| 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: | Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England (1533) BORN: Brigham Young Mormon church leader (1801) DIED: Adolf Eichmann Nazi executed (1962) |
| Quote: | Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star. (Confucius) |
| Fact: | A group of apes is called a 'Shrewdness' |
| Word: | senescent (adjective) growing old; aging |
| Fortune Cookie: | Your luck will be changed today |
| Poem: | If I had thought thou couldst have died, I might not weep for thee; But I forgot, when by thy side, That thou couldst mortal be: (Wolfe) |
| Joke: | There was a beautiful young woman knocking on my hotel room door all night! I finally had to let her out. |
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| Chandu the Magician 1933-06-01 324 - Vitrius Thought Chandu Was Dead | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Flash Gordon 6 - Blue Magic Men Capture Flash | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Tarzan - The Diamond of Asher 24 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Jungle | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 83 - The Legionnaire and the Lady | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Marlene Dietrich & Clark Gable | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 834 - Oil Lease Swindle | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1939-06-01 - Words And Music | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Joe, Jack, and Jim are running a music publishing racket. | ||||||||||||
| Bulldog Drummond 41 - The Case of the Hare and the Hound | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1460 - Gold Rush That Failed | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 44 - Banquo's Chair | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A renowned prosecutor is determined to catch the only murderer who ever evaded his litigation, with the aid of an unusual ally - the shade of his target's victim. Another version was produced for Sleep No More. Story by: Rupert Croft-Cooke | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 331 - A Joke Led to the Gallows | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 94 - Fugue in C-Minor | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Ida Lupino plays a debutante looking to marry a recently widowed socialite in early 20th century Philadelphia. She learns that his home has been built around a giant pipe organ that can be heard, and felt, throughout the house. Disturbing events begin to occur ... | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1929 - Strong Medicine | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1946-06-01 - 759) Accidents Will Happen | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Life of Riley 115 - The Riley Family of Actors | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 412 - Spider Boy | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | This script was also performed on November 11, 1945 with a different cast. Young boy who thinks he's really a spider meets a fearful young girl. Object: web-building! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1757 - Mystery of the Sleeping Beauty ep10 | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of Superman | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 229 - Pudgy and the Stolen Tire Racket | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | While trying to chase a tire thief named Pudgy, Blackie has an accident and winds up in the hospital. | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 659 - The Case of the Frightened Child | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 330 - Folk Dancing Class | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Dr Kildare 19 - Colonel Boregard's Paralysis | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Romance | Medical Romance | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A Kentucky gentleman is becoming parlayzed, and there seems to be no known cause! Colonel Beauregard has, "familiar periodic paralysis". | ||||||||||||
| Mr Keen 1293 - The Quicksand Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A real estate agent losses his new tenant ... to a murderess. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 387 - A Case of Nerves | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2867 - Hunter's Hollow | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Night Beat 44 - Will of Mrs Orloff | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Randy Stone, reporter for The Chicago Star, sees a poor scrub woman die and tries to find Stanley Orloff to explain the woman's $50,000 bank book! | ||||||||||||
| The Falcon 380 - Burning Bridges | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of the Falcon | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Spy / Espionage | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Mr. Bridges offers $70,000 for a Ho-Shin Buddha. There are "five kilos" inside. The bad guys include an actor doing an obvious Peter Lorre accent. Smirnoff vodka and Mojud hosiery are "placed" within the script. | ||||||||||||
| Tales of the Texas Rangers 80 - Sell-Out | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The story is based on the events of September 15, 1949. A clerk gives the Rangers misleading information when she witnesses the robbery and shooting of her boss. | ||||||||||||
| Whitehall 1212 ep27 - Case of Winifred Hogg | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Miss Winnifred Hogg has died and it appears that her landlord has acted suspiciously. The arsenic-soaked flypaper, kept in the Black Museum, provides a much-needed clue. | ||||||||||||
| Hall of Fantasy s2 28 - The Tell-Tale Heart | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A pale blue, vulture eye haunts a man until he can take it no longer. He rids himself of the eye by murdering it's owner, all the while insisting on his own sanity. The eye is the least of his troubles, though. Soon, the beating heart of the murdered man cries ... | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 831 - High Tor | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: William Holden & Parley Baer | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 515 - A Vision of Death | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1954-06-01 - 195) Longhorns on Stampede | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Crime and Peter Chambers 8 - Angela Wentworth's Uncle | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Angel Wentworth asks Peter to, 'call on my uncle'. The man is dead, of course, and one very expensive earring is missing. | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2797 - Suzanne Calls Gus | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 217 - Temperamental Tote Board Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny's in Puerto Rico tracking down an "impossible" scheme to beat the Parimutuel machines. | ||||||||||||
| The FBI in Peace and War 505 - Gray Matter | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3229 - Boundary Cheaters | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 405 - Matter of Reasonable Doubt ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The conclusion of the story. The pitched is pegged too late and the runner comes home, the score 1 to , favor death. | ||||||||||||
| Frontier Gentleman 18 - School Days | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The new school ma'am is most popular with town residents, despite the fact that there are no children in town. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 321 - Quarter Horse | |||||||||||||
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| Luke Slaughter 14 - Cattle Drive | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Luke Slaughter of Tombstone | ||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | There's going to be an Arizona cattle drive for the Army. Luke bets his horse, 'Blue Streak,' that they'll arrive with all the cows. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 753 - Rave Notice | |||||||||||||
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