| 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: | Bay of Pigs failed invasion of Cuba (1961) BORN: Adolf Hitler dictator (1889) DIED: Bram Stoker author 'Dracula' (1912) |
| Quote: | The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. (Edgar Allan Poe) |
| Fact: | Inventors: Vernier scale - Pierre Vernier (1631) / Liquid fuel rocket - Robert Goddard (1914) / Phonograph - Thomas Alva Edison (1877) |
| Word: | champerty (noun) An outside party aiding in a lawsuit in return for a share in the proceeds |
| Fortune Cookie: | The greatest gift is love |
| Poem: | My cheek is cold and white, alas! My heart beats loud and fast: O press it to thine own again, Where it will break at last! (Shelley) |
| Joke: | For others who may not know this: When the preacher says, "You may now kiss the bride," he's only speaking to the groom. |
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| Chandu the Magician 1932-04-20 33 - Abdallah Joins Chandu | |||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1933-04-20 294 - Cigarette Poison Discovered | |||||||||||||
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| Dick Tracy 1938-04-20 - 78) The Purple Rider Exposed | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The identity of "The Purple Rider" is revealed. Professor Shelby asks Tess Trueheart for help from Dick Tracy. After he'd invented something valuable, Prof. Shelby's life has been threatened by, "The Brain." Tracy shames the citizens of Pitchblende in the Yukon, ... | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 816 - The Price of Wool | |||||||||||||
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| Speed Gibson 173 - Clint's Plane Catches on Fire | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | The airplane of the Secret Police is afire ... is it the fault of deceitful Saari? | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 83 - Hired Wife | |||||||||||||
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| Jack Armstrong 1942-04-20 - Land of the Sky | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1442 - Gamblers' End | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 348 - One Foot in Heaven | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | One Foot In Heaven Stars: Fredric March & Martha Scott (Program is 45 minutes in length because of a special government broadcast) | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-04-20 - 141) Jigger | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 38 - The Moment of Darkness | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | During a train ride from Paris to the French Riviera, a niece tries to protect her wealthy aunt from a medium, who she believes is a fake. Story by: John Dickson Carr | ||||||||||||
| The Aldrich Family 1944-04-20 - 234) Sam and Henry Both Await Calls | |||||||||||||
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| Captain Midnight 993 - Mountain Battle | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Captain Midnight and General Chu battle a whole Japanese army who are approaching a hidden airfield. Chuck and Joyce are in a fighter plaine, and they're mowing down the Japanese. After the story, Lieutenant Norma Barker of the Nurses Corps has a message for girls. | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 325 - Belle Brady's Gesture | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 88 - The Palmer Method | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man who specializes in forging people's signatures joins the army to escape the law. Realizing that he will be sent to the battlefront, he sees an opportunity for further escape when he switches identities with a dead man. Story by: Robert L. Richards | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1946-04-20 - Grand Larceny on Wheels | |||||||||||||
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| Life of Riley 109 - Giant Easter Bunny | |||||||||||||
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| Nick Carter, Master Detective 284 - The Case of the Lucrative Wrecks | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Automobile wrecks to order are feeding a clever racket in stolen cars. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1727 - Crossword Puzzle Mystery ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| Jack Armstrong 1948-04-20 - House of Darkness | |||||||||||||
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| Mysterious Traveler 150 - Murder in Jazz Time | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man murders a jazz musician in New Orleans. The musician's music comes back to haunt the killer. With Hazel Scott recordings. | ||||||||||||
| Red Ryder 1948-04-20 - Roar of the River | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Red helps a group of ranchers foil a crooked cattle agent and a gang of cattle rustlers. | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 223 - Madame Zina Fortune Teller | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | When a carnival fortune teller peers into her crystal ball and sees death, it turns out to be her own! | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 324 - The Haunted House | |||||||||||||
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| Mr Keen 1287 - The Country Club Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A strangulation at a exclusive Westchester Club leads to forgery as well. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 381 - Pearls Are a Nuisance | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Sam Spade 244 - Rowdy Dowser Caper | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Spade travels to North Tacaloma to find $53,000 that has disappeared. Mr. Purse Snatcher is the suspect. | ||||||||||||
| New Adventures of Nero Wolfe 25 - The Lost Heir | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man hires Nero Wolfe to verify that a woman who claims to be his daughter, and whom everyone assumed was dead, is really who she says that she is. | ||||||||||||
| The Falcon 374 - Jumping Jack | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Spy / Espionage | Crime | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman hires Mike Waring to find out who was tailing her. Shortly after Waring discovers that it was her husband's detective, the woman is found murdered. | ||||||||||||
| Comic Weekly Man 261 - School Poem, First Comic - Hopalong Cassidy | |||||||||||||
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| Tales of the Texas Rangers 74 - Illusion | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The story is based on the events of October 3, 1945. A crazy woman and poison. But is she crazy? Is it poison? | ||||||||||||
| Whitehall 1212 ep21 - Case of Mrs Minerva Bannamon | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The handle of a woman's purse in the Black Museum leads to the missing Mrs. Minerva Banneman and a gory bath of acid. | ||||||||||||
| Hall of Fantasy s2 22 - Out of the Sky | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An alien descends to Earth on a scout mission to test our capability to defend ourselves against the forces of his planet. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3162 - Interrupted Journey | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 825 - Deadline, USA | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Dan Dailey & Debra Paget | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 509 - Public Defender | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1954-04-20 - 183) Mistaken Identity | |||||||||||||
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| Crime and Peter Chambers 3 - Cemetery Attack | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Peter Chambers is paid $1000 to deliver $250,000 to a graveyard at midnight. It's a complex kidnap plot against a very cheap millionaire! | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2767 - Kate Tells Gordy That Gus Is Teaching Her to Drive | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 211 - Nathan Swing Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A smalltime hoodlum killed ... what's the connection between Mr. Big and the Prosecutor's daughter? | ||||||||||||
| 21st Precinct 93 - The Doctor | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A child disappears after returning to her home in a taxi. | ||||||||||||
| The FBI in Peace and War 499 - Expert Testimony | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3370 - Friend In Need | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 375 - Shepherd Matter ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The conclusion of the story. How hard it is to kill a lie, sometimes you have to kill it twice! | ||||||||||||
| Frontier Gentleman 12 - Aces and Eights | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A story about Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok. Why 'Aces and Eights' are known as 'The Dead Man's Hand '. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 315 - The Partners | |||||||||||||
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| Luke Slaughter 8 - The Henry Fell Story | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Henry Fell, a dude from back East has come to Luke's ranch to paint portraits of the Apaches. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 747 - Alibi Me | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 583 - Wayward Trout Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A dead fish always floats, or does it? Another mystery at Lake Mojave Resort. | ||||||||||||
