| 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: | Oxygen tank explodes aboard Apollo 13 (1970) BORN: Guy Fawkes Catholic conspirator (1570) DIED: Bruno Bauer theologian (1882) |
| Quote: | I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. (Albert Einstein) |
| Fact: | The Space Shuttle travels about 17,600 miles per hour when orbiting the Earth. |
| Word: | diastema (noun) A gap or space between two adjacent teeth |
| Fortune Cookie: | Good luck is the result of good planning |
| Poem: | The turnip farmer rose / And with a fresh-pulled turnip... / Pointed to my road / (Haiku by Issa) |
| Joke: | The doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so the doctor gave him another six months. |
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| Chandu the Magician 1932-04-13 28 - Betty & Bob Disappear | |||||||||||||
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| Jack Benny 122 - Bridge Game | |||||||||||||
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| Fibber McGee and Molly 53 - Taking Over the Hotel | |||||||||||||
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| Dick Tracy 1938-04-13 - 73) Who is the Purple Rider? | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Dick Tracy has been trying to bring to justice the notorious outlaw of the Great Northwest Vernon Kyle. In our last episode we heard how the mysterious Purple Rider had kidnapped one of Kyle's men. But Kyle and his men made good his threat to stop the dog sleds ... | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 813 - Reward Money | |||||||||||||
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| Speed Gibson 172 - Clint Worries About Landing | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Clint plays a hunch. | ||||||||||||
| Jack Benny 407 - Jack Prepares for Appearance on the Quiz Kids | |||||||||||||
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| Screen Guild Theater 82 - True Confessions | |||||||||||||
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| The Shadow 223 - Death on the Rails | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A reluctant Shadow investigating murder and mayhem on an isolated retreat. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1439 - The Broken Spur | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 347 - North West Mounted Police | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Gary Cooper & Paulette Goddard | ||||||||||||
| Fibber McGee and Molly 360 - Indian Fighter Uncle Sycamore on Radio | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 37 - Fear Paints a Picture | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman will inherit a fortune provided that she doesn't go insane by her 21st birthday. All is well until she notices a painting mysteriously changing as her birthday slowly draws near. Story by: Sigmund Miller | ||||||||||||
| The Aldrich Family 1944-04-13 - 233) Close That Door | |||||||||||||
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| Challenge of the Yukon 324 - The Plaid Coat | |||||||||||||
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| Mr Keen 980 - The Case of the Leaping Dog | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An abandoned dog on the street leads Mr. Keen to a missing old couple and a vicious extortion plot. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 87 - The Marvelous Barastro | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Orson Welles stars as "The Marvelous Barastro"—a Russian magician traveling across Europe. He meets a blind woman named Anna who asks for her palm to be read. Barastro foresees only pain and torment within her future, but overtaken so much by her beauty ... | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1946-04-13 - Figure in the Photograph | |||||||||||||
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| The Judy Canova Show 1946-04-13 - 59) Trading in the Old Car | |||||||||||||
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| Life of Riley 108 - Riley Thinks Jr. is a Shoplifter | |||||||||||||
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| Jack Benny 617 - Jack Fixes a Phonograph and Buys a Baseball Team | |||||||||||||
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| Mysterious Traveler 99 - Dark Destiny | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man's wife faces a lifetime of invalidism unless she risks a very delicate operation. But how do you raise the necessary cash when you don't have a steady income, your mortgage is underwater, and all your credit lines are already tapped out? | ||||||||||||
| Nick Carter, Master Detective 283 - The Case of the Chemical Chickens | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | When they start to lay eggs with nitro-glycerine, Nick proves no cluck with a Tommy Gun! Lon Clark. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1722 - Skin Game ep8 | |||||||||||||
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| Fibber McGee and Molly 549 - New Fire Alarm Box | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 222 - Jewelry Store Owner is Killed for a Watch | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Blackie's watch and gun are found next to a corpse. It looks like one of Blackie's enemies is trying to frame him! | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 323 - The Circus | |||||||||||||
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| Dragnet 44 - The Big Watch | |||||||||||||
