| 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: | 1st recorded college basketball game (1893) BORN: Mary Pickford actress (1892) DIED: Pablo Picasso artist and sculptor (1973) |
| Quote: | Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. (Henry James) |
| Fact: | Lithology is the study of the characteristics of Rocks |
| Word: | obsequy (noun) A funeral rite or ceremony |
| Fortune Cookie: | To understand a man's mind, listen to his words |
| Poem: | Here a pretty baby lies / Sung asleep with lullabies: / Pray be silent and not stir / Th' easy earth that covers her. (Herrick) |
| Joke: | If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either. |
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| Speed Gibson 119 - Airport Disguise | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Mazagan and Carlos Del Valle, and The Octopus is up to no good as usual! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 25 - Immortal People | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Elsie returns Zingri but is shot with poison darts by the "two little brown men." A huge emerald, carved in the shape of a god, is being sought by the Azatlan Indians. The ancestors of the Azatlan were called, "The Immortal People." Dr. Beecham has discovered, ... | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 258 - Mama Loves Papa | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A simple chap becomes Parks Commissioner, and then his trouble begins! Stars: Fibber McGee & Molly (Marion & Jim Jordan) | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1437 - Set a Thief | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-04-08 - 133) April and Fu Ling | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures by Morse 14 - Cobra King Strikes Back The Beginning | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Spy / Espionage | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Cobra King Strikes Back Part 1 | ||||||||||||
| Nick Carter, Master Detective 52 - Murder by Magic | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Scubby phones Nick for help as he finds himself in deep trouble. He woke up to find he is no longer Scubby but some gangster guy named Palsy who has set up a hitman to murder a nightclub owner! | ||||||||||||
| Old Gold Comedy Theater 24 - A Slight Case of Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Sealed Book 4 - Devil Island | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A young girl is stranded on island with three people who are trying to drive her crazy. | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 335 - The Little Man Who Wasn't There | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The famous Hale Diamond has been stolen. Then, the wallet of Mr. Gates, with $10,000 in cash in it, is taken. Then a fortune in emeralds vanishes. Commissioner Weston concludes that the thief must be "The Shadow"! The Shadow battles the invisible killer who knows ... | ||||||||||||
| Weird Circle 71 - The Case of Monsieur Valdemar | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1263 - Story of the Century ep6 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Hop Harrigan 1946-04-08 xxxx) - To Transport Circus Buy Air | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2061 - The Sleeping Man | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 522 - Honky Tonk | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Lana Turner & John Hodiak | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 292 - A Night to Remember | |||||||||||||
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| Sherlock Holmes (Rathbone & Bruce) 210 - Disappearing Scientists | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 202 - Terror Stricken | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Andrew Miller is out of jail after ten years. He is still determined to get even with Benjamin Reynolds, an accountant who testified against him. A campaign of fear against Mr. Reynolds soon begins. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1523 - Man Without a Face ep16 | |||||||||||||
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| All-Star Western Theatre 36 - Texas Adventure - Monte Hale | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A dirty trick on a no good land grabber proves turnabout is fair play. | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 117 - Aggie Rogers Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Blackie and the cops find the body of one of the wealthy Rodgers sisters in their junk-filled house. The plot appears to be inspired by the Collyer brothers story. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1719 - Skin Game ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Dick Tracy 1948-04-08 - 1302) The Case of the Mermaid's Mirrors | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Dimension X 1 - Outer Limit | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A test pilot on an experimental high altitude aircraft with only ten minutes worth of fuel disappears from radar for ten hours, yet returns safely. Of course, it is impossible, as is his story of contact with aliens and the dire warning they have for Mankind. ... | ||||||||||||
| The Falcon 328 - Carved Hand | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of the Falcon | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Spy / Espionage | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The Falcon suspects that Joe Santos is behind the killing of Brian King and the mutilation of Stuart Van Dyke. | ||||||||||||
| Comic Weekly Man 207 - Eager and Anxious, First Comic - Hopalong Cassidy | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Saint 165 - Ghosts Who Came to Dinner | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A stormy night on Long Island, a haunted mansion, a 150-year-old butler, and a dead body in the closet. | ||||||||||||
| Tales of the Texas Rangers 38 - Bad Blood | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The story is based on the events of September 14, 1950. A vicious murder with a frying pan has occurred; the victim's friend is the likely suspect. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 462 - A Trip to Aunt Sarah's | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | The owner of a lumber yard, which is about to go broke, tries and fails to borrow the money to keep it afloat. A perfect murder hinges on a child's composition. | ||||||||||||
| Wild Bill Hickok 2 - Missouri Kid | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Heroes | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 996 - Arctic Odyssey | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| The Lineup 79 - The Cornered Cop Killer Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Three bars have been held up. Each time, the robber plays "Poor Butterfly" on the jukebox. | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2236 - Mae's Phony Pregnancy | |||||||||||||
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| Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 29 - The Mystery of the Sparkling Meteor ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A strange object is seen by the cadets while on comet watch. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 491 - Trouble With the Mayor's Son | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3157 - The Escape | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 144 - Broken Wheel Grade | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1954-04-08 - 180) Waters of the Flood | |||||||||||||
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| Escape 209 - The Scarlet Plague | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Mixed Bag | Horror | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2759 - Gus Looks at Records, Questions Dr Rowe | |||||||||||||
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| The Six-Shooter 28 - General Guilford's Widow | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The widow of General Guilford insists her husband is still alive, but no one believes her. They should! | ||||||||||||
| The Charlie McCarthy Show 1956-04-08 - Interplanetary Western | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy | ||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 209 - Widow's Mite | |||||||||||||
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| Hancock's Half Hour s5 12 - East Cheam Drama Festival | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Rivalling Edinburgh and Salzburg, three short plays in the lad's locality. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 784 - Ivy Emerald Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A safe has been easily cracked ... even Johnny can do it! | ||||||||||||
