| 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: | The Globe Theatre in London burns to the ground (1613) BORN: Antoine de Saint-Exupery author (1900) DIED: 'Fatty' Arbuckle actor (1933) |
| Quote: | We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow. (Oscar Wilde) |
| Fact: | When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield consumable fruit |
| Word: | serein (noun) Fine rain falling from a clear sky, typically observed just after sunset |
| Fortune Cookie: | A thrilling time is in your immediate future |
| Poem: | Amorous cat, alas / You too must yowl with your love... / Or even worse, without! / (Haiku by Yaha) |
| Joke: | I'm so ugly. I worked in a pet shop, and people kept asking how big I'd get. |
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| Fibber McGee and Molly 64 - Mayor of Chinatown | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 87 - Irene | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald & Regis Toomey | ||||||||||||
| Fred Allen Show 235 - Mountain Malfeasance | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 846 - Three Against Geronimo | |||||||||||||
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| Sky Blazers 30 - Jack Knight - Pioneer Airmail Carrier | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Young Jack Knight got into the Army Air Corps...by eating bananas! He later brought the air mail through, in the tradition of the Pony Express. Announcer Nelson Case mispronounces the word, "grocer"! | ||||||||||||
| Bulldog Drummond 45 - The Case Of The Gestapo Murder | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1472 - Trouble at the Canyon | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 358 - The Champ | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Wallace Beery & Josephine Hutchinson (repeat) | ||||||||||||
| Lights Out 310 - Bathysphere | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 48 - Uncle Henry's Rosebush | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Uncle Henry has disappeared. The aunt is keeping quiet. There's a syringe hidden in the drawer, a pile of freshly dug ground in the garden, and noises of people moving around at night. The niece and her husband try to figure out what this all means. Story by: Larry ... | ||||||||||||
| The Aldrich Family 1944-06-29 - 244) Bracelet For Kathleen | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Children / Teenagers | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 335 - The Duke Bows to a King | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 98 - The Walls Came Tumbling Down | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A priest visits a journalist named Darcy—a former pupil of his—who informs him that a stranger threatened him three days ago, demanding that the clergyman give him two Bibles marked with the initials E.B. and that he help him find the "walls of Jericho." ... | ||||||||||||
| The Avenger 4 - The Eyes of Shiva | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Hollis Fermont is burdened with a gambling debt amounting to $35,000 and intends to request financial assistance from his aunt Lydia. However, should she refuse to provide the funds, he is contemplating the theft of her valuable rubies, known as the Eyes of Shiva. ... | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1941 - Faithless Three | |||||||||||||
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| This Is Your FBI 13 - Murder - John Dixon | |||||||||||||
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| The Green Hornet 1946-06-29 - A Man of Many Words | |||||||||||||
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| Life of Riley 119 - Paper Route Subscription Contest To Go To Camp | |||||||||||||
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| Gene Autry's Melody Ranch 1947-06-29 - The Devil's Saint - I Hate to Say Goodbye to the Prairie | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Media / Stars | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Nick Carter, Master Detective 294 - The Case of the Sunken Dollar | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The rarest of old coins, the 1804 Silver Dollar, has been stolen by a gang of counterfeiters who kill too! Lon Clark. | ||||||||||||
| Rogues Gallery 70 - Phyllis Adrian Is Missing | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Richard Rogue is hired by Howard Adrian to find his missing wife Phyllis. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1777 - Secret of Meteor Island ep12 | |||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1948-06-29 2 - Regent's Secret aka Secret Papers Missing | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 666 - The Case of the Beautiful Swindler | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Dr Kildare 23 - Dr Gillespie Almost Gets Engaged | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Romance | Medical Romance | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Is Millicent Forbes just a "fool woman with a case of the sniffles"? Romance comes to Dr. Gillespie. | ||||||||||||
| Dragnet 55 - The Big Grab | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 391 - Love, Honor, or Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 55 - Barbara James Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mrs. Martin James has disappeared from her Denver mansion. Mrs. James was young and beautiful, Mr. James is old and sickly. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2879 - Land of Promise | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Night Beat 48 - Byline for Frank | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Frank Lyons, a dying reporter, asks Randy Stone of The Chicago Star, to write about the story that ruined his career. | ||||||||||||
| This Is Your FBI 326 - The Fraudulent Healer | |||||||||||||
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| The Falcon 384 - Menacing Mamselle | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Spy / Espionage | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Sometimes a little French miss can do more damage than a French ".75." The Falcon tries to prove that fifty million Frenchman can be wrong, when it comes to murder! | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 513 - Terror by Night | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A mad killer is on the prowl, and there's a dead body in the trunk. | ||||||||||||
| Tales of the Texas Rangers 84 - Ex-Con | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An ex-con is hired to murder for $1000. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 526 - Night Flight | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A pilot talks his way onto a $25,000 charter job. The double-crosses fly high. | ||||||||||||
| Whitehall 1212 ep31 - Case of the Weed Eradication | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An exhibit at the 'Black Museum' is a weed eradicator. A box of poisoned chocolates in Wales, with suspicion falling on an avid gardener who uses arsenic as a weed killer. Lots of arsenic has killed Mrs. Mildred Birdsong. | ||||||||||||
| Crime Classics 3 - The Checkered Life and Sudden Death of Colonel James Fisk, Jr | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Non-fiction | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A story about the rivalry between two wealthy New Yorkers in 1872 and the beautiful widow, beloved of both. | ||||||||||||
| Hall of Fantasy s2 32 - The Temple of Huizilipochle | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Two explorers face a tribe of savages in the Brazilian jungle. | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 835 - One More Spring | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Jeanne Crain & Hy Averback | ||||||||||||
| Crime and Peter Chambers 11 - Bubbles Greko The Bubbles Club | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Bubbles Grecco wants to be a detective. | ||||||||||||
| Dragnet 254 - The Big Chick | |||||||||||||
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| Fibber McGee and Molly 932 - Stranger Ducked Out of Town | |||||||||||||
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| My Friend Irma 309 - Irma and Jane See a Ghost | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Irma, Jane and Al all see a ghost in the building. | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2817 - Ed Beekman Confesses | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 558 - Too Hot to Live | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 221 - Woodward Manila Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny's in the Phillippines to find $75,000 stolen from an insurance company. | ||||||||||||
| The FBI in Peace and War 509 - Will Power | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3241 - The Great Doctor Pickins | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 425 - Long Shot Matter ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The conclusion of the story. If you want to hide something, put it in plain view. Only don't go overboard on the system if you're hiding a murderer! | ||||||||||||
| Frontier Gentleman 21 - Gambling Lady | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Meet Madame Verdi, Gambler extraordinaire, and a woman with a past. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 325 - What the Whiskey Drummer Heard | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Wilbur Hawkins tells Marshal Dillon about a plot against his life. When Dillon pretends to be dead, two different people brag about killing him! The script was used previously on the show on April 17, 1954, and on the Gunsmoke television series on April 27, 1957. ... | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 757 - Rain Tonight | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 593 - Ugly Pattern Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An executive is being murdered every Wednesday, with clocklike regularity. | ||||||||||||
| Theater Five 237 - You Can't Fight City Hall | |||||||||||||
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