| 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: | Wright Brothers apply for a patent on their airplane (1903) BORN: Captain Kidd sailor/pirate (1645) DIED: Peter Lorre actor (1964) |
| Quote: | Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of. (Socrates) |
| Fact: | A year on Venus is 224.7 Earth days. |
| Word: | osmic (adjective) Of or relating to odors or the sense of smell |
| Fortune Cookie: | Keep your plans secret for now |
| Poem: | False though she be to me and love, I'll ne'er pursue revenge; For still the charmer I approve, Though I deplore her change. (Congreve) |
| Joke: | A grasshopper walks into a bar. Barman says, "We've got a drink named after you." Grasshopper says, "You've got a drink named Kevin?" |
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| Chandu the Magician 1932-03-23 13 - The Slave Auction | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 804 - Coming of Age | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 169 - The Octopus Waits | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The Octopus rehearses his ultimatum to all governments to turn over their powers to him! | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 79 - My Favorite Wife | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 220 - Death Prowls at Night | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A mad scientist in the snowy Adirondack Mountains dresses like a werewolf, hypnotizes Margot Lane, who needs the Shadow to rescue her. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1430 - War Sweeps the Range | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 344 - Strawberry Blonde | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Don Ameche & Rita Hayworth | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-03-23 - 121) Using a Net | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 34 - The Customers Like Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A crime-fiction writer gets mixed up with bona-fide criminals and must now use his inside knowledge of the detective biz to save his life... all the while bickering with his secretary. Story by: John Dickson Carr | ||||||||||||
| Abbott & Costello Show 57 - A Psychiatrist for Costello with Linda Darnell | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 321 - King Meets Soapy Smith | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 84 - Sneak Preview | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A movie director meets a detective who quibbles over the realism of the filmmaker's crime films. To give him a greater sense of reality, the detective brings the director to the morgue where they recently found the body of a world-renowned assassin. Fascinated ... | ||||||||||||
| Gang Busters 426 - Case of Joe McCann & the West Side Syndicate ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1946-03-23 - 749) Youth Takes the Headlines | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Life of Riley 105 - Junior Races Egbert - Poison Ivy | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| All-Star Western Theatre 33 - Matt Simpson's Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The Riders" are accused of murdering their old friend, but are saved by "Cue-Ball." | ||||||||||||
| Nick Carter, Master Detective 280 - The Case of the Crystal Prophecy | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A fortune teller predicts wealthy ladies will commit suicide ... and they invariably do! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1707 - Mystery of the Stolen Costume ep10 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 219 - Charity Gambling Ring | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Blackie breaks up a gang that has been using a phoney charity gambling racket. The recording sounds as if it may be a recreation. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 320 - Gildy's New Secretary | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 377 - One and One's a Lonesome | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Sam Spade 240 - Kimberley Cross Caper | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Sam is hired to sit on a chair for 24 hours and watch something beautiful, diamonds. | ||||||||||||
| Dr Kildare 61 - Cathy Morton's Baby | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Romance | Medical Romance | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Cathy Morton is only 19-years-old, but she has a 1-month-old baby. She want to give it up for adoption. | ||||||||||||
| New Adventures of Nero Wolfe 22 - The Final Page | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Nero Wolfe goes to have dinner with a friend, who is also a successful author, but finds his friend dead. | ||||||||||||
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 88 - Little Chiva | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Diamond travels to Haiti to battle voodoo and a powerful Englishman. "Little Chiva," a black giant, lends a powerful hand. | ||||||||||||
| The Falcon 370 - Murdering Missus | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of the Falcon | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Spy / Espionage | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | "Marriage may be a great institution, but in some cases it can be murder." | ||||||||||||
| Comic Weekly Man 257 - Hummingbirds, First Comic - Hopalong Cassidy | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 512 - Ski Master | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The skiing instructor at a swanky resort hopes to marry a wealthy woman guest, but his ex-wife from Germany suddenly appears at the resort ... working as a waitress! | ||||||||||||
| Whitehall 1212 ep18 - Case of the Black Gladstone Bag | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A black Gladstone bag in the Black Museum is the exhibit from a 1924 murder. Stained with blood, the trail leads to a dismal cottage in Eastbourne and a dapper little salesman. | ||||||||||||
| Hall of Fantasy s2 18 - The Night the Fog Came | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Two scientists are horrified to discover a microscopic aquatic life form that can travel overland in the fog and is fatal to all who come into contact with it. Should they fail to destroy it, it could spread from its origins in the marshes of Lake Superior ... | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3150 - The Right Side | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 821 - Fourteen Hours | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Paul Douglas & Terry Moore | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 505 - The Signalman | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1954-03-23 - 175) Shoot to Kill | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2747 - Lt Halverson Asks About Pete Watten | |||||||||||||
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| Rocky Fortune 24 - Rocket Racket | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Rocky gets a job that pays $10,000 to ride a rocket to the moon! | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 207 - Piney Corners Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A murder in rural Pennsylvania with an old squirrel gun ... for obvious reasons? | ||||||||||||
| The FBI in Peace and War 495 - Nuisance Value | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 355 - Jolly Roger Fraud Matter ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The conclusion of the story. Zanagian confesses all! | ||||||||||||
| The FBI in Peace and War 652 - The Boyfriend | |||||||||||||
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| Frontier Gentleman 8 - The Actress | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A British actress in the old West meets death; Kendall learns her strange secret. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 311 - Indian | |||||||||||||
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| Luke Slaughter 5 - The Homesteaders | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Luke Slaughter of Tombstone | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Colonel Everett arrives in Tombstone with a Spanish land grant to the Meeker ranch, signed by General Santa Ana himself! | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 743 - Affair at Loveland Pass | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 579 - Denver Disbursal Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Don Ricardo is the beneficiary on four different policies, for over $200,000! Just a coincidence? | ||||||||||||
