| 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: | Coronation of King Charles II (1661) BORN: JMW Turner painter (1775) DIED: William Shakespeare writer and actor (1616) |
| Quote: | Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. (Mark Twain) |
| Fact: | The length of a Mercury day is 58.65 earth days. |
| Word: | pilose (adjective) Covered with fine, soft hair |
| Fortune Cookie: | Great thoughts come from the heart |
| Poem: | Dark, deep, and cold the current flows / Unto the sea where no wind blows, / Seeking the land which no one knows. (Ebenezer Elliott) |
| Joke: | They call it PMS because MadCow Disease was already taken. |
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| Police Reporter 20 - The Case of Marie Boyer | |||||||||||||
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| Cruise of the Poll Parrot 31 - Johnny & Sue Overhear Plans | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Sue and Johnny overhear evil plans. Plans are made for "Misto The Magician" to have his leopard tear Captain Dalton to pieces! | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 69 - Thought Recording Machine | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Clint and Speed pay a visit to The Octopus, searching for Barney. | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 16 - A Revue | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Gary Cooper, Patsy Kelly, Harry Einstein. Patsy tries to romance Gary and sing like Deanna (her voice cracks!). | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 188 - Nitrate Shipment ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1287 - Mustang Mag Grows Grain | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Mandrake the Magician 71 - Mandrake Has Paralyzed Highpitch | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mandrake has paralyzed Highpitch and made the gun jump out of his hand. Dr. Carvass makes the gun jump away from Mandrake. Wacky vouches for Mandrake's identity. Tommy has disappeared. | ||||||||||||
| Red Ryder 1942-04-23 - 35) Devil's Circus | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | "McKuen's Mammoth Circus" is coming to Devil's Hole and into trouble. | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-04-23 - 144) Smiley Knocked Out | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1600 - Elkhorn Flats | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Life of Riley 15 - Proxy Wedding (part 2) | |||||||||||||
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| Weird Circle 35 - Falkland | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Based on the Gothic novella by British writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Featuring a strange man who learns the secret of eternal life, but also learns the secret of eternal love. | ||||||||||||
| Bulldog Drummond 192 - Dinner Of Death | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 480 - The Petrified Forest | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Ronald Colman & Susan Hayward (repeat) | ||||||||||||
| Michael Shayne s1 28 - Body in the Trunk | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Phyllis discovers that the body of her friend Lois in a trunk! | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 242 - Flesh and Fantasy | |||||||||||||
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| Sherlock Holmes (Rathbone & Bruce) 173 - The Notorious Canary Trainer | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 152 - Meet Mr Death | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A pharmacist is offered $5000 to poison a newspaper man. Needing the money and tempted take the offer, he finds out that he might have been overheard. | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 67 - The Stolen Car Ring | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Phil Morton's garage is the home of an insurance racket involving stolen cars. It certainly was a mistake stealing a car from Boston Blackie. | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 268 - Make Ready My Grave | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | John Loomis brings his new bride to the family mansion, where she discovers the many nooses and learns the secret of the family curse! | ||||||||||||
| Nick Carter, Master Detective 232 - The Case of the Little Old Ladies | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A senior citizen payroll robbery ... solved with the help of the army! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1534 - Mystery of the Lost Planet ep11 | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 246 - Leila's Party for Joanne | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1730 - Crossword Puzzle Mystery ep7 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2381 - Singapore's Peg Leg | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Philip Marlowe 30 - The Cloak of Kamehameha | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Marlowe goes to Hawaii on the trail of the "A Cloak Of Kamehameha", but he finds that another "Philip Marlowe" has gotten there ahead of him. | ||||||||||||
| Escape 68 - The Great Impersonation | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Mixed Bag | Horror | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Frontier Town 8 - The Chavez Family | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Senor Nagle comes to Dos Rios claiming all the land in the Valley, and he has the documents to prove it! | ||||||||||||
| Pat Novak for Hire 11 - Rita Malloy | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Going on an errand for a friend, Pat gets a beating, a package, and a corpse or two, or three. | ||||||||||||
| Hopalong Cassidy 17 - Coyote's Creed | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Media / Stars | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 89 - School Economics | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | School | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | While Mr. Conklin is trying to economize, he finds himself buying a tape recorder, without even knowing it! The script was reused on the program of March 31, 1957. | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 77 - The Big Gamble | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Evil Mr. Ronson plans to be Rocky's partner in a gambling operation in the basement of the cafe Tambourine, whether Rocky wants a partner or not. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 412 - Returned with the Spray | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Marrying while drunk, a man tries to kill his new wife by pushing her overboard at sea. When that fails, he tries again by leaving her on a railroad track with a train approaching! | ||||||||||||
| Bold Venture 5 - Treasure on Flamingo Cay | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Water / Boats | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Witt is trying to convince Shannon to go with him after Spanish treasure buried on Flamingo Cay. | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 241 - Sabotage | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2850 - Stand-Ins for Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 441 - Deep Sea Diver | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2247 - Della and Helen Meet in Coffee Shop | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 72 - Deadlock at Silver Site | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Heroes | ||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1953-04-23 - 80) Chained Lightning | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3320 - About Face | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2770 - Perry Goes Over Accident Plan with Paul | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 229 - Trigger Treachery | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 158 - Born to Hang | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3371 - Renegade Leader | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 376 - Lonely Hearts Matter ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A "Lonely Heart" finds plenty of company ... in the nearest morgue! | ||||||||||||
| A Case for Dr Morelle 1 - Alarm Call | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The psychiatrist-sleuth investigates the mysterious death of wealthy French baroness. | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1957-04-23 - 500) Old Dinah of Death Valley | |||||||||||||
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| Journey into Space - Operation Luna 5 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mitch is inquisitive and enters the UFO, where he is temporarily possessed by an alien intelligence. Luna takes off and orbits the Moon; on the far side, the crew encounter a fleet of UFOs, which pursues them. (source: wikipedia.org) | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 472 - Father and Son | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 735 - Rat Pack Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A "message" drama about a gang of juvenile delinquents terrorizing a small town. | ||||||||||||
