| 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: | French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior (1985) BORN: Jack 'Legs' Diamond bootlegger (1897) DIED: Jelly Roll Morton musician (1941) |
| Quote: | I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means. (Oscar Wilde) |
| Fact: | It has been estimated that about 500,000 people and over a million wild animals died in the Roman Coliseum |
| Word: | muliebrity (noun) 1: Womanly qualities; womanhood; femininity; 2: The state of being a woman |
| Fortune Cookie: | How can you have a beautiful ending without making beautiful mistakes? |
| Poem: | A lost child crying / Stumbling over the dark fields ... / Catching fireflies / (Haiku by Ryusui) |
| Joke: | Sometimes I wake up grumpy; other times I let her sleep |
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| Speed Gibson 28 - Bob Gilmore Sworn into Secret Police | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A new Secret Police operative, and an Octopus agent surfaces. | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 128 - He Died at Twelve | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A condemned man is hanged, but he's still alive! | ||||||||||||
| Fu Manchu 28 - Kidnapped | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Spy / Espionage | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1007 - The Stage Line Challenge (part 5) | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 227 - Ruggles of Red Gap | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A proper British butler finds himself achieving a sense of equality in the wild American west. Stars: Charles Laughton & Charlie Ruggles. The last show of the season. The story was produced again on The Lux Radio Theatre on September 10, 1951 Announced ... | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 65 - Happyland Amusement Park ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | "Midway Martin" forces Kelly to sabotage the "Sky Chaser," Happyland's most spectacular ride. Nancy's going to be taking the first ride! | ||||||||||||
| Blue Beetle 29/30 - Saved By A Hair | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A dead cop provides the clue to a gang victimizing parolees. The Blue Beetle is captured and arrested! / A gang threatens the parole commissioner's daughter by tying her to a log and pushing her through a buzz saw! | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1477 - Barcley Brothers Downfall | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 202 - The Informer | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1330 - Horatio F. Horn Detective ep7 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2101 - The Hidden Hand | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Hop Harrigan 1947-07-10 1244) - Mystery Of The Vanishing Men 4 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 253 - Murder by the Book | |||||||||||||
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| All-Star Western Theatre 101 - Sunshine Johnson | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A rancher who is always worrying about everything strikes oil on his land. Now his trouble really begin! | ||||||||||||
| Archie Andrews 1948-07-10 - Archie Gets Dressed for a Date | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Children / Teenagers | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Frank Race 11 - Reckless Daughter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Frank Race and Mark Donovan are in a "section of the European continent" which was war-torn from WWII. It is only after accidentally getting involved in a police matter which lands Donovan in jail for resisting arrest that Race learns the reason for the summons ... | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Sam Spade 159 - Queen Bee Caper | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Sam is asked to visit a girl's school. It seems there is a thief there. Murder occurs ... with formic acid! | ||||||||||||
| Blackstone 41 - The Phantom Detective | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Crime | Media / Stars | Spinoff | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Blackstone uses "Flippo" the rabbit to capture a Nazi saboteur! Blackstone explains the "A Glass, A Coin and A Dollar Bill" trick. | ||||||||||||
| Box 13 ep47 - Double Trouble | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Holiday is told to go to a certain address to prevent a murder, but when he gets there, a woman is already dead. | ||||||||||||
| Damon Runyon Theater 41 - Joe Terrace | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Never bet on your wife's death. | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 49 - Telegram For Mrs Davis | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mrs. Davis gets a telegram, but no-one wants to open it! This naturally leads to Christmas in the Spring! | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 36 - The Broken Wing | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 371 - Front Man | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A respected attorney named Steve Conant refuses to alibi his half-brother when he's charged with murder. In fact, Steve is really in the rackets with his half-brother, and also in love with the gangster's girl friend! | ||||||||||||
| Broadway Is My Beat 42 - Frank Briscoe Murder Case (AFRS) | |||||||||||||
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| Broadway Is My Beat 42 - Frank Briscoe Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Crime Does Not Pay 40 - Once Too Often | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A gangster's trigger man takes the rap for murder and expects to be rewarded when he gets out of jail on parole. However, his boss wants him to go straight. | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 200 - Island in the Desert | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2727 - Mistake of the Father | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Night Beat 23 - Twill Be the Death of Me | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Theatrical producer Charles Kelsey is determined to get his revenge against Max Sorenson, a down-and-out Shakespearean actor. | ||||||||||||
| Dragnet 161 - The Big Hate | |||||||||||||
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| Horatio Hornblower 51 - Fighting the Spanish on the Renoun | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Water / Boats | War / Armed Forces | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Escape 217 - The Birds | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Mixed Bag | Horror | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
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| Our Miss Brooks 297 - Bye Bye Boynton | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Miss Brooks decides to get Mr. Boynton out of her life. Miss Brooks is trying to forget her romance with Mr. Boynton, but she keeps seeing him everywhere! | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1956-07-10 - 418) A Killer Quits | |||||||||||||
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| X Minus One 59 - Bad Medicine | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A New York jetbus driver with a simple case of homicidal mania purchases a home computer therapist, unaware that this particular machine has been programmed to treat only Martian psychoses. Story by: Robert Sheckley | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 432 - Shady Lane Matter ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Of two who are not even accused, one confesses and one denies ... and both very strangely! | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 431 - Reluctant Violence | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Homer Ladely is in Dodge to crusade against guns and violence. Homer also happens to have sack full of gold! | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 86 - Five Days to Yuma | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Paladin is protecting one of the steamboats in a great sternwheeler race from sabotage. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 861 - Report from a Dead Planet | |||||||||||||
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