| 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: | 1st solo nonstop flight across Atlantic by Charles Lindbergh (1927) BORN: Fats Waller pianist (1904) DIED: Niccolo Zucchi astronomer (1670) |
| Fact: | Finland has 187,888 lakes (larger than 500 square meters) and 179,584 islands |
| Quote: | Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. (Sir Winston Churchill) |
| Word: | exuviate (verb) To shed or cast off (a covering) |
| Fortune Cookie: | Your family is young, gifted and attractive |
| Poem: | Considerate dogs ... / Stepping off into the snow / As I walk the path / (Haiku by Issa) |
| Joke: | My wife took an IQ test and the results were negative |
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| Tarzan - The Diamond of Asher 15 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Jungle | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Cruise of the Poll Parrot 35 - Sue & Johnny in the Jungle | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Sue and Johnny face unknown dangers in the jungle. It's a moving shadow with gleaming eyes! | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 73 - Blank Thought Waves | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The thought-recording machine shows Barney's mind to be perfectly blank! | ||||||||||||
| Buck Rogers 21 - Chase After Killer Kane ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 20 - Revue | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Constance Bennett, Gertrude Niesen, Robert Benchley, Maxie Rosenbloom, The King Sisters. The King Sisters swing out in pidgin English and dialect Chinese! | ||||||||||||
| The Aldrich Family 1940-05-21 - 47) School Picnic | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Children / Teenagers | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 200 - Grayson Submarine ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1299 - Trouble on the Rio Grande | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1612 - Gold and Galena | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 127 - City Employee's Picnic | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Weird Circle 39 - The Middle Toe of the Right Foot | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Based on a ghost story by Ambrose Bierce first published in The San Francisco Examiner on April 17, 1890. A duel with knives in a haunted house at night, revenge of the ghost who lives at home. | ||||||||||||
| Michael Shayne s1 32 - Murder Trial of Jack Holmes | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Jack Holmes has been tried and convicted of murder. | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 246 - Desert Song | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Sherlock Holmes (Rathbone & Bruce) 177 - The Paradol Chamber | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 156 - The Man Who Bought Death | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A small time hood gets into the counterfeiting business, with surprising results. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1294 - Al Vincent's Corrupt Political Machine ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 71 - The Blaine Brothers Pawn Shop Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Blackie tries to find the killer of Paul Blaine, the half-owner of a pawnshop. The main suspect, however, has a perfect alibi! | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 272 - Detour to Terror | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A man and his twin sister are lured from a country road where they meet a strange blind man and his brother. | ||||||||||||
| Nick Carter, Master Detective 236 - The Case of the Poker Murders | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Nick Carter vs. 'The Ace of Spades' ... a batmanesque costumed villain. A battle of wits ... according to Hoyle! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1554 - Superman Vs. Kryptonite ep6 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 123 - Blackie Breaks into Prison | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Blackie breaks INTO prison to solve a murder and prevent a convict from being framed for it. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 250 - Teacher Problems | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2236 - The Wild Horse | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1750 - Mystery of the Sleeping Beauty ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| Philip Marlowe 34 - Night Tide | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mike Basso, the burly owner of fishing boats, has been beaten up by Johnny Dyke, who has just been released from prison after three years for stealing Basso's money. Murder follows as sure as the tide! | ||||||||||||
| Archie Andrews 1949-05-21 - The New TV Set | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Frontier Town 12 - Return of the Badmen | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Chad Remington defends a Mexican framed for murder. | ||||||||||||
| Pat Novak for Hire 15 - Give Envelope to John St John | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Down on the waterfront in San Francisco you don't get prizes for being subtle. You want to make a living down here, you gotta get your hand in the till any way you can. | ||||||||||||
| Hopalong Cassidy 21 - Range War | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Media / Stars | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 93 - Rare Black Orchid | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | School | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Walter Denton has discovered uranium ... on his shoe! Meanwhile, someone has stolen Mr. Conklin's rare black orchid! | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 81 - The Beggar of Farar | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 416 - The Return | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Ellen Denton attempts suicide in despair of ever finding her missing husband. When evidence surfaces that he's still alive, Ellen is amazed because she killed him herself! | ||||||||||||
| Bold Venture 9 - Fake American Passport | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Water / Boats | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A printer named Sanchez has been beaten up. Slate and Sailor solve a case of counterfeit passports. | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 245 - Big Brother | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 445 - Happy Moving Day | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3019 - Prisoner Returns | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Wild Bill Hickok 80 - Bandits of Badwater Country | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Heroes | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2790 - Suzanne Told She Must Talk to Mason | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 237 - Stone Valley Sheep War | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 162 - The Liar from Blackhawk | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 396 - Tears of Night Matter ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A fabulous necklace, and a fabulous girl! | ||||||||||||
| A Case for Dr Morelle 5 - The Blackmailer | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Dr Morelle probes the dealings of a mysterious Spanish count. | ||||||||||||
| Journey into Space - Operation Luna 9 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The crew talk with 'the voice'. They learn that the strange music they've been hearing is generated by a strange, omnipresent power that 'the voice' and his people use to drive their ships. 'The voice' warns them that they are in great danger, and persuades ... | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 476 - Chester's Rendezvous | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 739 - Lone Wolf Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A story of blackmail. | ||||||||||||
