| 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: | Mars Odyssey finds signs of ice deposits on Mars (2002) BORN: Ian Fleming author (1908) DIED: King Edward VIII of the UK (1972) |
| Quote: | Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. (James Thurber) |
| Fact: | Babies are born with between 300-350 bones, but by adulthood some of these have fused and we have 206 |
| Word: | crapehanger (noun) A gloomy, pessimistic or morose person |
| Fortune Cookie: | Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant |
| Poem: | Love is a torment of the mind, A tempest everlasting; And Jove hath made it of a kind Not well, nor full nor fasting. Why so? (Daniel) |
| Joke: | People are more violently opposed to fur than to leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. |
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| Tarzan - The Diamond of Asher 20 | |||||||||||||
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| Cruise of the Poll Parrot 36 - Johnny & Sue Team Up with the Jaguar | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny and Sue head out to the privateers' camp in an effort to recover the diamonds | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 74 - Barney Found Wandering | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Barney Dunlap has returned ... after being hypnotized by The Octopus! | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 21 - A Revue With Nelson Eddy | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Nelson Eddy, Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan, The Music Maids, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ann Sheridan, Frank Borzage | ||||||||||||
| The Aldrich Family 1940-05-28 - 48) Cross Country Race | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 203 - Dr. Deutch and the Radium Mine ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1302 - The Scent of a Wolf | |||||||||||||
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| Terry and the Pirates 1942-05-28 - 169) Planes Heard Overhead | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1615 - The Ring | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 128 - Gildy's Campaign HQ | |||||||||||||
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| Weird Circle 40 - The Dream Woman | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Based on a classic mystery story written by Wilkie Collins in 1885. A man's dreams of a woman become all too real! | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 485 - Kentucky | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Laraine Day & Walter Brennan | ||||||||||||
| Michael Shayne s1 33 - Re-Create a Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The story is from 'Leer' magazine. This leads to an invitation from columnist Sherry Nelson. She's planning to re-create a murder! | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 247 - Joy of Living | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 157 - Escape to Danger | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A Nazi war criminal assumes the identify of a Swiss-born American citizen who died in a concentration camp. Things aren't as wonderful in America as the Nazi imagined. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1299 - Al Vincent's Corrupt Political Machine ep6 | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 72 - The Escaped Prisoner | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mike Harlan has broken out of prison and winds up in the apartment of Boston Blackie. | ||||||||||||
| Nick Carter, Master Detective 237 - The Case of the Demented Daughter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman is being driven to think she's insane ... but a dead man is no hallucination! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1559 - Superman Vs. Kryptonite ep11 | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 124 - The Ghost of Florence Newton | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Blackie has picked up a girl hitchhiker who's been dead for three years (hopefully, he leaves the car window open). | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 251 - Gildy Gives Up Cigars | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2239 - Tom's About Face | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1755 - Mystery of the Sleeping Beauty ep8 | |||||||||||||
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| Philip Marlowe 35 - The Ebony Link | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Marlowe is hired to end a blackmail plot. A gray sedan and a black cuff link inevitably lead to murder! | ||||||||||||
| Archie Andrews 1949-05-28 - Careful, Don't Waken Father | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Frank Merriwell 136 - Frank Merriwell's Promise | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | In order to protect the reputation of one of Boston's newspapers, Frank pitches a no-hit baseball game. | ||||||||||||
| Frontier Town 13 - The Valley of Lawless Men | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Shortly after options on many ranches have been sold, the Comanches threaten an attack, sharply reducing property values! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Sam Spade 205 - Honest Thief Caper | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Ben Comiskey has been arrested for robbing a liquor store. A story of a good brother and a bad brother. | ||||||||||||
| Cloak and Dagger 3 - The Trojan Horse | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | War / Armed Forces | Spy / Espionage | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Gabrielle Monet, a Parisian nightclub singer, is brought to Casablanca to give her former lover the wrong information about the planned Allied invasion of North Africa. | ||||||||||||
| Hopalong Cassidy 22 - Letter from the Grave | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Media / Stars | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 94 - Traffic Court | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Miss Brooks demands a jury trial after a traffic accident ... and guess who's on the jury? | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 82 - A Song in the Night | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A drunken Legionaire, singing below Rocky's window, is soon found murdered. | ||||||||||||
| Bold Venture 10 - Sailor Framed for Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mr. Cloaky offers Shannon and Sailor $25,000 in cash for their hotel and the boat. Mr. Cloaky is promptly knifed to death and guess who's blamed for the crime. | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 508 - The Unforgiving Corpse | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A railroad stationmaster sees ghosts and gets messages from a man who's been dead for ten years. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2865 - The New Neighbor | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 446 - A Motor for Leroys Bike | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3022 - Dan and Bones Milbank | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 82 - Rawhide Whip | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1953-05-28 - 90) Contraband | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2795 - Perry Tells Suzanne He Didn't Promise Their Safety; Bebe Is Home | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 239 - Frozen Desert | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 163 - Cow Doctor | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 401 - Matter of Reasonable Doubt ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A case of many doubts, all of them unreasonable! | ||||||||||||
| A Case for Dr Morelle 6 - Voice in the Night | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Dr Morelle investigates death threats made to an elderly spinster. | ||||||||||||
| Journey into Space - Operation Luna 10 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | They learn more about 'the voice' and his people – they are a peaceful, scientific race from the opposite side of the universe. They learnt to travel through time when their solar system was threatened by its expanding sun. The crew explore the city, ... | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 477 - The Sod-Buster | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 740 - Yaak Mystery Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An avalanche on Lost Horse Mountain is supposed to hide the evidence, but not from Johnny Dollar. | ||||||||||||
