| 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: | Boris Yeltsin elected President of Russian Republic (1991) BORN: Anne Frank diarist/Holocaust victim (1929) DIED: Gregory Peck actor (2003) |
| Quote: | A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. (Franklin D. Roosevelt) |
| Fact: | The first chocolate beverage is believed to have been created by the Mayan peoples around 2000 years ago |
| Word: | provender (noun) 1: Dry food used as livestock feed (Eg: hay) 2: Food or provisions |
| Fortune Cookie: | Anger begins with folly, and ends with regret |
| Poem: | She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove; A maid whom there were none to praise, And very few to love (Wordsworth) |
| Joke: | I don't mind taking a risk, as long as I know everything will turn out okay. |
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| Tarzan - The Diamond of Asher 31 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 24 - Flower Boat is Sighted | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Bob Gilmore joins the fight against the Octopus. | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 124 - Murder on Approval | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A foreign agent tries to conquer America by infecting the U.S. Army with a secret disease. | ||||||||||||
| Fu Manchu 16 - Karameneh's Plea | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 995 - Amos Todd's Ring | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 223 - White Banners | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A modern morality tale of love and near-death, based on a stolen invention. Stars: Fay Bainter & Lewis Stone | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 53 - Horace Morton's Weather Predictions ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The weather forecasts of Lois' uncle Horace Morton are being used by a gang of criminals. After another uncannily accurate forecast by Horace Morton, Elmer Rodgers has been found murdered! | ||||||||||||
| Blue Beetle 17/18 - Frame-Up | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A dead cop provides the clue to a gang victimizing parolees. The Blue Beetle is captured and arrested! - A gang threatens the parole commissioner's daughter by tying her to a log and pushing her through a buzz saw! | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1940-06-12 - Sales Make a Swindle - aka Sales Tax Racket | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1465 - Outlaws in War Paint | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 56 - Justice | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The eternal triangle down on the farm, complicated by several doses of arsenic. | ||||||||||||
| Blondie 1944-06-12 - 38a Dagwood Suspected as Bank Robber (aka Dagwood Has A Dream) | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Leading Ladies | ||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1778 - John Wesley Hardin | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 443 - Naughty Marietta | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Nelson Eddy & Jeanette MacDonald (repeat) | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 231 - Portrait of Death | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A cursed painting invariably kills its owner. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1310 - Clan of the Fiery Cross ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| The Sad Sack 1946-06-12 - Returns Home From Army | |||||||||||||
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| Philip Marlowe (0) - Who Shot Waldo | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1570 - Superman Vs. Kryptonite ep22 | |||||||||||||
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| Red Ryder 1947-06-12 - Tornado on the Trail | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Red and Little Beaver come across cattle rustlers on the old Chisolm trail. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 249 - Stand-In | |||||||||||||
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| All-Star Western Theatre 97 - Living Western Style | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Guest Preston Foster sings with the boys and tells a story about Judge Roy Bean. | ||||||||||||
| Archie Andrews 1948-06-12 - Archie Fights a Cold | |||||||||||||
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| Frank Merriwell 89 - Tap Day | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Frank has been framed during a trotting race. A hypodermic needle was planted on him, jeopardizing his chances for admission into, "Skull and Crossbones." | ||||||||||||
| Gang Busters 533 - Case of the Park Avenue Pilferers | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Frank Race 7 - Baradian Letters | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | In Paris on vacation, Frank Race confronted by two women in his hotel room, one of them being a lady who had helped him out once during one of his OSS adventures. Now she is in danger of being murdered and turns to Race for help. A bigwig named Baradian is behind ... | ||||||||||||
| Blackstone 37 - The Hindu Sword Cabinet | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Crime | Media / Stars | Spinoff | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The famous magician's prop is used to trap a phony spiritualist. Blackstone explains "The Whispering Queen" trick. | ||||||||||||
| Box 13 ep43 - The Dead Man Walks | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman asks Holiday to find her father, who has disappeared. He’s an ex-convict, and she’s worried that he’s gotten into trouble. Holiday thinks that he’s found the man’s body, but the body disappears before he can tell anybody. | ||||||||||||
| Damon Runyon Theater 37 - The Melancholy Dane | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Dramatic actor & a critic battle after a bad review. | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 45 - The Wishing Well Dance | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | School | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | There's going to be a 'Wishing Well Dance' at Madison High, and everyone wants a lock of Miss Brooks' hair. | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 32 - The Man from Damascus | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Rocky gets one thousand Egyptian pounds from 'The Man From Damascus', who is all wrapped in bandages. There are, of course, strings attached. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 367 - Perfect Alibi | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An ex-private eye tries his hand at murder-and-marriage for profit. | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 196 - The Iron Cat | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 706 - The Corn Is Green | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Richard Basehart & Olivia de Havilland | ||||||||||||
| Night Beat 19 - Football Player and the Syndicate | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Ex-football star Tom Paxton is in deep trouble with Frank Burr, a crooked politician who wants him to find a blind man and kill him! As part of a Wheaties commercial, announcer Frank Martin introduces Sara Berner, who's own program, 'Sara's Private Caper' is about ... | ||||||||||||
| The Lineup 42 - The Harrowing Handball Haggada Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Cully Price is accused of the Spartan payroll job, and is identified in a line-up. After his confession, the rest of the gang is slowly tracked down. | ||||||||||||
| Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle 75 - Tarzan and the Long Journey | |||||||||||||
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| Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 48 - Satellite of Death ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The gang attacks Rhea and destroys the atmosphere dome. | ||||||||||||
| Horatio Hornblower 47 - Planning Mutiny on the Renoun | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Water / Boats | War / Armed Forces | ||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 163 - Rocks of Rawhide Canyon | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Heroes | ||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 112 - The Cover Up | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Barnaby Hoffer plans to kills Art Long, but both of them are found dead! It looks like Sam Baxtin did it! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on January 12, 1957. | ||||||||||||
| My Little Margie 1955-06-12 - Trip To Silver Lake | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A planned camping trip to Silver Lake is prepared for by spending the night on the roof. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 654 - A Matter of Timing | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man hires a professional killer to bump off his partner, with surprising results. | ||||||||||||
| X Minus One 55 - If You Was a Moklin | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The primitive, native Moklins are so enamored of humans that they want to be just like us. But the humans soon discover that imitation can not only be flattering, but deadly. Story by: Murray Leinster | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 412 - Laughing Matter ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The great man condescends and shivers too, a young girl's hate is blacker than the rocks on the beach. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 427 - Kitty Accused | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Hattie Grimes accuses Kitty of stealing her diamond pin. Hattie's husband Arnie happens to be in love with Kitty. Could that have something to do with it? | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 82 - Search for Wylie Dawson | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Paladin tries to return Willie Dawson to El Paso ... to tell him that he's no longer a wanted man. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 857 - Elemental | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 692 - Harried Heiress Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A plan to marry into an inheritance fails when Johnny rushes to the "marriage mills" of Las Vegas. | ||||||||||||
