| 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: | John Lennon and Yoko Ono were married (1969) BORN: Ovid, Roman poet (43 BC) DIED: Brendan Behan, Irish playwright/author (1964) |
| Fact: | Inventors: Seed drill - Jethro Tull (1701) / Miner's safety lamp - Humphry Davy (1816) / Aqua-Lung - Cousteau and Gagnan (1943) |
| Quote: | Respect yourself and others will respect you. (Confucius) |
| Word: | anabiosis (noun) A return to life after death or apparent death; resuscitation |
| Fortune Cookie: | Let the spirit of adventure set the tone |
| Poem: | The species Man and Marmozet / Are intimately linked; / The Marmozet survives as yet, But Men are all extinct. (Hilaire Belloc) |
| Joke: | Man: "My doctor has told me I can't play golf." Friend: "So he's played with you too has he?" |
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| Jungle Jim 73 - Hawkins and Bhutan | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 12 - The Octopus Plans a Surprise | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Octopus plans more mayhem for Speed and his friends when they get to Manila. | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 112 - The White Legion | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The last show of the season. The Shadow breaks up a ring of municipal corruption. Orson Welles and Agnes Moorehead take a bow at the end of the program. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 959 - Mustang Mag Dispossessed | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 211 - It Happened One Night | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The famous Depression comedy about the reporter and the heiress on a cross-country bus. Stars: Claudette Colbert & Clark Gable. The intermission guest is a trans-continental bus driver for Pacific Greyhound. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 17 - Steam Plant | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | "The Wolf" and his henchman Keno are barricaded in the prison's steam plant...with Lois Lane as their hostage! | ||||||||||||
| Captain Midnight 255 - Mysterious Voice 30 - Chuck Gets Disturbing News | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Capt. Midnight is closing in on Ivan Shark's secret hideout, but one more secret message is needed! | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1116 - Willing To Fight | |||||||||||||
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| Gang Busters 256 - Case of Earl Joiner | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1429 - Men Who Won't Talk | |||||||||||||
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| Let's Pretend 1943-03-20 - Princess Moonbeam | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Fantasy / Whimsey | ||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1742 - Wind River Rendezvous | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 431 - The Hard Way | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Miriam Hopkins & Franchot Tone | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 188 - Constant Nymph | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 990 - Mystery of the Golden Nail ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| The Strange Dr Weird 20 - The Man Who Knew Everything | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | He does the trick with narcotic cough drops, and he really does know everything ... to his sorrow! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1250 - Mystery of the Dragon's Teeth ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2053 - Special Stage | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1510 - Man Without a Face ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| Casey 177 - The Demon Miner | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The first show of the season. A better than usual murder-horror story as a strange monster prowls through a coal mine. The script had previously been submitted to the producers of, "The Shadow" in October, 1943, but had been rejected by them. No reason for the rejection ... | ||||||||||||
| All-Star Western Theatre 85 - Painted on the Wall of a Cave | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | An Indian love story of long ago. A tale of the Old West. | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 523 - King Comes Home | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Gang Busters 521 - Case of the Broadway Bandits | |||||||||||||
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| The Judy Canova Show 1948-03-20 - 145) New Publicity Manager - Masquerade | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Leading Ladies | ||||||||||||
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| Suspense 289 - Wet Saturday and August Heat | |||||||||||||
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| Blackstone 25 - The Missing Palmist | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Blackstone, The Magic Detective | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Crime | Media / Stars | Spinoff | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Blackstone catches a hypnotist trying to steal $10,000 at a carnival. Blackstone explains the "Coin and Handkerchief" trick. | ||||||||||||
| Box 13 ep31 - One One Three Point Five | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman asks Holiday to help her find her brother, who she thinks might be in big trouble. | ||||||||||||
| Damon Runyon Theater 25 - Madam La Gimp | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Madam LaGimp's daughter is getting married; she hasn't seen her in 15 years. | ||||||||||||
| Escape 62 - The Country of the Blind (Edmond O'Brien) | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Mixed Bag | Horror | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 33 - Poetry Mix-up | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | School | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Who's been sending romantic poetry to Harriet Conklin? Bob Rockwell is given air credit as playing Mr. Boynton, but it sounds like Jeff Chandler they have very similar voices. | ||||||||||||
| Pat Novak for Hire 6 - Rory Malone | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A double-fix in a prize fight with Rory Malone, with all the wrong answers and the right corpses. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 354 - Death of Mr Penny | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Never blackmail a blackmailer! | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 758 - The Cascade Case | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2679 - The Great Imitator | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 694 - Father Was a Fullback | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Paul Douglas & Maureen O'Hara | ||||||||||||
| Mark Trail 22 - Rabid Foxes | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | Non-fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Night Beat 7 - The Man Who Claimed to Be Dead | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Randy Stone meets a man in the park on a very hot day. He is wearing a heavy overcoat! Mr. Henry Kazarian claims to be dead, and a doctor confirms it! | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2223 - Crying, Dory Runs from Witness Chair | |||||||||||||
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| Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle 63 - Oman of the Emeralds | |||||||||||||
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| Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 24 - The Atmosphere of Death ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The cadets discover a plot to take over the government of Venus. | ||||||||||||
| Horatio Hornblower 35 - The Duel | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Water / Boats | War / Armed Forces | ||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3149 - Trail of Blood | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 139 - Dodge City or Bust | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Heroes | ||||||||||||
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| Case Dismissed 8 - Rights When Arrested | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A program about your rights when arrested. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 100 - Old Friend | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | After trying to bribe Marshal Dillon, a gambler named Ben Corder hires Toque Morlan to kill Matt! | ||||||||||||
| Theatre Royal 25 - The Luck of Roaring Camp | |||||||||||||
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| Sherlock Holmes 12 - The Speckled Band | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson rise unusually early one morning to meet Helen Stoner, a young woman who fears that her life is being threatened by her stepfather, Sir Grimesby Roylott, a doctor who practiced in India and who was married to Helen’s mother ... | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 642 - Gallardo | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 352 - Jolly Roger Fraud Matter ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Where there's smoke, there's fire. Zanegian tries bribery, and murder. | ||||||||||||
| Sleep No More 17 - Woman in Gray - A Suspicious Gift | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man at a frightfully boring dinner party invents an invisible companion - a woman in grey - who he claims "gets after" troublesome people he doesn't like, so he needn't to bother with them. Story by Walker G. Everett (1935) Blake, a down-and-out reporter ... | ||||||||||||
| X Minus One 93 - Protection | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | When a man receives a guardian alien to watch over him, he doesn't realize just how much trouble he is really in for. A version of this story appeared on Future Tense. Story by: Robert Sheckley | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 415 - The Constable | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | When a trail boss objects to Marshal Dillon's peacekeeping methods and the town merchants ask him to ease off, Dillon vows to make no further arrests. The town then hires an unusual "constable" to keep the peace. | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 70 - Caesar's Wife | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Jeremiah ('The Avenger') Smoot hires Paladin to be his bodyguard. Will Jeremiah ('The Avenger') use his guns once again? | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 845 - Talk About Caruso | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 681 - Saturday Night Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny sets out to solve a series of grocery store robberies in Colorado. | ||||||||||||
