| 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: | Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England (1189) BORN: Sylvester Stallone actor (1946) DIED: Kenneth Grahame author (1932) |
| Quote: | Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. (T.Jefferson) |
| Fact: | Women were not allowed to take part in the original Olympic Games. They were able to enter the Paris Olympics of 1900, in Tennis |
| Word: | oscitant (adjective) 1: Yawning, gaping from drowsiness 2: Inattentive, drowsy. dull, negligent |
| Fortune Cookie: | Your ability to juggle many tasks will take you far |
| Poem: | Sweet western wind, whose luck it is, / Made rival with the air, / To give Perenna's lip a kiss, / And fan her wanton hair: (Herrick) |
| Joke: | Marriage is a thing, which puts a ring on a woman's finger ... and two under the man's eyes. |
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| Chandu the Magician 1935-07-06 xxx - The Search for Nadji | |||||||||||||
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| Flash Gordon 10 - Dr Zarkov Is Thawed Out | |||||||||||||
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| Fibber McGee and Molly 65 - Deadly Snake Is Loose | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 88 - The Voice of Bugle Ann | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Lionel Barrymore & Anne Shirley | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1939-07-06 - 357) Disaster Rides the Rails | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Hornet tackles Cunningham and Williams, two card sharks who cheat their victims while riding on the railroad. | ||||||||||||
| Ripley's Believe It or Not 1939-07-06 - 78) Captain and the Slave | |||||||||||||
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| Bulldog Drummond 48 - The Flaming Arrow | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1475 - End of the Iron Spur | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 359 - Love Affair | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Charles Boyer & Irene Dunne (repeat) | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-07-06 - On Enemy Ground | |||||||||||||
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| The Judy Canova Show 1943-07-06 - 1) First Show | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Leading Ladies | ||||||||||||
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| Nick Carter, Master Detective 13 - The Echo of Death | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The sound of nails being hammered into a coffin is heard near a woodland cabin, but the murder seems impossible. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 49 - The White Rose Murders | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Ginny Trowbridge is a well-to-do debutante whose boyfriend Terry—a homicide detective—is in search of the "White Rose Murderer." To help her boyfriend aquire a much needed promotion, Ginny takes it upon herself to lure the killer out in the open, ... | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 99 - The Search for Henri LeFevre | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A composer finishes a brand new composition and learns that someone else has already composed the exact same musical piece! How is such a thing possible when the composer just made it up from his head? Story by: Lucille Fletcher | ||||||||||||
| The Avenger 5 - The Coins of Death | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Casper Hudson visits Madame Yamina, a gypsy fortune teller. However, when he gives her a silver coin, she screams that it is cursed, declaring that he is doomed. She insists that he leave, get out of her sight, and that he has no future. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1944 - Guilty Hands | |||||||||||||
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| Archie Andrews 1946-07-06 - Masked Marvel | |||||||||||||
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| Mysterious Traveler 111 - Locomotive Ghost | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An old bum sees, "The Heavenly Express" just before he's shot and predicts "The Judgment Special" will soon stop for two train wreckers. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1782 - Secret of Meteor Island ep17 | |||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1948-07-06 7 - Slave Auction aka Dorothy Is Rescued | |||||||||||||
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| Mysterious Traveler 161 - Man Who Vanished | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The inventor of a formula for invisibility thinks he has discovered a means of committing a series of perfect crimes, but nature has its own sense of justice. | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 667 - The Case of the Crown Fire | |||||||||||||
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| Dr Kildare 24 - Hunting Trip | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Romance | Medical Romance | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Drs. Kildare and Gillespie go on vacation, battle an epidemic, and save the career of Bob Wheeler, a doctor with migraine headaches. | ||||||||||||
| Dragnet 56 - The Big Frame | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 56 - Belo-Horizonte Railroad | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | There have been strange "accidents" on a Brazilian railroad. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2882 - For a Lost Cause | |||||||||||||
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| Night Beat 49 - Bill Perrin Amnesia Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Bill Perrin is a soldier with amnesia and a missing wife. Randy Stone tries to help. | ||||||||||||
| This Is Your FBI 327 - The Runaway Corpse | |||||||||||||
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| The Falcon 385 - Babbling Brooks | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Falcon flies to London. An accused murderer claims he is innoceent ... he was "in a fog"! | ||||||||||||
| Comic Weekly Man 272 - Story of Robin Hood, First Comic - Big Ben Bolt | |||||||||||||
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| Inner Sanctum Mystery 514 - Death Pays the Freight | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A bum in a freight car kills a fellow hobo who looks just like him, switches identification and finds himself wanted for another crime. | ||||||||||||
| Tales of the Texas Rangers 85 - The Boomerang | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The story is based on the events of May, 1937. A murder and a body in a lake lead the Rangers to a stock auction and the killer of Roscoe Cryder ... or does it? The program marks the end of the 2nd year of the show on the air. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 527 - Triple Play | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | All's fair in love and politics ... and these guys really play for keeps! | ||||||||||||
| Whitehall 1212 ep32 - Murder of Mr Street | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A hammer is an exhibit in the 'Black Museum. ' It was mistaken for a gun. The holes in the body of a corpse looked like a bullet hole. | ||||||||||||
| The Falcon 422 - Faded Rose | |||||||||||||
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| Crime Classics 4 - The Shrapnelled Body of Charles Drew, Sr | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | In 1739 England, Charles Drew Jr. kills Charles Drew Sr. before he has the opportunity to change his will. | ||||||||||||
| Hall of Fantasy s2 33 - The Man in Black | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Death strikes at those who seek, "The Man In Black." Who is the "Man In Black"? | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3195 - The Inferno | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 836 - Cynara | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Joseph Cotten & Georgia Ellis | ||||||||||||
| Barrie Craig 144 - Tough Guy | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Barrie joins in the search for $30,000 in stolen loot. | ||||||||||||
| Crime and Peter Chambers 12 - Cufflinks | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An insurance case leads Peter Chambers to the murder of Frank Reed. The only clue is a cufflink. | ||||||||||||
| Dragnet 255 - The Big Search | |||||||||||||
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| Fibber McGee and Molly 937 - Building a Professional Lemonade Stand | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2822 - Mr Apt Gloats to Halverson | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 559 - The Tip | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 222 - Jan Brueghel Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A stolen masterpiece is finally recovered...or is it? aka The Flowering Judas Matter | ||||||||||||
| The FBI in Peace and War 510 - Thirty to One | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3244 - Becky Hooker's Captives | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 430 - Midas Touch Matter ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The conclusion of the story. Sometimes justice is done by strange and devious means! | ||||||||||||
| Frontier Gentleman 22 - The Education of Kid Yancey | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A wild Texas boy meets a savvy dance hall girl, with surprising results. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 326 - Chester's Choice | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Chester overhears a plan to rob the Dodge City bank in broad daylight. He tries to get Marshal Dillon to leave town, in order to protect Doc and Kitty. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 758 - Rub Down and Out | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 594 - Blinker Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A case of an elephant with a hollow leg in San Francisco. | ||||||||||||
| Theater Five 242 - Jailbreak | |||||||||||||
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