| 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: | Mickey Mouse premiers in his first cartoon Plane Crazy (1928) BORN: James Mason actor (1909) DIED: Emily Dickinson poet (1886) |
| Quote: | If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. (Albert Einstein) |
| Fact: | The prehistoric bird Archaeopteryx is named from the Greek 'archaios' meaning ancient and 'pteryx' meaning 'feather' |
| Word: | eagre (noun) A high tidal wave rushing upstream into an estuary; tidal bore |
| Fortune Cookie: | The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by wanting more |
| Poem: | Come come! come out! / From bogs old frogs command the dark / And look ... the stars! / (Haiku by Kikaku) |
| Joke: | A drunk was in front of a judge. The judge says, "You've been brought here for drinking." The drunk says "Okay, let's get started." |
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| Jungle Jim 81 - Revelation | |||||||||||||
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| Speed Gibson 20 - Speed is Knocked Out | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Marsha is smuggled onto a river boat inside a large box, while Speed is nearly drowned trying to save her. | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 120 - Murders in Wax | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A killer in jail for life manages to enact his revenge on those who sent him up. | ||||||||||||
| Buck Rogers 18 - Mechanical Mole ep6 | |||||||||||||
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| Fu Manchu 4 - In the Clutches of Fu Manchu | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A visit to an opium den where Dr. Fu puts an end to Dr. Petrie (??) | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 983 - Pablo And The Baby | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 219 - Tovarich | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A comedy about two starving Russian emigres who become servants in the home of a wealthy Parisian, and much more. Stars: William Powell & Miriam Hopkins. The intermission guest is Grand Duchess Marie, a cousin of the Czar who escaped from Russia in 1918 ... | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 41 - Buffalo Hills ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Clark Kent and Asa Hatch are on a train heading for Buffalo Hills. Superman finds a man riding the rods and planning to sabotage the train! | ||||||||||||
| Blue Beetle 1/02 - Drug Ring | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Commissioner's daughter is kidnapped by the dope ring, and is rescued by the Blue Beetle. This episode: the origin story. Trying to arrest a dope peddler selling marijuana cigarettes, Dan Garrett is machine-gunned and is near death. Dr. Franz slips him some ... | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1453 - West of Dodge | |||||||||||||
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| Terry and the Pirates 1942-05-15 - 160) Dude and Terry Escape | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 52 - The Man Who Waited | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Wealthy but mean old-lady Bartlett is against the marriage of her son ... to anyone. | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 439 - Action in the North Atlantic | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: George Raft & Raymond Massey | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 196 - Priorities on Parade | |||||||||||||
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| Sherlock Holmes (Rathbone & Bruce) 125 - Adventure Of The Missing Bloodstain | |||||||||||||
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| Inner Sanctum Mystery 227 - The Black Art | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A murderer about to be hanged is rescued by a woman with strange powers. aka Death Row Exit | ||||||||||||
| The Strange Dr Weird 28 - Picture of a Killer | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A murdering bank robber swears revenge on a street photographer after his picture sends him to prison. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1290 - Hate Mongers Organization ep22 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2077 - The Black Hood | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1550 - Superman Vs. Kryptonite ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Dick Tracy 1947-05-15 - 1067) The Case of the No-Account Swindle | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 245 - Death at Live Oak | |||||||||||||
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| All-Star Western Theatre 93 - Circus Pitch | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | he first tune is, "Trail Herdin' Cowboy." A circus midget helps "The Riders" get the drop on a gang of bad guys. | ||||||||||||
| Archie Andrews 1948-05-15 - The Hiccups | |||||||||||||
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| Buster Brown Gang 1948-05-15 - Pirates and the Parrott | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | Children / Teenagers | Spinoff | ||||||||||||
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| Frank Merriwell 85 - Ballot Box Mystery | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An election of the Yale Drama Society is the setting for fraud. Two aspiring "Juliets" and a ham actor are involved. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 296 - Deadline at Dawn | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Frank Race 3 - Istanbul Adventure | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Frank Race is in Istanbul when a lovely lady outrunning bullets races out of the night to bump into Race. Race was planning on leaving Turkey the next day but decides to stick around to help her, especially when she talks about an American who has been hurt ... | ||||||||||||
