| 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: | Erwin Rommel promoted to Field Marshal (1942) BORN: John Dillinger bank robber (1903) DIED: Fred Astaire dancer (1987) |
| Quote: | Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. (Horace) |
| Fact: | Carpology is the study of the structure of seeds and fruit |
| Word: | fardel (noun) 1: A pack; a bundle 2: A burden |
| Fortune Cookie: | Accept what comes to you each day |
| Poem: | Arise from sleep, old cat, / And with great yawns and stretchings ... / Amble out for love / (Haiku by Issa) |
| Joke: | You should never dance on an empty stomach... Not unless it's someone you really don't like |
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| Flash Gordon 9 - Flash Charges Ice Barricade of Hawkmen | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Tarzan - The Diamond of Asher 39 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Fibber McGee and Molly 63 - The Employment Agency | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 86 - The Dark Angel | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Merle Oberon & Herbert Marshall | ||||||||||||
| Fred Allen Show 234 - The Studio's Predicament | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Lights Out 223 - Bon Voyage | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Bulldog Drummond 44 - Blind Mans Bluff | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Fibber McGee and Molly 370 - Camping at Dugan's Lake | |||||||||||||
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| Lights Out 309 - Nature Study | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 47 - The Man Without a Body | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A village is terrorized by a figure who is supposedly invisible. Story by: John Dickson Carr | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 334 - Design for Murder aka Killing Sullivan | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 97 - The Ten Grand | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman named Gigi Lewis has her purse stolen in a crowded subway station. After she cries for help, a stranger manages to retrieve the stolen purse and return it to her. She thanks him and gets on the train, at which time she notices that ten thousand dollars ... | ||||||||||||
| The Avenger 3 - Rendevous with Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Tapper and Bates have served 5 years in prison and have returned to seize the loot from the bank wall that they had rigged during its construction 6 years prior. At that time, they killed the contractor, Peter Mowtree, by driving his vehicle onto a railway ... | ||||||||||||
| Dick Tracy 1945-06-22 - 594) The Case of the Pigeon Cut (Blood) Ruby | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1938 - Army Mules | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| This Is Your FBI 12 - Auto Theft - Charles Meade | |||||||||||||
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| Life of Riley 118 - Morris Buys The Riley House | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1772 - Secret of Meteor Island ep7 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Mysterious Traveler 159 - Zero Hour | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A renowned professor travels to the West with his biographer to investigate the supposed crash landing of a Martian spacecraft. NOT the same story as Bradbury's 'Zero Hour'. Story by: Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 665 - King Takes Over | |||||||||||||
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| Dr Kildare 22 - Priscilla's Broken Arm | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Romance | Medical Romance | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Priscilla Babcock is a young genius with a broken arm who learns how to be a human being and falls in love with Dr. Kildare in the process. | ||||||||||||
| Dragnet 54 - The Big Mink | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 390 - The One Millionth Joe | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 54 - London Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny is hired to locate a shipment of narcotics that has arrived in Beverly Hills from India. Johnny boards an ocean liner heading for England with two movie stars, and the contraband! The detective aboard the ship is named "Clarence Doud" (an in-joke to one of the program's ... | ||||||||||||
| Dr Kildare 74 - Paul Bailey | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Romance | Medical Romance | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Dr. Paul Bailey has been failing his duties as an intern. Has he been drinking? | ||||||||||||
| Night Beat 47 - Sanctuary | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Randy Stone, reporter for the Chicago Star, looks into five-year-old Jody Levering who is being held hostage in a church belfry. A search for sanctuary. | ||||||||||||
| This Is Your FBI 325 - The Traitor | |||||||||||||
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| The Falcon 383 - Vanishing Visa | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Spy / Espionage | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Michael Waring finds himself deep in Austrian intrigue, trying to get beautiful and blonde Trudy Braunheim out of the country. | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 512 - Birdsong for a Murderer | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Starring Boris Karloff a story of murder, insanity, and complete with a surprise ending. | ||||||||||||
| Tales of the Texas Rangers 83 - Knockout | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A dead body in a hotel room bathroom leads the Rangers to a scheme making liberal use of knockout drops. | ||||||||||||
| Whitehall 1212 ep30 - The Murder of Mrs Ann Battersbye | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A 'Black Museum' exhibit: a necklace of plastic colored beads. A dead woman's body is discovered when a man attempts to sell the story of the body to a newspaper. | ||||||||||||
| The Falcon 420 - Ace of Spades | |||||||||||||
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| Crime Classics 2 - The Shockingly Peaceful Passing of Thomas Edwin Bartlett, Greengrocer | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Tom Bartlett was a heavy sleeper, but when he didn’t wake up one New Year, suspicions were cast. In happier times, Adelaide was a young school girl, who wed the much older green grocer. The marriage was an honorable one, and Adelaide continued on in her studies. ... | ||||||||||||
| Hall of Fantasy s2 31 - The Marquise of Death | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A lady vampire in southern France in given "the old one-two". | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 834 - The Fall of Maggie Phillips | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Dorothy McGuire & William Conrad | ||||||||||||
| Crime and Peter Chambers 10 - Cafe Tropical Bruce Eldridge | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Bruce Eldritch's partner named Paul Maxwell has been killed. | ||||||||||||
| Dragnet 253 - The Big Customer | |||||||||||||
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| Fibber McGee and Molly 927 - Umpire McGee | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2812 - Back At The Murder Apartment | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 557 - Sequel to Murder | |||||||||||||
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| The FBI in Peace and War 508 - The Protection Copy | |||||||||||||
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| Fibber McGee and Molly 1189 - Big League Baseball Fibs | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3238 - Garrison Finish | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 420 - Pearling Matter ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The conclusion of the story. There's still money in it, more money than it takes to save a life. | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1958-06-22 - 621) War in the Pecos Valley | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 324 - Target | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The son of Cater Leets is in love with a gypsy. This doesn't please his father very much, nor does it sit well with the other gypsies! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on September 5, 1959. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 756 - The Last Kilometer | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 592 - Virtuous Mobster Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny gets beat up, but good. But which twin has the gun? | ||||||||||||
| Theater Five 232 - The Pigeon | |||||||||||||
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