| 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: | Hillary and Tenzing 1st to reach summit of Everest (1953) BORN: John F. Kennedy US President (1917) DIED: Mary Pickford actress (1979) |
| Quote: | I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability. (Oscar Wilde) |
| Fact: | A mature birch tree can produce up to 1 million seeds per year |
| Word: | acescent (adjective) Turning sour; becoming tart or acid; slightly sour |
| Fortune Cookie: | Accept yourself |
| Poem: | For a lovely bowl / Let us arrange these flowers... / Since there is no rice / (Haiku by Basho) |
| Joke: | How can you tell if your wife is dead? The sex is the same but the dishes pile up |
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| Chandu the Magician 1933-05-29 321 - Vitrius Changes Plans | |||||||||||||
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| Tarzan - The Diamond of Asher 21 | |||||||||||||
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| Jungle Jim 83 - Bhutan Plans Massacre at the Pass | |||||||||||||
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| Speed Gibson 22 - Speed Tries to Warn Clint | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Clint and Barney are attacked in the air by a plane of The Octopus, trying to machine gun them out of the air. | ||||||||||||
| Buck Rogers 24 - Chase After Killer Kane ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Fu Manchu 10 - Prisoners of Fu Manchu | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Spy / Espionage | ||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 989 - Black Hole | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 221 - Only Angels Have Wings | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An excellent flying drama of those tin crates and the iron men who flew them, during the early years of aviation.Stars: Cary Grant & Jean Arthur. The intermission guest is the pilot of the first regularly scheduled trans-Atlantic air mail service, which ... | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 47 - Alonzo Craig Arctic Explorer ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The huge figure of an Indian appears in the sky! Superman fights off the attacking Indians and then Clark Kent finds an important clue. | ||||||||||||
| Blue Beetle 9/10 - Invisible Ghost | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An invisible Blue Beetle breaks up a racket with the help of the invisibility fluid. - The Blue Beetle tackles a crooked slot machine gang. Dr. Franz is working on an invisibility fluid! | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1459 - Longhorns' Backtrail | |||||||||||||
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| Terry and the Pirates 1942-05-29 - 170) Pat Appointed Colonel | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 441 - Old Acquaintance | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Alexis Smith & Miriam Hopkins | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 229 - Musical Score | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man is forced to share a lifeboat with a composer who keeps humming a maddening tune. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1300 - Al Vincent's Corrupt Political Machine ep7 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2083 - Empty Saddles | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1560 - Superman Vs. Kryptonite ep12 | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 247 - A Thing of Beauty | |||||||||||||
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| Terry and the Pirates 1947-05-29 - Adventure of the Limestone Ledge | |||||||||||||
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| All-Star Western Theatre 95 - The Jockey and the Cowpoke | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Guest Michael Roy visits and proves himself quite a dude. | ||||||||||||
| Frank Merriwell 87 - The Missing Mascot | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | The young boy who tags along with the Yale baseball team is kidnapped by a gang of train robbers. | ||||||||||||
| The Judy Canova Show 1948-05-29 - 155) Judy Reads Scripts | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Leading Ladies | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Frank Race 5 - Enoch Arden Adventure | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An interesting case is presented to Frank Race in the form of a beautiful woman who needs help proving her husband, missing for 7 years, is really dead so she can collect his insurance. Except she has already collected the half million and left for Switzerland. ... | ||||||||||||
| Blackstone 35 - The Knife from the Dark | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Crime | Media / Stars | Spinoff | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Murders happen during the vaudeville knife throwing act. Blackstone explains the "Two Thieves and Five Sheep" trick. | ||||||||||||
| Box 13 ep41 - The Treasure of Hang Li | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An ancient Chinese art object holds the key to a treasure and murder. | ||||||||||||
| Damon Runyon Theater 35 - Social Error | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Midgey Muldoon thwarts the amorous advances of Handsome Jack Madigan. | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 43 - Arguments Arguments | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Miss Brooks starts a quarrel with Mr. Boynton so a loving reconciliation can take place. | ||||||||||||
