| 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: | Haile Selassie proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia (1930) BORN: Emile Zola author (1840) DIED: Samuel F. B. Morse inventor (1872) |
| Quote: | It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. (Albert Einstein) |
| Fact: | Greek Gods: Athena (Goddess of Wisdom/Warfare/Reason) - Poseidon (God of the Sea) - Erebus (God of Darkness) - Chaos (God of Nothingness) |
| Word: | vilipend (verb) 1: To view or treat with contempt; despise 2: To speak ill of; disparage |
| Fortune Cookie: | Constant grinding can turn an iron rod into a needle |
| Poem: | At furue in rain / Gray water and gray sand... / Picture without lines / (Haiku by Buson) |
| Joke: | If being chased by a police dog, don't go through a tunnel, on to a seesaw and jump through a hoop of fire, they're trained for that |
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| Police Reporter 14 - The Case of Burt McDonald | |||||||||||||
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| Cruise of the Poll Parrot 28 - Poll Parrot Runs into a Storm | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Poll Parrot battles a great storm. What's Annabelle doing aboard "The Africana?" | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 66 - Secret Police Capture the Octopus | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Paul Munez convinces everyone (except Speed, Clint, and Barney) that he is not The Octopus. | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 13 - A Mug a Moll and a Mountaineer | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A revue written by Duke Atterbury and directed by Busby Berkeley. The program also features a western skit titled, "The Wide Open Spaces." | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 179 - Last of the Clipper Ships ep13 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1278 - Buyers Beware | |||||||||||||
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| Mandrake the Magician 62 - Highpitch Forces Mandrake off the Road | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Audition show. Mandrake and Lothar are battling "Highpitch" whose men run them off the road with a truck. | ||||||||||||
| Red Ryder 1942-04-02 - 26) The Bucktooth Canyon Dam | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The heavy rains are threatening to destroy the dam. The water company refuses to open the floodgates. | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-04-02 - 129) Terry Nurses the Dragon Lady | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1591 - Murder Blooms at Night | |||||||||||||
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| Chase and Sanborn Program 1944-04-02 - Orson Welles and Jane Powell | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy | ||||||||||||
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| Life of Riley 12 - Riley's Birthday (Thinks Baxter Giving Party) | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Weird Circle 32 - Lady Eleanore's Mantle | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Based on a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Lady Eleanore Rochcliffe moves to Boston to live with her distant relative, Colonel Shute. She is known not only for her immense pride but also her magnificently embroidered mantle, which was made by a dying woman ... | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 477 - Swanee River | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Al Jolson & Dennis Morgan | ||||||||||||
| Michael Shayne s1 25 - Meet me at Oakland Depot | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mr. Newton asks Mike Shayne to meet him at the Oakland train station. When Newtown arrives, he walks right past Mike and ignores him. | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 239 - This Gun for Hire | |||||||||||||
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| Sherlock Holmes (Rathbone & Bruce) 170 - The Amateur Mendicant Society | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 149 - Return of the Innocent | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1259 - Story of the Century ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 64 - Murder on the Trapeze | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A childhood friend of Mary Wesley is a trapeze artist who thinks that she is about to be murdered | ||||||||||||
| Nick Carter, Master Detective 229 - Eight Records of Death | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Nick investigates a murder of a woman, his only clue are 8 records and a trunk they were found in. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1519 - Man Without a Face ep12 | |||||||||||||
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| Challenge of the Yukon 477 - The Dancing Bear | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 243 - An Evening with Miss Piper | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1715 - Skin Game ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2372 - Border Patrol | |||||||||||||
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| Philip Marlowe 27 - The Last Laugh | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Marlowe attends the reading of the Will of a man he once sent to jail, and is now supposed to be dead. The "dead man" appears after the will is read, to expose his practical joke, but he soon turns up dead anyway. | ||||||||||||
| Escape 65 - Confidential Agent | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Mixed Bag | Horror | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
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| Frank Merriwell 128 - April Shower | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Frank and Bart become locked in a half-finished swimming pool in the middle of a baseball game. | ||||||||||||
| Frontier Town 5 - The Poisoned Waterhole | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Lefty Slaughter is trying to take over the town by killing the storekeeper and calling all debts. aka "Five Gallons Of Poison" | ||||||||||||
| Pat Novak for Hire 8 - Father Leahy & Joe Feldman | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A priest puts Pat on the trail of an escaped convict named Joe Feldman. This leads to a slit throat, a dead cop, and the standard frame. | ||||||||||||
| Hopalong Cassidy 14 - Bandits of Ridge Creek | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Media / Stars | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
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| Our Miss Brooks 86 - Conklin's T.V. Set | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | School | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | As an April Fool's day joke, Walter tells Mr. Conklin that he's won a television. Mr. Conklin winds up with three televisions and a trip to the county jail. | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 74 - The Strange Fate of Professor Amar | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 409 - Lady with a Key | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A girl hitching a ride to San Diego is killed, and the hoodlum driving the car finds himself $5,000 richer ... and maybe a lot more! Show has an interesting singing opening and Signal limerick contest. | ||||||||||||
| Bold Venture 2 - Kuan Yin Statue | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Water / Boats | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A beautiful Chinese girl is killed to get an idol she has smuggled into Havana. Transitions and plot summaries are sung by a calypso singer named "King Moses" (portrayed by Jester Hairston). | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 238 - The Eight Ball | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 740 - Where the Sidewalk Ends | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Anne Baxter & Dana Andrews | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 438 - Colorful Past | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2998 - Across the Canyon | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2232 - Perry Discredits the Witness | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 66 - A Shot in the Dark | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1953-04-02 - 74) The Apologetic Killer | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2755 - Perry and Della Visit Paul | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 223 - Trigger Money | |||||||||||||
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| Gang Busters 885 - Case of the Mistreated Lady | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | aka Roger Kessel Shot By Hitchhikers | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 155 - Bloody Hands | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 361 - Salt City Matter ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny is hired to find the notorious Ed Julian, and to keep him safe. | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1957-04-02 - 494) The Butterfield Overland Mail | |||||||||||||
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| Journey into Space - Operation Luna 2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Luna is turned round for the Moon landing, and Lemmy hears the 'music' again during the final approach. The crew narrate their first moonwalk by radio to Earth on 22 October 1965. While exploring a crater, Jet unaccountably vanishes from sight. (source: wikipedia.org) | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 469 - Chester's Inheritance | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 732 - Wrong Sign Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An eccentric old woman has died, leaving over a million dollars..to the wrong the person! The signature on the new will matches exactly ... and that's the problem! | ||||||||||||
