| 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: | 1st flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber (1989) BORN: James Cagney actor (1899) DIED: Adam Smith economist (1790) |
| Quote: | He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees. (Benjamin Franklin) |
| Fact: | Hindu Gods: Vayu (God of the Wind) - Surya (Sun God) - Brahma (the Creator) - Varuna (God of the Rains) - Kubera (God of Material Wealth) |
| Word: | novercal (adjective) Of or relating to a stepmother; stepmotherly |
| Fortune Cookie: | The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success |
| Poem: | O Fly, my Soul! What hangs upon / Thy drooping wings, / And weighs them down / With love of gaudy mortal things? (James Shirley) |
| Joke: | Suburbia is a place where they tear out the trees and then name streets after them. |
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| Chandu the Magician 1935-07-17 xxx - The Awakening | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | Crime | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 29 - Speed and Bob Fly to Help Dr Kingsley | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The radio goes dead, before Speed and his friends can learn the location of the Octopus hideout. Has he struck again? | ||||||||||||
| Fu Manchu 31 - Conversation in the Dark | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Spy / Espionage | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1010 - The Stage Line Challenge (part 8) | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 68 - Happyland Amusement Park ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of Superman | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Midway Martin' tricks Nancy Bardette into selling Happyland! | ||||||||||||
| Blue Beetle 31/32 - Finesse In Diamonds | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The Beetle tackles a stolen diamond case. / The Blue Beetle recovers the Bannister diamonds, worth half a million dollars! | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1167 - Outlaws of the Rio Grande | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1480 - One Wide River | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1793 - Kit Carson | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 203 - Make Your Own Bed | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1335 - Horatio F. Horn Detective ep12 | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 2104 - Weight in Gold | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Hop Harrigan 1947-07-17 1249) - Mystery Of The Vanishing Men 9 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Aviation | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| All-Star Western Theatre 102 - The Widow of Rainbow Valley | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | All Star Western Theatre | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A radio quiz show helps out a modern "pioneer." | ||||||||||||
| Archie Andrews 1948-07-17 - Mr Andrews Wallpapers a Room | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Children / Teenagers | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Jeff Regan, Investigator 2 - The Prodigal Daughter | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Jeff Regan, Investigator | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Regan travels to New Orleans to find a wealthy man's daughter. He succeeds, but finds her laid out for burial ... or does he? | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Frank Race 12 - Silent Heart | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of Frank Race | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | In New York during summer, Race is asked to visit an insurance actuary who is pondering a sad anomaly. A county in New England has had an unexplained dramatic upswing in death by recently acquired heart disease. Looking further, it is determined a good number ... | ||||||||||||
| Blackstone 42 - The Riddle of the Seven Zombies | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Blackstone, The Magic Detective | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Crime | Media / Stars | Spinoff | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | How Blackstone used a "magic" drum to conquer the "living dead." Blackstone explains the "Match Box Anti-Gravity" trick. | ||||||||||||
| Box 13 ep48 - The Biter Bitten | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A herpetologist asks Holiday to help him find an extremely poisonous snake that escaped in a hotel. | ||||||||||||
| Damon Runyon Theater 42 - Lillian | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Dames can make you do the darndest things. | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 50 - Carelessness Code | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | School | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | 'The Conklin Carelessness Code' is a novel method of financing a new bust of Osgood Conkin! The script was reused on the program of February 12, 1956 | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 37 - The Race | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | There's a bomb in a pawn shop near the Cafe Tambourine. Shortly after it goes off, Rocky learns that there's another bomb, even bigger than the first, set to go off. | ||||||||||||
| The Roy Rogers Show 1949-07-17 - 47) The Mysterious Loot at Bad Luck Cave | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 372 - Death in Sixteen Millimeter | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Paul Benton takes movies of his girlfriend as she murders Paul's wife. | ||||||||||||
| Broadway Is My Beat 43 - Emilio Ramirez Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Crime Does Not Pay 41 - Burglar Alarm | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Three childhood friends grow up into a life of crime, They finally try the 'big job' by setting off the burglar alarm on a jewelry store, then not robbing the store until the cops leave! | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 201 - Eleven O'clock | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Night Beat 24 - Molly Keller | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Molly Keller's husband is now dead. Randy Stone discovers the scrub woman is now living in a swanky hotel. Who has the $65,000 from a fourteen-year-old payroll robbery? | ||||||||||||
| Night Beat 102 - Taste of Peaches | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Jake Strand is out of prison after twenty years. Two tough guys are out for his hidden $100,000, and the smell of peaches! | ||||||||||||
| Horatio Hornblower 52 - Promoted to Captain of the Retribution | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of Horatio Hornblower | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Water / Boats | War / Armed Forces | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Escape 218 - Eye of Evil | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Mixed Bag | Horror | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| My Little Margie 1955-07-17 - 93) Verne Reunites with Old Friends | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | Leading Ladies | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 298 - Compliment Contest | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | School | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | If Connie can get three friends to take a tour of Europe with her, she can go for free. Miss Brooks is trying to promote a summer vacation trip to Europe ... but so are Mr. Boynton and Mr. Conklin. | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1956-07-17 - 420) Pueblo Justice | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| X Minus One 60 - The Old Die Rich | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | An unusual number of elderly turn up dead with money stuffed in their pockets, yet having died of starvation. The investigation leads to an unscrupulous woman who is using a time machine to send people back to make fortunes for her. Versions of this story appeared ... | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 437 - Star of Capetown Matter ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A hit on the head and Johnny misses the boat. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 432 - Busted-Up Guns | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | The Indian agent on the Sioux reservation has gone off the deep end, is drunk and determined to keep guns away from the Indians. | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 87 - Little Guns | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Paladin travels to Preston, Arizona when his old friend James Ellis hires him to prevent a range war. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 862 - Memorial Bridge | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 696 - Back to the Back Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The owner of an advertising agency has been shot, but the would-be killer forgot that his victim wore a sacro-lumbar support! | ||||||||||||
