| 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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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Jack Benny 369 - Jack Revives Buck Benny After Three Years | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 51 - Vivacious Lady | |||||||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen avoid a mutiny and close in on, "The Whistler." | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1280 - Sixty Days for Life | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 302 - Stand-In | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Warner Baxter & Joan Bennett | ||||||||||||
| Mandrake the Magician 64 - Mr. Slade Is Interested | |||||||||||||
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| 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! | ||||||||||||
| Fibber McGee and Molly 320 - Scrap Drive | |||||||||||||
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| Red Ryder 1942-04-07 - 28) Trouble in Roaring River | |||||||||||||
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| 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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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 205 - Annual Estate Report Due | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Jack Benny 581 - Weekend at the Acme Plaza | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 366 - The Ghost Wore a Silver Slipper | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A dead girl is seen walking away from a cemetery ... and she really is dead! | ||||||||||||
| Sherlock Holmes 26 - The Tolling Bell | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Conway & Bruce | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | Classic Tales | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Starring Tom Conway as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1522 - Man Without a Face ep15 | |||||||||||||
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| 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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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Al Jolson & Dinah Shore (repeat) | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 254 - Sheriff's Assistant | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Broadway Is My Beat 29 - Ernie Caldwell Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Broadway Is My Beat 29 - Ernie Caldwell Murder Case (AFRTS) | |||||||||||||
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| Escape 105 - The Ambassador of Poker | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Mixed Bag | Horror | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2687 - The Faceless Bandit | |||||||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||||||
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| 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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| Lux Radio Theater 785 - Union Station | |||||||||||||
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| 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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| Fibber McGee and Molly 728 - Elks' Club Vaudeville Show | |||||||||||||
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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. | ||||||||||||
| Fibber McGee and Molly 873 - Sleepwalking McGee | |||||||||||||
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| 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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| Fibber McGee and Molly 1135 - Les's Career Is Over | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 261 - Rock Bottom | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A retired gunman named Van Tover asks Marshal Dillon to return his gun when Largo Greeland comes to town to kill him. TV Radio Mirror has voted the program "Best Western On Program Radio" and William Conrad as "Best Western Star." | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 693 - Vanishing Lady | |||||||||||||
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| Walk Softly, Peter Troy 18 - The Weakness of Strength | |||||||||||||
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