| 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: | Samuel Morey patents internal combustion engine (1826) BORN: William Harvey, physician (1578) DIED: Scott Joplin, composer (1917) |
| Quote: | In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. (Franklin D. Roosevelt) |
| Fact: | A group of crows is called a 'Murder' |
| Word: | satori (noun) A spiritual awakening often coming suddenly; Sudden enlightenment |
| Fortune Cookie: | You were born with the skill to communicate with people easily |
| Poem: | So enviable... / Maple-leaves most glorious / Contemplating death / (Haiku by Shiko) |
| Joke: | Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way |
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| Speed Gibson 118 - Angry Crowd at Casablanca | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A visit to "Spinny's Garden" and plenty of trouble. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 22 - Brentwood Mystery | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The start of a new adventure. Clark and the daughter of a missing friend of Perry White's visit a strange house in the suburb of Brentwood...guarded by an electrified fence and a hostile giant! | ||||||||||||
| Blondie 1940-04-01 - 40 April Fool's Day | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Leading Ladies | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 257 - Love Affair | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A witty and civilized romance. Stars: Irene Dunne & William Powell. French painter (and famed womanizer) Michel Marnet meets American singer Terry McKay aboard a liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean. They are both already engaged, he to heiress Lois Clarke, ... | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1434 - Websters Big Fire | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-04-01 - 128) Smythe Heatherstone | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Aldrich Family 1943-04-01 - 187) Selling War Bonds In A Snow Storm | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Hop Harrigan 1943-04-01 xxxx) - Train On Fire | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures by Morse 13 - Deepest Grave in the World | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Spy / Espionage | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A Coffin for the Lady Part 3 | ||||||||||||
| Nick Carter, Master Detective 51 - Professor's Secret | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | aka "Nick Carter and The Mystery Of The Z-Rays" | ||||||||||||
| Chase and Sanborn Program 1945-04-01 - Elsa Maxwell | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy | ||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 163 - Raising a Pig | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Old Gold Comedy Theater 23 - The Major and the Minor | |||||||||||||
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| The Sealed Book 3 - Death Spins a Web | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A larcenous couple come upon a strange eccentric in the North woods and plan to kill him for his money. | ||||||||||||
| Weird Circle 70 - The Goblet | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1258 - Story of the Century ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2058 - Order Restored | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 291 - On Borrowed Time | |||||||||||||
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| Sherlock Holmes (Rathbone & Bruce) 209 - April Fool's Adventure | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 201 - Three Times a Sinner | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A husband gives his wife every opportunity to kill him, and then frustrates her every attempt! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1518 - Man Without a Face ep11 | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 116 - The Bus to Valley Junction | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Blackie travels to Valley Junction when the owner of the town's general store is found murdered. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1714 - Mystery of the Stolen Costume ep17 | |||||||||||||
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| The Aldrich Family 1948-04-01 - 418) April Fool's Day Jokes | |||||||||||||
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| Life of Riley 239 - Won't Let Peg Help Jr. With Homework | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2528 - Aggie Wins Her Point | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 6 - Stolen Portrait of The Duke of Massen | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny visits post-war London to solve a stolen Monet painting caper and finds smuggled diamonds and murder as well. | ||||||||||||
| The Falcon 327 - Worried Wife | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Spy / Espionage | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Arnold Sheffield's old girlfriend tries to shoot him. Sheffield's new wife hires the Falcon in case she tries it again, but Michael Waring is too late to save him. The old girlfriend then attempts suicide. | ||||||||||||
| Comic Weekly Man 206 - April Fools, First Comic - Hopalong Cassidy | |||||||||||||
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| Our Miss Brooks 125 - Another Day Another Madame Amelia Dress | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | School | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Miss Brooks gets four new dresses from Madame Amelia's shop. | ||||||||||||
| The Saint 164 - Simon Carries the Ivy | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Threatening letters are circulating around the campus of the Saint's alma mater. Murder soon matriculates! | ||||||||||||
| Tales of the Texas Rangers 37 - Pressure | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Who killed Mike Redford? "Lucifer" confesses but Jace Pearson has his doubts. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 461 - Man in a Corner | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man suspects his wife of cheating. He plans to kill her, and to frame his partner for the crime. | ||||||||||||
| Wild Bill Hickok 1 - First Show | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Heroes | ||||||||||||
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| Challenge of the Yukon 994 - Hard Luck | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| The Lineup 78 - Kastro's Kop Killing Karnage Kase | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2231 - A False Alibi for Kitty | |||||||||||||
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| Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 27 - Double Cross in Space ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Believing he has flunked out of Space Academy, Manning joins a prospecting party. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 490 - Easter Sunrise Service | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3154 - Inky and the Printers Ink | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 142 - Jingles to the Rescue | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1954-04-01 - 178) Return of the Laughing Bandit | |||||||||||||
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| Escape 208 - The Return | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2754 - Gus's Escape from Apartment Thwarted by Albert | |||||||||||||
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| The Six-Shooter 27 - Aunt Emma | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Britt's Aunt Emma moves into town and proceeds to change his life all around. | ||||||||||||
| Fort Laramie 11 - Lost Child | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Major Barlow believes in treating Indians as Captain Custer does...harshly. The story is also known as "Major Barlow's Survey." | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 208 - How to Sell a Ranch | |||||||||||||
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| Hancock's Half Hour s5 11 - Hancock's Car | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Parked outside for ten years, the lad hits snags galore when he is forced to move his motor. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 783 - Blue Rock Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Thomas Aspinwald was married for a while to Emily a wealthy stockbroker's daughter. Now her father (Archibald) has a terminal illness and only a handful of weeks to live. Aspinwald, plots to get his hands on the fortune, starting with murdering his 5 year old stepson ... | ||||||||||||
