| 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: | Windows 3.0 released by Microsoft (1990) BORN: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle author (1859) DIED: Victor Hugo author (1885) |
| Quote: | Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. (Abraham Lincoln) |
| Fact: | Paleobotany is the study of fossil plants |
| Word: | pinguid (adjective) Fat; oily; greasy; unctuous |
| Fortune Cookie: | Love conquers all |
| Poem: | So true a fool is love, that in your Will, / Though you do any thing, he thinks no ill. (Shakespeare) |
| Joke: | My wife and I went to a hotel where we got a waterbed. My wife called it the Dead Sea. |
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| Jungle Jim 82 - Bhutan Condemns Lil To Death | |||||||||||||
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| Speed Gibson 21 - Leave on Bullet Plane | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Clint and Barney take off in the Bullet Plane in search of Marsha, while another plane of The Octopus follows behind. | ||||||||||||
| Fu Manchu 7 - Terror at Greymoat | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 986 - Trail Of The Train Robbers | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 220 - Angels with Dirty Faces | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A tough guy returns to his old neighborhood and his old ways...all the way to the chair. Stars: James Cagney & Pat O'Brien | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 44 - Buffalo Hills ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Clark Kent meets Governor Carlson and Asa Hatch once again and explanations are in order. The treacherous Keegan has planted a mysterious package in the Governor's car. Superman prevents a tragedy, but Colonel Boles has been murdered! | ||||||||||||
| Blue Beetle 5/06 - Murder For Profit | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An industrialist has been murdered on the operating table in hopes of manipulating the stocks of his companies. The Blue Beetle uses Formula X-4 to melt the lock on a suspicious safe. - The Blue Beetle is captured by the arch-fiend Cochran, who plans to maim ... | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1940-05-22 - Sins of the Fathers - aka Carling Tells All, Tilson Gift Racket | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A racketeer's son has lost faith in his own father and accuses him of being a crook! Carling tells the whole story to Britt Reid at the Sentinel. When his son is kidnapped, Carling finds he can't tell the truth after all. In a brief transition, the orchestra ... | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1456 - Ghost Town | |||||||||||||
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| Sherlock Holmes 130 - The Adventure of the Superfluous Pearl | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Rathbone & Bruce | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | Classic Tales | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | rathboneandbruce.net | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1769 - Teddy Roosevelt, No 2 | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 440 - Springtime in the Rockies | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Betty Grable & Dick Powell | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 197 - Up in Mabels Room | |||||||||||||
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| Inner Sanctum Mystery 228 - Dead to Rights | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An inept couple murder for profit, and then run when the net closes in on them. | ||||||||||||
| The Strange Dr Weird 29 - Revenge from the Grave | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | "Renaldo the Great" returns from the grave each month when the moon is full, to kill those who had him executed. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1295 - Al Vincent's Corrupt Political Machine ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Daily Planet has incriminating letters against the dirty political machine of Martin Higgens. Jackson Beck doubles as "Beanie." Mary Hennig tricks Lois Lane into giving her a job at the newspaper. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2080 - The Ranger and the Bull-whip | |||||||||||||
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| Abbott & Costello Show 176 - Lou Wants to Marry Marilyn | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1555 - Superman Vs. Kryptonite ep7 | |||||||||||||
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| Casey 186 - Pick-Up | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Casey is killed twice in one evening and lives to tell about it. A girl met in the street is bumped off for knowing too much. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 246 - Knight Comes Riding | |||||||||||||
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| Frank Merriwell 86 - Mystery of the Iron Door | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The boys come upon an iron door in a large cave. On the other side lies the answer to the theft of a secret bauxite formula. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Frank Race 4 - Seventeen Black | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | After winning three times at a Saratoga casino roulette table on 17 - Black, Frank Race is pulled back to NYC by Mark because of a new case. An employee at a company insured by one of firms that Race works with stole $60k and up and committed suicide. Races ... | ||||||||||||
| Blackstone 34 - Four Keys to Crime | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Crime | Media / Stars | Spinoff | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A magic box catches a thief. Blackstone explains the "A Bottle, Match and Coin" trick. | ||||||||||||
