| 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: | Benz unveils his Motorwagen 1st purpose-built automobile (1886) BORN: Franz Kafka author (1883) DIED: Trigger Roy Rogers's horse (1965) |
| Quote: | I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. (Mahatma Gandhi) |
| Fact: | The Pacific Ocean is the world's largest ocean covering an area of 65.3 million square miles (169.2 million square kilometres) |
| Word: | tangential (adjective) 1: Only superficially relevant 2: Merely touching 3: Of or pertaining to the nature of a tangent |
| Fortune Cookie: | Good Luck bestows upon you. You will get what your heart desires |
| Poem: | What a peony... / Demanding to be measured / By my little fan! / (Haiku by Issa) |
| Joke: | I told my doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places." |
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| Chandu the Magician 1935-07-03 xxx - The Footprint | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 27 - Speed Arrives and Helps Clint and Barney | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | As Bob Gilmore joins forces with The International Secret Police, another warning is received from The Octopus! | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 127 - Voice of the Trumpet | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A dealer of rare books is actually a spy, selling War Department secrets to Europeans, with the help of a spiritualist. | ||||||||||||
| Fu Manchu 25 - The Treasure of the Sifan | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Spy / Espionage | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1004 - The Stage Line Challenge (part 2) | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 226 - Bordertown | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A Mexican lawyer, disbarred when he opposes the upper class, vows to become rich and rise above his humble background. Stars: Don Ameche & Joan Bennett. The intermission guest is H.V. Kaltenborn who delivers a patriotic speech in honor of the 4th of July. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 62 - Hans Hobin's Doll Factory ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of Superman | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Clark Kent is flying in a sea-plane with Perry White. He finds Lois in the rowboat...and just in time! Holbein finds Perry White and sets a bomb to blow up his own island, along with Perry White and his own henchman Joe. The bomb will go off in just ten minutes! | ||||||||||||
| Blue Beetle 27/28 - Crime Incorporated | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The 'Overlords Of Crime' are planning to form a syndicate. The Blue Beetle infiltrates the gang and is hired by them to imitate. . . the Blue Beetle! / The Blue Beetle is unmasked and shot, but it's only a flesh wound. The 'Magic Ray' helps the Blue Beetle ... | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1474 - Surprise at Sunrise | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1787 - Beecher's Island | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 446 - It Happened Tomorrow | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Don Ameche & Anne Baxter | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1325 - Horatio F. Horn Detective ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2098 - Uncle Barnaby | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 252 - Money Talks | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Frank Merriwell 92 - The Unwelcome Rescue | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Adventure | Sports | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Frank and Bart save a girl's life while working as lifeguards in Atlantic City and uncover a munitions plot. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Frank Race 10 - Juvenile Passenger | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of Frank Race | ||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Race gets an urgent call from Donovan needing his help at 1 am. When Race joins him at his cab, he finds a 14-year-old girl in the back of the taxi. Donovan says she climbed into his cab while he was getting some coffee at 11 and now refuses to get out, saying ... | ||||||||||||
| Blackstone 40 - The Bird of Doom | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Blackstone, The Magic Detective | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Crime | Media / Stars | Spinoff | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | "Chirpo" the magic canary, helps Blackstone catch a killer! Blackstone explains "The Rising Cigarette" trick. | ||||||||||||
| Box 13 ep46 - House of Darkness | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A blind man finds a message asking for help in braille on a library book. He knows that a blind person is in trouble, and he needs Dan’s help to find that person. | ||||||||||||
| Damon Runyon Theater 40 - Maybe a Queen | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Love story of a shoe clerk and a musical comedy star. | ||||||||||||
| The Green Lama 5 - The Last Dinosaur | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Jethro attends a Hollywood party given by his former college roommate, movie producer Herman K. Herman, and ends up investigating a murder. | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 48 - Conklin's Blood Presssure | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | School | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Plans for the July 4th weekend at Eagle Springs aren't as easy as they sound! | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 35 - The Map of Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A new singer in The Cafe Tambourine gets into an argument with a customer, and is found dead in a hotel room shortly thereafter. An important map and $5000 have disappeared! | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 370 - Panic on Mulberry Street | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Henry Pettigrew is a mild man who devices a theory of crimes being committed in alphabetical order. This gives him the opportunity to kill the brother of his beloved, but who really kills this obnoxious guy? | ||||||||||||
| Broadway Is My Beat 41 - Frank Conway Murder Case (AFRS) | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Crime Does Not Pay 39 - The Lady Loves Kittens | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A lady arsonist and her accomplice use kittens to help start their fires. | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 199 - The Scream of the Eagle | |||||||||||||
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| Night Beat 22 - Marty | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Randy Stone comes upon Marty, a six-year-old boy who is running away from home with a $100 bill. The leads Randy to an attempt to prevent an execution. | ||||||||||||
| Dragnet 160 - The Big Triob | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Night Beat 100 - The Old Itch | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Randy Stone falls for Kit Gaynor, a hell of a newswoman, but with an itch to travel. aka Stones Love Affair | ||||||||||||
| Horatio Hornblower 50 - Yellow Fever | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Water / Boats | War / Armed Forces | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 115 - Word of Honor | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | After treating a wounded man, Doc gives his word of honor not to reveal the identities or hiding place of his criminal patients. | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 296 - Hillbilly Heifetz | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Miss Brooks and her friends try to get summer jobs with 'Deacon Jones and His Hillbilly Band'. | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1956-07-03 - 416) The Horse Thief | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 657 - The Music Lovers | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Scotland Yard is on the trail of a gang of spies who torture and murder for information. | ||||||||||||
| X Minus One 58 - Mr Costello, Hero | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A star freighter's crew is glad to see the end of their enigmatic passenger, Mr. Costello. During their run through the circuit of Earth's colonies he has managed to either manipulate or destroy everything and everyone around him. But pity the poor isolated ... | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 427 - Midas Touch Matter ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | One of the fishermen who hangs around Lake Mojave is a character named death. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 430 - Little Girl | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | After her step-father burns to death in a fire, Marshal Dillon brings young Charity back to Dodge. Now, what to do with her? The program closing sounds as if it has been taken from another program. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on April ... | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 85 - Dad-Blamed Luck | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Jamie Howard, inveterate gambler and part time horse thief, hires Paladin to regain his lost gold mine. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 860 - Bon Voyage | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 695 - Collector's Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny investigates an apparently accidental auto accident in Bethel, New York. | ||||||||||||
