| 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: | US Congress prohibits slavery in US territories (1862) BORN: Blaise Pascal mathematician/philosopher (1623) DIED: J M Barrie author (1937) |
| Quote: | Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. (Bertrand Russell) |
| Fact: | A female squirrel is called a 'Doe' |
| Word: | chaffer (verb) 1: To haggle; to bargain 2: To bandy words; to chatter; to make small talk |
| Fortune Cookie: | You will be advanced socially, without any special effort |
| Poem: | I remember, I remember / The roses, red and white, / The violets, and the lily-cups-- / Those flowers made of light! (Hood) |
| Joke: | People who think they have a fear of flying, don't have a fear of flying. When you're 2 miles up, you have a fear of not flying. |
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| Speed Gibson 25 - Prisoners on the Flower Boat | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Prisoners aboard the flower boat in the heart of China. | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 125 - The Tomb Of Terror | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A mummy's curse seems valid when a strange ray kills those who enter its tomb. | ||||||||||||
| Fu Manchu 19 - The Poison Pit | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 998 - Lame Crow's Prisoner | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 224 - The Ex-Mrs Bradford | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Who killed Eddie Sands? Who killed Mike North? A physician/detective sees a gelatin-like substance as a clue! Stars: William Powell & Claudette Colbert. The intermission guest is a real physician/criminologist. The readers of Radio Guide magazine have voted ... | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 56 - Horace Morton's Weather Predictions ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Clark and Lois interview Thales at the radium and pitchblende refinery. He seems to know more about the whereabouts of Horace Morton than he's letting on! | ||||||||||||
| Blue Beetle 21/22 - Thoroughbreds Always Come Through | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A long-shot named 'White Star' wins an important race, then the jockey is arrested!. The Blue Beetle visits the track, with a little paint remover./ The Beetle gathers evidence with his 'portable television set' (actually a camera and transmitter combined!). ... | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1940-06-19 - Insane and Able | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Daily Sentinel, with the help of the Hornet, breaks up the plans of the head of a mental hospital to keep graft coming from the state treasury. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1468 - Mortgages Paid Off | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 57 - House of Fear | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Murder and mayhem in a deserted villa is complicated by "The Eternal Triangle." | ||||||||||||
| Blondie 1944-06-19 - 38b Dagwood Suspected as Bank Robber (aka Dagwood Has A Dream) | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1781 - Haw Tabor | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 444 - Lost Angel | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Margaret O'Brien & James Craig | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 200 - No Time for Love | |||||||||||||
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| Inner Sanctum Mystery 232 - Dead Man's Holiday | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man finds his face changed, a grave with his name on it and his wife married to another man. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1315 - Clan of the Fiery Cross ep8 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2092 - Murder Man | |||||||||||||
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| The Sad Sack 1946-06-19 - Domestic Science School (fragment) | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1575 - Superman Vs. Kryptonite ep27 | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 250 - Dead of Night | |||||||||||||
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| All-Star Western Theatre 98 - Nice Weather Today | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Foy and the boys almost freeze to death when it's 128 degrees in the shade! | ||||||||||||
| Frank Merriwell 90 - The Thunderstorm Mystery | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | While hiking in the mountains, Frank and his friends take shelter in a cave when an avalanche begins. A hermit's cabin is nearly buried. | ||||||||||||
| Gang Busters 534 - Case of the Craig And Motes | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | aka Tennessee Triggermen | ||||||||||||
| The Judy Canova Show 1948-06-19 - 158) Interviewing for the Road Show | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Frank Race 8 - Airborne Adventure | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An underwriter is insuring the delivery of a set of plans for a new plane. Those specs are being transported from Trieste to London and then on to New York via courier and the company wants Frank Race to be that courier. Naturally some very unscrupulous people ... | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Sam Spade 156 - Apple of Eve Caper | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Eve Adams asks Sam to pay a visit to Dreama Love. Before he can Dreama pays a visit to his office while Eve is there. Sam ends up getting knocked out. | ||||||||||||
| Blackstone 38 - The Face of Death | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An old man with a fortune in rubies is being driven crazy by seeing strange faces in the mirror! Blackstone explains the "Diving A Match pack" trick. | ||||||||||||
