| 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: | Legendary Pied Piper leads 130 youths out of Hamelin (1284) BORN: Laurie Lee author (1914) DIED: Gilbert White naturalist (1793) |
| Quote: | Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is. (Samuel Pepys) |
| Fact: | Grapefruit is so named as they often grow in bunches on the tree, just like grapes |
| Word: | anagoge (noun) A mystical interpretation of a word or text, especially scriptural text with allusions to heaven or the afterlife |
| Fortune Cookie: | You will receive a gift from someone that cares about you |
| Poem: | Sadness at twilight... / Villain! I have let my hand / Cut that peony / (Haiku by Buson) |
| Joke: | I went out with a really sexy girl once. She put something behind her ears that drove me wild... Her knees. |
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| Chandu the Magician 1935-06-26 xxx - Nadji Is Accused | |||||||||||||
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| Fred Allen Show 122 - Last Show of the Season | |||||||||||||
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| Speed Gibson 26 - Clint and Barney are Captured | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The sentence of death is given by The Octopus! | ||||||||||||
| Jack Benny 303 - Last Show of the Season | |||||||||||||
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| The Shadow 126 - The Old People | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Missing airplanes in South American lead the Shadow to a mad scientist with a serum to make people older. | ||||||||||||
| Fu Manchu 22 - Mystery of the Sifan | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1001 - The Prodigal Brother | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 225 - Mrs Moonlight | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A story about a woman who never grows old, and her relations with her family over the years. Stars: Janet Gaynor & George Brent. The intermission guest is Professor Walter Pitkin, author of "Life Begins At Forty" (speaking from New York City). | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 59 - Hans Hobin's Doll Factory ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Superman finds a significant clue about the explosion in the doll factory. There are metal cylinders hidden in each doll; Lois is about to be blown to bits! | ||||||||||||
| Blue Beetle 25/26 - Rounding Up The Payroll Bandits | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Blue Beetle kills one of the gang holding up payrolls, but he also learns the first name of the leader of the gang. / The head of the gang is surprisingly revealed by the Blue Beetle. The gangster then commits suicide! | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1471 - Quicksand for a Gambler | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 58 - The Blank Wall | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A confusing tale of love, murder, triangles, and a fatal plane crash. The same title was used four years later, but the stories are different. | ||||||||||||
| Blondie 1944-06-26 - 39b (AFRS Rebroadcast) Baby Snooks Visits (aka Alexander Bored with Life) | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Blondie 1944-06-26 - 39a Baby Snooks Visits (aka Alexander Bored with Life) | |||||||||||||
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| Bulldog Drummond 149 - Nazi Sub | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1784 - Billy the Kid | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 445 - Christmas in July | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Dick Powell & Linda Darnell | ||||||||||||
| Fibber McGee and Molly 446 - Summer at Dugan's Lake | |||||||||||||
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| Inner Sanctum Mystery 233 - Dead Man's Debt | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A smart lawyer gets a murderer off the hook, but his fee is a high one. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1320 - Clan of the Fiery Cross ep13 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2095 - A Killer Comes Home, (part 2) | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1580 - Superman Vs. Kryptonite ep32 | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 251 - Phobia | |||||||||||||
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| All-Star Western Theatre 99 - Cactus is Wonderful | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | How do you romance a beautiful lady cactus collector? Carefully? | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 535 - Breakup | |||||||||||||
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| Frank Merriwell 91 - The Unreasonable Aunt | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Frank saves a woman from being cheated out of her soap factory. | ||||||||||||
| The Judy Canova Show 1948-06-26 - 159) Leaving on a Personal Appearance Tour | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Frank Race 9 - Shanghai Incident | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A old college football teammate calls on Frank Race for help. He is now an underwriter of insurance and needs Race to finish the work of another investigator who was murdered on a job. South China Airline is a cargo hauling company and lately it has been losing ... | ||||||||||||
| Blackstone 39 - The Voice from the Void | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Crime | Media / Stars | Spinoff | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The assistant to the dead magician Vardini is trapped into a confession by the voice of Vardini's "ghost." Blackstone explains "The Prediction Of Three Equal Piles" trick. | ||||||||||||
