| 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: | President Ronald Reagan is shot (1981) BORN: Francisco Goya, painter (1746) DIED: Jimmy Cagney, actor (1986) |
| Fact: | The seven virtues are prudence, courage, temperance, justice, faith, hope and charity |
| Quote: | Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. (Oscar Wilde) |
| Word: | epuration (noun) Purification or purge. Removal of officials considered disloyal or treacherous |
| Fortune Cookie: | You are never selfish with your advice or your help |
| Poem: | The old fisherman / Unalterably intent... / Cold evening rain / (Haiku by Buson) |
| Joke: | I went abroad on holiday and my wife got pregnant. Same thing next year and the year after. This year I'm taking her with me. |
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| The Lone Ranger 807 - Night Stage to Dalton | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 170 - Car Crash | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | An auto wreck ... involving the Amir of Karno! | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 80 - His Girl Friday | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 221 - Voodoo | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A "resurrection" among the natives? The Shadow knows! | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1433 - Furs Trap a Badman | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 345 - I Wanted Wings | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Ray Milland & William Holden | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-03-30 - 126) Sanjack's Island Burns | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 35 - The Dead Sleep Lightly | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A man accidentally makes a phone call to his dead wife... and she answers. Story by: John Dickson Carr | ||||||||||||
| Abbott & Costello Show 58 - Radio Station with Alan Ladd | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 322 - A Pack of Bacon | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 85 - Cat and Mouse | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | John Guthry, an engineer, calls his friend Lockwood on the radio—a fellow engineer who is experimenting on a top secret project in a lab located in the snowy hills of Vermont. While talking with Lockwood, Guthry hears another man coughing in the background, ... | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1946-03-30 - 750) Classified Ads | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| All-Star Western Theatre 34 - Cooper's Unconditional Surrender - Jackie Cooper | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | How to marry the boss-lady, in one easy lesson. | ||||||||||||
| Let's Pretend 1947-03-30 - Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Fantasy / Whimsey | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | Harold | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1712 - Mystery of the Stolen Costume ep15 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 220 - Amodon Pearls | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A complex tale about the Amodon pearls. Three sets of crooks steal three duplicate sets of pearls. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 321 - Acting Police Commissioner | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 378 - Blood Sacrifice | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Sam Spade 241 - Vendetta Caper | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Chandler Garsdan hires Sam to find out some background information on Monty Kristoff. Spade also refers to this caper as "The Revenge Of Monty Christoff." Tales of society skullduggery. A modern story of revenge, stolen right out of the pages of Alexandre Dumas. | ||||||||||||
| Dr Kildare 62 - Joan Quinn | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Romance | Medical Romance | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Dr. Gillespie tries to get Dr. Kildare interested in nurse Joan Quinn. | ||||||||||||
| Life of Riley 311 - Riley The Rent Collector | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| New Adventures of Nero Wolfe 23 - The Tell-Tale Ribbon | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Archie is invited to a wealthy manufacturer's home for the weekend only to find out that the manufacturer denies any knowledge of the invitation. | ||||||||||||
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 89 - The Carnival | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | "The thinnest man in the world" hires Diamond to protect his sweetheart "Rowena." There's more to this carnival charmer than meets the eye! | ||||||||||||
| Comic Weekly Man 258 - April Fool's, First Comic - Hopalong Cassidy | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Tales of the Texas Rangers 71 - Nighthawk | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The story is based on the events of June, 1948. A man kills a girl's date in Lover's Lane, and she refuses to identify the killer! | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 513 - Homecoming | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A man commits murder and frames his step-brother for the crime. Three years later, the step-brother escapes from jail to get his revenge. | ||||||||||||
| Whitehall 1212 ep19 - Murder of a Bloody Belgian | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A woman's earring earring in the Black Museum, a headless woman's body and a 'bloody Belgian butcher' help to solve a baffling case. | ||||||||||||
| Hall of Fantasy s2 19 - The Beast with the Red Eyes | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | After reading some Ancient mystic books, Robert Jennings begins seeing a small, sinister, monkey-like beast following his every move. He seeks the help of Dr. Hesselius, an expert in metaphysical medicine, but it may be too late for the good doctor to help! | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3153 - Looting of Lawrenceville | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 822 - The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: J. Carrol Naish & Susan Whitney | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 506 - Tom Dooley | |||||||||||||
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| Barrie Craig 130 - The Embezzler | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | The small town bank manager of Echo Corners reaches out to a big city confidential investigator for discrete investigation of bank theft. Another case of the guilty hiring the detective to redirect suspicion. | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1954-03-30 - 177) Avalanche in Arrow Pass | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2752 - Calling the Doctors in Smithville | |||||||||||||
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| Rocky Fortune 25 - Boarding House Doublecross | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A case of a boarding house double-cross. | ||||||||||||
| Barrie Craig 179 - Never Murder a Mummy | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | An Egyptian mummy is delivered to Craig's office, but why? Then the mummy goes missing and winds up back in the museum. The triangle is solved at the end. | ||||||||||||
| The FBI in Peace and War 496 - The Neighborhood Boy | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 360 - LaMarr Matter ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The conclusion of the story. A switch to make your head spin! | ||||||||||||
| Frontier Gentleman 9 - Gentle Virtue | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Kendall wins "Gentle Virtue" a beautiful Chinese girl, in a poker game. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 312 - Why Not | |||||||||||||
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| Luke Slaughter 6 - The Aaron Holcomb Story | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The time finally came when I decided there'd be more profit in raising my own cattle than driving other men's herds up to Tombstone from Mexico and Texas. At about the same time, I heard that Aaron Holcomb's spread was for sale. So one day, Wichita and I rode ... | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 744 - The Sisters | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 580 - Killer's List Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Everett Benton has been pushed or jumped or fell out of the window. Never try to frame a dead man! | ||||||||||||