| Blackstone 33 - The Voodoo Treasure | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Shark Island has several mysterious inhabitants, including two ghosts. Blackstone explains "The Walking Hairpin" trick. | ||||||||||||
| Box 13 ep39 - Daytime Nightmare | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Dan is kidnapped and taken to an asylum. He’s been made up to look like someone else, and everyone insists that he’s someone named Edward Stokes, who turns out to be dead. | ||||||||||||
| Damon Runyon Theater 33 - Bred for Battle | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A search for a new heavyweight champion. | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 41 - Yearbook Photo Mix | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | It's Friday the 13th, and Miss Brooks seems destined to cause Mr. Conklin grief. A photo of Miss Brooks in a bathing suit doesn't help! | ||||||||||||
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 4 - Ralph Chase Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Ralph Chase hires Diamond about a problem with his step-daughter, but gangster Murray Lang takes a shot at him first. Chase's two step-children both hate him. Dick Powell sings, "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm." | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 363 - Golden Opportunity | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man kills his wife ... with predictable results. | ||||||||||||
| Crime Does Not Pay 32 - Between the Dark and the Daylight | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Competition in the numbers racket leaves 'Joey, The Poet' on the way to his own rub-out. | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 192 - The Ant Hill | |||||||||||||
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| Mark Trail 46 - Snake With the Red Hair - aka Snake Hill Survey - | |||||||||||||
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| Night Beat 15 - The Night Watchman | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Did a night watchman named Tony Graham, who walks with a cane, set a series of warehouse fires? His father seems to be a bad luck symbol too! | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 1007 - The Young Camper | |||||||||||||
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| Night Beat 94 - Death of Riley | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Riley Johnson is giving his plastics factory to his employees. But Riley Johnson is an alcoholic, determined to drink himself to death. Why? | ||||||||||||
| Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle 71 - Mask of Montiki | |||||||||||||
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| Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 40 - Marooned with Death ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Captain Yates of the first expedition to Del Porte holds the cadets prisoner. | ||||||||||||
| Horatio Hornblower 43 - Chasing the Papillion | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Water / Boats | War / Armed Forces | ||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 155 - Grandpa Rides Again | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 108 - The Indian Horse | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Obnoxious Lieutenant Flagg wins a horse race against Sy Pilcher, old Howling Dog is another matter however. | ||||||||||||
| X Minus One 4 - Universe | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Humanity's descendants aboard a space Ark are divided into two factions - the lower decks occupied by humans, and the upper by mutants. One man dares probe the upper levels and his quest leads him to question not only his society's prejudices, but the ultimate ... | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 650 - The Death Parade | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | As a parade finishes and the crowd disperses, two men see a woman fall from the roof of the Benson Building. Agnes Moorehead plays a woman who stumbles across a threatening letter and then becomes involved in murder. | ||||||||||||
| X Minus One 51 - Hallucination Orbit | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stationed alone on Pluto for six years and suffering from isolation psychosis, a man begins to have 'visitors'. Story by: J.T. McIntosh | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 392 - Matter of the Medium, Well Done ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Sometimes the best laid plans take a terrible beating when a lovely girl steps into the picture. | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1958-05-15 - 610) The Outlaw Brand | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 423 - Tall Trapper | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Tassie, the wife of Rowley, is found beaten to death. A taciturn trapper named Ben is accused of the crime. | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 78 - Lina Countryman | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Lena Countryman, a schoolteacher, is going to be killed by Dutch Talbot because she caused the death of his son by trying to teach him to swim. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 853 - Deadman's Story | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 688 - Mystery Gal Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | "Andy The Actor" is on the loose, along with a woman with an uncanny voice. | ||||||||||||
