| 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: | Igor Sikorsky pilots first four-engine aircraft (1913) BORN: Daphne du Maurier author (1907) DIED: Gary Cooper actor (1961) |
| Quote: | It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required. (Sir Winston Churchill) |
| Fact: | The Space Shuttle main engine weighs one seventh as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives |
| Word: | patzer (noun) A poor or amateurish chess player |
| Fortune Cookie: | We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails |
| Poem: | If you were silent / Flight of herons on dark sky ... / Oh! autumn snowflakes! / (Haiku by Sokan) |
| Joke: | My wife says if I don't give up golf she'll leave me. That's bad luck. I know I'm really going to miss her. |
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| The Lone Ranger 826 - New Fangled Justice | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 124 - Dropping a Signal | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Clint's unusual method to obtain a guard from the French Foreign Legion. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 40 - Buffalo Hills ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The start of a new adventure. Who has tried to kill Asa Hatch, the famous photographer? Twice! The Governor has been in a car crash. What's the connection? | ||||||||||||
| Blondie 1940-05-13 - 46 The Entertainment Committee | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Leading Ladies | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 263 - True Confession | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A lawyer's wife just cannot tell the truth, even when she has to deny committing murder! Stars: Loretta Young & Fred MacMurray. This is the first broadcast of The Lux Radio Theatre to originate from Hollywood's Vine Street Theatre. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1452 - Mistaken for an Easterner | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-05-13 - 158) Klang Uses Plane | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures by Morse 19 - Terrors of the Hollow Mountain | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Spy / Espionage | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Cobra King Strikes Back Part 6 | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 176 - The Silent Hands | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A woman in a white evening dress is a murderess. Which one of the two sisters is known as, "The Woman In White"? | ||||||||||||
| Life of Riley 69 - Peg's Mother Visits | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Old Gold Comedy Theater 28 - She Loves Me Not | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Sealed Book 9 - Out of the Past | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The classic tale about the beautiful wife and the insistent blackmailer. The script was also used on "The Mysterious Traveler" on April 19, 1949 | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1288 - Hate Mongers Organization ep20 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2076 - The Weasel | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 527 - Pardon My Past | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Fred MacMurry & Marguite Chapman | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 297 - Talk of the Town | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Sherlock Holmes (Rathbone & Bruce) 215 - Uneasy Chair | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1548 - Phantom of the Sea ep12 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Weird Circle 76 - The Haunted Hotel | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1744 - Ghost Brigade ep8 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Aldrich Family 1948-05-13 - 424) Date With Helen Forbes | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Children / Teenagers | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Dimension X 6 - Almost Human | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A scientist builds a robot - 'Junior' - capable of intelligence and consciousness, but the machine is stolen by a criminal who has other ideas for its uses. Junior, on the other hand, has plans of his own. Another version of this story appeared on X Minus One. ... | ||||||||||||
| The Falcon 333 - Dutch Doll | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Spy / Espionage | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Michael Waring learns that little boys that play with the wrong kind of dolls never live to grow up! | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 131 - Bargain Hats for Mother's Day | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | School | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A new hat for Mother's Day. | ||||||||||||
| Tales of the Texas Rangers 43 - Paid in Full | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A Mexican is shot in the back with a shotgun, based on a "true incident" of August 18, 1941 | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 467 - A Matter of Courtesy | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Cressie Carlos plans to poison her rival for the affections of her partner in the Club Carlos, a swank nightclub. | ||||||||||||
| Wild Bill Hickok 7 - A Outlaw's Bargain | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Heroes | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 1006 - The Pack-Rat Nest | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| The Lineup 84 - Yudo in Ypsilanti | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Small shopkeepers in panic; murder by numbers ring' | ||||||||||||
| Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 39 - Marooned with Death ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The cadets start on a rescue mission to the planet Del Porte and are nearly drowned by a tidal wave. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 496 - Gildy Almost Goes to Europe | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3172 - Border Raider | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Wild Bill Hickok 154 - Wild Bill's New Deputy | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Heroes | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2784 - Mason Tells Press About Phony Accident | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Six-Shooter 33 - The Double Seven | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The classic rancher vs. farmer confrontation with a surprise ending at the Double Seven Ranch. | ||||||||||||
| Fort Laramie 16 - War Correspondent | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A reporter from a New York newspaper comes west to tell the 'truth' and also to learn of the 'real' west. | ||||||||||||
| Gene Autry's Melody Ranch 1956-05-13 - Last Show | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Media / Stars | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 214 - Cows and Cribs | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1958-05-13 - 609) Larrupin' Lil | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Hancock's Half Hour s5 17 - Hancock's War | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The lad impresses the vicar with tales of his heroic exploits in Military Intelligence. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 925 - Hide and Seek | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 789 - Lust for Gold Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny dons scuba gear near Cozumel, Mexico, in search for treasure and a killer. | ||||||||||||
