| 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: | 'Finest Hour' speech by Winston Churchill (1940) BORN: Red Adair firefighter (1915) DIED: Roald Amundsen explorer (1928) |
| Quote: | I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. (Rita Rudner) |
| Fact: | The Earth spins on its axis at just over 1000 miles per hour (1610 km) . It orbits the Sun at about 67,000 miles per hour (107,826km) |
| Word: | armigerous (adjective) Bearing or entitled to bear heraldic arms |
| Fortune Cookie: | One who admires you greatly is hidden before your eyes |
| Poem: | One fallen flower / Returning to the branch? ... oh no! / A white butterfly / (Haiku by Moritake) |
| Joke: | Is it fair to say that there'd be less litter if blind people were given pointed sticks?". |
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| Tarzan - The Diamond of Asher 35 | |||||||||||||
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| Cruise of the Poll Parrot 39 - Crew Gets Ready to Return Home | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The last episode of the third thirteen-episode cycle. | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 77 - The Octopus Visits Zee Ring's Home | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | After the feast, a meeting with a surprised Dr. Munez. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 212 - Dr. Deutch and the Radium Mine ep11 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1311 - Sunset House | |||||||||||||
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| The Aldrich Family 1942-06-18 - 150) Selling Christmas Cards | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1624 - The Two-Gun Marshall | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 131 - Eve's Mother Stays On | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 24 - Sam Bellows is Dead | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Blackie walks into Inspector Farrady's office and confesses to murdering Sam Bellows. | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 488 - The Canterville Ghost | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Tom Drake & Charles Laughton | ||||||||||||
| Michael Shayne s1 36 - Investment in an Invention | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Miss Hess' father has disappeared. The father financed an inventor and then is found murdered. | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 250 - Alibi Ike | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 160 - Blueprint for Suicide | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A performer's wife tries to convince him to kill himself because he's no longer responsible for his actions. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1314 - Clan of the Fiery Cross ep7 | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 75 - The Hooded Gang Protection Racket | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A masked society of extortioners has been formed, which Blackie tries to break up. | ||||||||||||
| Encore Theater 3 - Yellowjack | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The story of how Dr. Reed discovered the cause of Yellow Fever. | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 276 - I Want to Report a Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man with an insanely jealous wife starts to be blackmailed by a young woman after he accidentally kills her husband. There are lots of corpses all over the place! | ||||||||||||
| Nick Carter, Master Detective 240 - The Case of the Make-Believe Robbery | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Audacious robbers masquerade as movie-makers to pull of a heist. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1574 - Superman Vs. Kryptonite ep26 | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 127 - Crooked Carver Brother | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A safe is robbed and two people are killed. Donald Carver is turned in to the police by his own mother! | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2248 - Moonlight Ride | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1770 - Secret of Meteor Island ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2405 - If a Body Finds a Body | |||||||||||||
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| Philip Marlowe 38 - The Busy Body | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Marlowe reluctantly agrees to search for a missing fiancee and finds he may be dead, but his corpse won't stay still. | ||||||||||||
| Frontier Town 16 - Trouble is His Target | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A competitive water company tries to "dry-gulch" the water company with the dam contract. | ||||||||||||
| Gang Busters 585 - Case of the Bandit Brothers | |||||||||||||
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| Pat Novak for Hire 19 - The Only Way to Make Friends Is to Die | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Joe Dineen dies in Novak's apartment. What's in his safe deposit box? You don't want to know! | ||||||||||||
| Cloak and Dagger 6 - The Kachin Story | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | War / Armed Forces | Spy / Espionage | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | An O. S. S. operative is shot down in Burmese head-hunting country. With the help of an irish priest and his Kuching friends, the American battles a wily Japanese commander, M. I. T. , class of '37! | ||||||||||||
| Hopalong Cassidy 25 - Medicine Man | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Media / Stars | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
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| Jeff Regan, Investigator 61 - They've Got More Than Coffee in Brazil | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Irene Santino, a lovely lady from Brazil, hires "The Lyon's Eye" to find her missing sister. | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 85 - Shakedown | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A stranger in Rocky's bedroom wants to chat ... and he has a gun. Max Scarbo says, "I am scum". | ||||||||||||
| The Saint 128 - A Sonata for Slayers | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A famous pianist is shot at the keyboard and killed. One of the suspects is Ludwig Von Beethoven! | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 420 - Jessica | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A lady publisher murders a blackmailer and finds herself involved with a second blackmailer ... who's in love with her! | ||||||||||||
| Bold Venture 13 - We Want Cary Martin | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Water / Boats | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | An old friend of Sailor's named Cary flies into Cuba with a $500,000 payroll. But he's shot down by two robbers, who promptly crash themselves! | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2874 - The Beefsteak Rebellion | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 751 - Edward, My Son | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Walter Pidgeon & Deborah Kerr | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 449 - Guess the Number of Beans Contest | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1953-06-18 - 96) Blazing Guns at Lone Bend | |||||||||||||
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| Let's Pretend 1953-06-18 - 1046) The Emperor's New Clothes | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3344 - Marked for Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2810 - Ed Beekman Finds Gordy | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 166 - The Reed Survives | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Booth Rider is tricked into killing Ephraim Hunt, the bible-quoting husband of a scheming woman. However, Lucy Hunt gets one more killing than she counted on! The script was re-used on August 23, 1959. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on December ... | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 416 - Pearling Matter ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A frantic chase across the country after a girl who couldn't possibly exist ... until she show's up. | ||||||||||||
| A Case for Dr Morelle 9 - The Black Ruby | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Dr Morelle probes a fabled gem's authenticity. | ||||||||||||
| Journey into Space - Operation Luna 13 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The crew successfully return to the Moon in 1965, but with no memory of their adventure on prehistoric Earth. However, their rations have been replaced by water and an unknown bread-like substance; Doc's diary contains a detailed account; and there's a prehistoric ... | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 480 - Letter of the Law | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Marshal Dillon is forced to evict a reformed gunfighter named Brandon Teak from his land. The last show of the series. A rebroadcast of the program of July 15, 1956. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on October 11, 1958. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 743 - Low Tide Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A body fifteen feet below the surface of Lake Mojave leads Johnny to a commission on a $500,000 policy. | ||||||||||||
