| 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: | Bastille stormed 7 prisoners freed (1789) BORN: James Abbott McNeill Whistler artist (1834) DIED: Paul Kruger Boer resistance leader (1904) |
| Quote: | Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. (Mahatma Gandhi) |
| Fact: | Diceros bicornis is the scientific name for the Black Rhinoceros |
| Word: | nival (adjective) Of, growing in or under, or relating to, snow |
| Fortune Cookie: | Enjoy what you have! Never mind fame and power |
| Poem: | Voices of two bells / That speak from twilight temples... / Ah! cool dialogue / (Haiku by Buson) |
| Joke: | I know a man in Ft. Worth with 100,000 head of cattle. No bodies, just heads. |
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| Redbook Dramas 8 - Zhulie | |||||||||||||
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| Lights Out 185 - Lord Marley's Guest | |||||||||||||
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| Fu Manchu 30 - A Slave Once More | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1009 - The Stage Line Challenge (part 7) | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 223 - Fur Smuggling ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1322 - Thunder from the Plain | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1635 - Bad Man's Bluff | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 4 - Star of the Nile | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A fabulous gem called "The Star Of The Nile" disappears from a train between Chicago and New York. It's an emerald worth $200,000...or does it? The burglary is scheduled to take place at the jewelry store's vault at midnight. The story has one of the corniest ... | ||||||||||||
| Gang Busters 374 - Case of the Costumed Killer | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Little Rock Arkansas police go after a hardened criminal who has been teaching kids to be crooks like himself. | ||||||||||||
| Rogues Gallery 56 - Where There's A Will There's A Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Wealthy Angela Mullins hires Richard Rogue to find out who stole her will, whereupon she's promptly found dead. | ||||||||||||
| Dick Tracy 1947-07-14 - 1109) The Case of the Crooked Finger | |||||||||||||
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| Escape 2 - Operation Fleur De Lys | |||||||||||||
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| Hop Harrigan 1947-07-14 1246) - Mystery Of The Vanishing Men 6 | |||||||||||||
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| Jack Armstrong 1947-07-14 - Phantom of the Sawdust Trail | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2259 - When Fate Wore a Mask | |||||||||||||
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| Terry and the Pirates 1947-07-14 - Case of the Goofy Gosling | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1788 - Voice of Doom ep6 | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 183 - Blackie Framed for Killing John Cummings | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Blackie is framed for the Cummings murder and thrown in jail. His only alibi is then murdered! | ||||||||||||
| Bulldog Drummond 348 - The Deadly Stand | |||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1948-07-14 13 - Chandu Meets Nadji aka Meeting With Princess Nadji | |||||||||||||
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| Dragnet 6 - Red Light Bandit | |||||||||||||
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| Escape 70 - The Drums of the Fore and Aft (Ben Wright)) | |||||||||||||
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| Dimension X 15 - The Man in the Moon | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Federal Missing Persons Bureau receives a desperate radio message from a crank who claims to be calling from the Moon (unlikely in 1950). Of course the call is dismissed, until a minor functionary begins to suspect that the call is related to a strange ... | ||||||||||||
| Escape 119 - Shark Bait | |||||||||||||
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| Philip Marlowe 105 - The Dear Dead Days | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Marlowe responds to a strange call from the little old lady asking to find her chauffeur, Stevens, who wasn't her chauffeur anymore. He found more than that. | ||||||||||||
| Horatio Hornblower 2 - Horatio Captures the Natividad | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Water / Boats | War / Armed Forces | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Commodore sinks a French Corvette, even though she sought shelter in neutral waters. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3042 - The Lost Years | |||||||||||||
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| 21st Precinct 2 - Case of the Young Incorrigible | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Young mugger, George Hrostek, escapes while in custody. | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1953-07-14 - 103) Gun War at Oak Pass | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 171 - Shayne Bombing Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A package filled with explosives leads to the discovery of a labor protection racket. | ||||||||||||
| 21st Precinct 53 - The Shotgun | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Eva Weald tells Sgt. Waters that she has shot her husband. | ||||||||||||
| Fibber McGee and Molly 943 - Dr. Eichelberger Visits | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2828 - Perry at the Funeral | |||||||||||||
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| Theatre Royal 41 - A Sentimental Journey | |||||||||||||
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| The Roy Rogers Show 1955-07-14 - 77) Song - Sierra Sue | |||||||||||||
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| X Minus One 9 - Dr Grimshaw's Sanitarium | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An Private Eye infiltrates an insane asylum to investigate rumors of strange goings-on, and discovers some bizarre physical transformations. Story by: Fletcher Pratt | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 275 - Bloody Hands | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Marshal Dillon gets sick of killing and resigns his job. A rebroadcast of the program of April 2, 1955. The commercial for the 1957 Dodge is almost surrealistic! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on February 16, 1957. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 707 - Flood on the Goodwins | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 543 - Heatherstone Players Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A universally hated Shakespearean actor is killed in a radio station. | ||||||||||||
| Walk Softly, Peter Troy 32 - The Lives of a Bengal Dancer | |||||||||||||
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| Theater Five 248 - The Walls of Poison Ivy | |||||||||||||
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