| 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: | Last Oldsmobile ends 107 years production (2004) BORN: William Randolph Hearst publisher (1863) DIED: Alfred Hitchcock film director (1980) |
| Quote: | If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. (Albert Einstein) |
| Fact: | A commercial size aspen trunk in Canada is made into about a million matchsticks |
| Word: | pogonotrophy (noun) The cultivation of beards; the growing of a beard |
| Fortune Cookie: | You will soon be involved in many gatherings, parties and communications |
| Poem: | Never seek to tell thy love, / Love that never told can be; / For the gentle wind doth move / Silently, invisibly. (Blake) |
| Joke: | Whose cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in it? |
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| The Lone Ranger 820 - Train Wreck Plot | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 122 - Stop Plans for Explosion | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A powder magazine that nearly explodes and a bluff lead to the location of The Octopus! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 34 - Airplane Disasters at Bridger Field ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of Superman | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The start of a new adventure. Why have six air transport airplanes crashed near Bridger Field? When the seventh plane crashes, Clark Kent is assigned to get the story. A mysterious plane attacks Kent and a dog-fight follows. They're going to crash! | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 261 - Smilin' Through | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A melodrama of love beyond the grave and through the years Stars: Robert Taylor & Barbara Stanwyck (repeat) | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1446 - The Call of Duty | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-04-29 - 148) Dude Teaches Terry | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures by Morse 17 - Temple of the Gorillas | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Spy / Espionage | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Cobra King Strikes Back Part 4 | ||||||||||||
| Chase and Sanborn Program 1945-04-29 - Ida Lupino | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Nick Carter, Master Detective 181 - The Witch of Donderberg Mountain | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A haunted well...and a journey to hell! | ||||||||||||
| Nick Carter, Master Detective 180 - The Witch of Donderberg Mountain | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A haunted well ... and a journey to hell! | ||||||||||||
| Old Gold Comedy Theater 26 - Scatterbrain | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Sealed Book 7 - The Accusing Corpse | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A plot to a commit double murder is executed in a very strange way with very strange results. The script was also used on "The Mysterious Traveler" on April 16, 1944 | ||||||||||||
| Weird Circle 74 - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1278 - Hate Mongers Organization ep10 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2070 - Adventure at Eagle Pass | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 525 - Gaslight | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Charles Boyer & Ingrid Bergman | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 295 - The Cowboy and the Lady | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Sherlock Holmes (Rathbone & Bruce) 213 - The Waltz of Death | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1538 - Phantom of the Sea ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 120 - Baseball and Gambling | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The brother of a famous ball-player is in debt to a gambler for $50,000. An introduction to a lady and a murder add up to another case for Blackie. Sportscaster Bill Slater is cast as ... a sportscaster! The last show of the series on ABC. Next week, the show ... | ||||||||||||
| Red Ryder 1947-04-29 - The Badlands | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1734 - Crossword Puzzle Mystery ep11 | |||||||||||||
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| The Aldrich Family 1948-04-29 - 422) Mother's Day | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Children / Teenagers | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Confusion runs rampant on Mother's Day when Henrys' plans for the family go awry. | ||||||||||||
| Ellery Queen 351 - Three Frogs | |||||||||||||
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| Tom Mix 1948-04-29 - Hurricane Horse ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A special appearance by Babe Ruth is made to put in a word for his new movie. Tom and the Babe discuss the problem of crime, and juvenile delinquency in the country these days. Back on the range, Tom decides to take to the air to look for the missing ... | ||||||||||||
| Dimension X 4 - No Contact | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A strange invisible barrier is frustrating Man's attempts to explore the depths of space. Six expeditions have been lost trying to cross it, their fate a mystery since no signal can pass through the barrier. This is the story of the seventh. Two separate versions ... | ||||||||||||
| T-Man 50-04-29 The Case of the Bleeding Gold | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Spy / Espionage | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A strange counterfeiting gang makes gold coins with more gold in them than the government uses! | ||||||||||||
| The Falcon 331 - Big Talker | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Spy / Espionage | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A bigmouthed loser from St. Louis is murdered, and Michael Waring is forced to come up with a false alibi. | ||||||||||||
| Candy Matson 91 - Candy's Last Case | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Leading Ladies | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The last show of the series. A double murder, a missing half million dollar diamond, and suspicion of Lt. Mallard's innocence can't keep Candy from marriage at the end of her career. | ||||||||||||
| Comic Weekly Man 210 - At Sea Riddle, First Comic - Hopalong Cassidy | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Saint 168 - Fishes Gotta Eat | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The Saint is hired to find Frank Sparrow, a sailor who has disappeared. Frank Sparrow is found dead but Mrs. Sparrow isn't. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 465 - Clayton Affair | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman's husband has been killed, and she seems to be getting away with murder. She seems to be getting away with a second murder as well! | ||||||||||||
| Wild Bill Hickok 5 - Red Wagon Jinx | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Heroes | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 1002 - The Fugitive | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| The Lineup 82 - The Big Boy's Brutish Back-Bending Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A dead man has been found in a flooded quarry. He apparently drowned, but then it's discovered that his back has been broken. | ||||||||||||
| Mysterious Traveler 354 - Murder in 2952 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Depressed over the being the loser in a love triangle, a man flees Earth for the jungles of Ganymede, only to find himself pursued for murder by his rival, a crooked detective with the World Police. | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2251 - Norris Knows Perry is Wanted | |||||||||||||
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| Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 35 - An Escort of Death ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Tom and Manning are framed for murder and a million credit robbery. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 494 - Bronco's Bottled Water Company | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Wild Bill Hickok 150 - One Man Rule | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Heroes | ||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2774 - The Staged Accident Happens as Planned | |||||||||||||
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| The Six-Shooter 31 - Revenge At Harness Creek | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Lex Roby has been shot and killed. Adam Roby is suspected of the crime and will surrender to the Six-Shooter, but not to Cash Petrie (the sheriff), who might do something rash. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3215 - The Vindictive Corrys | |||||||||||||
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| Fort Laramie 14 - Quince's Capture | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Even though his dying father (Red Horse) has asked for him, a young Indian named Snowfoot will not go onto the Reservation. aka "Death is a Quiet Time". | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 212 - Doc's Reward | |||||||||||||
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| Hancock's Half Hour s5 15 - Grappling Game | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Sid is now a wrestling promoter and discovers a new wrestler in Miss Pugh. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 787 - Grand Canyon Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny nearly gets pushed into the canyon on the trail of a stolen necklace. | ||||||||||||
