| 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: | Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the 1st time (1397) BORN: J. P. Morgan financier (1837) DIED: Paul Getty philanthropist (2003) |
| Quote: | Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. (Martin Luther King Jr) |
| Fact: | Hindu Gods: Agni (God of Fire) - Yama (God of Death) - Chandra (Moon God) - Siva (God of Destruction) - Saraswathi (Goddess of Wisdom) |
| Word: | tartarean (adjective) Hellish; infernal |
| Fortune Cookie: | Those who have love, have wealth beyond measure |
| Poem: | Slanting lines of rain... / On the dusty samisen / A mouse is trotting / (Haiku by Buson) |
| Joke: | "I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I Do," is the longest sentence? |
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| Chandu the Magician 1933-04-17 291 - Water Supply Low | |||||||||||||
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| Jungle Jim 77 - Rendezvous | |||||||||||||
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| Speed Gibson 16 - Hotel Rooms are Ransacked | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Rescued by the police ... the stranger in the closet! | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 116 - The Blind Beggar Dies | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A pair of small-time racketeers work the protection racket on beggars. | ||||||||||||
| Buck Rogers 6 - Dr Huer Searches for Impentrite | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 971 - Fight Over Government Beef Contract | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 215 - Bullets or Ballots | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A tough cop pretends to leave the force to break up a gang. Stars: Edward G. Robinson & Mary Astor | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 29 - Donelli's Protection Racket ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | "Gyp's" henchmen threaten Jimmy and Mrs. Olsen, but are scared off by Superman. Jimmy and Lois Lane are about to walk into a trap! | ||||||||||||
| Mr Keen 552 - Case of the Young Husband Who Thought His Wife Failed Him ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Donald Craigie (a successful salesman) asks Keen to help find his wife Sheila. Hating city life, she left him six months ago after they moved from Vermont. He wants a divorce to be able to remarry. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1441 - The End of a Page | |||||||||||||
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| Blondie 1944-04-17 - Mr. Dithers Gets Out of the Hospital | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1754 - Law West of the Pecos | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 435 - Coney Island | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Alan Ladd & Dorothy Lamour | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 192 - High Sierra | |||||||||||||
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| Inner Sanctum Mystery 224 - The Judas Clock | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Death to those who own this clock, it uses Judas' thirty pieces of silver as counterweights! | ||||||||||||
| The Strange Dr Weird 24 - Dead Man's Paradise | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Two killers are trapped in the quicksand bogs outside New Orleans. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1270 - Hate Mongers Organization ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2065 - Drum of We-oh-pa | |||||||||||||
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| Abbott & Costello Show 171 - Costello Invited to Join The Yankees | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Costello is invited to join the New York Yankees, and results in the famous Who's On First skit. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1530 - Mystery of the Lost Planet ep7 | |||||||||||||
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| Casey 181 - The Box of Death | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A crook with a lucky penny delivers a woman's husband to her, dead in a box. The script was subsequently used on the program on September 7, 1950, under the title, "The Mascot". | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 241 - Green-Eyed Monster | |||||||||||||
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| All-Star Western Theatre 89 - Gunsmoke | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | There comes a time to strap on shootin' irons, even in the modern West. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Sam Spade 147 - Report on Edith Hamilton | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Dr. Zoia asks Sam to look into an old case. Carter Hamilton was found by his mother three years ago. Sam is hired to get a confession from a beautiful girl, but he winds up falling in love with her. | ||||||||||||
| Blackstone 29 - The Riddle of the Eight Ball | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A hollow eight ball filled with stolen diamonds helps Blackstone catch a thief. Blackstone explains "The Disappearing Half" trick. | ||||||||||||
| Box 13 ep35 - Sealed Instructions | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man asks Holiday to go to the Philippines and retrieve something that he left there. He gives Holiday a set of sealed instructions and warns him that there’s a person who might kill him if he knew that Holiday had the instructions. | ||||||||||||