| Box 13 ep45 - Speed To Burn | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman asks Holiday to investigate a garage where they deal in stolen cars because her brother got accidentally involved when he took a job as a mechanic. | ||||||||||||
| Damon Runyon Theater 39 - The Lacework Kid | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Reformed card player tells how art saved his life when he was a POW. | ||||||||||||
| The Green Lama 4 - The Million Dollar Chopsticks | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Jethro travels to China to help his friend Rita Randolph investigate the mystery surrounding a pair of cursed jade chopsticks. | ||||||||||||
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 10 - The Tom Waxman Bombing Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A mail bomb has been sent to the Waxman family, killing Tom Waxman. His brother Phil is accused of the crime, but Diamond suspects that the Labor Assistance League is behind it. After the case, Dick Powell sings in Yiddish! An announcement is made that the program ... | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 34 - Journey to Nashier | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Rocky takes a swig of some pretty potent mineral water. | ||||||||||||
| The Roy Rogers Show 1949-06-26 - 44) The Mystery of Squatter's Island | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 369 - Final Decree | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A complex story of love, marriage, murder and guns ... lots of guns! | ||||||||||||
| Crime Does Not Pay 38 - The Professor Pulls a Switch | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The 'Professor' runs a chain of grocery stores. He cheats poor immigrants and stocks murder in the inventory. | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 198 - Most Likely to Die | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2721 - The Limit of the Law | |||||||||||||
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| Night Beat 21 - The Juvenile Gangster | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Thirteen-year-old Jimmy Reed has held up a delicatessen while wearing a mask. He turns out to be the son of Gus Reed, the gangster. | ||||||||||||
| The Lineup 44 - The Mad Bomber | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | George Hunter is almost killed when a time bomb goes off in his house. After another bomb goes off at the Adams house, suspicion falls on Louis Black, who calmly tells the cops that a bomb in the State Building will go off in forty minutes. | ||||||||||||
| Dragnet 159 - The Big Roll | |||||||||||||
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| Night Beat 99 - Reformer | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Benjamin Tusher arrives in Chicago to reform the city ... with love! And he does! | ||||||||||||
| Horatio Hornblower 49 - Attact on Haiti Fort | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Water / Boats | War / Armed Forces | ||||||||||||
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| Space Patrol 1953-06-26 - Treasure of Planetoid 60 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | Botar OTR | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Commander Corry and Cadet Happy have just finished inspecting Space Patrol units on the Planet Neptune. Now, in the Neptune City headquarters, Buzz is showing Happy a fragment of bluish rock streaked with bands of violet... | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 114 - Claustrophobia | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Giles and Deaver are two bad guys, one of whom is killed by Obie Ridgers. Despite his claustrophobia and preference for hanging, the judge sentences Obie to life in prison! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on January 25, 1958. | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 295 - Marriage By Proxy | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Miss Brooks gets married to ... Mr. LeBlanche! A June dream? | ||||||||||||
| Dragnet 358 - The Big Revolt | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 656 - The Treasure Chest of Don Jose | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A search for a treasure chest is successful ... too successful! | ||||||||||||
| X Minus One 57 - Wherever You May Be | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A new twist on the traveling salesman/farmer's daughter shtick; this time the country girl has an ace up her sleeve... witchcraft. Story by: James E. Gunn | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 422 - Long Shot Matter ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Variations on an old theme. You pay your money, and you take your choice. But no matter how you pick it, it comes out murder. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 429 - Line Trouble | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Marshal Dillon tries to convince Small Hawk that the new telegraph wires are not "bad medicine". | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 84 - Doctor from Vienna | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Paladin has suspicions about the unusual Doctor Dreckle from Vienna. He has a parlor right in the Carlton Hotel! | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 859 - Daisy Chain | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 694 - Wholly Unexpected Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny and Pat McCracken fly out to fish at the Lake Mojave Resort, but find themselves the target of an escaped convict who has sworn to kill Johnny! | ||||||||||||
