| 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: | James Earl Ray arrested for killing Martin Luther King Jr (1968) BORN: Francis Crick biologist (1916) DIED: Cochise Apache leader (1874) |
| Quote: | Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. (Plato) |
| Fact: | Herpetology is the study of amphibians and reptiles |
| Word: | ahimsa (noun) A Buddhist and Hindu belief in the principle of refraining from harming any living being |
| Fortune Cookie: | Good things are being said about you |
| Poem: | White chrysanthemum ... / Before that perfect flower / Scissors hesitate / (Haiku by Buson) |
| Joke: | What's the difference between a dead lawyer on a street and a dead dog on the street? There are skid marks in front of the dog. |
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| Flash Gordon 7 - Dr Zarkov to the Rescue | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Tarzan - The Diamond of Asher 29 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Jungle | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 84 - The Thin Man | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: William Powell & Myrna Loy | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 837 - The Ranger Impersonates | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1939-06-08 - Trouble Hits The Trolleys | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The Hornet goes after the head of a bus company that seems to be involved in causing accidents to a competing trolley company. | ||||||||||||
| Bulldog Drummond 42 - Counterfeit War Stamps | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1463 - Lumber for the Railroad | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 45 - Five Canaries in the Room | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A bachelor party turns deadly when a dead body appears and an apartment with canaries seemingly disappears. Story by: John Dickson Carr | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 332 - Reverend Jim | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 95 - Case History on Edgar Lowndes | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A railroad magnate visits a psychiatrist with complaints of headaches and bad dreams Story by: Robert Tallman | ||||||||||||
| The Avenger 1 - High Tide Murders | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1946-06-08 - The Hornet Does It | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Judy Canova Show 1946-06-08 - 67) Judy Prepares for a Quiz Show | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Leading Ladies | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Life of Riley 116 - The Bread Shortage and the Black Market | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Sam Spade 50 - Calcutta Trunk Caper | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Constance Pendleton is about to marry Major Andreyev Brodnick, a Bulgarian bluebeard. The Major has been married several times before and all the girls were wealthy and have ended up dead. Spade finds himself en route to India aboard the "S.S. Lurene" | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1762 - Mystery of the Sleeping Beauty ep15 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Mysterious Traveler 157 - Murder Is My Business | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A radio writer is offered $600 a week to work for Basil King, "the most hated man in radio." Unable to stand it anymore, the writer decides to kill him ... using the sponsor's new product! | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 230 - Ma Vie Perfume | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Blackie breaks up a gang that specializes in a phony perfume racket with a sideline of murder. | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 662 - The Case of the Yellow Ribbon | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Dr Kildare 20 - Gordon Mallory's Lead Poisoning | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Romance | Medical Romance | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Gordon Mallory is a construction worker who is suffering from lead poisoning. Then a second worker develops the same symptoms. How did they contract the disease? | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 388 - The Case of Henri Vibard | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 52 - Caligio Diamond Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The fabulous gem, worth $200,000 has been stolen. Everyone who has owned the diamond has been killed, including Mr. Benson, the current owner. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2870 - Death Will Out | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Night Beat 45 - The Search for Fred | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Where in Chicago is Fred Graham? He's been bitten by a rabid dog but doesn't know it ... and time is running out! aka 'A Hot Night In June' | ||||||||||||
| The Falcon 381 - Dirty Dollars | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Spy / Espionage | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Mike Waring starts the program with a radical change. He accepts the date offered by one of his unlimited girlfriends because he's quitting the detective business! In a trans-network swipe at another detective, the first victim during the story is named, "Mr. ... | ||||||||||||
| Tales of the Texas Rangers 81 - Illegal Entry | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A Mexican knifes a fellow countryman and kidnaps a girl. An escape on a train filled with sheep leads Jace and the Rangers on a cross-country race. Jose escapes from jail and the hunt begins once again. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 523 - Man in the Way | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A two-bit detective is hired to uncover the identity of her husband's "friend." The private-eye takes the woman's gun away and frames her when the husband is murdered. | ||||||||||||
| Whitehall 1212 ep28 - Case of the Strange Bonfire | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A broken and heat-fused lock from an automobile is an exhibit in the 'Black Museum'. A hatless man is seen running from a burning car, strangely close to Guy Fawkes' Day. | ||||||||||||
| Hall of Fantasy s2 29 - The Hand of Botar | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A game of chess with a gent whose hand can think for itself! | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 516 - The Mystery of the Marie Celeste | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1954-06-08 - 197) The Posse Sheriff | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2802 - Wallace Sends Letter | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 218 - Sara Dearing Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A moving star of the Twenties has been killed in a fire ... or committed suicide ... or was killed by her doctor. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3232 - The Pinkerton Man | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 410 - Indestructible Mike Matter ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The conclusion of the story. Old Mike may be indestructable, but Johnny Dollar certainly isn't! | ||||||||||||
| Frontier Gentleman 19 - Sheriff Bellboy's Prisoner | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Kendall is imprisoned by a sheriff-judge-jury in one man, and teaches good English to his fat, giggly daughter. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 322 - Hot Horse Hyatt | |||||||||||||
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| Luke Slaughter 15 - Big Business | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | It was early when Wichita and I started out for Fort Huachuca - too early. But an Apache runner had come to my ranch in the night with news I didn't like, and I had to see Colonel Nickerson. right away. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 754 - The Invisible Ape | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 590 - Wayward River Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A rampaging river at flood crest, and a man who tries to profit from it. Near Jackson, at Carterette, Ohio ... it is just off the Ohio River. | ||||||||||||
