| 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: | Francis Drake claims Nova Albion (California) for England (1579) BORN: Eddy Merckx cyclist (1945) DIED: Edward Burne-Jones artist (1898) |
| Quote: | I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. (Dorothy Parker) |
| Fact: | Aztec Gods: Chalchiuhtlatonal (God of Water) - Camaxtli (God of Hunting/War/Fate/Fire) - Cipactonal (God of Astrology/Calendar) |
| Word: | apostate (noun) One who abandons his or her religion, principles, political party, or some other cause |
| Fortune Cookie: | Think of mother's exhortations more |
| Poem: | Moon so bright for love! / Come closer, quilt... enfold / My passionate cold! / (Haiku by Sampu) |
| Joke: | Children in the dark make accidents, but accidents in the dark make children. |
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| The Lone Ranger 841 - Gunning for the Sheriff | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Lone Ranger | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 129 - Attack Repelled | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A warning from The Octopus, a desert tribesman is questioned. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 55 - Horace Morton's Weather Predictions ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of Superman | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Lois drives down the mountain at break-neck speed. She is forced off the road and into the lake, but she's rescued by Superman! Dr. Morton can actually create weather, but has been kidnapped from a jail cell! | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1940-06-17 - Witness a Murder - aka WPA Graft Racket, Finney's WPA Racket | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Green Hornet | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The Hornet tackles politician Finney and his W.P.A. graft racket. | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 268 - After the Thin Man | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Dramatization of a Dashiell Hammett story. Nick and Nora Charles solve their second case. Stars: William Powell & Myrna Loy. Murder, mystery, comedy film. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1467 - Ambush at Bright Rainbow | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 1 - The Burning Court | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | An editor reads a book about famous murderers and is horrified to see a picture of a murderess burned at the stake many years ago—a woman who looks exactly like his wife. Later adapted as the feature film "La Chambre Ardente" in 1962. Story by: John Dickson ... | ||||||||||||
| Adventures by Morse 24 - Girl on Shipwreck Island The Beginning | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Spy / Espionage | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Chase and Sanborn Program 1945-06-17 - Guest Garry Moore | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Sealed Book 14 - Broadway Here I Come | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Two murderers try to come to the "Big Town" with strange results. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1313 - Clan of the Fiery Cross ep6 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Casebook of Gregory Hood 3 - Murder of Gregory Hood | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Casebook Of Gregory Hood | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Gregory Hood pretends that he's been murdered and then tries to find his own killer! | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2091 - Lucy's Locket | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 532 - Fallen Angel | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Linda Darnell & Maureen O'Hara | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 302 - Marriage Is a Private Affair | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 212 - Affair at Stoney Ridge | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Murder and conflict in the backwoods ... now, where's that money? | ||||||||||||
| Philip Marlowe (1) - Red Wind | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of Philip Marlowe | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | This first episode of the series finds Marlowe taking a drink in a local bar, when a man enters asking about a woman, then suddenly the man is killed by another customer who gets away. The dead man turns out to be a blackmailer. Marlowe stumbles across the woman, ... | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1573 - Superman Vs. Kryptonite ep25 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1769 - Secret of Meteor Island ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Dimension X 11 - There Will Come Soft Rain-Zero Hour | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Suddenly, children from all over the country are playing a new game called Invasion, with Zero Hour set for 5:00, today. How charming. How droll. Or is it really just a game? Versions of this story also appeared on Future Tense, Adventure Theater, Suspense ... | ||||||||||||
| Comic Weekly Man 217 - School Is Over, First Comic - Hopalong Cassidy | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Dimension X 37 - Pebble in the Sky | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A radioactive and decrepit Earth prepares in secret for a deadly gambit to reclaim its prodigal colonies and rebuild its galactic empire. Story by: Isaac Asimov | ||||||||||||
| Mr. Moto 6- The Bazaloff Papers | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Mr. Moto heads for mainland China to recover a secret formula that enables scientists to turn one gallon of gasoline into two. Foreign intrigue has Mr. Moto on his toes. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 472 - Man in the Trench Coat | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A private eye stumbles onto a blackmail scheme, but then falls for the victim! | ||||||||||||
| Wild Bill Hickok 12 - Press for Justice | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Heroes | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lineup 89 - The Pitiful Patricide Case | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Alfred Brown has been murdered with a shotgun, shot from only 10 feet away. | ||||||||||||
| Mysterious Traveler 360 - Green Plague | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A scientist obsessed with perfecting a plant growth formula, succeeds beyond anyone's ability to control the results. | ||||||||||||
| Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 49 - Pursuit of Danger ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | At the Venusian fair, a pair of crooks break into a time capsule and steal the secret of the energy lock. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 501 - A Gift for Miss Tuttle | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Wild Bill Hickok 164 - Fabulous Wind Wagon | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Heroes | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Escape 214 - Bloodwaters | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Mixed Bag | Horror | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2809 - Gordy Has Been Murdered | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Six-Shooter 38 - When The Shoe Doesn't Fit | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Britt Ponset ("The Six-Shooter") takes Cinderella to the ball...and gets her home by midnight too! | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3236 - Outlaw's Trail | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Fort Laramie 21 - Winter Soldier | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A soldier becomes a 'snowbird' and deserts the army in the springtime. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 219 - Cheap Labor | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Fos Capper wears no gun, but doesn't seem to need one. When he proposes to Kerry Stancil, her brother swears to kill him! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on May 4, 1957. | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1958-06-17 - 619) The Tunnel | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 930 - The Lunatic Hour | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 794 - All Too Easy Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Altheus Broxton is having his cake and is eating it too ... he uses arson! By the way, Broxton is eighty two years old and has a heart condition! | ||||||||||||
