| 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: | Uncle Tom's Cabin starts 10 month run in newspaper (1851) BORN: Pat Garrett lawman (1850) DIED: Ronald Reagan US President (2004) |
| Quote: | Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool. (Seneca) |
| Fact: | Phobias: Mysophobia - fear of germs or contamination / Necrophobia - fear of death or the dead / Autophobia - fear of being alone |
| Word: | fetor (noun) A strong offensive odor; a stench |
| Fortune Cookie: | Pat yourself on the back for creating an opportunity |
| Poem: | A bright autumn moon... / In the shadow of / Each grass an insect chirping / (Haiku by Buson) |
| Joke: | Did you hear? They took the word gullible out of the dictionary! |
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| Jungle Jim 84 - Myra Crashes Plane | |||||||||||||
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| Speed Gibson 23 - Shot at and Forced Down | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Clint and Barney make a forced landing and are helped by a friendly American, but Speed has disappeared. | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 123 - Tenor with a Broken Voice | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | . A famous tenor loses his voice in the midst of an opera. The next week, another tenor is killed by a falling sandbag. | ||||||||||||
| Fu Manchu 13 - The Deadly Bargain | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Spy / Espionage | ||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 992 - Asa Flinder's Lesson | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 222 - Prisoner of Zenda | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The romance about the Englishman who impersonated a king! Stars: Ronald Colman & Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Ronald Colman appears in two roles. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 50 - Alonzo Craig Arctic Explorer ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The missing explorer is really the witch doctor of the Cunalacas. The sacred treasure is found and the Cunalacas attack! | ||||||||||||
| Blue Beetle 13/14 - Death Strikes From The East | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The "Purple Dragon" hosts a Chinese drama, with a human sacrifice for an encore!. Tong Wars are being waged in Chinatown. The Blue Beetle looks toward the Orient to battle "The Purple Dragon". Commissioner Warren's daughter has been kidnapped. . | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1940-06-05 - Murder Seeks Its Victim - aka Crandall and the Murder Ring Racket | |||||||||||||
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| Mr Keen 416 - The Case of the Woman Who Wasn't Needed ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The last episode of the story. Mrs. Frank's strange reason for leaving her family is explained by Mr. Keen. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1462 - Moonrise on Powder Creek | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 55 - Shadow of a Mind | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Why doesn't the brain surgeon, experimenting with tissue transplants, want his daughter to get married? A brain transplant! Good mad scientist story. | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 442 - Jane Eyre | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Orson Welles & Loretta Young | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 199 - The Amazing Doctor Clitterhouse | |||||||||||||
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| Inner Sanctum Mystery 230 - Death Across the Board | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A gory story about a murdering madman battling the police as a chess game ... with dead bodies galore! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1305 - Al Vincent's Corrupt Political Machine ep12 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2086 - The Saddle | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1565 - Superman Vs. Kryptonite ep17 | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 248 - Make Mad the Guilty | |||||||||||||
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| All-Star Western Theatre 96 - Chief Many Horses | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Chief Many Horses of the Navajo saves "The Riders" from drowning in the desert! | ||||||||||||
| Frank Merriwell 88 - The Stolen Masterpiece | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Frank and Bart are swindled during an art purchase and take off in hot pursuit of the crooks. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Frank Race 6 - Vanishing President | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Frank Race is asked to look into the disappearance of three vessels which had gone missing, crew and all. The ships were insured by the same company but were owned by different enterprises. Each was sailing from the States to South America empty so regular ... | ||||||||||||
| Blackstone 36 - Death in the Crystal | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Crime | Media / Stars | Spinoff | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A phony fortune teller predicts death for Blackstone and nearly makes his prediction come true. Blackstone explains the "Cut and Restored String" trick. | ||||||||||||
| Box 13 ep42 - Design For Danger | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man escapes from murder with homicidal intentions. | ||||||||||||
| Damon Runyon Theater 36 - Cemetary Bait | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Gentleman George, sitting on death row, tells Broadway of his great public service. | ||||||||||||
| The Green Lama 1 - The Man Who Never Existed | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Jethro Dumont - the Green Lama - travels to Mexico to investigate the murder of his archaeologist friend, Professor Hendricks. | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 44 - Key to the School | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | School | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Mrs. Davis leaves with the key to Madison High, and no one can get into school! | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 31 - The Man They All Loved | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Jonathan Mellow, a famous Coptic missionary, is found dead at Rocky's doorstep. Why would this holy man buy fifty cases of liquor, and what is his connection to the riverboat, 'Delta Queen'? | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 489 - Preview of Terror | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Lamont and Margo come upon a haunted house, so filled with mayhem and dead bodies, it's almost as if it were a movie script ... as a matter of fact ... The names of two of the characters change during the course of the program. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 366 - Letter to Melanie | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A partner in a mine finally meets his pen-pal girlfriend. She's beautiful and rich! | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 791 - Six Gun Clue | |||||||||||||
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| Let George Do It 195 - The Witch of Mill Hollow | |||||||||||||
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| Night Beat 18 - The Girl from Kansas | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A story of young love and old death. A girl from Kansas named Linda Johnson has been arrested for grand theft. She's bailed out by someone she doesn't even know. | ||||||||||||
| The Lineup 41 - The Red Shirt Case | |||||||||||||
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| Challenge of the Yukon 1013 - Death by Proxy | |||||||||||||
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| Night Beat 97 - Marvelous Machine | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Professor Keefer, who has worked on developing a 'mechanical brain', becomes involved with a murder in a bookie parlor. Randy Stone, report for the Chicago Star, investigates. | ||||||||||||
| Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 46 - Vultures of Space ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A claim jumper on Del Porte commits murder to get the mineral rights near a large lake. | ||||||||||||
| Horatio Hornblower 46 - First Meeting with Bush | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Water / Boats | War / Armed Forces | ||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 161 - Battle of Buzzard Lake | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 111 - Blacksmith | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Emil, a good-natured German blacksmith, is picked on by Gil Tallman...once too often! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on September 17, 1960. | ||||||||||||
| Let's Pretend 1954-06-05 - Beauty and the Beast | |||||||||||||
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| My Little Margie 1955-06-05 - Crooked Campaign Manager | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Margie finds herself in charge of a charity fund-raising campaign | ||||||||||||
| X Minus One 7 - Perigi's Wonderful Dolls | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A dollmaker sells a father an unusual doll which seems capable of responding to people, presumably by recording voices and replaying them in its own voice. Is it just a bit of technical wizardry, or is there something more to this doll than meets the eye? Story ... | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 653 - The Twelfth Rose | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Death and eleven roses. What about the twelfth rose? | ||||||||||||
| X Minus One 54 - Project Mastadon | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Entrepreneurs appeal the government to award official state recognition to their own personal republic of Mastodonia, 50,000 years in the past. Sounds like a great opportunity to make a fortune, but the past is not all it's cracked up to be... Story by: Clifford ... | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 407 - Indestructible Mike Matter ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Proof that life is a tenacious thing, even in the broken body of a Bowery bum. | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1958-06-05 - 616) Sir Cisco, Knight of the Round Table | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 426 - Fabulous Silver Extender | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Albert Cramston is a gent with a machine that makes silver dollars out of dimes! | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 81 - Apache Concerto | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Paladin is sent to return a harmonium salesman and his lovely niece home, despite being captured by the bandit 'Chivaro'. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 856 - Two Came Back | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 691 - Canned Canary Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Valuable yellow diamonds have been stolen and the trail leads Johnny to France ... with a can opener! | ||||||||||||