| Box 13 ep44 - Killer At Large | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man hires someone to kill him because he can’t bring himself to commit suicide. Then, he changes his mind about wanting to die and needs Holiday to help prevent the murder that he arranged for himself. | ||||||||||||
| Damon Runyon Theater 38 - The Breakman's Daughter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Hummingbird finally meets his one and only. | ||||||||||||
| Nick Carter, Master Detective 397 - The Case of the Perfect Alibi | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A crook kills the prosecutor who sent his brother to 'The Chair,' at the same time that he's talking to the Chief Of Police from one hundred and fifty miles away! | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 46 - Taxidermists | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Miss Brooks becomes a taxidermist. Her first job is Mr. Conklin's prize bass! | ||||||||||||
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 9 - Fred Sears Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Fred Sears hires Richard Diamond to get evidence so he can get a divorce. After a fight with Sears at the Stork Club, Diamond takes Sears' retainer (a $200 check) and shoves it down his throat! Fred is promptly found dead in Diamond's office. After solving ... | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 33 - The Big Ditch | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Rocky's old pal Matt Gallagher steals one hundred and fifty Egyptian pounds from Rocky at the Cafe Tambourine. When Matt's body turns up at the morgue, it's not Matt Gallagher at all. Then, a package arrives for Rocky with shares of stock in the Suez Canal! | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 368 - That Physical Fact | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Three men and a woman are stranded on a Pacific island. Only two of them have a chance of returning to civilization. | ||||||||||||
| Crime Does Not Pay 37 - Clip Joint | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The owner of a crooked dance hall double-crosses a fellow crook ... a gent with a sawed-off. 38 | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 197 - Solo in Whispers | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 707 - John Loves Mary | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Patricia Neal & Ronald Reagan | ||||||||||||
| Night Beat 20 - Vincent and the Painter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Alfred Wyman is a strange artist who wants to kill the wealthy Miss Gleason because she killed Vincent. | ||||||||||||
| The Lineup 43 - The Malingering Martinelli Madcap Case | |||||||||||||
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| Night Beat 98 - Railroaded | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Randy Stone tries to help Dolly Graham, who's been convicted of manslaughter. She's been framed for the murder of the wife of Paul Thompson, a state senator. | ||||||||||||
| Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 50 - Pursuit of Danger ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The crooks with the secret of the energy lock take over the solar guard cruiser Orion. | ||||||||||||
| Horatio Hornblower 48 - First Attact on Haiti Fails | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Water / Boats | War / Armed Forces | ||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 165 - River of Death | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 113 - Going Bad | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Young Dave Robbins meets up with a "hard case." He's Luke Quiller and sure enough, murder follows upon murder! | ||||||||||||
| Let's Pretend 1954-06-19 - Ondine | |||||||||||||
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| Our Miss Brooks 294 - Taxi Fare | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Miss Brooks has no money to pay off a cab driver, who becomes a constant companion. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 655 - A Sleeping Draught | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A sea captain commands a ship carrying four hundred convicts to Australia. He makes a strange deal with one of the convicts, a murderer who's killed three times, but who is a man of honor. | ||||||||||||
| X Minus One 56 - Project Trojan | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An odd episode about the British hiring a Sci-Fi writer to fool the Nazis into thinking they have developed a super Death Ray. Hopefully, the Nazis will divert their scientific resources from the V-2 program to developing an 'impossible' counter-weapon. Best ... | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 417 - Pearling Matter ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A story in the paper, caused by a missing daughter. | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1958-06-19 - 620) Bandits of Tucuman | |||||||||||||
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| Have Gun, Will Travel 83 - Too Too Solid Town | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Paladin travels to Lawrence Kansas for a reunion of his old cavalry outfit. One old soldier is seeking revenge, by killing three men! | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 858 - Sixty Grand Missing | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 693 - Flask of Death Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny tries to prevent sabotage of a vital part of America's space program | ||||||||||||
