| 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: | Halifax Nova Scotia is founded (1749) BORN: Jean-Paul Sartre author and philosopher (1905) DIED: Inigo Jones architect (1652) |
| Fact: | A group of jellyfish is called a 'Smack' or 'Fluther' |
| Quote: | Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. (Benjamin Franklin) |
| Word: | cruciverbalist (noun) 1: A crossword designer 2. Word games enthusiast, especially crosswords |
| Fortune Cookie: | The time is right to make new friends |
| Poem: | Life I know not what thou art But know that thou and I must part; And when or how, or where we met I own to me's a secret yet (Barbauld) |
| Joke: | Definition of the word 'Adult': A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle. |
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| Ripley's Believe It or Not 1936-06-21 - 38) Unusual Inventions | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 138 - Monsieur Beaucaire | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Leslie Howard & Elissa Landi | ||||||||||||
| Fu Manchu 20 - The Last Laugh | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 999 - Plans To The Fort | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 57 - Horace Morton's Weather Predictions ep6 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Superman frees Dr. Morton and finds out that Music Mountain is about to collapse on innocent children. The last episode of the adventure. | ||||||||||||
| Blue Beetle 23/24 - Smashing The Arson Ring | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A one-armed man is the clue to a burn-for-profit scheme. / The Blue Beetle uses his 'portable wireless telephone' and his 'ray gun' to call for help from the bottom of a barge being filled with sand. | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1941-06-21 - Walkout for Profit | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 43 - Father's Day Chair | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1625 - Skeleton Canyon | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 401 - In Which We Serve | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Ronald Colman & Edna Best | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 149 - Back Street | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1782 - Chuck Wagon Champ | |||||||||||||
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| Tom Mix 1944-06-21 - Vanishing Herd ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mr. Tweedles reveals his true identity as Joe Begley of the FBI! | ||||||||||||
| Abbott & Costello Show 104 - Bud and Lou Are in a Play | |||||||||||||
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| The Green Hornet 1945-06-21 - Appointment with Death | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 146 - The Story of Ivy | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1317 - Clan of the Fiery Cross ep10 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2093 - The Parrot and the Sea Dog | |||||||||||||
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| All-Star Western Theatre 46 - The Youngest Dude | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A wild nine year old girl tackles "The Riders" ... and conquers! | ||||||||||||
| Let's Pretend 1947-06-21 - Bluebeard | |||||||||||||
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| Life of Riley 162 - Babs Almost Gets A Job In San Francisco | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1771 - Secret of Meteor Island ep6 | |||||||||||||
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| Let George Do It 93 - Problem Child | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2406 - Fort Laramie Incident | |||||||||||||
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| My Friend Irma 63 - Planning a Vacation | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Leading Ladies | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Irma and Jane plans to take a vacation at Moosehead Lodge. The last show of the season (the show returned to the air August 30, 1948). | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 393 - Shadow of a Doubt | |||||||||||||
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| Philo Vance 50 - Peacock Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Vance is beat up to encourage him to stay away from the David Peacock case, even before he's ever heard of the man! Peacock tells Vance that his burglar-proof safe isn't ... and then he's murdered! | ||||||||||||
| 2000 Plus 15 - The Brooklyn Brain | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A thick-headed dimwit hopes that being the subject of a science experiment will help him win the woman of his dreams. | ||||||||||||
| Philip Marlowe 89 - The Gold Cobra | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Marlowe is hired by Roth Winkman, a character right out of Dickens, to deliver a gold cobra to Chicago. A real snake puts some bite into the case. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2719 - Mutiny at Ft Malden | |||||||||||||
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| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 53 - Mrs X Can't Find Her Husband | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | "Mrs. X" has lost her husband and asks Diamond to help find him...but she won't reveal his name! | ||||||||||||
| Straight Arrow 292 - Long Summer | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Native Americans | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A satire. The 'life' of Ted Robertson, the director of the program, is recounted on the day the program went off the air. Mesquite Molly has been kidnapped, but is rescued by Straight Arrow. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 434 - The Greatest Thief in the World | |||||||||||||
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| Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle 24 - Arab Vengeance | |||||||||||||
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| Escape 188 - The Far-Away Island | |||||||||||||
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| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 144 - Missing Night Watchman | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A jewelry company has been robbed of $50,000 in gems, the night watchman has disappeared and is later found dead. The clue is in the Buddha! Dick sings, "How About You?" after the story. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3345 - Hidden Loot | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 886 - Pickup on South Street | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Terry Moore & Thelma Ritter | ||||||||||||
| Mr Keen 1505 - The Shrieking Prisoner Murder Case 1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The strange Carson sisters block Mr. Keen's investigation of the murder of Donald Travers. | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2811 - Kate in a Daze Meets Gus | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 603 - Over the Bounding Main | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A two-timing woman plans to kill her husband aboard a broken down fishing boat. | ||||||||||||
| 21st Precinct 142 - The Brother | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Patrolman Ballard returns fire and shoots a young thief, but the thief's gun can't be found. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 419 - Pearling Matter ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Once you get in on a joke, you do what they tell you ... you go along with the gag. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 376 - Carmen | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | After the army payroll has been robbed, an army Major threatens to declare martial law in Dodge. Connie Dell, a good girl keeping bad company, becomes the key to the crime. The script was used previously on the program on May 31, 1952 and October 8, 1955 and on the Gunsmoke ... | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 31 - Trouble in North Fork | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Paladin protects the Mennonite community in North Fork from a town determined to drive them out. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 807 - Ivy Is a Lovely Name For A Girl | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 642 - Life at Stake Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny's in Beverly Hills to help the very wealthy and very eccentric Mr. Alvin Cartwright. Cartwright's murdered and dismembered body is being taken out to sea! | ||||||||||||
