| 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: | 1st Crossword puzzle book published (1924) BORN: Lucrezia Borgia Florentine ruler (1480) DIED: Thor Heyerdahl explorer (2002) |
| Quote: | When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld) |
| Fact: | Average distances: Earth to the Sun = 93,020,000 miles (149,669,180 km) Earth to the Moon = 238,857 miles (384,403.1 km) |
| Word: | ossuary (noun) A place, receptacle or container for depositing the bones of the dead (Eg: urn or vault) |
| Fortune Cookie: | No matter what your past has been, you have a spotless future |
| Poem: | Wee bitter cricket / Crying all this sunny day ... / Or is he laughing? / (Haiku by Oemaru) |
| Joke: | The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist |
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| Chandu the Magician 1933-04-18 292 - Crystal Ball Vision Fulfilled | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Police Reporter 19 - The Murder of Tom Gorman | |||||||||||||
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| Jungle Jim 25 - Lo Tung Has Purple Triangle On Chest | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Dick Tracy 1938-04-18 - 76) Junior Rescued by and Captures Purple Rider | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Kyle decided to stop Dick Tracy by capturing Junior and holding him in a mountain cabin. This he managed to do, however Junior ever resourceful managed to communicate with Dick in code. However, he was discovered sending the message putting him a perilous situation ... | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 815 - King of the Country | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 172 - Mad About Music | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Deanna Durbin & Gail Patrick | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 186 - Last of the Clipper Ships ep20 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1285 - Lone Ranger Moves | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Mandrake the Magician 69 - The Planes Are Armed | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Superhero | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | "Wacky" wants Dr. Carvass to let him fly one of the bombers. The goofy ex-pilot meets Mandrake and his friends in the van. The planes are armed and ready to attack America. | ||||||||||||
| Tom Mix 1941-04-18 - Hidden Mesa | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Tom and "The Old Wrangler" battle "Whisper Johnson", an enemy agent out to bomb a defense plant. | ||||||||||||
| Red Ryder 1942-04-18 - 33) Scarbone Clauson | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The bank in Devil's Hole has been robbed once again. Scarbone Clauson is the worst outlaw since Billy The Kid! | ||||||||||||
| Chase and Sanborn Program 1943-04-18 - Ronald Coleman | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 78 - Nature Hike | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1011 - Boy King of Moravia ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| Abbott & Costello Show 132 - Pet Shop | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1271 - Hate Mongers Organization ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| Challenge of the Yukon 427 - Rex | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 189 - The Night Reveals | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1531 - Mystery of the Lost Planet ep8 | |||||||||||||
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| My Friend Irma 2 - Irma Gives Rent Money to Al | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Leading Ladies | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Irma gives Al the girls' rent money to bet on a seedy prize fighter he's managing. | ||||||||||||
| Escape 37 - The Drums of the Fore and Aft (Gil Stratton, Jr) | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Mixed Bag | Horror | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 418 - The Death Deal | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man is killed when his car explodes. . . or does he? He confronts his unfaithful wife a strange request. | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 136 - The Elusive Hundred Grand | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2535 - Badge of Friendship | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 654 - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Humphrey Bogart & Walter Huston | ||||||||||||
| Sherlock Holmes (Stanley & Shirley) 32 - The Burmese Goddess | |||||||||||||
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| Philip Marlowe 80 - The Angry Eagle | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Marlowe poses as a sports writer to help a trainer-friend with a problem prize fighter, named Danny Eagle. | ||||||||||||
| Mysterious Traveler 251 - Death at Fifty Fathoms | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | An imaginative story about Adolf Hitler trapped in a submarine at the bottom of the ocean, while hordes of the dead scratch at the hull ... trying to get in! | ||||||||||||
| Philo Vance 93 - Golden Key Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Vance receives a gold key in the mail and there is a dead man at his desk holding an identical gold key. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 45 - Story of the Ten-O-Eight | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny investigates a strange railroad heist...a $247 barrel of jeweler's rouge! | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 401 - Leroy the Bon-Vivant | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Harold Peary 29 - Harold Decides to Clean out the Cellar | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Harold decides to clean out the cellar, but winds up at Big Bear Lake for a picnic with his friends. Harold sings, "Would I Love You". | ||||||||||||
| The Lives of Harry Lime 38 - The Painted Smile | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Harry attends a performance of a Sicilian circus as the guest of one of the clowns. The clown has a very beautiful wife! | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3005 - War Horse | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2244 - Perry's Office Building is Sealed | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 71 - Secret of Sandy Hook | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Heroes | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 52 - Bum's Rush | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Marshal Dillon captures two killers and brings them back to Dodge. Three witnesses come forward to prove them innocent ... for an unusual reason. | ||||||||||||
| Theatre Royal 29 - The Snow Goose | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 618 - Days of Fear | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman is suspicious of her father's death when her younger step-mother inherits the estate and then marries the lawyer who drew up the will. She then becomes convinced that they're trying to kill her! | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 373 - Shepherd Matter ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Big Lie is as true as little green apples. | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1957-04-18 - 499) The Run on Oklahoma Lands | |||||||||||||
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