| 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: | Julius Caesar is stabbed to death (44 BC) BORN: Eduard Strauss composer (1835) DIED: Benjamin Spock pediatrician and writer (1998) |
| Quote: | Truth is what stands the test of experience. (Albert Einstein) |
| Fact: | The dinosaur Oviraptor is named from the latin for 'egg seizer' |
| Word: | quacksalver (noun) A charlatan or quack |
| Fortune Cookie: | Good sense is the master of human life |
| Poem: | Hi! my little hut / Is newly-thatched I see... / Blue morning-glories / (Haiku by Issa) |
| Joke: | I should've known it wasn't going to work out between my ex-wife and me. After all, I'm a Libra and she's a bitch. |
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| Lux Radio Theater 124 - Desire | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Marlene Dietrich & Herbert Marshall | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 957 - False Wagon Train Guides | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 15 - Left to Die | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | June Anderson is left at the bottom of the North Star mine...which is about to explode! The end of the adventure. | ||||||||||||
| Captain Midnight 253 - Mysterious Voice 28 - Shark Tells Fury His Plans | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Chuck is to speak to Capt. Midnight again. Will another secret message get out? Capt. Midnight's plan includes a local radio announcer! | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 29 - Ten Best Dressed | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 249 - Altar of Death | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | On the tropical island of Port St. Luce, two people are sacrificed each year during "the night that eats people." It's the turn of Lamont Cranston and Margot Lane on the rim of the volcano. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1583 - Dan Rides Hard | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 387 - Libel | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Edna Best & Ronald Colman (repeat) | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 135 - Palm Beach Story | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1740 - The Tatooed Arm | |||||||||||||
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| Mr Keen 1029 - The Case of the Absent Minded Professor | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Mr Keen Tracer of Lost Persons | ||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The wife of a quiet poetry professor dies, then his housekeeper, then his daughter. Why? | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 134 - Cricket | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1247 - Mystery of the Dragon's Teeth ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2051 - Thunder Signs Offhand | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Archie Andrews 1947-03-15 - The Red Cross Benefit | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Children / Teenagers | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Frank Merriwell 24 - The Big Top Adventure | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Frank discovers treachery at the circus, a deliberately caused train wreck, and an escaped tiger. | ||||||||||||
| Life of Riley 148 - (AFRS) Simon Is Advice to the Lovelorn Column Editor | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1701 - Mystery of the Stolen Costume ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2364 - Melissa Downs' Nephew | |||||||||||||
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| My Friend Irma 49 - Buy or Sell | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Leading Ladies | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Philo Vance 36 - Million Dollar Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mr. Simmons is a wealthy old man. He's built a high wall around his property. An 'electric eye' and a gun adds to his sense of security. Of course, he is soon found murdered. A deaf butler and a dissatisfied secretary indicate a possible 'inside job. ' The cops ... | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 756 - Secret Orders | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Dr Kildare 7 - Caroline Shelley | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Romance | Medical Romance | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Carolyn Shelly is a little girl in Blair Hospital with a bad appendix; an operation is needed immediately. Her parents have separated, leaving her a lonely little girl. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 356 - Gildy Considers Marriage | |||||||||||||
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| Jeff Regan, Investigator 48 - Lo! The Gentle Earth Worm | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Mrs. Drake has a serious problem.. Her husband is going to kill himself...because of his 724 million worms! | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2677 - The Hawk | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 420 - Strange for a Killer | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle 10 - Across a Continent | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Hopalong Cassidy 104 - Santa Claus Rustlers | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Media / Stars | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Aldrich Family 1953-03-15 - 576) Latin Homework | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Comic Weekly Man 308 - Coronation for Queen Elizabeth, First Comic - Beetle Bailey | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Escape 174 - The Man with the Steel Teeth | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Mixed Bag | Horror | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 562 - Attorney for the Defense | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A lawyer murders one of his clients and then is called to defend the dead man's daughter who is accused of the crime. Repeat of episode 424 | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 872 - Jeopardy | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Barry Sullivan & Barbara Stanwyck | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2741 - Gus Poses as Manager | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 543 - The Girl in Car 32 | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1955-03-15 - 277) A Trap of Many Teeth | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 914 - Gentleman's Agreement | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Ray Milland & Dorothy McGuire (repeat) | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 589 - The Game | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An exciting story about two kids, a bottle and a game of Russian Roulette. A drama for two voices ... good radio! | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 349 - Clinton Matter ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A death threat ... by the sheriff! | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 362 - Incident at Indian Ford | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 17 - Death of a Young Gunfighter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Juan Morita, who has killed twelve, will not kill again ... he says! | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 794 - Death in Box 234 | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 628 - Baldero Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A story of piracy among the upper crust in Beverly Hills. | ||||||||||||
