington, Carole Lombard, Jimmy Stewart, Edward Everett Horton. A clothes designer and a playwright fall in love and marry, despite their widely differing careers. | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 163 - Appointment with Death | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A convict is released from prison and swears revenge on the man who put him there ... the Shadow! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 170 - Last of the Clipper Ships ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| Jack Armstrong 1941-03-12 - Missing, Professor Loring ep6 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1269 - Robbers on the Railroad | |||||||||||||
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| Red Ryder 1942-03-12 - 17) The Casa Grande Valley | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Red and Little Beaver head for the Casa Grande Valley. Ace Hanlon plans to hire "Pedro The Kid" to do away with Red Ryder once and for all. Ace barely escapes from, "Bear Valley." | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-03-12 - 114) Dillon Kane Found | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1582 - Golden Rule and the Salt War | |||||||||||||
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| Chase and Sanborn Program 1944-03-12 - Charles Ruggles and Jane Powell | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy | ||||||||||||
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| The Shadow 301 - Death to The Shadow | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Professor Petro has invited a television machine that can make any place in the city visible. The machine can even make "The Shadow" visible. The secret identity of "The Shadow" has been learned! | ||||||||||||
| Weird Circle 29 - The Spectre of Tappington | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A visitor to an old haunted house is upset when his trousers are stolen each night ... by a ghost! What is the secret of the "Oak Room?" Based on an "Ingoldsby Legend". A collection of myths and legends written supposedly by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington ... | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 474 - The Devil and Miss Jones | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Frank Morgan & Linda Darnell (repeat) | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 236 - So This Is Washington | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 146 - Death Marks the Double Cross | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | After a jewelry store robbery, one of the three crooks is double-crossing the other two. But which one? Only a public phone in a drugstore knows for sure? | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1244 - Radar Rocket ep18 | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 61 - Lee Chow Murdered | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A color-blind woman gets into the cab in which Blackie is riding. She warns him not to eat at Li Chow's restaurant. Sure enough, murder and a frame are on the menu. | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 262 - Strands of Death | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man kills his wife with a pair of nylons ... or does he? | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1504 - Knights of the White Carnation ep11 | |||||||||||||
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| Captain Midnight 1616 - Slave Smugglers | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Captain Midnight is disguised as "Shelby," and is planning a trip to "nameless island." It looks like the jig is up! A Code-A-Graph secret message is sent to listeners after the story. | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 474 - Sunshine Stones | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 240 - Leroy Arrested | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1700 - Mystery of the Stolen Costume ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2363 - The Wolf Pack | |||||||||||||
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| Philip Marlowe 24 - The Grim Hunters | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Helen Palmer needs a private detective for her scavenger hunt, but Helen has been shot twice in the back, and is very dead! | ||||||||||||
| Escape 59 - He Who Rides the Tiger | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Mixed Bag | Horror | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
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| Frank Merriwell 125 - Danger in the River | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Two boys fall into an icy river and are trapped on a rock in the middle of the rapids. Frank and Bart to the rescue. | ||||||||||||
| Frontier Town 2 - His Name is John Smith | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A telegrapher about to be proven not guilty surprises everyone by breaking out of jail. | ||||||||||||
| Hopalong Cassidy 11 - Red Rock Mesa | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Media / Stars | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
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| Our Miss Brooks 83 - The Burglar | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | School | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Miss Brooks meets Joe Phillips when he burglarizes her house. Thinking him reformed, she gets him a job as custodian at Madison High. Bob Sweeney appears as the burglar. | ||||||||||||
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 45 - Joyce Wallace | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Joyce Wallace, a famous actress, has been shot at. She's then attacked by a snake! Dick sings, "If I Knew You Were Coming, I'd Have Baked a Cake." | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 71 - The White Beetle | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Jordan's friend, Scrappy Sims, has been shot and killed for possessing "The White Beetle". A beautiful girl grabs the valuable scarab at gunpoint. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 406 - Strange Meeting | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A very valuable X-Ray in Paris, a Sydney Greenstreet clone, and more double-crosses than can easily be counted! | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 235 - The Prairie Dog | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2832 - Trader Boggs | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 737 - She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: John Wayne & Mel Ferrer | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 435 - Train Trip to Omaha | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2217 - Dory Celebrates 6th Birthday | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 60 - Big John and Little Mike | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1953-03-12 - 68) The Son of Whitey King | |||||||||||||
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| The Roy Rogers Show 1953-03-12 - 29) The Calf Scramble | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2740 - Perry and Della at Club | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 217 - Guns Across the Border | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 152 - The Trial | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 346 - Clinton Matter ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The new school burns down in Clinton, Colorado, and the architect becomes ... the local boy who made bad ... | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1957-03-12 - 488) Battle of Wagon Box Corral | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 466 - Sweet and Sour | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 729 - Ring of Death Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A prize fighter from New Orleans is being set up for sure death, in a Mexican arena. | ||||||||||||
