| 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: | First space shuttle mission completed (1981) BORN: Christiaan Huygens mathematician (1629) DIED: George Frideric Handel composer (1759) |
| Quote: | Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. (Mahatma Gandhi) |
| Fact: | Ursus maritimus is the scientific name for the Polar Bear |
| Word: | tercel (noun) Male hawk, especially peregrine falcon or goshawk |
| Fortune Cookie: | Consolidate rather than expand business projects in the near future |
| Poem: | Lady butterfly / Perfumes her wings by floating / Over the orchid / (Haiku by Basho) |
| Joke: | I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed Dolly Parton was my mother and I was a bottle baby. |
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| Dick Tracy 1938-04-14 - 74) Junior Is Kidnapped | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Pat and the miners who were dog sleighing to Peel River have been rescued from a snow slide, caused by Vernon Kyle. After rescuing Pat and the others Tracy went to Kyle's headquarters, to have a showdown with the outlaw But before he arrived Kyle received a note ... | ||||||||||||
| Buck Rogers 5 - Kane & Ardala Turn Psychic Restriction Ray on Barney | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 970 - Caleb Bixby's Mortgage | |||||||||||||
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| Jack Benny 370 - Preparing to Go to New York by Train | |||||||||||||
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| Screen Guild Theater 52 - Elmer the Great | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Bob Hope, Rita Hayworth (replacing Ann Sheridan, "who was suddenly taken ill") Elmer Kane is a rookie ballplayer with the Chicago Cubs whose ego is matched only by his appetite. Because he is not only vain but naive, Elmer's teammates take great delight ... | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 184 - Last of the Clipper Ships ep18 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | "Superman" rescues Clark Kent! He then takes over the ship and throws Barnaby in irons. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1283 - Work and Win | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 303 - Dust Be My Destiny | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: John Garfield & Claire Trevor | ||||||||||||
| Mandrake the Magician 67 - The Truck Is Headed To The Secret Base | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mandrake suspects that bombers are being gathered together at a secret base for a bombing mission on the defense plants of America. The truck, with Mandrake, Lothar, Narda and Tommy aboard seems to be heading for the secret base! | ||||||||||||
| Fibber McGee and Molly 321 - Spring Festival Parade | |||||||||||||
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| Red Ryder 1942-04-14 - 31) Chief Clearwater | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Red stops the Murdock gang from rounding up a herd of wild horses. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1596 - The Masked Killer | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1753 - Ephriam Collins Ambition | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 206 - The Bank Robber | |||||||||||||
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| Jack Benny 582 - Violin Practice Interrupts Ronald Colman's Rehearsal | |||||||||||||
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| The Shadow 367 - The Unburied Dead | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | "The Deacon" is running a phony "Memorial Society" to obtain dead bodies and swindle insurance companies. | ||||||||||||
| Sherlock Holmes 27 - The Adventure of the Carpathian Horror | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Starring Tom Conway as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1527 - Mystery of the Lost Planet ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 567 - Monsieur Beaucaire | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Bob Hope & Joan Caulfield (repeat) | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 255 - Maid of Honor | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman kills her rival, who is about to marry the man she loves. She's surprised to find her lover accused of the crime! | ||||||||||||
| Abbott & Costello Show 210 - Trip to France | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | (Muffled) | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1723 - Skin Game ep9 | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 170 - Murder at the Circus | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | "Rondo the Magician" has been killed at the circus. The main suspect is Charlie Peterson, a knife thrower! Parker Fennelly is heard in the preview of next week's program. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 284 - Gildy's Radio Broadcast | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2377 - Special Frontier Town Sequence, No 4 | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 307 - Till Death Do Us Part | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A crooked art dealer sells forged manuscripts to the wife of a dying man. She knows they're phonies, but buys them anyway. In fact, she willingly overpays! | ||||||||||||
| The Aldrich Family 1949-04-14 - 459) Henry The Shortstop | |||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1949-04-14 11 - The Voice of Darkness | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 336 - Murder in Black and White | |||||||||||||
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| Broadway Is My Beat 30 - Tommy Stafford Murder Case (AFRTS) | |||||||||||||
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| Escape 106 - The Golden Snake | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2690 - Sandusky's Return | |||||||||||||
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| This Is Your FBI 263 - The Perilous Secret | |||||||||||||
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| Broadway Is My Beat 59 - Thomas Hart Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Hopalong Cassidy 67 - Death Crosses the River | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Hoppy and California finds themselves $50,000 richer after a stagecoach robbery. They uncover a gun-running operation. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 91 - Mickey McQueen Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Why did the nicest cop in Hartford kill himself? Or did he? | ||||||||||||
| Bold Venture 56 - Marriage and Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Let George Do It 292 - The Forgotten Murder | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3003 - The Unexpected | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2240 - Tragg Knows Perry Planned Escape | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 469 - Mate Bram | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1953-04-14 - 77) The Disappearing Cabin | |||||||||||||
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| Fibber McGee and Molly 729 - McGee's False Alarm | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 158 - Madison Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A complex scheme is revealed when a woman reveals that she's been legally dead for two years! | ||||||||||||
| 21st Precinct 40 - The Brother | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Patrolman Brennan returns fire and shoots a young thief, but the thief's gun can't be found. | ||||||||||||
| Crime Classics 41 - James Evans, Fireman, How He Extinguished A Human Torch | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | True love conquers all, starting with a human torch! | ||||||||||||
| Fibber McGee and Molly 878 - Jewel Robbery Is Solved | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 544 - Dinner Party for Bronco's Boss | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3316 - Thunder and Dynamite | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2763 - Landlady Dead, Perry Has Plan | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 226 - Livin' Lightning | |||||||||||||
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| Fibber McGee and Molly 1140 - McGee Gets a Pedometer | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 262 - Saludos | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Marshal Dillon brings back three men, one of which has killed an Indian half breed and her husband. Which one is the killer? The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on October 31, 1959. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 694 - Thou Shalt Not Commit | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 530 - Ming Toy Murphy Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny is assigned to recover a stolen dog ... a dog that can talk! | ||||||||||||
| Walk Softly, Peter Troy 19 - The Black-eyed Susan Brown | |||||||||||||
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