| 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: | Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1 (1969) BORN: William Wordsworth poet (1770) DIED: Dick Turpin highwayman (1739) |
| Quote: | Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. (Rene Descartes) |
| Fact: | A female mink is called a 'Sow' |
| Word: | concomitant (adjective) Occurring or existing concurrently; attendant |
| Fortune Cookie: | A secret admirer will soon send you a sign of affection |
| Poem: | I dreamed of battles / And was slain... oh savage samurai! / Insatiable fleas! / (Haiku by Kikaku) |
| Joke: | Judge: Why did you hit your husband with a chair?" Wife: "I couldn't lift the table." |
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| Buck Rogers 2 - Killer Kane Escapes | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The Gyro-Cosmic-Relativator has been Installed and Buck's wounded hand is put under the healing ray, Killer Kane and Ardala have escaped. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 967 - Evidence Against The Lone Ranger | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Ripley's Believe It or Not 1939-04-07 - 65)Texas Night | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Non-fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 51 - Vivacious Lady | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Fred MacMurray. A romantic comedy story of love at first sight between a young botany professor and a nightclub singer. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 181 - Last of the Clipper Ships ep15 | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of Superman | ||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1280 - Sixty Days for Life | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 302 - Stand-In | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Warner Baxter & Joan Bennett | ||||||||||||
| Mandrake the Magician 64 - Mr. Slade Is Interested | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Superhero | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Mr. Slade is very interested in that red book. Princess Narda doesn't realize that he's in the gang. A policeman tricks Mandrake and Lothar into a jail cell. Narda's only hope is Tommy! | ||||||||||||
| Red Ryder 1942-04-07 - 28) Trouble in Roaring River | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Red and Little Beaver ride to Roaring River to help Eli Corbin, but he's dry-gulched by Fenton as they arrive. | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-04-07 - 132) Dragon Lady Comes | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1593 - Dan's Horse | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 205 - Annual Estate Report Due | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 366 - The Ghost Wore a Silver Slipper | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A dead girl is seen walking away from a cemetery ... and she really is dead! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1522 - Man Without a Face ep15 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Captain Midnight 1634 - Map of Mystery | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The dead body of Ivan Shark is used as a trap for the Secret Squadron. Captain Midnight is dead too! And what about the "homeland of lost people" in the Antarctic? | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 566 - Alexander's Ragtime Band | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Al Jolson & Dinah Shore (repeat) | ||||||||||||
| Sherlock Holmes (Conway & Bruce) 26 - The Tolling Bell | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | Classic Tales | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 254 - Sheriff's Assistant | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A man rids himself of a clinging woman by killing her, claiming not to have left his bedroom for a week. The law gets a clue from an unlikely source. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1718 - Skin Game ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 169 - Clyde Winston Photographer | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Photographer Clyde Winston has been murdered with a shotgun. The main suspect is Evelyn Anderson, a beautiful model. Model agency owner Harry Conover appears as an actor, playing himself. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 283 - The Baseball Field | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2374 - Special Frontier Town Sequence, No 1 | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 306 - What Makes a Murderer | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | There comes a time when a meek stock broker gets fed up with his humdrum life and chucks it all for romance and adventure in Florida ... and actually finds both! | ||||||||||||
| Abbott & Costello Show 260 - Sam Shovel - He Was A Short Order Crook | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Aldrich Family 1949-04-07 - 458) Blind Date | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Children / Teenagers | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 335 - The Noose of Coincidence | |||||||||||||
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| Escape 105 - The Ambassador of Poker | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Mixed Bag | Horror | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2687 - The Faceless Bandit | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Hopalong Cassidy 66 - Peril at Pier Nineteen | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Media / Stars | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Hoppy and California find an Australian cattleman knocked out and robbed while aboard a freighter in San Francisco harbor. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 90 - Edward French Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The manager of the Jewel Tea plantation in the Malay States has disappeared. Was it bandits? | ||||||||||||
| Bold Venture 55 - With Friends Like These | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Water / Boats | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Slate's friend Rudy Keijon was killed five years ago in New Orleans. However, Rudy is alive and well and in Havana ... tied up by a beautiful woman. Slate is held at gunpoint. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3000 - Buried Gold | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 785 - Union Station | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: William Holden & Nancy Olson | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2235 - The New Development | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 468 - Remember Me | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1953-04-07 - 75) Secret Mission | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 157 - Enoch Arden Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny finds himself about to be dumped overboard off the coast of Panama. | ||||||||||||
| 21st Precinct 39 - The Collar | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A domestic dispute becomes complicated when the husband pulls a gun on a patrolman. | ||||||||||||
| Crime Classics 40 - The General's Daughter, the Czar's Lieutenant and the Linen Closet | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A Russian tragedy of a hidden romance ending in the frozen Neva. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 543 - Marie Teaches Bronco French | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2758 - Mona Tells Perry About Suzanne Barkley and Gus | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 224 - Sheriff Sadie Blake | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Heroes | ||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 261 - Rock Bottom | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 693 - Vanishing Lady | |||||||||||||
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| Walk Softly, Peter Troy 18 - The Weakness of Strength | |||||||||||||
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