| 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: | Edward Jenner administers 1st smallpox vaccination (1796) BORN: Thomas Gainsborough artist (1727) DIED: Frank Sinatra singer (1998) |
| Quote: | If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time. (Franklin D. Roosevelt) |
| Fact: | The symbolics.com domain is the oldest registered .com domain in the world (15 March 1985) |
| Word: | dryasdust (adjective) Extremely dull, dry, or boring; pedantic speaker or writer |
| Fortune Cookie: | Wealth is not a matter of intelligence - it's a matter of inspiration |
| Poem: | For morning-glories / I can foresee grave danger... / Single-stick practice / (Haiku by Ohora) |
| Joke: | If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. |
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| Tarzan - The Diamond of Asher 10 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Cruise of the Poll Parrot 34 - Natives are Restless | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | he natives are not only restless, they attack the crew of the Poll Parrot! Dicken has been shot with an arrow. | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 72 - Thought Helmet Taken | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Trapped in the torture chamber, with the Octopus' men closing in! | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 19 - Variety | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Mischa Auer, Billie Burke, Jerry Colonna, Jack Oakie, Betty Jane Rhodes. Jack tries to sell his ring to Billie. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 197 - Grayson Submarine ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1296 - Big Bend | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-05-14 - 159) Plane Shot Down | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1609 - Jericho | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 126 - Who's Kissing Leila | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Life of Riley 18 - Riley Fixes Dinner for Mother's Day | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Weird Circle 38 - The Old Nurse's Story | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Based on the story by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. A tale of the supernatural and revenge, proving "mistakes cannot be erased". | ||||||||||||
| Sherlock Holmes 176 - In Flander's Field | |||||||||||||
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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. | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 483 - Alexander Graham Bell | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Don Ameche & June Duprez | ||||||||||||
| Michael Shayne s1 31 - Date with a Wedding | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mike and Phyllis are near the Nevada border to attend the wedding of Phyllis' friend Betty Harrison. By some strange coincidence, Inspector Farraday is also in attendance. Mr. Harrison is found dead in his private railroad car. Shayne instantly recognizes a dose ... | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 245 - First Love | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1289 - Hate Mongers Organization ep21 | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 70 - The Merry-Go-Round Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Blackie discovers John Van Doren, a famous sportsman, shot dead on a wooden horse on a revolving merry-go-round at 2 A.M.! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1549 - Superman Vs. Kryptonite ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 122 - Joe Adams Drowned | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Joe Adams is drowned in a bathtub by two gangsters. He soon is found floating in the sea lion pool at the zoo! Blackie smells something fishy! | ||||||||||||
| Captain Midnight 1661 - Stolen Star | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A plane has been forced down in a Mexican jungle and the pilot murdered. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 249 - Peavey Goes Missing | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2233 - Blotched Brands | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1745 - Ghost Brigade ep9 | |||||||||||||
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| Philip Marlowe 33 - The Promise to Pay | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A burned gambling marker and a bet on blackmail. Gangster Paul Naylor holds a gambling marker from Marlowe's friend Randall. | ||||||||||||
| Frontier Town 11 - Six Gun Justice | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Judge "Peg Leg" Cooper of Roaring River comes to town, and brings his strange brand of justice with him! | ||||||||||||
| Pat Novak for Hire 14 - Geranium Plant | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Pat Novak was approached by a woman in a bar who gave him $50 to go to a flower stand tomorrow at two o’clock and collect a geranium and deliver it to an address. She told him nothing more and said that would be the last time he saw her. He collected ... | ||||||||||||
| The Falcon 280 - Amorous Bookkeeper | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Spy / Espionage | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A book-keeper is accused of embezzling his employer's funds, his boss is soon murdered. | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 92 - Mr.Boynton's Parents | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | School | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mother's Day will soon arrive, Miss Brooks is named, 'Mother Away From Mother. ' Miss Brooks is about to become Mrs. Boynton ... Mr. Boyton's mother! | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 80 - Congo Copper | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 415 - Blue Alibi | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | The wife of a city official tries to get him to break off with racketeers who have been paying him graft. | ||||||||||||
| Bold Venture 8 - A Muncie Murderess in Havana | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Water / Boats | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2859 - Mystery Hotel | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 444 - Bronco Comes Home | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3016 - The Brother's War | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 78 - Two Plus Two | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Heroes | ||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1953-05-14 - 86) Night Before the Fair | |||||||||||||
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| Police Reporter 26 - The Hold-up | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A payroll robbery took place in Cleveland on December 30, 1920. When the driver says, "you'll get the money over my dead body," the gunmen oblige. | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2785 - Gus Sends Cablegram to JT | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 235 - Dangerous Advice | |||||||||||||
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| Gang Busters 891 - Case of the Tapped Telephone | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | aka Wire Tap Gets Gus Sickel | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 161 - Robber Bridegroom | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Franklin Reeves' fiancée is kidnapped off a stagecoach. The robber returns and surrenders for a strange reason. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on December 13, 1958. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 391 - Matter of the Medium, Well Done ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A matter of a medium well-done ... plus a seance or two. | ||||||||||||
| A Case for Dr Morelle 4 - The Sleepwalker | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man tormented by nightmares visits Dr Morelle over fears he will murder his mother. | ||||||||||||
| Journey into Space - Operation Luna 8 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Jet discovers a prehistoric stone knife near Luna, suggesting that they've travelled back in time; but there is some confusion over this when the crew discover the tracks of a great tank-like machine near their ship. One morning, a UFO exactly like the one seen ... | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 475 - The Lady Killer | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 738 - Simple Simon Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Was it murder or suicide in San Diego? | ||||||||||||