| Damon Runyon Theater 29 - The Bloodhounds of Broadway | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Regret adopts a man and Broadway his two dogs. | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 37 - Easter Outfits | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Miss Brooks and her friends have volunteered to work during their Spring vacation so that they can buy new outfits for Easter. | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 482 - Death and the Easter Bonnet | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Margot buys a new hat for Easter. It's the same hat used by foreign agents to conceal the secret formula for building a "midget cyclotron". | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 358 - Sleep My Pretty One | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The program begins with an unusual apology to listeners. last week's program cut away for a bulletin about "the Kathy Fiscus tragedy," and after returning to the program, failed to continue the news coverage. The announcer assures listeners that the decision ... | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 470 - Beneficiary - Death | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A businessman badly in need of money sees his opportunity when a hitch-hiker's body in a car crash is identified as his. | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 188 - Mixup In La Cruza | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2691 - The Million Dollar Wallpaper | |||||||||||||
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| Mark Trail 34 - Thumping Beaver | |||||||||||||
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| Night Beat 11 - Tong War | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Randy Stone tries to prevent a Tong war from erupting into violence in Chicago. The conflict is averted in a most dramatic fashion. | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 999 - The Two Shots | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2243 - Perry Fools Them | |||||||||||||
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| Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle 67 - Jungle Smoke | |||||||||||||
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| Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 32 - Holiday of Terror ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Gold thieves escape from Venus and shoot the cadets out of space. | ||||||||||||
| Horatio Hornblower 39 - With the 43rd Marines | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3161 - Widow Spider's Web | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 147 - Wild Horse Mesa | |||||||||||||
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| Case Dismissed 12 - Libel and Slander | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The problem of libel. How to protect your good name from character assassination. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 104 - What the Whiskey Drummer Heard | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Wilbur Hawkins tells Marshal Dillon about a plot against his life. When Dillon pretends to be dead, two different people brag about killing him! | ||||||||||||
| Sherlock Holmes 15 - The Final Problem | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | This story, set in 1891, introduces Holmes's greatest opponent, the criminal mastermind Professor James Moriarty. Holmes arrives at Dr. John Watson's residence one evening in a somewhat agitated state and with grazed and bloody knuckles. Much to Watson's surprise, ... | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 285 - Writing Magazine Articles With Aliases | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Miss Brooks has written an article for True Family Romance magazine under a pseudonym. The article is titled, 'I Was The Mother Of A Quiz Kid. ' Walter Denton finds that he has to impersonate a quiz kid for Miss Brooks, at the same time he has to imitate a dunce ... | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 646 - The Seventh Letter | |||||||||||||
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| X Minus One 47 - Jaywalker | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A pregnant wife stows away on an Earth-Moon liner to be with her husband the pilot, unaware that space travel is fatal both to her and her unborn child. Her husband must choose between their lives and a maneuver which could kill everyone on board. Story by: Ross ... | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 372 - Shepherd Matter ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Even the police can't handle this case ... with a madman on the loose! | ||||||||||||
| Sleep No More 20 - Homecoming - Aunt Cassie | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Ben has had it with Nan and Jim—Nan (his girlfriend) and Jim (his ex-friend who came home from Korea as a war hero and stole her away). For two years she'd been Benny's girl. Not anymore. But she will be again. She will be ... if Benny has anything to say about ... | ||||||||||||
| X Minus One 97 - The Discovery of Morniel Mathaway | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A worthless artist receives a visitor from the future who tells him his art will come to be known as the work of a genius. Story by: William Tenn | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 419 - Solomon River | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Lettie Thatcher's husband has died, but Lettie insists on staying on their land, far from civilization. Ben Crown takes unfair advantage. | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 74 - Prunella's Fella | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mr. Denton hires Paladin to find a hidden valley loaded with silver ore, but Paladin finds a shotgun bride instead. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 849 - Tonight at 5-55 | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 684 - Deadly Swamp Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny's imprisoned by four wild swamp men, who are determined to kill him. | ||||||||||||
