| 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: | Dolly the sheep becomes 1st mammal cloned from adult cell (1996) BORN: P T Barnum circus owner (1810) DIED: Walter Gropius architect (1969) |
| Quote: | The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. (Sophocles) |
| Fact: | Phobias: Ablutophobia - fear of bathing or washing / Decidophobia - fear of making decisions / Anthophobia - fear of flowers |
| Word: | fossick (verb) 1: Search for mineral deposits often reworking ground or waste 2: Rummage or search around for a possible profit |
| Fortune Cookie: | Plan for many pleasures ahead |
| Poem: | Cloud of cherry-bloom ... / Tolling twilight bell ... temple / Ueno? asakura? / (Haiku by Basho) |
| Joke: | The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once |
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| Fibber McGee and Molly 117 - Getting Out of the Hollywood Lease | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 140 - Beau Brummel | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Robert Montgomery & Madge Evans | ||||||||||||
| Ripley's Believe It or Not 1938-07-05 - 50) Monarch Becomes Citizen Of US | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Non-fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Fu Manchu 26 - The Return of Nayland Smith | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Spy / Espionage | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1005 - The Stage Line Challenge (part 4) | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 63 - Hans Hobin's Doll Factory ep6 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Superman captures Holbein and rescues Perry White just before the island explodes. The end of the adventure. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1631 - The Masked Man's Teacher | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 403 - My Sister Eileen | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Stars: Rosalind Russell & Brian Aherne | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 151 - Tennessee Johnson | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1788 - Hap Finds an Angel | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1945-07-05 - Ladder of Fate | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 148 - The Last Detail | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1327 - Horatio F. Horn Detective ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2099 - Dead Man's Justice | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| This Is Your FBI 66 - The Sinister Shakedown | |||||||||||||
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| All-Star Western Theatre 48 - Lee Hope Celebration | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A Chinaman solves a series of claim jumpings, and saves a girl from a terrible mistake. | ||||||||||||
| Let's Pretend 1947-07-05 - Brother And Sister | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Fantasy / Whimsey | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Life of Riley 164 - Riley Thinks Peg Is Leaving Him | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1781 - Secret of Meteor Island ep16 | |||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1948-07-05 6 - Search for Dorothy aka Hypnotic Persuasion | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | Crime | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 378 - Death Demon | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A dead father returns from the grave to revenge his murder! Move over Hamlet! 'Inner Sanctum' rebroadcast a different story with the same title on February 7, 1949. | ||||||||||||
| The Judy Canova Show 1948-07-05 - 160) Judy, the Songwriter | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Leading Ladies | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 95 - Murder Me Twice | |||||||||||||
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| Philo Vance 52 - White Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Vance is kidnapped. While he was being held Peter White is murdered. Despite being blindfolded Vance figures out where he was held. | ||||||||||||
| 2000 Plus 17 - A Veteran Comes Home | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A traumatized war vet returns from the Martian War to his family on Earth, only to discover to his horror that his son can't wait to enlist. | ||||||||||||
| Philip Marlowe 91 - The Girl from Pitchfork Corners | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Marlowe is hired by Donna Rawlings to make sure Arnold Lattimore gets where he's going. Donna turns up dead and a lovesick girl from Kansas complicates the case. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2725 - Black Harney | |||||||||||||
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| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 55 - Mike Burton Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A truck driver named Mike Burton has been killed by a hit-and-run driver. His wrestler-friend thinks he was helped into the accident. Dick Powell sings a few words from, "Pale Hands Beside The Shalimar." | ||||||||||||
| Dragnet 108 - The Big Love | |||||||||||||
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| The Lineup 45 - The Syncopic Sweazy Sweat-Out Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Dr. Simpson has been murdered by a madman who is seeking revenge by killing another doctor. | ||||||||||||
| Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle 26 - Gold of the Sudan | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Broadway Is My Beat 120 - Stacy Parker Murder Case (AFRS) | |||||||||||||
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| Broadway Is My Beat 120 - Stacy Parker Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 11 - Never Pester Chester | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Two Texas cowboys drag Chester behind a horse for fun, almost killing him. Marshal Dillon brings in the cowboys ... without his guns. | ||||||||||||
| Comic Weekly Man 324 - Lighting Firecrackers, First Comic - Beetle Bailey | |||||||||||||
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| Escape 190 - A Source of Irritation | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Mixed Bag | Horror | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 577 - Glass Dime | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A coin dealer has been murdered, and a famous coin has been stolen and put to good use. | ||||||||||||
| Fibber McGee and Molly 936 - McGee's New Electric Mower | |||||||||||||
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| Gang Busters 849 - Case of the Winter Chase | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 116 - Hack Prine | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A professional gunman, who is an old friend of Marshal Dillon's, is hired by a coward and an enemy of Dillon's to gun down the Marshall. The first show sponsored by Chesterfield. The script was used as the pilot of the Gunsmoke television series and was used ... | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2821 - Della Talks with Kate | |||||||||||||
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| Dragnet 307 - The Big Rush | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 605 - The Cave-In | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | an accident has trapped several coal miners inside of a shaft. A telephone allows them to communicate with their superintendent about the situation. They explain that three of them are still alive, but one of them has died ... from poison! | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1956-07-05 - 417) Twin Guns of Death | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 429 - Midas Touch Matter ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The case is closed and then it suddenly reopens with a bang...from a 30-06 rifle! | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 378 - Emma's Departure | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Guardian Maintenance (the commercial features "The Bickersons!") Ben Hyde, a miser out on the prairie who thinks of nothing but work, is found shot. His wife Emma starts spending money freely soon after. | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 33 - Comanche | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Paladin rides to Montana territory to persuade a young deserter from the 7th Cavalry to return. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 809 - Blood Is Thicker | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 644 - Only One Butt Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny is offered a $5000 fee to find Truda Lynn. He finds her body and a clue in an ashtray! | ||||||||||||
| Theater Five 241 - Devotion | |||||||||||||
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