| 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: | New York Draft Riots conscription opponents riot 3 days (1863) BORN: Julius Caesar Emperor (100 BC) DIED: Johnny Ringo gunfighter (1882) |
| Quote: | A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. (Groucho Marx) |
| Fact: | Winds on Saturn reach 1,800 kilometers (1,118 miles) per hour. Winds on Earth reach about 400 kilometers (about 250 miles) per hour. |
| Word: | pusillanimous (adjective) Lacking courage; timid; cowardly |
| Fortune Cookie: | The joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days |
| Poem: | Love guards the roses of thy lips And flies about them like a bee; If I approach he forward skips, And if I kiss he stingeth me. (Lodge) |
| Joke: | Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock. |
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| Flash Gordon 11 - Dr Zarkov Shoots Crooks with Electrodes | |||||||||||||
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| Fibber McGee and Molly 66 - Managing Editor | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 89 - The Brat | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Marion Davies & Joel McCrea | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 852 - Signed Confession | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1478 - High-graders | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 360 - HM Pulham, Esq | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Hedy Lamarr & Robert Young | ||||||||||||
| Lights Out 312 - The Visitor From Hades | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 337 - The Lady's Locket | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 100 - The Beast Must Die | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Told through a cryptic diary, a single father becomes obsessed with finding and murdering the hit-and-run driver who killed his only child. Based on the novel by Nicholas Blake which was successfully adapted onto film as 'Que la bête meure' in 1969 by the French ... | ||||||||||||
| The Avenger 6 - Mystery of Dead Man's Rock | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Simon asks Pierre to give him some of his furs, but Pierre is hesitant. He points out that Mr. Jenkins, the Game Warden, would be suspicious if his top trapper, Pierre, suddenly stopped trapping so many furs. Additionally, Pierre suspects that Simon intends ... | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1947 - Tom Bates, Reformed | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
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| Archie Andrews 1946-07-13 - Stranded on an Island | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Children / Teenagers | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Lights Out 332 - Coffin In Studio B | |||||||||||||
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| Nick Carter, Master Detective 296 - The Case of the Missing Piano Player | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Nick and Patsy visit a crooked gambling ship to find out who shot the piano player. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1787 - Voice of Doom ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | ||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1948-07-13 12 - Betty Meets Abdullah aka Rendevouz In The Garden | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Philo Vance 1 - The Eagle Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man who thought he was going to be killed on the way to the hospital is killed in the ambulance while en route to the hospital - or was he? | ||||||||||||
| Archie Andrews 1949-07-13 - Sunburned | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 668 - Trickery in the River | |||||||||||||
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| Dr Kildare 25 - Dan Malloy's Peptic Ulcer | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Romance | Medical Romance | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Construction worker Dan Malloy has a peptic ulcer, but his main problem is Mrs. Malloy. | ||||||||||||
| Dragnet 57 - The Big Bomb | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 57 - Calgary Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny tries to track down the gang who has stolen $300,000. Someone's willing to talk, but only for immunity and protection. | ||||||||||||
| Dr Kildare 77 - Valerie and Walter Benton - Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Romance | Medical Romance | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Walter Benton has fallen from the 7th story of the hospital. Did he jump or was he pushed? | ||||||||||||
| Night Beat 50 - Antonios Return | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman tells Randy Stone that she knows that her husband, trapeze artist Antonio Costello, is returning from his grave. | ||||||||||||
| This Is Your FBI 328 - The Tribal Shakedown | |||||||||||||
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| The Falcon 386 - Running Waters | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Spy / Espionage | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Michael Waring travels to Italy to find out that, "when it comes to murder, there's no place like Rome!" | ||||||||||||
| Comic Weekly Man 273 - Start of Robin Hood, First Comic - Big Ben Bolt | |||||||||||||
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| Inner Sanctum Mystery 515 - Death for Sale | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A seven-year insurance scheme is delayed by two complications ... a blackmailer and his wife. | ||||||||||||
| Tales of the Texas Rangers 86 - Finger Man | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A sheriff's deputy is killed during an attempted prison break. The Rangers try to get his fellow prisoners to supply the needed evidence. | ||||||||||||
| Whitehall 1212 ep33 - The Case of the Mahout's Ankush | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The exhibit in the 'Black Museum' is an 'ankush,' an elephant hook. An Indian has been murdered at the zoo. | ||||||||||||
| Crime Classics 5 - The Terrible Deed of John White Webster | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | When does a doctor need a friend? When the janitor suspects him of murder! | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 837 - Physician in Spite of Himself | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Robert Young & Parley Baer | ||||||||||||
| Barrie Craig 145 - Murder by Error | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The husband of a beautiful woman is being blackmailed for $10,000 by a strange looking midget. The case soon leads to diamond smuggling and murder! | ||||||||||||
| Crime and Peter Chambers 13 - Masquerade Party | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Peter Chambers is hired by the eccentric George Reiner to help him buy the fabulous, 'Opal Of Ramses'. When a murder takes place, it appears that George Reiner is guilty of the crime. The opal, of course, is missing. | ||||||||||||
| Dragnet 256 - The Big Rescue | |||||||||||||
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| Fibber McGee and Molly 942 - Professor Analyzes Dinosaur Bone | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2827 - Gus Works on Tony | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 560 - Run Sheep Run | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 223 - Carboniferous Dolomite Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny travels to Sumatra when an oil well driller requests his services to investigate sabotage. The job assignment soon changes to a murder case. | ||||||||||||
| The FBI in Peace and War 511 - The Serious Type | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A lonely-hearts racket preys on the innocent through a "Friendship Club". | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3247 - Trapped By Fate | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 435 - Shady Lane Matter ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The conclusion of the story. One domino tips, the whole stack tumbles, and the last man falls with a crash! | ||||||||||||
| Frontier Gentleman 23 - Justice of the Peace | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman justice of the peace is unable to prevent the lynching of an Indian accused of murder. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 327 - The Proving Kid | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A young kid named Bravo swears to seek revenge after being humiliated by Marshal Dillon. After killing "Big Red" in his cell, he pulls a gun on Dillon and marches him to the Long Branch to make him dance! | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 759 - The Long Night | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 595 - Mojave Red Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A sunken boat and murder in the desert. | ||||||||||||
| Theater Five 247 - The Marked Man | |||||||||||||
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