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 6 - The Betty Moran Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A double murder, a rich woman named Betty Moran, and a touch of blackmail lead the police to think it a murder/suicide. Dick sings, "Again." An "in joke" on the show: "Betty Moran" was the name of a real actress. | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 30 - Desert Betrayal | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Max Vladny, a Hollywood make-up man with a Russian accent as thick as borscht (which is supposed to be a Hungarian accent), asks Rocky Jordan for protection from assassination attempts. | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 488 - Monkey Woman | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A will that leaves a fortune to "the monkeys of the world", is a sure bet to generate evil (and monkey business?). | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 365 - Deal with Death | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Who has tried to murder a reporter? It's the one who's also interested in his wife! | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 788 - Notorious Chet Craig | |||||||||||||
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| Crime Does Not Pay 34 - Imported Headaches | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A dishonest German offers smuggled aspirin by the truckload. However, it's all a sting by an ex-Nazi. He has a saber scar and is a wanted war criminal too! | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 194 - Sudden Storm | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2709 - Politics and Cattle Ticks | |||||||||||||
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| My Friend Irma 156 - Fifty Dollar Loan | |||||||||||||
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| Night Beat 17 - Harlan Matthews, Stamp Dealer | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Harlan Matthews, a stamp dealer with memories of a murder he committed long ago, attempts murder, suicide and more! An 'alienist' and Randy Stone try to help. | ||||||||||||
| The Lineup 40 - The Hiccupping Hamster Hemostatic Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Who murdered Griswold, a lawyer for the mob? An informant points the finger points to the 2 hit-men. | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 1011 - The Shelf-Ridge Incident | |||||||||||||
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| Night Beat 96 - The Jockey Brothers | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Two brothers, who are both jockeys, are determined to win. For one of them, winning is everything ... no matter what. | ||||||||||||
| Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle 73 - Tarzan and the American Family Robinson | |||||||||||||
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| Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 44 - Revolt at Prison Rock ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The inmates of the prison escape and steal the Polaris. They start to terrorize the space lanes. | ||||||||||||
| Horatio Hornblower 45 - Prisoner and Rescue of Spanish | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Water / Boats | War / Armed Forces | ||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 159 - A Day of Danger | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 110 - Feud | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An Ozark mountain feud comes to the plains of Dodge City. The script was reused on the show on December 25, 1955 (with the title "Twelfth Night"). | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 291 - Spring Garden | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The school vegetable patch vs. the school goat. | ||||||||||||
| X Minus One 6 - The Man in the Moon | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Federal Missing Persons Bureau receives a desperate radio message from a crank who claims to be calling from the Moon (unlikely in 1950). Of course the call is dismissed, until a minor functionary begins to suspect that the call is related to a strange ... | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 652 - The Flame | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A pyromaniac decides to help his best friend, in the only way he knows how. | ||||||||||||
| X Minus One 53 - Lulungomeena | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Tensions at a deepspace relay station erupt over a veteran's claim that his homeworld, Lulungomeena, is the most beautiful in the galaxy. To resolve the dispute, they must rely on the arbitration of an alien Hixabrod, the most literal and honest race in the universe. ... | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 402 - Matter of Reasonable Doubt ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The dead past speaks in a musty morgue, or tries to! | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1958-05-29 - 614) Pot O' Gold | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 425 - Bad Seed | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Marshal Dillon rescues young Trudy Trent from her vicious father and brings her to Dodge. His troubles with Trudy are only beginning! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on February 4, 1961. | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 80 - Dusty | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Paladin hires out to young Dusty for $1. 61, to keep his uncle from beating him and shooting his dog. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 855 - Perfect Plan | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 690 - Red Rock Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A body found buried in the Arizona desert leads Johnny to a crazed prospector and a nest of rattlers. | ||||||||||||