| Box 13 ep40 - Death Is No Joke | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A friend of Dan’s asks him to come and help him with a personal problem. He’s staying with a cousin who had been estranged from the family for a long time but returned to claim his father’s estate. However, the visit has gotten weird because ... | ||||||||||||
| Damon Runyon Theater 34 - So You Won't Talk? | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A parrot is the only witness to the killing of a playboy. | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 42 - Peanuts the Great Dane | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Miss Brooks finds herself in charge of 'Peanuts,' a huge Great Dane. | ||||||||||||
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 5 - The Stolen Purse | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A little old lady gives Diamond a seemingly valueless black purse. Everyone wants it very badly ... bad enough to kill for it. Dick Powell sings, "Lullaby and Goodnight." | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 29 - The Make up Man | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A muezzin in Cairo is murdered, right in front of Rocky Jordan. He's the third muezzin to be killed! It's all a plot to overthrow the government of Egypt. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 364 - Fatal Fraud | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An excellent voice impersonator in Hong Kong joins a scheme to redirect an airplane carrying $250,000. | ||||||||||||
| Crime Does Not Pay 33 - The Second Hand Pistol | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An impoverished couple pawn their last possession to buy two pistols in order to start a life of crime. | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 193 - Portuguese Cove | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2706 - The Tribal Talisman | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 703 - Jolson Sings Again | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Al Jolson & Barbara Hale | ||||||||||||
| Night Beat 16 - I Wish You Were Dead | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Randy Stone meets the meek Mr. Fettle in the park. This gentleman can kill just by thinking someone dead! | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 1009 - Guard of Honor | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Night Beat 95 - Target for a Week | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Randy Stone is accused of being a killer by 'Panagen', the mysterious muckraking columnist for the opposition Chicago paper. It appears Randy's going to be executed along with Johnny Liggett! | ||||||||||||
| Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle 72 - Night Riders of Tomkia | |||||||||||||
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| Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 42 - The Greatest Show in the Universe ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The circus lands on Venus but efforts to sabotage it continue. | ||||||||||||
| Horatio Hornblower 44 - Command of the La Mouch | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Water / Boats | War / Armed Forces | ||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 157 - One Fresh Onion | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Heroes | ||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 109 - Monopoly | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A "businessman" from St. Louis named Ivy is planning to take over the freight business in Dodge, with a gunfighter to help him do it! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on October 4, 1958. | ||||||||||||
| My Little Margie 1955-05-22 - Does Margie Marry Freddie | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Vern pretends he's old and feeble so Margie won't marry Freddie. The date is subject to correction. | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 290 - Stretch is Accused of Professionalism | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stretch Snodgrass is to be the star pitcher during the big baseball game against Clay City High. Stretch's weak academic abilities may stand in his way. | ||||||||||||
| X Minus One 5 - Knock | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Aliens who have no concept of natural death have wiped out humanity, literally to the last man and woman, whom they put in a zoo as public curiosities. Story by: Fredric Brown | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 651 - Fragile-Contents Death | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An interesting story about a Postmaster's attempt to find a time-bomb among thousands of packages before it goes off. | ||||||||||||
| X Minus One 52 - The Defenders | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mankind has retreated underground to escape the horrors of a surface decimated by World War Three, leaving the machines to continue the fighting. Story by: Philip K. Dick | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 397 - Tears of Night Matter ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny visits Sam Costigan, a very tough guy! | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 424 - Marryin' Bertha | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Chester has attracted a mail order bride by telling her that he's really Matt Dillon. She's big and ugly, but is she really Bertha Housecavitz, a woman who marries and then murders her husbands? | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 79 - Lucky Penny | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Lucky Penny mine has suddenly started to produce gold again ... and Paladin smells a rat. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 854 - Out the Window | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 689 - Man Who Waits Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man just out of jail goes for the jewels that he stashed seven years ago, and Johnny goes right after him! | ||||||||||||
