| 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: | NASA announces selection of first 7 US astronauts (1959) BORN: Cheeta chimpanzee actor (1932) DIED: Francois Rabelais writer (1553) |
| Quote: | The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. (Nelson Mandela) |
| Fact: | Winston Churchill was half American via his mother Jenny. Family lore says she had an Iroquois Indian great-grandfather (no evidence) |
| Word: | snowbird (noun) 1: One who moves to a warmer climate for the winter 2: Any of various birds seen chiefly in winter |
| Fortune Cookie: | A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he gives up |
| Poem: | Ballet in the air ... / Twin butterflies until, twice white / They meet, they mate / (Haiku by Basho) |
| Joke: | I told my girlfriend I had a job in a bowling alley. She said "Tenpin?" I said, "No, permanent." |
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| Cruise of the Poll Parrot 29 - Poll Parrot Runs Aground | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The storm forces the "Poll Parrot" onto shore. Captain Karsh has a confrontation with Captain Dalton. What's an arrowhead doing on the beach? The Indians attack! | ||||||||||||
| Ripley's Believe It or Not 1938-04-09 - 38) Titanic | |||||||||||||
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| Speed Gibson 67 - Kidnapping Plans | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Plans to capture Barney Dunlap. | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 14 - Variety Review 5 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Rosemary Lane, Rudy Vallee, Mickey Rooney, Joan Bennett, The King's Men. A revue and a skit titled "We're Taking Off." Mickey shows Rudy and Joan how to play a love scene. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 182 - Last of the Clipper Ships ep16 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1281 - Homesteader's Ruse | |||||||||||||
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| Mandrake the Magician 65 - Slade Has The Red Book | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Slade has the red book, and is mailing it to himself. Mandrake and Lothar are watching from across the street. The black sedan has disappeared! | ||||||||||||
| Red Ryder 1942-04-09 - 29) Trouble Along Brimstone Way | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Red and Little Beaver stop a stagecoach robbery and rescue the driver before the stage goes over a cliff. Sheila Randall's stagecoach line is now in danger of failing. | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-04-09 - 134) Kidnapping | |||||||||||||
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| Captain Midnight 789 - Silver Dagger Strikes | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Nazi Count Raddick has demanded that the British and The Secret Squadron surrender. Has Agent 3F11 gotten through to Captain Midnight? Has the Silver Dagger Group sold out to the Nazis? Captain Midnight and the Secret Squadron are to be executed at dawn! | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1594 - Death Comes to El Mundo | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 121 - Shady Political Supporter | |||||||||||||
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| Life of Riley 13 - Riley Is Best Dressed Man (Top Volume) | |||||||||||||
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| Mysterious Traveler 19 - Beware of Tomorrow | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A scientist responds to a job offer from a professor who claims to have invented an intelligent robot, but there are many different types of intelligence. A version later aired on The Sealed Book. See also 'Almost Human' (Dimension X and X Minus One), 'The ... | ||||||||||||
| Weird Circle 33 - The Cask of Amontillado | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Based on a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. A nobleman named Montresor, plots revenge against fellow noble Fortunato. Angry over numerous injuries Montresor resolves to avenge himself without being caught, and also to make sure that Fortunato knows he is responsible. | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 478 - The Suspect | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Charles Laughton & Ella Rains | ||||||||||||
| Michael Shayne s1 26 - Haunted House | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | What respectable haunted house doesn't have a dead body ... and falling flowerpots? It appears that Mr. Kilgallen died of a heart attack, but not in a Michael Shayne adventure! | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 240 - Abroad with Two Yanks | |||||||||||||
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| Sherlock Holmes (Rathbone & Bruce) 171 - The Viennese Strangler | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1264 - Story of the Century ep7 | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 65 - Murder on Cedar Street | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A girl phones Blackie and says that she is about to be killed. Blackie hurries to the rescue only to discover that it appears that the girl was right. She is dead. | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 266 - Lady with a Plan | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The wife of the warden uses one of the inmates to kill her husband. She then double-crosses the convict who is machine-gunned in a graphic scene. | ||||||||||||
| Nick Carter, Master Detective 230 - The Case of the Disappearing Corpse | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Not only does the murdered man vanish, but so does Nick Carter! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1524 - Mystery of the Lost Planet ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Challenge of the Yukon 478 - The Story of Big John | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 244 - Bird Watchers | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1720 - Skin Game ep6 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2375 - Special Frontier Town Sequence, No 2 | |||||||||||||
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| Our Miss Brooks a - Audition - Shirley Booth | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | This is an interesting comparison with the later Eve Arden version. | ||||||||||||
| Philip Marlowe 28 - The Name to Remember | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Ex-con Eddie Malette is being followed by a cauliflower-eared goon in a tee shirt. Before Marlowe can find out why, Eddie turns up dead. | ||||||||||||
| Escape 66 - When the Man Comes, Follow Him | |||||||||||||
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| Frontier Town 6 - Emily Bracket | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Chad and Cherokee outfox a confidence man who is foreclosing mortgages to take over ranch lands. | ||||||||||||
| Pat Novak for Hire 9 - Sam Tolliver | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | It was Monday night when Pat Novak met an old friend, Sam Tolliver, he hadn’t seen him for years. And now here he was, he wanted to borrow a one of Pats boats to pick up a package and he wanted to borrow Pat to collect the package. | ||||||||||||
| Hopalong Cassidy 15 - Killers of Sandy Gulch | |||||||||||||
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| Meet Corliss Archer 1950-04-09 - 20) Mr. Archer's New Suit Given to the Salvation Army | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A confused phone book causes Mr. Archer's new suit to be given to the Salvation Army. Then the garbage disposal and the radio break! | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 87 - Dyeing Easter Eggs | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The story of Walter's new invention: 'Tint-Tomorrow,' a revolutionary Easter egg dye. There's going to be a very colorful Easter parade! | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 75 - Holiday Weekend | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 410 - Dark Voyage | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A good triangle story as two divers, both in love with the same girl, dive for sunken treasure. | ||||||||||||
| Bold Venture 3 - Opium Smugglers and Young Girl | |||||||||||||
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| Let George Do It 239 - Uncle Harry's Bones | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 741 - The Third Man | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Claudette Colbert & Fred MacMurray | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 439 - Easter Sunrise Service | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3001 - The New Commissioner | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2237 - Kitty Urges Hospital Tests on Mae | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 68 - Monstrous Toothache | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3314 - The War Makers | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2760 - Perry Gets Druggist's Name from Doctor | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 225 - Wires to the West | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 156 - Skid Row | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 366 - Laird Douglas-Douglas of Heatherscote Matter ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An unusual case and a very unusual client. | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1957-04-09 - 496) The Hook Murders | |||||||||||||
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| Journey into Space - Operation Luna 3 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The crew experience strange things: Jet has visions of the past and the future; Lemmy is disturbed by the 'music' again; Doc sees a strange dome over a crater, and writes an odd diary entry without realising. Their last week on the Moon passes without incident, ... | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 470 - Hangman's Mistake | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 733 - Captain's Table Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An old fashioned flourish in a letter from a dead man provides the clue to murder. | ||||||||||||
