| 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: | Shakespeare's Sonnets 1st published in London (1609) BORN: Honore de Balzac novelist (1799) DIED: Christopher Columbus explorer (1506) |
| Quote: | Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. (Oscar Wilde) |
| Fact: | Inventors: Microwave oven - Percy Spencer (1946) / Computer mouse - Douglas Engelbart (1963) / Pendulum clock - Christiaan Huygens (1657) |
| Word: | embracery (noun) An attempt to influence a jury (Eg; threats, bribery,promises) |
| Fortune Cookie: | In youth and beauty, wisdom is rare |
| Poem: | Rash tom-cat lover... / Careless even of that rice / Stuck in your whiskers / (Haiku by Taigi) |
| Joke: | Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life in which you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. |
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| The Lone Ranger 829 - Confederate Money | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 125 - A Poison Dart | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Kiri the Pygmy strikes, and a traitor to The Octopus is no more! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 43 - Buffalo Hills ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Clark is in jail, pretending to be a member of the Pete Flores gang. Superman tries to protect the Governor from a kidnap attempt. | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 264 - Midnight | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | An amusing romance about a down-and-out American in Paris and a Parisian taxi driver, who find themselves considered Hungarian nobility by French Society. Stars: Claudette Colbert & Don Ameche | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1455 - Hands Across the Plains | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-05-20 - 163) Jap Patrol Boards Junk | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures by Morse 20 - The Face of the Beast | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Spy / Espionage | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Cobra King Strikes Back Part 7 | ||||||||||||
| Chase and Sanborn Program 1945-05-20 - Janet Blair @ Norman OK | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Nick Carter, Master Detective 183 - Mystery of Hangman's Wood | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A mite far fetched solution to a ghostly dynamite plot. | ||||||||||||
| Old Gold Comedy Theater 29 - Boy Meets Girl | |||||||||||||
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| The Sealed Book 10 - Welcome Home | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man returns home to find his family isn't exactly glad to see him. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1293 - Hate Mongers Organization ep25 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2079 - North Star | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 528 - Deadline at Dawn | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Joan Blondell & Paul Lukas | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 298 - Guest Wife | |||||||||||||
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| Sherlock Holmes (Rathbone & Bruce) 216 - Haunting of Sherlock Holmes | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 208 - Broken Chain | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | This is possibly the West Coast broadcast. The East Coast broadcast was heard on August 21, 1946. Arnold Stanton decides to kill his wife, Evelyn. A bathtub drowning is just the thing. After the murder, his wife calls him at the office, very much alive! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1553 - Superman Vs. Kryptonite ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Terry and the Pirates 1947-05-20 - Puzzle of the 13 Orphans | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
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| Weird Circle 77 - Markheim | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1749 - Mystery of the Sleeping Beauty ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Challenge of the Yukon 654 - Adventure in Selkirk | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Life of Riley 246 - Junior Drops Out of School (aka Jrs Deliv. Bus) | |||||||||||||
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| Dimension X 7 - The Lost Race | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A space crew find themselves shipwrecked on a world where the ruins of a long dead spacefaring civilization hide a deadly secret that has the power to destroy the present as it did the past. Story by: Murray Leinster | ||||||||||||
| The Falcon 334 - Curious Cop | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Who killed Frank Walsh? He was possibly a cop on the take. Police corruption and greed leads Michael Waring to a murder without a corpse! | ||||||||||||
| Archie Andrews 1951-05-20 - Big Ball Game | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Mr. Moto 1 - A Force Called X-07 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mr. Moto foils a communist plot to destroy part of New York with a portable atomic weapon. | ||||||||||||
| The Saint 171 - Pin the Roses on My Corpse | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Saint matches wits with a killer who leaves behind a red rose on the corpse. The last show with Vincent Price in the lead. | ||||||||||||
| Tales of the Texas Rangers 44 - Square Dance | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The story is based on the events of October 14, 1949. Mort Rogers has been killed at a square dance, knifed in the parking lot by a man known to steal from parked cars. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 468 - Custom-Made Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man plans to use an ex-convict to kill his hated sister-in-law. | ||||||||||||
| Wild Bill Hickok 8 - A Charge on Devil's Mountain | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Heroes | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lineup 85 - Wacky Williams' Wooftop Wrangle | |||||||||||||
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| Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 41 - The Greatest Show in the Universe ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A circus hires the cadets to escort it to the planet Venus. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 497 - Leroy Writes a Theme | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3175 - Refund for Thunder | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 156 - Ten Minute Mayor (1 - | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1954-05-20 - 192) The Sheriff's Brother | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2789 - DA Says the Blade Published Suzanne's Return | |||||||||||||
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| The Roy Rogers Show 1954-05-20 - 17) Song - Stampede | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
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| The Six-Shooter 34 - The Shooting Of Wyatt King | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | ho shot the bank robber named Wyatt King? He was also known as, 'The Wyoming Kid. ' Was it the Six-Shooter? Of course! | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3224 - The Quiet Highwayman | |||||||||||||
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| Fort Laramie 17 - Black Hills Gold | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A group of men head up the Bozeman Trail into Indian territory, searching for gold and breaking the treaty. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 215 - Buffalo Man | |||||||||||||
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| Hancock's Half Hour s5 18 - Prize Money | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The lad gets more than he bargained for when he wins a TV quiz show. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 926 - Dagger of The Mind | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 790 - Two Steps to Murder Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man found dead in Las Vegas must have killed himself, because the poison was so bitter that he must have tasted it ... right? | ||||||||||||
