
| 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: | Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby (1875) BORN: Sugar Ray Leonard boxer (1956) DIED: Sandro Botticelli painter (1510) |
| Quote: | Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly. (Seneca) |
| Fact: | Egyptian Gods: Amun (God of Thebes) - Nut (Goddess of Sky/Stars) - Wadjet (Goddess of Pregnancy/Motherhood) - Seth (God of Deserts/Evil) |
| Word: | heteroclite (adjective) 1: Deviating from the ordinary rule; irregular; eccentric 2: (In grammar) Irregularly inflected |
| Fortune Cookie: | Smiling often can make you look and feel younger |
| Poem: | See the morning breeze / Ruffling his so silky hair... / Cool caterpillar / (Haiku by Buson) |
| Joke: | My wife wanted the to hear the pitter patter of little feet. So I put shoes on our cat. |
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| Chandu the Magician 1933-05-17 313 - Drawings from Lamuria | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Tarzan - The Diamond of Asher 13 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 133 - Another Language | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Bette Davis & Fred MacMurray | ||||||||||||
| Ripley's Believe It or Not 1938-05-17 - 43) Premature Burial | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Buck Rogers 19 - Mechanical Mole ep7 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Fu Manchu 5 - An Ally of Love | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Spy / Espionage | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A visit to "Parson Dan" and a scream caused by "The Seven." Greba! | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 984 - Fisheye Confesses | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 42 - Buffalo Hills ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Governor Carson has refused to pardon a criminal. Pete Flores plans revenge on Asa Hatch and Clark Kent. Clark and Asa are unable to warn the governor of the danger facing him. | ||||||||||||
| Blue Beetle 3/04 - Sabotage & Liquidation | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A new Army pursuit plane crashes, it looks like an inside job! The Blue Beetle is captured by Capt. X-13, who plans to kill him along with the daughter of the president of the plane company. - The Blue Beetle sinks the sabotage ship and rescues the beautiful ... | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1941-05-17 - Smashing the Counterfeiting Ring | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The Hornet breaks up a counterfeiting ring using young boys to "pass the queer". | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 38 - The Manganese Mine | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1610 - Rawhide or Rhubarb | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 396 - The Talk of the Town | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Ronald Colman & Cary Grant (repeat) | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 144 - Whistling in Dixie | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1767 - The Thirteenth Time | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1945-05-17 - Biography, Incorporated | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 141 - Two Birds with One Stone | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1292 - Hate Mongers Organization ep24 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2078 - Fear | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Red Ryder 1947-05-17 - The Brandbuster | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Red helps a girl save her ranch and cattle even though she doesn't want his help. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1746 - Ghost Brigade ep10 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| My Friend Irma 58 - Irma Wants to Join Club | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Leading Ladies | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Jane has been accepted into the, "New York Professional Women's Club." Irma wants to be a member too. | ||||||||||||
| The Green Lama - The Man Who Never Existed (audition) | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Jethro Dumont - the Green Lama - travels to Mexico to investigate the murder of his archaeologist friend, Professor Hendricks. | ||||||||||||
| Philo Vance 45 - Butterfly Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The Broadway Butterfly, Josie Daniels, is a nightclub singer and a blackmailer, and finally a corpse. | ||||||||||||
| 2000 Plus 10 - The Insect | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A scientist who has amplified the size of insects in his basement laboratory, must take a short trip out of town, leaving his wife who is terrified of the insects. The wife and a delivery boy become trapped in the lab with the monstrous insects. Alternative: ... | ||||||||||||
| Dr Kildare 16 - Nurse Parker Resigns | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Romance | Medical Romance | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Nurse Parker finally has enough of Doctor Gillespie and quits. Gillespie is glad to see her go. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 365 - Fishing at Grass Lake | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2704 - Message in a Canteen | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Mark Trail 47 - Claws of the Killer Bear | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | Non-fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 429 - Another Man's Poison | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle 19 - Lake of Blood | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Escape 183 - North of Polaris | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Mixed Bag | Horror | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2786 - Suzanne Barkley Told Mother Alive | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 552 - The Revenge of Captain Bligh | |||||||||||||
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| Hancock's Half Hour s2 5 - Holiday Camp | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Sid hires the Lad to run his new venture, but then he discovers a surprise next door. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 598 - Lili and the Colonel | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A story of the British fighting the Mau Mau in Kenya. Life and death in an African colony. | ||||||||||||
| 21st Precinct 137 - The Partners | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Philip Ardino is found dead in a borrowed car. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 394 - Matter of the Medium, Well Done ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The Medium well-done: appears! | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 371 - Scared Boy | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | When Cora Meadows and her young son Tad witness a killing, Marshal Dillon uses the boy as bait to catch the murderer! | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 26 - Silver Queen | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mme. Annette Vargas has inherited half of Leady Kane's mine, but needs Paladin to establish her claim. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 802 - Friend of Daddy's | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 637 - Twin Trouble Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The twin brother of one of Johnny's insurance clients is being blackmailed, because of his criminal record. | ||||||||||||




