| 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: | The Titanic leaves port for her only voyage (1912) BORN: Joseph Pulitzer journalist (1847) DIED: Emiliano Zapata revolutionary (1919) |
| Quote: | Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. (Mark Twain) |
| Fact: | The Ancient Aztecs did not just sacrifice humans, the cult of Quetzalcoatl required the sacrifice of butterflies. |
| Word: | diglot (adjective) a bilingual book or other work |
| Fortune Cookie: | Friends long absent are coming back to you |
| Poem: | Deep in dark forest / A woodcutter's dull axe talking... / And a woodcutter / (Haiku by Buson) |
| Joke: | Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives. |
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| Jungle Jim 76 - In the Lion's Den | |||||||||||||
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| Speed Gibson 15 - Clint to Stay with Dr Kingsley | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The doctor's house is surrounded! | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 115 - The Fire Bug | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Shadow rescues Margo who's been kidnapped and tortured by a pyromaniac and his Italian stereotype henchman. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 968 - Caleb Bixby's Last Chance | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 214 - Lives of a Bengal Lancer | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A tale about Her Majesty's Lancers in Northwest India, battling rebellious tribesmen. A story about the traditions of the regiment and its sense of honor! Stars: Errol Flynn & Brian Aherne. The intermission guest is General Hugh Johnson, former Administrator ... | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 26 - Secret of the Sacred Emerald | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Superman flies off after the gyro-copter. He catches up to it and throws it down to float on Long Island Sound. Meanwhile, Dr. Beecham's house is on fire. Superman rescues the taxi driver, trapped in the basement, before the house collapses. Dr. Beecham finds ... | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1125 - Gold, Prospectors, Homesteaders | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1438 - Along the Oregon Trail | |||||||||||||
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| Terry and the Pirates 1942-04-10 - 135) Slugger Uses Rainbow | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 745 - Mystery of the Golden Pigeon ep10 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1751 - Calamity Jane | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 434 - Happy Land | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Don Ameche & Frances Dee | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 191 - A Farewell to Arms | |||||||||||||
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| Inner Sanctum Mystery 223 - The Bog-Oak Necklace | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The discovery of a necklace around a skeleton recalls the forty-year-old murder of a woman's sister. | ||||||||||||
| The Strange Dr Weird 23 - When Killers Meet | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A clever plot about two mad-dog killers on the lam who meet their match. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1265 - Story of the Century ep8 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2062 - Shep | |||||||||||||
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| Abbott & Costello Show 170 - Nuts and Bolts | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1525 - Mystery of the Lost Planet ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Hall of Fantasy s1 4 - Man Sized in Marble | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A couple rents an old house with two statues that regularly come to life! | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 240 - Community Property | |||||||||||||
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| All-Star Western Theatre 88 - Buffalo Springs | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Riders' are framed for murder! | ||||||||||||
| Gang Busters 524 - Case of the High School Hotshots | |||||||||||||
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| The Judy Canova Show 1948-04-10 - 148) Judy Gets a Ticket on Sunset Blvd. | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 292 - Crossfire | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Sam Spade 146 - Stopped Watch Caper | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A house of horrors includes a butler who resembles Frankenstein, radioactive poisons and man-eating plants! aka "Time Stood Still" | ||||||||||||
| Blackstone 28 - The Deathless Shots | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Blackstone recovers an opera-singer's jewels by getting shot with bullets that cannot harm him. Blackstone explains "The Turnover Bill" trick. | ||||||||||||
| Box 13 ep34 - Mexican Maze | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Dan Holiday goes to Mexico to prevent a murder … maybe his own. | ||||||||||||
| Damon Runyon Theater 28 - Earthquake | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Cops are after Earthquake, biggest and strongest man known to Broadway. | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 36 - Mr.Conklins Wake-up Plan | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The 'Conklin Wake-Up Plan' is complicated by Mrs. Davis' sleeping pills being stored in an aspirin box! | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 24 - My Quiet Friend | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Two gangsters from New York City offer to buy the Cafe Tambourine for $500! | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 357 - Murder at Twin Pines | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Who murdered Margo? The evidence appears at just the wrong moment! | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 187 - Portrait by Priscilla | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2688 - Silver Bridle Ornament | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 697 - Snake Pit | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Olivia de Havilland & Mark Stevens | ||||||||||||
| Night Beat 10 - I Know Your Secret | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Randy Stone fishes Wanda Rhodes out of the river. She had been receiving unsigned notes, all of which say, 'I know your secret!' | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 997 - Out of the Past | |||||||||||||
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| Mr Keen 1390 - The Mother's Plea Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Shirley Spears has been murdered...by the wife of the wealthy man she's trying to victimize. Agnes Gray seems to be the killer, but she swears that she's innocent. Agnes' son Jack confesses to the crime! Despite two other confessions, Mr. Keen names the killer ... | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2238 - Perry's Decoy - Bus Ticket to Denver | |||||||||||||
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| Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle 66 - Tarzan and the Arena of Death | |||||||||||||
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| Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 30 - The Mystery of the Sparkling Meteor ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The sparkling meteor turns out to be contra-terrene matter. | ||||||||||||
| Horatio Hornblower 38 - Prisoner of the French on the 'peek' | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Water / Boats | War / Armed Forces | ||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 145 - Tarnished Gold | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 103 - Greater Love | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Two gunmen are wounded while holding up the stage. Howard Brand is one of the robbers, and he's been fatally wounded. Doc is kidnapped by the other members of the gang. | ||||||||||||
| Let's Pretend 1954-04-10 - The Magic Cuckoo | |||||||||||||
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| Our Miss Brooks 284 - Tears for Mr Boynton | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Miss Brooks discovers the power of a woman's tears. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 645 - The Lonely Heart | |||||||||||||
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| X Minus One 46 - Star, Bright | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Children are apparently evolving at an alarming rate; what to do when your six-year old daughter demonstrates an IQ of over 400, and starts to experiment with previously unknown physical dimensions? A version of this story was produced for Future Tense. Story ... | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 367 - Laird Douglas-Douglas of Heatherscote Matter ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A doggy case ... and this one begins to smell of murder! | ||||||||||||
| Sleep No More 19 - A Passenger to Bali | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | As the good ship Roundabout readies for departure from Shanghai to Bali, a stranger approaches Captain English and asks for passage. The stranger claims to be a Dutch missionary bringing Bibles and religion to the natives; he presents his passport, character ... | ||||||||||||
| X Minus One 96 - Something for Nothing | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A down-on-his-luck nobody wakes up to find a wishing machine from the future in his room, and an army of service techs ready and willing to see to it that his every desire is fulfilled. Of course, there couldn't be any catch to it all... Story by: Robert Sheckley | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 418 - Dave's Lesson | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | When two of Matt's close friends die, their son Dave comes to Dodge to spend the summer. Trying to help the Marshal, Dave shoots a man and thinks that he's killed an old drunk. | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 73 - So True, Mr Barnum | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Hey Boy and the Celestial Dragon Society have spent $2000 on a phoney Mexican treasure map ... or is it a phoney? | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 848 - Two Horse Parlay | |||||||||||||
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