| 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: | Star Wars film is 1st released (1977) BORN: Ralph Waldo Emerson essayist (1803) DIED: The Venerable Bede historian and monk (735) |
| Quote: | Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. (Euripides) |
| Fact: | The Ancient Egyptian Calendar had three seasons, called Akhet, Proyet, and Shomu. |
| Word: | collyrium (noun) A medicinal lotion applied to the eye; eyewash |
| Fortune Cookie: | The time has come to allow your heart to guide you |
| Poem: | Black desolate moor... / I bow before the buddha / Lighted in thunder / (Haiku by Kakei) |
| Joke: | Knock knock. Nun in bath:"Who's there?" Man:"Blind man" Nun in bath:"OK come in". Man:"Cor,great breasts! Where you want the blind?" |
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| Chandu the Magician 1933-05-25 319 - Vitrius Telescope Is a Radio | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Flash Gordon 5 - Rules over Cave World | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Tarzan - The Diamond of Asher 19 | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Tarzan - The Diamond of Asher | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Jungle | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 831 - The Word of a Soldier | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Lone Ranger | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Buck Rogers 23 - Chase After Killer Kane ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 178 - The Octopus Finally Captured | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The Octopus is captured and the death ray machine is destroyed. About four minutes are missing from the middle of the show, the plot and continuity are not seriously affected. The end of the adventure. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1457 - Tomorrow's Trail | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 353 - Test Pilot | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Robert Taylor, Rita Hayworth & Robert Preston | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-05-25 - 166) Driving Invader Tank | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 43 - Sorry, Wrong Number | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mrs. Stevenson is a bedridden woman whose only access to the outside world is her telephone. One day, while listening to what seems to be a crossed phone connection, she overhears two men planning a murder. With the police unhelpful, can she piece together ... | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 330 - The Idol | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 93 - Donovan's Brain, Part Two | |||||||||||||
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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. ... | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1946-05-25 - Polarized Glasses | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Green Hornet | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Life of Riley 114 - Junior Sells Peanuts at the Circus | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Life of Riley | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Mysterious Traveler 105 - Mind over Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Mysterious Traveler | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | An excellent story about mental control over others and a living dead man. The program has some great organ bridges. | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 411 - Seance with Death | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A blackmailer has been bumped off. The killer's trail leads to a phony medium and a dishonest psychiatrist. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1752 - Mystery of the Sleeping Beauty ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of Superman | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 228 - Blackie and Mary go to Canyon Dude Ranch | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Blackie brakes up a "Bluebeard" racket at a summer resort. | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 656 - Death and the Lucky Seven | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 329 - Gildy Sues Bullard | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Mr Keen 1292 - The Broken Window Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Mr Keen Tracer of Lost Persons | ||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A dead rabbit provides Mr. Keen with the final clue to a killer. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 386 - Very Much Like a Nightmare | |||||||||||||
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| Dr Kildare 70 - Dr Gillespie's New Office | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Romance | Medical Romance | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Dr. Carew wants Dr. Gillespie to move into a new office. Is he serious? | ||||||||||||
| Night Beat 43 - Fear | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Randy Stone receives a threatening letter, and gradually begins to believe himself in danger. Fear starts to build. | ||||||||||||
| The Falcon 379 - Happy Hoodlum | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of the Falcon | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Spy / Espionage | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | For people who want to crash out of jail ... murder can be a bad break! | ||||||||||||
| The Charlie McCarthy Show 1952-05-25 - The Mills Brothers | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Tales of the Texas Rangers 79 - Jailbird | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | On October 8, 1939, Jim Hackett broke out of a Texas state prison and went on the lam with his wife. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 521 - Charming Hostess | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A woman is shocked to learn that she's going to be blackmailed by a woman who went to jail in her place. | ||||||||||||
| Whitehall 1212 ep26 - The Case Of Maggie Ralenson | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A doctor's instrument case and a pair of child's rompers in the Black Museum help the Constabulary apprehend the fiend behind the packages of body parts found in Scotland. | ||||||||||||
| Hall of Fantasy s2 27 - The Twisting Weeds of Death | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A teenager returns from a supposedly haunted house on the seashore with a tale for the local sheriff about witnessing the murder of a young woman there; but there has been no such murder - at least not for twenty years, anyway. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3177 - Heritage of Treason | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 830 - Lure of the Wilderness | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Jean Peters & Jeffery Hunter | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 514 - Pigeon in the Cage | |||||||||||||
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| Barrie Craig 138 - The Corpse Who Was Wrong | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Barrie is hired to locate the very young, wife of a dead elderly client. Mr. Stubbins was interested in changing the outcome of the inheritance. | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1954-05-25 - 193) Magic of Death | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2792 - Perry Knows Suzanne Afraid for Her Mother | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 216 - Punctilious Firebug Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A firebug strikes promptly on Tuesday nights, and only at those with new fire insurance policies! | ||||||||||||
| The FBI in Peace and War 504 - The Schemers | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 400 - Tears of Night Matter ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The conclusion of the story. The "Tears Of Night" come home. | ||||||||||||
| Frontier Gentleman 17 - Bound For Laramie | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A good story about a white woman captured by wild Indians, and of her rescue | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 320 - Blue Horse | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Luke Slaughter 13 - Outlaw Kid | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Luke Slaughter of Tombstone | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Luke is accused of stealing horses and rustling cattle. He and Wichita hit the trail to Mexico to prove their innocence. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 752 - Like Man, Somebody Dig Me | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 588 - Midnite Sun Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny's flying in a cargo plane over Alaska with a load of dynamite ... when the pilot gets appendicitis! The script was adapted from one used at a convention of airline pilots on March 14, 1958 | ||||||||||||
