| 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: | Caligula becomes Roman Emperor (37 AD) BORN: Jerry Lewis comedian (1926) DIED: Judge Roy Bean jurist (1903) |
| Quote: | When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. (Dwight D. Eisenhower) |
| Fact: | Two years after he had died in 1858 Oliver Cromwell's body was hanged in chains and his severed head was displayed on a pole. |
| Word: | orotund (adjective) 1:Strong, clear, rich in voice or speech 2: Pompous, bombastic |
| Fortune Cookie: | You will find a bushel of money |
| Poem: | I dare not ask a kiss, I dare not beg a smile, Lest having that, or this, I might grow proud the while. (Robert Herrick) |
| Joke: | "Doctor! Doctor! I feel like a pack of cards!" "Sit down and I'll deal with you later." |
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| The Lone Ranger 801 - Amos Franklyn, Sheepherder | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Lone Ranger | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 168 - Speed Missing Again | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The Buchanans are re-united at last, but Speed Gibson is missing! | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 78 - My Love Came Back | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 219 - The Ghost Walks Again | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Plans to open an old "meeting hall," are disrupted by the return of Roger Malthus ... or his ghost. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1427 - Fifty Thousand Head | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 343 - Manpower | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Marlene Dietrich & Edward G. Robinson | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-03-16 - 116) Escape from Temple | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Abbott & Costello Show 56 - At the Circus with Alan Hale | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Abbott and Costello Show | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Bud and Lou agree to help out at a charity circus. The manager tries to get Costello to use his head as a baseball target, he refuses, but agrees to a wrestling match with Abbott. | ||||||||||||
| Mr Keen 976 - The Case of the Strange Display | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Mr Keen Tracer of Lost Persons | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Murder takes place in a department store, but Mr. Keen's no dummy! | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 83 - Narrative About Clarence | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A family's life is forever changed by the return of the wife's mysterious brother—a doctor who claims that he has studied the occult in India. He now plans to set up an asylum to practice these terrifying powers on his patients. Story by: Robert Tallman | ||||||||||||
| Gang Busters 425 - Case of the Death Mask Killer | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1946-03-16 - A Pair of Nylons | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Life of Riley 104 - Riley Buys An Insurance Policy | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Life of Riley | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| All-Star Western Theatre 32 - Cripple Creek Feud | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The Riders try to make peace between two old time feuders who love to hate. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1702 - Mystery of the Stolen Costume ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of Superman | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Mysterious Traveler 145 - They Struck It Rich | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A fascinating story about two bank robbers who find themselves aboard a ship ... filled with treasure! | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 218 - Kidnapped Murderer | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Blackie kidnaps a murderer from police headquarters and when the murderer is himself killed, Blackie has to solve the case from jail. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 319 - Leroy Has Competition | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Great Gildersleeve | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Mr Keen 1282 - The Innocent Flirtation Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A modern duel leads to a murder and an attempted frame. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 376 - Motive for Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Sam Spade 239 - Sinister Siren Caper | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A beautiful redhead has drawn a line around six names in the phone book. The six are then murdered ... one at a time! There are a half million good reasons for all this, all of them dollars! | ||||||||||||
| Dr Kildare 60 - Amy Dickens Breaks Her Leg | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Romance | Medical Romance | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Amy Dickens has broken her leg. | ||||||||||||
| New Adventures of Nero Wolfe 21 - Midnight Ride | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Nero Wolfe's dentist comes to visit him after a distressing call from an old friend. | ||||||||||||
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 87 - Monsieur Bouchon | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Richard Diamond is hired to pick up a sample of a face cream from Monsieur Bouchon. The sample proves to be a bomb! | ||||||||||||
| The Falcon 369 - Grand Gamble | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of the Falcon | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Spy / Espionage | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | "When men play for high odds, there sometimes are grave consequences." | ||||||||||||
| Comic Weekly Man 256 - Baby Rhyme, First Comic - Hopalong Cassidy | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Tales of the Texas Rangers 70 - Prelude to Felony | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The story is based on the events of July 7, 1951. A young girl steals her own father's cattle and frames a neighboring rancher for the crime. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 511 - Marked Man | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A crook kills twice to keep all the loot from the last job, but a TV quiz show proves his undoing. | ||||||||||||
| Whitehall 1212 ep17 - Case of Thomas Applebee | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Thomas A'Becket Appleby has been murdered. His Wife Alma is arrested for the crime, but her young lover confesses to the crime. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3147 - Ambush | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 504 - The Mountain | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1954-03-16 - 173) Wagons Roll West | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2742 - Mason Tells Kate About Suzanne Barkley | |||||||||||||
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| Rocky Fortune 23 - Psychological Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Rocky witnesses the execution of the will of a wealthy woman who thinks that she's going insane. In a plot shamelessly stolen from the film, 'Gaslight,' the wife believes that she's going to kill her husband. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 206 - Berlin Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny's in Germany investigating the murder of an American engineer with an interesting barge. | ||||||||||||
| 21st Precinct 88 - The Declaration | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A well-liked local merchant is charged with the murders of his wife and a man. | ||||||||||||
| The FBI in Peace and War 494 - The Father Leon Story | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 350 - Clinton Matter ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The conclusion of the story. The town comes apart with two murders and a shoot-out! | ||||||||||||
| Frontier Gentleman 7 - Big Sam For Governor | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Big Sam' is running for Governor and wants Kendall to write a nice story about him, and he won't take 'no' for an answer! | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 310 - Real Sent Sonny | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Luke Slaughter 4 - Pages Progress | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Luke Slaughter of Tombstone | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Page Webster is going to get married, but his cousin Burley arrives in Tombstone and wins Page's ranch in a crooked poker game. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 742 - Game Hunt | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 578 - Salkoff Sequel Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Leon Selkoff, an ex-Nazi working on a secret rocket fuel in the Florida swamps, has disappeared. Was he abducted by his former countrymen? No! It was two "cold warriors" from you-know-where! This is the story of how Johnny Dollar helped to launch the "Explorer" ... | ||||||||||||
