| 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: | William Caxton prints translation of Aesop's Fables (1484) BORN: Alfred Edward Housman, Poet (1859) DIED: Walt Whitman, poet (1892) |
| Fact: | The scientific term for the common tomato is lycopersicon lycopersicum, which means 'wolf peach' |
| Quote: | Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
| Word: | pelf (noun) Wealth or riches, often when dishonestly acquired |
| Fortune Cookie: | You are very grateful for the small pleasures of life |
| Poem: | A single cricket / Chirps, chirps, chirps, and is still ... my / Candle sinks and dies / (Haiku by Anon.) |
| Joke: | Once I was lost and asked a policeman to help find my parents. He said, "I don't know, there's so many places they can hide" |
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| Police Reporter 12 - The Case of Major Murray | |||||||||||||
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| Cruise of the Poll Parrot 27 - Johnny & Sue Leave for Home | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny, Sue and their friends leave for home aboard the "Poll Parrot." Why is the ship being followed by an armed merchantman? Could it be a privateer? The start of the third thirteen-episode cycle. | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 65 - Surrounding the Octopus' Secret Home | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Paul Munez is really The Octopus, and The International Secret Police are closing in! | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 12 - Never in This World | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Leslie Howard, Kay Francis, Mary Nash, Virginia Weidler, Morgan Hollis, Irving Pichel. A tearful melodrama about a dying little girl and her search for the Silver Prince of the Magic Kingdom. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 176 - Last of the Clipper Ships ep10 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1275 - A Horse Changes Brands | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Mandrake the Magician 59 - Alex Jefferson Falls Over a Cliff | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Alex Jefferson falls over a cliff with the bomb, just before it explodes. The submarine blows up with all on board. That's the end of Captain X. | ||||||||||||
| Red Ryder 1942-03-26 - 23) Trouble in Pepperwood | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Bank robber Duke Drake shoots Sheriff Jim Haynes while robbing the Pepperwood bank. Red and Little Beaver take out in pursuit. | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-03-26 - 124) Following the Baron | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 474 - Vulture and the Thunderbolt Express ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1588 - West of Clayton | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Life of Riley 11 - The Barber Chair | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Weird Circle 31 - Wuthering Heights | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Emily Brontë's classic tale about Heathcliff, Catherine Earnshaw, and the old house on the moor, with all its dark secrets within. | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 476 - A Tale of Two Cities | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Orson Welles & Rosemary De Camp (repeat) | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 238 - Princess and the Pirate | |||||||||||||
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| Sherlock Holmes (Rathbone & Bruce) 169 - The Book of Tobit | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1254 - Mystery of the Dragon's Teeth ep8 | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 63 - Pierre the Designer | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Pierre the designer is really a regular guy named, "Joe." Roger Olson's safe has been robbed, and it's obvious that Boston Blackie is the burglar. A $50,000 I.O.U. has also been stolen. | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 264 - Death Is a Double-Crosser | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An ex-con decides to steal the huge 'King Midas' diamond, by becoming an apprentice diamond cutter. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1514 - Man Without a Face ep7 | |||||||||||||
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| Challenge of the Yukon 476 - The Big Stone House | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 242 - New Piano Teacher | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Captain Midnight 1818 - Jewels of the Queen of Sheba | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Aviation | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Captain downs the enemy after furious dogfight. A "Secret Squadron Signal Session" follows the story. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2369 - The Sword | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Philip Marlowe 26 - The Green Flame | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A story of a Hollywood gossip murder and blackmail attempt. | ||||||||||||
| Escape 63 - The Adaptive Ultimate | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Mixed Bag | Horror | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Frontier Town 4 - Marie | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Marie Hoxie, a damsel in distress, has a secret desire for a map to a lost mine. | ||||||||||||
| Blackstone 78 - The Gory Goldfish | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Blackstone, The Magic Detective | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Crime | Media / Stars | Spinoff | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A professor asks Blackstone's help in solving a case of cannibalism! Blackstone explains "The Half Dollar Trick." The last show of the series. | ||||||||||||
| Hopalong Cassidy 13 - Failure | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Media / Stars | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 85 - The Baseball Game | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | School | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The Madison High Athletic Fund is so depleted that there's no money for the school baseball team. | ||||||||||||
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 46 - Photographer's Card | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Diamond finds the body of a fellow detective while taking the police exam to keep his detective's license. After the story, Dick sings, "Oh, How I Miss You Tonight." | ||||||||||||
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 47 - Photographer's Card | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A street photographer named George Phipps takes Diamond's picture...but death develops it! After the story, Dick Powell sings, "Back In Your Own Backyard." | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 73 - Fool Proof | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A diamond-laden customer in the "Cafe Tambourine" tries very hard to sound like Sydney Greenstreet. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 408 - Lady in the Snow | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A cartoonist is framed for murder, and then blackmailed when he assumes a new identity. | ||||||||||||
| Bold Venture 1 - Deadly Merchandise | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Water / Boats | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Slate is upset about being away from Cuba. On the way back to the hotel, Mario comes up and wants to know where he can get the merchandise they brought back from Key West. | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 237 - No Escape from the Jungle | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 739 - Seventh Heaven | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Janet Gaynor & Charles Farrell (repeat) | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 437 - Television Comes to Summerfield | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2995 - Atonement | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2227 - Perry Demands Kitty's Testimony | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 64 - Jokes and Gunsmoke | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1953-03-26 - 72) Bank Robbery in Cactus | |||||||||||||
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| The Roy Rogers Show 1953-03-26 - 31) Cattle Racketeers | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2750 - Mason Asks Halverson to Call Off Search | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 221 - Fury of the Wind | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 154 - Horse Deal | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 356 - LaMarr Matter ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | It's vacation time, with a romance that turns out to be a prelude to murder. | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1957-03-26 - 492) Wild Horse Hunt | |||||||||||||
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| Journey into Space - Operation Luna 1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The rocket "Luna" sets off for the Moon with Jet, Doc, Mitch and Lemmy aboard. Radio contact with Earth is lost. Lemmy hears odd 'music' on the radio, before contact is resumed, and a tiny meteor hits Luna. No damage is sustained, but Lemmy hears the strange ... | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 468 - No Indians | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 731 - Two's a Crowd Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny tries to track down an escaped convict ... before an enraged cop can kill him! | ||||||||||||
