| 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: | The Dunkirk evacuation ends (1940) BORN: Freddy Fender musician (1937) DIED: Giacomo Casanova lover (1798) |
| Quote: | It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. (Confucius) |
| Fact: | The Macintosh was launched early 1984 it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a GUI |
| Word: | wowser (noun) A person regarded as excessively puritanical; a killjoy |
| Fortune Cookie: | Listen to yourself more often |
| Poem: | Do your worst, old frost / You can no longer wound me ... / Last chrysanthemum! / (Haiku by Oemaru) |
| Joke: | "Look, guide, here are some lion tracks." "Good. You see where they go and I'll find out where they came from." |
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| Tarzan - The Diamond of Asher 25 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Cruise of the Poll Parrot 37 - Poll Parrot Takeover Attempt | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | An attempt is made to take control of the "Poll Parrot." Dicken and his men battle with Briney and his men! | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 75 - Arrow Almost Hits Speed | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The house and garden of La Sho Tse Ring. | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 22 - Variety | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: George Murphy, Dick Powell Marie Wilson, Lionel Stander, Rosalind Russell, Tyrone Power, Jean Hersholt. The last show of the season, the Gulf commercial is about the World's Fair in New York. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 206 - Dr. Deutch and the Radium Mine ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1305 - Evil Spirits at Sentinel Rock | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1618 - Sundown in Sego City | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Leonidas Witherall 1 - Square Nazi Jack Boot | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of Leonidas Witherall | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A dead man is occupying Leonidas' closet during an afternoon tea. It turns out the Nazis are at work! | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 129 - Eve's Mother Arrives | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Life of Riley 21 - Fish Story | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1930 - Horse Called Silver | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 486 - Intermezzo | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Ingrid Bergman & Joseph Cotten (repeat) | ||||||||||||
| Michael Shayne s1 34 - Judge Stanton Murdered | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Judge Stanton has just been murdered, and his house was robbed too! Victor Ratner's prints are found at the scene of 4 burglaries and this murder. But Ratner was only released from prison two days ago. | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 248 - The Heavenly Body | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 158 - Murder is Blind | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | "If I can't you have, no one else can!" A spurned woman goes blind to prevent her lover from marrying another. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1304 - Al Vincent's Corrupt Political Machine ep11 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 73 - Old Man Graham's Wife | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Three people each have a motive for killing Tom Marshall, an old man, even though he seems to have died a natural death. Then three people are killed within 5 hours ... with the same knife! | ||||||||||||
| Encore Theater 1 - Magnificent Obsession | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The first show of the series. A man with no goals in life decides to become a surgeon after he indirectly causes the death of a famous doctor, and the blindness of the doctor's wife. Stars Cornel Wilde and Lurene Tuttle. | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 274 - Eight Steps to Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A newsman plans to murder a Broadway producer and marry the man's wife. | ||||||||||||
| Nick Carter, Master Detective 238 - The Case of the Dictaphone Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A recording of a bribe and then a murder ... but where's the record? | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1564 - Superman Vs. Kryptonite ep16 | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 125 - Eva Cronin is Stalked | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Blackie gets on the trail of, "The Stalker", an extortionist and murderer. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 252 - Income Tax Audit | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2242 - Rustler's Round-up | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1760 - Mystery of the Sleeping Beauty ep13 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2399 - Call from Rosita | |||||||||||||
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| Philip Marlowe 36 - The Unfair Lady | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Marlowe tackles a thief in a Mexican diamond mine. | ||||||||||||
| Frank Merriwell 137 - Mystery Man | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Frank has to prove a man innocent of a 3-year-old crime to win a law scholarship and remain at Yale. | ||||||||||||
| Frontier Town 14 - Guns of Wrath | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A gang of crooks trapped in a canyon take a hostage and blow up the dam. Jeff Chandler is billed as "Tex" Chandler. | ||||||||||||
| Gang Busters 583 - Appointment With Death | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | aka The Date with Death | ||||||||||||
| Pat Novak for Hire 17 - Agnes Bolton | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | That's what the sign out in front of my shop says. Pat Novak for hire. It's about the only way to make a living down on the waterfront in San Francisco. Because around here a set of morals won't cause any more stir than Mother's Day in an orphanage. | ||||||||||||
| Cloak and Dagger 4 - The Brenner Pass Story | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | War / Armed Forces | Spy / Espionage | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Donald Harper, who was assigned to blow up an Italian highway and who succeeded with the help of a beautiful woman. Even though this O. S. S. agent did not live, his mission was a success. | ||||||||||||
| Hopalong Cassidy 23 - Death Paints a Picture | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Media / Stars | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 84 - The Word of a Bishop | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A young girl is left in the Cafe Tambourine and is promptly kidnapped. Intrigue in the native quarter and a murder soon follow. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 418 - Caesar's Wife | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A story about a gangster who has a secret, and who decides to kill his wife. Several backfires follow. | ||||||||||||
| Bold Venture 11 - The Blue Moon | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Water / Boats | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Mr. Cameron asks Slate Shannon to free his daughter from the clutches of Norton and his gambling ship, "The Blue Moon." | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2868 - The Refugee Bandit | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 749 - A Ticket to Tomahawk | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Dan Dailey & Anne Baxter | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 447 - Katie Lee Visits | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3025 - A Message Goes Wrong | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 84 - Du Caine Revenge | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Heroes | ||||||||||||
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| Captain Starr of Space - Citizens of Mars | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The high priest of the ancient Martians, speaking through the sacred cube, threatens the destruction of the universe. aka "Mystery on Mars" | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1953-06-04 - 92) Golden Slugs of Rainbow Falls | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2800 - DA Wants to Question Suzanne | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 164 - Jealousy | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A trouble-making Faro dealer named Lonnie Pike has his hand stabbed while dealing. He threatens to make trouble for Marshal Dillon. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on July 6, 1957. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 406 - Indestructible Mike Matter ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The story of the most amazing character, with at least nine lives! | ||||||||||||
| A Case for Dr Morelle 7 - The Will | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A young man in distress and an old man in danger. | ||||||||||||
| Journey into Space - Operation Luna 11 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | 'The voice' consoles the crew, who are embarrassed by their shock, and guides them to another dome where they are given a meal and beds to sleep in. Next morning, 'the voice' tells the crew about the Earth's native 'forest creatures', destructive and hostile ... | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 478 - Cows and Cribs | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Joe Nadler has been selling the meat from stolen cattle, while his wife tries to adopt an orphan! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on December 7, 1957. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 741 - Stock-In-Trade Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Murder in Memphis ... the killer is broken with the help of a broker. | ||||||||||||
