| 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: | Chanel No. 5 is released (1921) BORN: Karl Marx political philosopher (1818) DIED: Napoleon Bonaparte soldier and politician |
| Quote: | The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
| Fact: | In 1801 Joseph Marie Jacquard used punched paper cards on his textile loom to weave intricate patterns an early form of programming |
| Word: | occlude (verb) 1: To close, obstruct, shut out 2: To absorb or adsorb (chemistry) 3: To force (air) upward from the earth's surface |
| Fortune Cookie: | A member of your family will soon do something that will make you proud |
| Poem: | Follow a shadow it still flies you; Seem to fly it it will pursue: So court a mistress she denies you; Let her alone she will court you |
| Joke: | Did you hear about the red ship and the blue ship that collided? Both crews were marooned |
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| Chandu the Magician 1933-05-05 305 - Vindion Talks to His People | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1938-05-05 - Citizenship Insurance Racket | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Britt Reid alias the Green Hornet, is on the trail of a crooked politician and his gang, who resort to murder to protect their phony citizenship racket that cons immigrants. aka The Political Racket | ||||||||||||
| Buck Rogers 14 - Mechanical Mole ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 979 - Rustling At The Half Circle C | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 193 - Nitrate Shipment ep7 | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of Superman | ||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1292 - The Gambler Draws a Blank | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 306 - Kitty Foyle | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Ginger Rogers & Dennis Morgan | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-05-05 - 152) Terry's Planespotter | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1605 - Gideon West | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1762 - The Devil and Sam Todd | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 209 - Gildy is in a Rut | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 370 - The White Witchman of Lawaiki | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A madman holding Margot and Lamont at gun-point, knowing the secret identity of The Shadow, leads to an adventure on a tropic island, with an angry volcano god! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1542 - Phantom of the Sea ep6 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 317 - Don't Dance on My Grave | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A woman dreams her husband is plotting to kill her. She then see him digging a grave in the garden! | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 570 - The Egg and I | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Claudette Colbert & Fred MacMurray | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 346 - Pardon My Past | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Sherlock Holmes (Conway & Bruce) 30 - The Remarkable Affair Of The Pointless Robbery | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | Classic Tales | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 258 - Windfall | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man finds a corpse with no identification, except a checkbook showing a balance of $104,000! | ||||||||||||
| Abbott & Costello Show 213 - New Sheriff with Bela Lugosi | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1738 - Ghost Brigade ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 173 - Jackie Meers Prison Break | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The entire Bolo gang has broken out of prison. How did they set the time and the place for the escape? | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 287 - Fish Fry | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2386 - Lookout Tower Mystery | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 310 - Lady in Waiting | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman is involved with a criminal who has been sentenced to prison for twenty years. Large sums of money change hands, and a murder follows. | ||||||||||||
| The Aldrich Family 1949-05-05 - 462) Homer Engaged To Agnes | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Children / Teenagers | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Casey 287 - The Wolverine | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Casey, Crime Photographer | ||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A strange killer strikes against the underworld, in a very intellectual manner. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 339 - Death Has a Shadow | |||||||||||||
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| Escape 109 - The Man Who Stole the Bible (Ben Wright) | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Mixed Bag | Horror | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Archie Andrews 1951-05-05 - Jalopy Won't Start | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Hopalong Cassidy 70 - Kidnapper's Trail | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Media / Stars | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | "The Whip" has kidnapped a senator's daughter and is holding her for ransom. Where is she being hidden, and who is "The Whip"? | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 94 - Virginia Towne Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | She said the jewelry was a gift ... but was it? | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 295 - Come to the Casbah | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3012 - The Witness | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 472 - Frankie and Johnny | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 161 - Blackmail Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A twisted neck on a corpse in a gym leads to an old blackmail. | ||||||||||||
| 21st Precinct 43 - The Cabinet | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Sergeant Bill Waters son, Eddie, is the suspect when the Sergeant's missing gun is used in a robbery. | ||||||||||||
| Crime Classics 44 - Bunny Baumler, His Close Brush With Fame | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Non-fiction | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | In 1820, in Nuremberg, Bumbling Bunny can't seem to do anything right ... except bludgeon four people to death in a beer hall! | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2778 - DA Visits Mason's Office | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 232 - Telltale Scar | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Heroes | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Barrie Craig 184 - Confession of Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A dollar switchblade knife is against the law and a start to interrogation. | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1955-05-05 - 292) The Hot Headed Sheepherder | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 673 - That Lovely Look | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman hired as a maid for a wealthy couple suddenly refuses to answer the phone or the door. A romance slowly develops with the maid and ... her look. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 265 - How to Kill a Friend | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 697 - Celebration | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 533 - Peerless Fire Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A junkyard has burnt down in a residential area ... and the neighbors are overjoyed! | ||||||||||||
| Walk Softly, Peter Troy 22 - The Blue-eyed Brazen | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Peter delivers a fur coat and finds himself about to be shot by Mr. "Midnight". | ||||||||||||
