| 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: | New Orleans founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (1718) BORN: Gary Cooper actor (1901) DIED: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. actor (2000) |
| Quote: | One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. (A. Christie) |
| Fact: | A male llama is called a 'Macho' |
| Word: | inchoate (adjective) 1: In early or initial stage; incipient 2: Imperfectly formed or developed |
| Fortune Cookie: | Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance |
| Poem: | Windy winter rain... / My silly big umbrella / Tries walking backward / (Haiku by Shisei-jo) |
| Joke: | Do you know what it means to me to go home to a really good meal in a clean and tidy home? You've gone to the wrong house! |
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| Police Reporter 24 - Murder for Hire | |||||||||||||
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| Tarzan - The Diamond of Asher 5 | |||||||||||||
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| Cruise of the Poll Parrot 33 - Annabelle Kidnapped | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Annabelle Wilson has been abducted by the savages and "Misto The Magician." | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 71 - A Secret Torture Chamber | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | In the torture chamber of The Octopus. | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 18 - Thwarted Ambitions | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Phil Regan, The King's Men, Claudette Colbert, Joe E. Brown. How Claudette broke into the movies. | ||||||||||||
| The Aldrich Family 1940-05-07 - 45) Mothers Day | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 194 - Nitrate Shipment ep8 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1293 - Spring Roundup | |||||||||||||
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| Red Ryder 1942-05-07 - 41) Trouble in Roaring River | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Red and Little Beaver ride to Devil's Hole where Ace Hanlon is terrorizing the town. | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-05-07 - 154) Invaders Plan a Trap | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1606 - A White Pearl Button | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 125 - The Campaign Heats Up | |||||||||||||
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| Life of Riley 17 - The Dog Catcher | |||||||||||||
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| Weird Circle 37 - The Werewolf | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A simple woodland hunter marries a lady with sharp teeth. Based on Frederick Marryat's 1839 Gothic novel The Phantom Ship which contained "The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains", the first female werewolf to appear in a short story!! | ||||||||||||
| Bulldog Drummond 194 - Ride In Moonlight | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 482 - Sing You Sinners | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Bing Crosby & Joan Caulfield (repeat) | ||||||||||||
| Michael Shayne s1 30 - Big Voice Means a Big Body | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A French opera star (weighing 230 pounds) enters Mr. Shayne's office and tries to find a chair that will fit her. She's received two threatening letters before her memoirs are published. She doesn't mind publicity before she sings, but doesn't want to see her obituary ... | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 244 - Heaven Can Wait | |||||||||||||
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| Sherlock Holmes (Rathbone & Bruce) 175 - The Purloined Ruby | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 154 - Accident According to Plans | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An arranged railroad accident scheme is foiled when the arrangements are accidentally derailed. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1284 - Hate Mongers Organization ep16 | |||||||||||||
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| Archie Andrews 1946-05-07 - A Day at Camp | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 69 - The Winthrop Jewel Robberies | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A diamond a day is disappearing from a jewelry company and Blackie is asked to help stop the thefts. | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 270 - You Could Die Laughing | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Elwood has only a year to live. When a blackmailer confronts him after a hit-and-run, a couple find themselves imprisoned by a tough gangster. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1544 - Phantom of the Sea ep8 | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 121 - Mrs Peterson's Insurance Policy | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mrs. Peterson has been shot, and Mr. Peterson is the prime suspect. Blackie proves that not every killer measures up! | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 248 - Craig's Birthday Party | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1740 - Ghost Brigade ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2387 - The Raft | |||||||||||||
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| Philip Marlowe 32 - The Feminine Touch | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Millionaire Baldwin Granville is concerned that his wild daughter Adrian is in danger. Her romance with a motorcycle daredevil leads to murder! | ||||||||||||
| Frank Merriwell 133 - The Sawdust Adventure | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Frank and Bart go behind the scenes at the "Big Top" and help a young acrobat get started. | ||||||||||||
| Frontier Town 10 - Death and Taxes | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The tax collector of Medicine Hat blows the whistle on municipal corruption and gets a bullet for his trouble. | ||||||||||||
| Michael Shayne 1949-05-07 - Case Of The Man Who Lived Forever | |||||||||||||
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| Pat Novak for Hire 13 - Shirt Mix-Up at the Laundry | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | On his way down to the pool house Pat Novak stopped by the laundry to pick up a couple of shirts. He handed over his ticket, 428 but was given back two shirts that he didn’t recognize as his own. The tickets had been mixed up and Novak’s shirts ... | ||||||||||||
| Cloak and Dagger 1 - Frank Baker's Story | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | War / Armed Forces | Spy / Espionage | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Colonel Corey Ford introduces the series before the story. An American O. S. S. member parachutes into occupied Austria on a spying mission, but makes a serious mistake. Keep your eye on the button! | ||||||||||||
| Hopalong Cassidy 19 - Green Valley Payoff | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Media / Stars | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
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| Our Miss Brooks 91 - Boynton's Barbecue | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mr. Boynton has invited Miss Brooks to a barbecue. | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 79 - Horde of the Memlooks | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 414 - Fatal Error | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man tries to murder his partner to keep the $25,000 loot from their smuggling operation. | ||||||||||||
| Bold Venture 7 - Espionage and Murder in San Toma | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Sailor is hired to "show an ankle" and catch a spy. | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 745 - Cheaper by the Dozen | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Clifton Webb & Rhoda Williams | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 443 - Leroy the Singing Cowboy | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3013 - The Turning Point | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 76 - Black Canyon Gang | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2780 - Mrs Barkley Intends to Attend the Funeral | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2780 - Mrs Barkley Intends to Attend the Funeral 1) | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 233 - Little Man with the Gun | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 160 - Potato Road | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 386 - Silver Blue Matter ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A heartless, vicious racket ... 80 mink coats stolen and the watchman near death. | ||||||||||||
| A Case for Dr Morelle 3 - Threat to Kill | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | When a temperamental starlet receives a death threat, Dr Morelle is called in. | ||||||||||||
| Journey into Space - Operation Luna 7 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The crew land Luna on the planet and discover that it shares many of Earth's characteristics – oxygen atmosphere, drinkable water, carbon-based vegetation and ice-caps at both the poles. After studying the stars one night, Jet deduces that they in fact ... | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 474 - Ma's Justice | |||||||||||||
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