| 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: | Marie Antoinette Louis-Auguste (later king of France) (1770) BORN: Liberace pianist (1919) DIED: Sammy Davis, Jr. entertainer (1990) |
| Quote: | To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage. (Confucius) |
| Fact: | In Disney's "Fantasia", the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards.) |
| Word: | trunnel (noun) Treenail; Wooden peg that swells when wet, used for fastening timbers mainly in shipbuilding |
| Fortune Cookie: | You will move to a wonderful new home within the year |
| Poem: | Gone were but the winter cold, / And gone were but the snow, / I could sleep in the wild woods / Where primroses blow. (Cunningham) |
| Joke: | A happy marriage is a matter of give and take; the husband gives and the wife takes. |
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| Tarzan - The Diamond of Asher 12 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Jungle | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Jungle Jim 29 - Eavesdropper is Caught | |||||||||||||
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| Chase and Sanborn Hour 1937-05-16 - 2) Guest Carole Lombard | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 827 - No Worse Enemy | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 176 - The Girl from Tenth Avenue | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A lawyer gets good and drunk when his fiancée marries someone else. Recovering the next morning, he finds himself married to a total stranger. Stars: Loretta Young & George Brent | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 198 - Grayson Submarine ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve - Audition | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Jack Armstrong 1941-05-16 - Cave of the Fiery Crocodile | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1297 - Border Queen | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Red Ryder 1942-05-16 - 45) Wildcat Wire | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A young student of electricity uses the barbed wire on a ranch to fix a cut telephone line and call the cavalry to the rescue. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 1 - Retribution | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | John Hendrix has killed his wife and feeble-minded step-son with an axe while trying to steal their money. Escaping jail and returning for the money years later, there are strange events in a strange house. The eerie whistling heard at the beginning ... | ||||||||||||
| Chase and Sanborn Program 1943-05-16 - Claudette Colbert and Rags Ragland | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy | ||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 82 - House Hunting | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1944-05-16 - 654) Paroled for Revenge | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 19 - Uncle Bill Blaine's Legacy | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Wealthy William Blaine forces Blackie to guard him from the murder threats from his three hated relatives. Blaine is shot while in a locked room, with a cop on either side of him! A good piece of detection! | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1922 - Indian Boy | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Abbott & Costello Show 136 - Costello Runs for Mayor | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1291 - Hate Mongers Organization ep23 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 431 - Shrimp Togan | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Rogues Gallery 47 - The Impossible Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Judge Colin Baker receives a death threat and hires Richard Rogue to protect him for a day. Rogue does a lousy job, as Baker is found dead, apparently strangled! | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 193 - The Plan | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1551 - Superman Vs. Kryptonite ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2234 - The Bully | |||||||||||||
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| My Friend Irma 6 - Jane and Irma Lose Their Jobs | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Leading Ladies | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Both Jane and Irma lose their jobs at the same time. Al backs a friend in a poker game to ante up some cash for the girls. | ||||||||||||
| Sherlock Holmes 34 - The Case of the Everblooming Roses | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Stanley & Shirley | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | Classic Tales | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Escape 41 - The Match | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Mixed Bag | Horror | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| I Love Adventure 4 - The Pearl of Great Price | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | I Love Adventure | ||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The adventurers are sent into the Indochinese jungle to recover treasure from a lost city. | ||||||||||||
| Nick Carter, Master Detective 340 - The Case of the Salesman of Death | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Interesting story about a swami-type who claims to be able to pray people to death ... and does! | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 448 - The Giant of Madras | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A stolen gem aboard a train and murder puts the Shadow on the case. | ||||||||||||
| Sherlock Holmes 32 - The Adventure of the Gray Pasha | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Stanley & Spelvin | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | Classic Tales | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Starring John Stanley as Sherlock Holmes and George Spelvin as Dr. Watson. | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 422 - The Unburied Dead | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A strange story about a woman who first finds out that she's not who she thinks she is, then, that she's been dead for six years, and finally, that she's wanted for murder! | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 140 - Come and Get Me | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 658 - April Showers | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Jack Carson & Dorothy Lamour | ||||||||||||
| Philip Marlowe 84 - The Cloak of Kamehameha | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | There are two Philip Marlowe's in Honolulu, looking for a very valuable "historical cloak" and one of the Marlowe's is found dead in a lily pond, with a cross between his shoulder blades. | ||||||||||||
| Philo Vance 97 - The Manicure Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A scientist named Edgar Wilson has been shot and is dying. But first, he stops for a manicure! The Miller brothers, who killed Professor Wilson, are blown to pieces when they try to get 'Experiment X'. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 49 - Sidney Rykoff Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A prize fighter in Kansas City, Missouri, is kidnapped for a $25,000 ransom, and he's insured for $100,000! | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 405 - Boating Date | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Harold Peary 33 - Does Florabelle Have a New Lover? | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Harold acts nonchalant with Florabelle, but she has a date with someone else. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2860 - Journey to Adventure | |||||||||||||
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| The Lives of Harry Lime 42 - Elusive Vermeer | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Horace St. John Windemeer and Harry plan to dispose of a Vermeer painting that's about to be stolen. | ||||||||||||
| Wild Bill Hickok 79 - Champion of Faro Flats | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Heroes | ||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 56 - The Big Con | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | An interesting show about a fascinating, original way to rob a bank! | ||||||||||||
| Space Patrol 1953-05-16 - Secret of Sub Level 7 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Botar OTR | ||||||||||||
| Description: | All day long, huge crowds have thronged United Planets Park on the man-made planet Terra. All the leading scientists from Mercury to Pluto have been demonstrating improvements in spaceship equipment, in surface cars,also in such also in such home appliances ... | ||||||||||||
| Theatre Royal 33 - Dr Knock | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 393 - Matter of the Medium, Well Done ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A thing or two about a killer, and a medium not so well-done. | ||||||||||||
