| 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: | The Soviet Union lifts its Blockade of Berlin (1949) BORN: Edward Lear author (1812) DIED: Perry Como American singer (2001) |
| Quote: | Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. (Aesop) |
| Fact: | Legend says Shennong Chinese Emperor discovered tea around 2737 BC when leaves were blown into bowl of boiling water changing its color |
| Word: | persiflage (noun) Light-hearted or good-natured treatment of a subject; banter |
| Fortune Cookie: | Maybe someday we will live on the moon! |
| Poem: | Ah! brave dragon-fly ... / Taking for your perch this swatter / Consecrate to death / (Haiku by Kohyo) |
| Joke: | My brother is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest. |
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| Buck Rogers 17 - Mechanical Mole ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Fu Manchu 3 - The Death List | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Dr. Petrie and the evil Dr. Fu, face to face. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 982 - Bat Freeman's Supply Scheme | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 196 - Grayson Submarine ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1295 - Valley in the Hills | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 307 - Craig's Wife | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Rosalind Russell & Herbert Marshall | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-05-12 - 157) Dude and Terry Captured | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1608 - Run, Sheep, Run | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 210 - Gildy Meets Leila's New Beau | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 371 - The Bride Wore Black | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A wedding, a madman, and "The Shadow" caught in quicksand! | ||||||||||||
| Sherlock Holmes 31 - Wysteria Lodge (aka The Voodoo Curse) | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Conway & Bruce | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | Classic Tales | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Starring Tom Conway as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1547 - Phantom of the Sea ep11 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2232 - City of the Dead | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 571 - Johnny O'Clock | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Dick Powell & Lee J. Cobb | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 347 - Brief Encounter | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 259 - 18 Bowden Lane | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A meek school teacher rents a house on Cape Defiance and carefully plans his wife's murder. | ||||||||||||
| Abbott & Costello Show 214 - Radio Poll | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Bud and Lou go door to door to conduct their own poll to find out if anyone is listening to the show. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1743 - Ghost Brigade ep7 | |||||||||||||
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| Bulldog Drummond 339 - Fiery Island | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 288 - Gildy Stays Home Sick | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2389 - Fathers-at-law | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 311 - Chain Reaction | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A pilot takes a salvage job in the Caribbean ... hired by the husband of his girlfriend! | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 340 - The Light Switch | |||||||||||||
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| Escape 110 - The Rim of Terror | |||||||||||||
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| Jeff Regan, Investigator 56 - Oil for the Lamps of Burbank | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Clarence Andover calls the Lyons Detective agency about his daughter. His daughter has been taken to jail, accused of murder. | ||||||||||||
| Hopalong Cassidy 71 - Bandit of Blackton Bend | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Media / Stars | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A feud between Matt Hardesty (a newspaper editor) and Knute Damlon almost leads to a fistfight. Hoppy shoots a gunfighter and apparently kills him! | ||||||||||||
| Bold Venture 60 - Senor Rufio | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Water / Boats | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Senor Rufio rents a room at Shannon's place to "atone for his sins." Senor Rufio is soon found on a beach ... kicked to death. | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 296 - The Iron Hat | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3015 - Old Olly's Hat | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 473 - The Missing Person | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1953-05-12 - 85) The Dude | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 162 - Rochester Theft Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A beautiful woman, wearing an expensive fur coat is killed ... the coat being a clue to the previous robbery. | ||||||||||||
| 21st Precinct 44 - The Dollar | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Kennelly uses an unusual ploy to get Bernardo, a drunken wife slayer, out of a bar's bathroom. | ||||||||||||
| Crime Classics 45 - Mr Clarke's Skeleton in Mr Aram's Closet, The Noise It Made | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A trial in Yorkshire in 1758 and the wrong man is destined for the gallows ... or is it the wrong man? | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 548 - Dr Olsen Leaving Town | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2783 - DA Complains to Mason About the Trap | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 234 - Log Thief | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Heroes | ||||||||||||
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| Barrie Craig 185 - Visitor at Midnight | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Craig's midnight visitor puts forth a theory for a perfect murder. The next morning, the murder is reported in the paper. The victim's lawyer was "spatted" (dressed with spats). Seems like everyone who knows the victim, stands to benefit from the death. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 674 - Night Melody | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Melody and Marshall are about to break-up. They each have another lover, but first a farewell drink. Melody is poisoned, while she's wearing her favorite perfume, "Night Melody." The night manager in the story is named "Mr. Novello," possibly an in-joke referring ... | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 266 - Sheep Dog | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Orlin Barkas is wanted for attempted murder. His bible quoting father refuses to surrender him to Marshal Dillon. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 698 - Tarawa Was Tough | |||||||||||||
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| Walk Softly, Peter Troy 23 - A Partridge in a Pear Tree | |||||||||||||
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