| 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: | Chillicothe Baking Company sells sliced bread for 1st time (1928) BORN: Pierre Cardin designer (1922) DIED: Olivier Levasseur pirate (1730) |
| Quote: | Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. (Samuel Goldwyn) |
| Fact: | A male wombat is called a 'Jack' |
| Word: | septum (noun) A small dividing wall in an animal or a plant. Eg: the partition between the nostrils |
| Fortune Cookie: | All your hard work will soon pay off |
| Poem: | Describe plum-blossoms? / Better than my verses ... white / Wordless butterflies / (Haiku by Reikan) |
| Joke: | I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof. |
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| Redbook Dramas 7 - Tribal Law | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Love and honor in the Yucatan Jungle. An excellent period piece. | ||||||||||||
| Chandu the Magician 1933-07-07 350 - Mrs Regis Meets with Mr Motleon | |||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1935-07-07 xxx - Desertion | |||||||||||||
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| Fu Manchu 27 - The Golden Pomegranite | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1006 - The Stage Line Challenge (part 3) | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 220 - White Plague ep7 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1319 - An Alibi Cracked | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 315 - Algiers | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Charles Boyer & Hedy Lamarr | ||||||||||||
| Casey 1 - The Case of the Switched Plates | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Casey, Crime Photographer | ||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The first show of the series. Ethelbert meets Anne for the first time and Casey and Anne actually take a drink in The Blue Note (two beers, no heads). Assigned to take photos at a wedding, Casey's pictures turn out to be taken at a secret laboratory which is developing ... | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1632 - Bad Man's Medicine | |||||||||||||
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| Rogues Gallery 55 - Cabin On The Lake | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | At a resort, Janice Cole is found dead in her room. Her body promptly disappears while Rogue sleeps through his weekly hit-on-the-head. Rogue is then accused of the crime! | ||||||||||||
| Sherlock Holmes 39 - The Adventure of the Iron Maiden | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Conway & Bruce | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | Classic Tales | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Starring Tom Conway as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. | ||||||||||||
| Escape 1 - The Man Who Would Be King (Raymond Lawrence) | |||||||||||||
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| Hop Harrigan 1947-07-07 1241) - Mystery Of The Vanishing Men 1 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Aviation | ||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2256 - Revenge | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| My Friend Irma 13 - Too Much Publicity | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Leading Ladies | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Irma finds herself in a beauty contest. She wins the cup, but now wants the saucer! | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 355 - My Reputation | |||||||||||||
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| Abbott & Costello Show 222 - Bud and Lou Plan a Vacation | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1783 - Voice of Doom ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| The Big Story 67 - The Woman Who Was a Witch - George Cleveland Bullette pt 2 only | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 182 - Diamonds Stolen from Kingston | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Three diamond thieves rob the Kingston diamonds and knock out Blackie while doing it. One of the thieves, named Danny Morris, is found murdered the next day, but Mike Graves and Joey Sometimes have airtight alibis. They were at the ballgame at the time of the robbery. | ||||||||||||
| Chandu the Magician 1948-07-07 8 - To Cairo aka Cab Ride To Cairo | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 318 - Fatal Appointment | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A desperate businessman gets $50,000 in return for agreeing to be killed in two years. | ||||||||||||
| Broadway Is My Beat 1 - Jimmy Dorn Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Candy Matson 2 - The Cable Car Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The man riding next to Candy on a cable car is silently shot to death. | ||||||||||||
| Dragnet 5 - The Helen Corday Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Escape 69 - The Fourth Man (Wilms Herbert) | |||||||||||||
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| Dimension X 14 - Mars is Heaven | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The first astronauts to land on Mars discover... Earth: a planet where their long-dead loved ones are waiting for them in a small Midwest town just like home. Part of his Martian Chronicles series. A popular story for radio; Two separate versions were produced ... | ||||||||||||
| Escape 118 - A Shipment of Mute Fate (David Ellis) | |||||||||||||
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| Philip Marlowe 104 - A Seaside Sabbatical | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Marlowe travels to Long Beach to find a shooting gallery and murder! | ||||||||||||
| Bobby Benson & The B Bar B Riders 1951-07-07 - Cyrano Wales | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Children / Teenagers | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Horatio Hornblower 1 - Horatio Deals with a Mad King | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Water / Boats | War / Armed Forces | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| 21st Precinct 1 - The Nolen Brothers | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Carl Ross and the Nolen Brothers rob a bank and hold up in an apartment. | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1953-07-07 - 101) The Prophet of Boot Hill | |||||||||||||
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| 21st Precinct 52 - The Mover | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The police are called when a building superintendent won't let Jo Ann Linwyck move the furniture out of her apartment. | ||||||||||||
| Fibber McGee and Molly 938 - Lemonade Stand | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2823 - Halverson Talks to Faustina | |||||||||||||
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| Theatre Royal 40 - Four Meetings | |||||||||||||
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| The Roy Rogers Show 1955-07-07 - 76) Song - Good Day | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 682 - The Big Prison | |||||||||||||
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| X Minus One 8 - The Green Hills of Earth | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Classic story of a space engineer who suffers a tragic accident and ends up tramping about the Solar System singing about the life of spacers and dreaming of returning to Earth once more before he dies. Story by: Robert A. Heinlein | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 274 - Word of Honor | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | After treating a wounded man, Doc gives his word of honor not to reveal the identities or hiding place of his criminal patients. Same script as shows dated January 10, 1953, and July 3, 1954. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 706 - Alibi | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 542 - Felicity Feline Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The proverbial little old lady leaves $60,000 to her cat ... who is fully insured! | ||||||||||||
| Walk Softly, Peter Troy 31 - The Gilded Lily | |||||||||||||
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