| 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: | Lenin returns to Petrograd after exile in Finland (1917) BORN: Wilbur Wright aviation pioneer (1867) DIED: Francisco de Goya painter (1828) |
| Quote: | When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets. (Friedrich Nietzsche) |
| Fact: | The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru, Kikazaru, Iwazaru translated as "don't see", "don't hear", "don't speak" |
| Word: | pinnate (adjective) Resembling a feather, having similar parts arranged on each side of a common axis |
| Fortune Cookie: | Your happiness is intertwined with your outlook on life |
| Poem: | For the emperor / Himself he will not lift his hat ... / A stiff-backed scarecrow / (Haiku by Dansui) |
| Joke: | I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then, it was too late. |
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| Fibber McGee and Molly 1 - The Motorcycle Cop, the Judge and Fibber | |||||||||||||
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| Police Reporter 18 - A Gruesome Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The true case of the murder of Andrew Zabitsky in Brooklyn on March 27, 1931. | ||||||||||||
| Cruise of the Poll Parrot 30 - Captain Dalton Disappears | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An arrow is fired almost hitting Captain Dalton. He then goes in search to find the culprit! | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 68 - Barney Kidnapped | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Barney is in the clutches of The Octopus ... and his thought-reading machine! | ||||||||||||
| Jack Benny 332 - Phil Shoots the Movie Man About Town Behind Jacks Back | |||||||||||||
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| Screen Guild Theater 15 - The Hand of Providence | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Andy Devine, Adrian Ames, Donald Meek. A light comedy about a pair of escaped convicts in a Kansas blizzard and a strange opportunity to do a good turn. | ||||||||||||
| Fibber McGee and Molly 244 - Ink Stains on the Carpet | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 185 - Last of the Clipper Ships ep19 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Teak Barnaby plans to blow up the "Clara M" and steal the treasure map from the ship's safe. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1284 - United We Stand | |||||||||||||
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| Mandrake the Magician 68 - Highpitch Is Summoned To The Boss | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | At the secret mountain base, Highpitch is summoned to "the boss" (Dr. Carvass, who speaks with a Transylvanian accent). | ||||||||||||
| Red Ryder 1942-04-16 - 32) Cowtown of Los Alamos | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Red and Little Beaver ride for Los Alamos where Fresno Yorless has been raiding all the ranchers and blaming it on the Pancho Kid. | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-04-16 - 139) Mind Reading Act | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1597 - Stage to Sutter's Mill | |||||||||||||
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| Jack Benny 512 - Bob Hope Parody | |||||||||||||
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| Mysterious Traveler 20 - Accusing Corpse | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A journey to the grave to learn the secrets of the dead. An old scam leads to an accusation by a dead body. | ||||||||||||
| Weird Circle 34 - The Rope of Hair | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Based on a story by Guy de Maupassant. As a favor to an old friend, a man promises to retrieve a diary from the room in which the friend's wife died. The dead owner of the diary has her own ideas about who's going to get that diary! | ||||||||||||
| Bulldog Drummond 191 - The Case Of The Double Death | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 479 - Only Yesterday (repeat) | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Ida Lupino & Robert Young | ||||||||||||
| Michael Shayne s1 27 - Date at Cliff House | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Patricia Wright's brother 'fell off a cliff. ' However, she suspects he was pushed. | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 241 - Mask of Dimitrios | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 151 - To Rent Danger | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Killer Carter has escaped from prison and a reporter heads out to cover the story. Danny Pearson meets a beautiful girl at a lonely farm house, and another case of murder. A convoluted story resolved by the "Whistler's" narration. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1269 - Hate Mongers Organization ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 66 - The Baseball Player Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Murder takes place at the baseball game. Clem McCarthy is heard as the announcer broadcasting the game. | ||||||||||||
| Fibber McGee and Molly 475 - Cousin Salvador | |||||||||||||
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| Nick Carter, Master Detective 231 - Nine Hours to Live | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Nick has but a short time to prove his client's innocence before his electrocution ... and Nick fails! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1529 - Mystery of the Lost Planet ep6 | |||||||||||||
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| Challenge of the Yukon 479 - The Torn Sleeve | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 245 - The Whole Town is Talking | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1725 - Crossword Puzzle Mystery ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2378 - Bob Strong's Legacy | |||||||||||||
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| Philip Marlowe 29 - The Heat Wave | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Why is "The Heat Wave", a burlesque dancer, wearing a golden mask? Marlowe's been hired to find out. Murder tries a strip tease! | ||||||||||||
| Escape 67 - The General Died at Dawn | |||||||||||||
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| Frank Merriwell 130 - Urgent Errand | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | Sports | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Frank and Bart try desperate measures to protect the Yale pottery collection which is in danger of being dynamited. | ||||||||||||
| Frontier Town 7 - The Seminole Strip | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | King Carson and a dishonest senator plan to keep the Seminole Strip from becoming a part of the state, for their own evil purposes. | ||||||||||||
| Let's Pretend 1949-04-16 - Snowdrop and the 7 Dwarfs | |||||||||||||
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| Pat Novak for Hire 10 - Go Away Dixie Gillian | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Pat is hired to scare Dixie Gillian with an empty gun, which grows bullets. Murder and a frame follows. | ||||||||||||
| Hopalong Cassidy 16 - Red Death | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Media / Stars | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Jack Benny 729 - Jack Gets the House Painted | |||||||||||||
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| Rocky Jordan 76 - Adventure in Zaqaziq | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Rocky accepts an assignment to visit a small town out in the desert, trying to break up a black market in scarce pharmaceuticals. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 411 - Murder in Mind | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A couple trying to kill a woman is only temporarily foiled by a bodyguard. Blackmail and murder follow. | ||||||||||||
| Bold Venture 4 - Johnny Rice Story | |||||||||||||
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| Let George Do It 240 - The Noose Hangs High | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2847 - Find the Lone Ranger | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 440 - Leroy the Beekeeper | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2242 - Perry Mason is Wanted | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 70 - A Snap for Snooper | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1953-04-16 - 78) Flume of Death | |||||||||||||
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| Fibber McGee and Molly 880 - Dyeing 12 Dozen Easter Eggs | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2765 - Perry Proposes Fake Funeral for Mrs Barkley; Jacobson Calls on His Editor | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 227 - Trap at Pistol Springs | |||||||||||||
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| Gang Busters 887 - Case of the Punchdrunk Soldier | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 157 - Gypsum Hills Feud | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Marshall Dillon is almost shot when he gets involved in the feud between the Peavy's and the Cades. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on December 27, 1958. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3368 - Fugitive | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 371 - Shepherd Matter ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A doctor has increased his life insurance to $100,000, feeling that he may very well be killed. | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1957-04-16 - 498) Johnson County Raid | |||||||||||||
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| Journey into Space - Operation Luna 4 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The crew are stuck on the Moon and unable to trace what has caused the power failure. A fortnight passes, with the air temperature rising uncomfortably in the absence of air-conditioning. A UFO is seen on the televiewer on the seventh day, and strange noises ... | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 471 - Cooter | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 734 - Latrodectus Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A once great entomologist, now gone "bugs", is found murdered and his papers missing. | ||||||||||||
