| 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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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| 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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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A mite far fetched solution to a ghostly dynamite plot. | ||||||||||||
| Old Gold Comedy Theater 29 - Boy Meets Girl | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Sealed Book 10 - Welcome Home | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A man returns home to find his family isn't exactly glad to see him. | ||||||||||||
| Sherlock Holmes 216 - Haunting of Sherlock Holmes | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Rathbone & Bruce | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | Classic Tales | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1293 - Hate Mongers Organization ep25 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2079 - North Star | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 528 - Deadline at Dawn | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Joan Blondell & Paul Lukas | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 298 - Guest Wife | |||||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| 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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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| 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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| Show: | The Adventures of the Falcon | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Spy / Espionage | Crime | ||||||||||||
| 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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| Categories: | Humor | Children / Teenagers | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Mr. Moto 1 - A Force Called X-07 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| 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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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| 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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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| 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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| Description: | The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on January 11, 1958. Marshal Dillon and Chester are taken prisoner by Ben Siple, an insane buffalo hunter. The Pawnee Indians prove an unexpected ally. | ||||||||||||
| Hancock's Half Hour s5 18 - Prize Money | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
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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? | ||||||||||||
