| 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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| Show: | The Lone Ranger | ||||||||||||
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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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| Show: | The Adventures of Superman | ||||||||||||
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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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| Show: | Blondie | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Leading Ladies | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The J.C. Dither's Construction Company's Annual Get-Together and Social is about to be celebrated. Dagwood is not only on the entertainment committee, he IS the entertainment committee. | ||||||||||||
| 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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| Show: | The Life of Riley | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Old Gold Comedy Theater 28 - She Loves Me Not | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||
| Sherlock Holmes 215 - Uneasy Chair | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Rathbone & Bruce | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | Classic Tales | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. | ||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||
| 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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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Henry has a date with Helen Forbes. | ||||||||||||
| 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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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| 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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| Categories: | Western | ||||||||||||
| 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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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Joe Nadler has been selling the meat from stolen cattle, while his wife tries to adopt an orphan! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on December 7, 1957. | ||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||
