| 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: | Jackie Cochran becomes 1st woman to break sound barrier (1953) BORN: Frank Capra film producer (1897) DIED: William Saroyan author (1981) |
| Quote: | The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. (Bertrand Russell) |
| Fact: | The distance from the surface of Earth to the center is about 3,963 miles (6,378 kilometers) |
| Word: | inquorate (adjective) (of a meeting) Without enough people to form a quorum (minimum number of members to transact business) |
| Fortune Cookie: | What's vice today may be virtue tomorrow |
| Poem: | Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying. (Herrick) |
| Joke: | Lucky for me, my wife wasn't fussy. She once dated a man so ugly, when they went walking in the woods, he found truffles |
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| Flash Gordon 4 - Death Battle Won by Flash | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Tarzan - The Diamond of Asher 14 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 828 - The Man Least Suspected | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 177 - Death Ray Blown Up | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Hand grenades in the room of the death ray machine. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1454 - Thorndyke's Double Deal | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 352 - A Man to Remember | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Lionel Barrymore & Anita Louise (repeat) | ||||||||||||
| Red Ryder 1942-05-18 - 46) Thundering Tumbleweeds | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Who's been poisoning the water holes? Brad Kilgore gets the town store-keeper killed and plans to take over most of the ranches in the valley. | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-05-18 - 161) Teaching Slugger | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 42 - The ABC Murders | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Alexander Bonaparte Cust is a traveling salesman who is prone to blackouts due to a previous head injury. At first his headaches and lapses in memory were just a nuisance, but lately whenever Cust travels to a new town and experiences one of these blackouts, ... | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 329 - The Outlaw's Nemesis | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 92 - Donovan's Brain, Part One | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A rare 2-part 1 hour episode. Following a fatal car accident, a vicious tycoon's brain is kept alive by an ambitious scientist, who is certain that his technique will save countless lives. Unfortunately, this brain does not have such philanthropic inclinations. ... | ||||||||||||
| Archie Andrews 1946-05-18 - Jive Talk | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Children / Teenagers | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1946-05-18 - Dr Moylan's Patient | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 410 - Death Rides High | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A heartless racket, throwing people out of airplanes, is broken by the Shadow. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1747 - Ghost Brigade ep11 | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 227 - Imperial Oil Company Racket | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Blackie is captured by a "femme fatale" who is working for an oil stock swindler. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 328 - Marjorie's Invitation | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 385 - Angel Face | |||||||||||||
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| Dr Kildare 69 - Mysterious Haemophilia Patient | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Romance | Medical Romance | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A mysterious patient is hospitalized with hemophilia. Who is he? | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2861 - Dressed to Die | |||||||||||||
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| Night Beat 42 - Juke Box Romance | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Randy Stone, night reporter for the Chicago Star, looks into a bizarre romance between a dwarf newsdealer and 'Julie, the Juke Box Girl'! aka Juke Box Julie | ||||||||||||
| The Falcon 378 - Falling Star | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Spy / Espionage | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | It’s Sunday afternoon in New York and in his hotel suite Ken Marlow who smashed his way to movie stardom by portraying a two fisted drinking man is giving a sample of the performance that made him famous, only this time Ken isn’t acting. | ||||||||||||
| Comic Weekly Man 265 - American Weekly Better Than Ever, First Comic - Hopalong Cassidy | |||||||||||||
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| Tales of the Texas Rangers 78 - Smart Kill | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The story is based on the events of May 14, 1939. A dead body found in a burning building leads Jace Pearson to a killer. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 520 - Determined Traveler | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A larcenous tourist in Italy is given a valuable necklace by an equally larcenous tour guide. | ||||||||||||
| Whitehall 1212 ep25 - The Case of Sydney Wolfe | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A set of false teeth and a small bottle of petrol in the Black Museum help Scotland Yard solve the murder of Sidney Wolfe's mother. | ||||||||||||
| Hall of Fantasy s2 26 - The Crawling Thing | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An ambitious scientist invents a formula that, when injected into a tarantula, causes the critter to grow really, really big. Can't be too long before it goes on a homicidal rampage. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3174 - The Last of the Carson Gang | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 829 - The Girl in White | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: June Allyson & Steven Forrest | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 513 - Vial of Death | |||||||||||||
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| Crime and Peter Chambers 7 - La Grand Maison 3rd Booth | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A married dentist, who is seeing another woman, has shot his girlfriend's husband. The dead body disappears and blackmail begins. Peter meets Dr. Burns at a French restaurant, 'Le Grande Maison '. He's been seeing a patient romantically, which leads to the murder ... | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2787 - Suzanne Won't Talk | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 215 - Bilked Baroness Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A robbery of jewels and furs valued at $100,000 leads Johnny to a bankrupt ex-husband, a known jewel thief and other unsavory characters, and a murder with a large bore Winchester! | ||||||||||||
| The FBI in Peace and War 503 - The Fast Pace | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 395 - Matter of the Medium, Well Done ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The conclusion of the story. A bit of heartbreak for a very chastened girl. | ||||||||||||
| Frontier Gentleman 16 - Advice to the Lovelorn | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A man returns from the East to find his friend shot and paralyzed, and his girl married to the gunman! | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 319 - The Stallion | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Oat Harker takes the prize horse of Dan Stokes and mistreats him. Both Dan Stokes and the horse have a few things to say about Oat Harker! | ||||||||||||
| Luke Slaughter 12 - Drive To Fort Huachuca | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Watson and his baddies from the Triple X are determined to keep Luke's herd from reaching the army post at Fort Huachucha. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 751 - Zero Hour | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A very popular story with radio producers. Neighborhood children invent a new game called 'Invasion'—or is it just a game? 3 versions of this story were produced for Suspense. Versions also appeared on Future Tense, Adventure Theater, Dimension X, The Mysterious ... | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 587 - Ghost to Ghost Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny investigates a whole town which seems to be haunted, it's not just a haunted house. | ||||||||||||
