| 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: | Johnny Weissmuller swims 100 meters freestyle 58.6 seconds (1922) BORN: O J Simpson football player (1947) DIED: Rod Steiger actor (2002) |
| Quote: | Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. (Blaise Pascal) |
| Fact: | Sir Winston Churchill's family motto was 'Fiel Pero Desdichado'. Which translated means 'Faithful though disinherited' |
| Word: | tittle (noun) 1: A small diacritic mark (Eg: an accent, vowel mark or a dot over an 'i') 2: The tiniest bit; an iota |
| Fortune Cookie: | All the answers you need are right there in front of you! |
| Poem: | Such utter silence! / Even the crickets' singing... / Muffled by hot rocks / (Haiku by Basho) |
| Joke: | I found a great way to stop repeat offenders. Don't re-elect them! |
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| Chandu the Magician 1935-07-09 xxx - The Cave | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 80 - Speed Caught by the Octopus | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | During the murderous hail storm ... shelter in the home of The Octopus! | ||||||||||||
| Chase and Sanborn Hour 1939-07-09 - 114) Guests Stuart Irwin, Tony Galento | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 221 - White Plague ep8 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1320 - Murder at the Schoolhouse | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1633 - Tinker's Dam | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 60 - An Eye for an Eye | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A doctor invites four suspects in the murder of his brother onto his yacht and tells them that they will remain prisoners at sea until one of them confesses. A convoluted plot with corpses, time bombs, and sub-plots galore. News bulletin: Eisenhower announces ... | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 27 - The Worthington Pearls | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The Worthington Pearls have been stolen and they've turned on Blackie! Inspector Farraday thinks he's got his man. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1945 - Ambush | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Michael Shayne s1 39 - Gossip Writer | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Society columnist Winifred Spencer has received a threatening letter. She's having a dinner party tonight and expects her would-be murderer to attend. | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 253 - Romance | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 163 - Highway of Escape | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A young woman, stuck in the desert with her stepfather, finally kills the old man and drives off with the first motorist passing by. A flight across the desert follows. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1329 - Horatio F. Horn Detective ep6 | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of Superman | ||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 78 - The Skating Rink Murders | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A girl is found murdered at a skating rink with a $50,000 diamond ring on her finger. | ||||||||||||
| Encore Theater 6 - White Angel | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Non-fiction | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | The story of Florence Nightingale and the start of the science of nursing. | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 130 - Death Comes to the Harmonica Man | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Harmonica-player Henry Peterson is shot by his girlfriend and dies, but then walks into a police station, playing the harmonica! | ||||||||||||
| Hop Harrigan 1947-07-09 1243) - Mystery Of The Vanishing Men 3 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2257 - Gun Runner's Boy | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 267 - The Two Lives of Colby Fletcher | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man deliberately runs down a pedestrian with his car, trying to complete his scheme to fake his own death. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1785 - Voice of Doom ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1948-07-09 10 - Secret Place aka Journey Up The Nile | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Frontier Town 19 - Five Gun Final | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A dishonest newspaper publisher seems to be able to get the news before his competition. How does he do it? | ||||||||||||
| Let's Pretend 1949-07-09 - The Tinderbox | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Fantasy / Whimsey | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 12 - Charles Walsh and Bob Wells | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Two convicts escape from Sing Sing with plans to kill Richard Diamond. They start by kidnapping Diamond's girlfriend Helen Asher. Diamond's alcoholic friend "Wilbur" is similar to the character "Jocko" heard on, "Pat Novak, For Hire." After the story, Dick ... | ||||||||||||
| Cloak and Dagger 9 - The Trap | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | War / Armed Forces | Spy / Espionage | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | An O. S. S. operative is sent to a German-occupied town in France to find out if the Nazis really hid re-inforcements in the woods. The spy's abilities as a cartoonist is a definite plus, but his escape from the pursuing Nazis results in a wild flight. | ||||||||||||
| Hopalong Cassidy 28 - Hoppy Sees Red | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Media / Stars | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Jeff Regan, Investigator 64 - She's Lovely, She's Engaged, She Eats Soybeans | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A story about a new miracle health food. A professional bathing beauty named Jerry Shoulder needs protection. | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 88 - Interlude With Laurena | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The program begins (in Cairo) with the striking of Big Ben! Who killed Eddie Largo? Was it Lorraina Maxwell, the wealthy widow of Paul Maxwell? | ||||||||||||
| The Saint 131 - Problem of the Peculiar Payoff | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The program is preceded by a Korean War news bulletin. Who wants "The Saint" killed, and was he given $15,000? | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 423 - Devoted Couple | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A penniless adventurer marries a wealthy woman, despite a blackmailing private detective. The wife's beautiful secretary soon leads him to thoughts of murder. | ||||||||||||
| Bold Venture 16 - The Mystery of the Mary K | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Water / Boats | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Slate Shannon and Sailor find four men in a drifting boat ... machine gunned to death. They are in a lifeboat from the "Mary Kay," a ship missing for a year! | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2883 - The Elusive Gunslingers | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 452 - Fishing With Miss McKinley | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | Gildersleeve Project | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3040 - Western Union Story | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1953-07-09 - 102) The Golden Bullet | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Fibber McGee and Molly 940 - Jaywalking Is No Thrill | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3353 - Trouble at the Rafter H | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2825 - Kate and Della with Tony | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 169 - Uncle Oliver | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Oliver and Viney Stang decide to get Chester's job, and the easiest way to do that is to shoot him...which is exactly what they do! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on May 25, 1957. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 431 - Shady Lane Matter ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A quiet little New England town, with elm shaded streets, picket fences, flower beds, and a killer on the loose! | ||||||||||||
| A Case for Dr Morelle 12 - Poisoned Air | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Dr Morell tackles a case of risky experiments and thwarted love. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 884 - Epitaph | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 746 - Fiddle Faddle Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny is called in to find one of the most valuable violins in the world. It is enough to drive a man to murder! | ||||||||||||
| Theater Five 245 - Ed's War | |||||||||||||
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