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| Mr Keen 1286 - The Eccentric Millionaire Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | John Prague visits Mr. Keen after the death of his half-brother Otis in Pennsylvania Dutch country. Keen’s name and phone number were on a slip of paper found near the body. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 380 - Six Feet Under | |||||||||||||
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| Tales of the Texas Rangers 1 - Just a Number | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An NBC audition recording. All three members of the Evans family have been murdered. A clump of mud and some missing hogs are clues to the killer. Jace Pearson tracks the killer across Texas. (Audition) | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Sam Spade 243 - Civic Pride Caper | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | After an auditorium collapses, Garrett Welsh, the architect, hires Spade to find out why it happened. The town's building inspector is shot in the back four times! | ||||||||||||
| Dr Kildare 64 - Yukon Joe's Gold Mine | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Nurse Parker is acting strangely. "Yukon Joe" Moran has a bad ankle and a gold mine! | ||||||||||||
| Life of Riley 313 - Riley is in a Rut (aka Civil Serv Exam-Riley Contemp. Job Change) | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2846 - Shadow of the Gallows | |||||||||||||
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| The Falcon 373 - Handy Helpmate | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Some boys have come to "The Falcon" with a proposition ... it may mean a killing! | ||||||||||||
| Comic Weekly Man 260 - Wet Coat Riddle, First Comic - Hopalong Cassidy | |||||||||||||
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| Jack Benny 804 - Jack and Mary Walk in the Easter Parade | |||||||||||||
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| Tales of the Texas Rangers 73 - Uncertain Death | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Rangers are called in when two fishing buddies hear shots, and although there is evidence of foul play, there is no body. | ||||||||||||
| Whitehall 1212 ep20 - Case of the Fatal Bath | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man's wife drowns in the bathtub, just as his previous wife had died, and just like his next wife is about to die! | ||||||||||||
| Hall of Fantasy s2 21 - Demon of the Night | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An enigmatic recluse purchases an old mansion on the outskirts of a small town and, soon after, a woman is found torn gruesomely apart. Yet clearly the stranger cannot be responsible - the evidence would point to a rabid wolf. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3159 - Silver Bullet for Speck | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 508 - The Great Train Robbery | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1954-04-13 - 181) The Braggart | |||||||||||||
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| Crime and Peter Chambers 2 - Charles Avon Druggist | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Charles Avon hires Peter Chambers to help him find the killer of Alan Lewis. Lewis was blackmailing Charles Avon, who happens to be a pharmacist and a dealer in illegal drugs as well! | ||||||||||||
| Dragnet 243 - The Big Note | |||||||||||||
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| Fibber McGee and Molly 877 - Hiring a Lawyer | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2762 - Landlady Tells Gus That Suzanne Returns Every Month | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 210 - Magnolia and Honeysuckle Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny visits Charleston, South Carolina, to find out why a paper factory has burned down for the second time. | ||||||||||||
| 21st Precinct 92 - The Communication | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A simple traffic violation stop turns into a much more important case. | ||||||||||||
| The FBI in Peace and War 498 - The Literary Touch | |||||||||||||
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| Fibber McGee and Molly 1139 - Someone Keeps Phoning and McGee Is Frustrated | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 370 - Laird Douglas-Douglas of Heatherscote Matter ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Conclusion of story. All the cards are on the table, and the deck was stacked right from the beginning! | ||||||||||||
| Frontier Gentleman 11 - The Trial | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Kendall becomes a backwoods barrister to defend an ex-Indian scout accused of murder. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 314 - Livvie's Loss | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Livvie Redgate threatens to burn down every saloon in Kansas to keep her son from becoming a drunk like her husband. | ||||||||||||
| Luke Slaughter 7 - Wagon Train | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Carl Justice has been robbed of $10,000, an attempt has been made to rob the bank, and Wichita has been pistol whipped! Suspicion falls on a small wagon train. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 746 - Win, Place or Die | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 582 - Wayward Money Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A tobacco company safe has been "opened" and $104,000 taken. Elmer, the meek little bookkeeper, disappears the next day, but is found dead. | ||||||||||||
