| 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: | Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests 1st jet engine (1937) BORN: Bobby Moore soccer player (1941) DIED: Franklin D. Roosevelt US President (1945) |
| Quote: | Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. (Franklin D. Roosevelt) |
| Fact: | Top 10 wine exporters: 1) Italy 2) France 3) Spain 4) Australia 5) Chile 6) South Africa 7) United States 8) Germany 9) Moldova 10) Portugal |
| Word: | exigent (adjective) 1: Requiring immediate attention 2: Demanding; exacting; requiring much effort |
| Fortune Cookie: | Before you receive, you must give |
| Poem: | There is a Lady sweet and kind, Was never face so pleased my mind; I did but see her passing by, And yet I love her till I die. (Anon) |
| Joke: | I always take life with a grain of salt, ...plus a slice of lemon, ...and a shot of tequila. |
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| Chandu the Magician 1932-04-12 27 - Important Papers Missing | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Ripley's Believe It or Not 1936-04-12 - 28) Bell of the Maiden | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Non-fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Dick Tracy 1938-04-12 - 72) Snow Slide | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The inhabitants of Pitchblende a mining town in the Canadian Northwest, live in terror of Vernon Kyle and his lawless gang. Already robbed of half their mines, the townspeople find courage in Dick Tracy's arrival to refuse Kyle's latest demand that their pitchblende ... | ||||||||||||
| Buck Rogers 4 - Psychic Restriction Ray Has Been Stolen | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 969 - Run On The Bank | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 27 - Sacred Emerald of the Incas | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Superman rescues the Inca priests from the sinking sea plane, but "The Emerald Of The Incas" sinks and is lost forever. The end of the adventure. | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 112 - Tight Shoes | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Captain Midnight 790 - Silver Dagger Strikes | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Captain Midnight and all his friends have been convicted of treason by the Nazis and condemned to death ... at dawn! Secret agent 3F11 holds the promise of hope. What is the new Nazi weapon? | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1595 - Branded for Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 391 - Once upon a Honeymoon | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Claudette Colbert & Brian Aherne | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 139 - Pittsburg | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1752 - Bill Gage | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1267 - Story of the Century ep10 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2063 - Sultan's Return | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Judy Canova Show 1947-04-12 - 103) In the Spring, a Young Man's Fancy | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Leading Ladies | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Life of Riley 152 - Real Life Soap Opera `Marriage Can Be Beautiful' | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1721 - Skin Game ep7 | |||||||||||||
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| Let George Do It 83 - Am I My Brothers Keeper? | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2376 - Special Frontier Town Sequence, No 3 | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 611 - The Perfect Marriage | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Ray Milland & Lizabeth Scott | ||||||||||||
| Philo Vance 40 - Green Girls Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | After Jane Green is murdered, Penny Green is knifed in exactly the same way! The district attorney is warned not to call Philo Vance in on the case or he'll be killed! | ||||||||||||
| Dr Kildare 11 - Warren Jackson's Allergy | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Romance | Medical Romance | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Newlywed Warren Jackson has attempted suicide and refuses to see his wife. Meanwhile, Dr. Gillespie comes down with the mumps! | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 360 - Leroy Buys a Goat | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Jeff Regan, Investigator 52 - The Man Behind the Rod | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A five-sided love triangle (a pentagon?) at the race track. Paul Dubov substitutes for Frank Graham, Frank Nelson just doesn't come off as a fat man. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2689 - Indian Trooper | |||||||||||||
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| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 49 - The Man Who Hated Women | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A serial killer is on the loose, slashing women and threatening Lieutenant Levinson's job! A good, serious cops and robbers story. After the story (and a false start), Dick Powell sings, "Wilhelmina." | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 424 - Early to Death | |||||||||||||
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| Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle 14 - Gold Coast Robbery | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Comic Weekly Man 312 - Rusty Riley to Live on Farm, First Comic - Beetle Bailey | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Escape 178 - Classified Secret | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Mixed Bag | Horror | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Falcon 462 - Big Fix | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of the Falcon | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Spy / Espionage | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3315 - Go-Between | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 876 - Strangers on a Train | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Robert Cummings & Dana Andrews (repeat) | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2761 - Druggist Remembers the Boarding House | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 547 - Parole to Panic | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 918 - Stairway to Heaven | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: David Niven & Barbara Rush (repeat) | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 593 - The Lunch Kit | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A worker is planning to blow up the factory in which he works and must leave before his bomb goes off. Circumstances keep slowing him down. | ||||||||||||
| 21st Precinct 132 - The Shopping Bag | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Elderly Mary Klatovy is struck and killed by a taxi. It is determined that she has $9643 in cash in her shopping bag. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 369 - Laird Douglas-Douglas of Heatherscote Matter ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Things and people start to line up on the case, enough to blow things sky high! | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 366 - Chester's Mistake | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 21 - The Colonel and the Lady | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Colonel Lathrop hires Paladin to find the mysterious Gloria Morgan ... but first, who is she? | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 797 - Too Hot to Live | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 632 - Fair Weather Friend Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A dead rattler helps Johnny to catch an even deadlier snake. | ||||||||||||
