| 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: | Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth (1545) BORN: Lizzie Borden accused murderer (1860) DIED: Samuel Colt firearms inventor (1814) |
| Quote: | I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move. (Rosa Parks) |
| Fact: | A male squirrel is called a 'Buck' |
| Word: | resile (verb) 1: To rebound or recoil; to spring back; 2: To shrink, withdraw, or retreat; to draw back |
| Fortune Cookie: | A friend asks only for your time, not your money |
| Poem: | Fly hence, shadows, that do keep / Watchful sorrows charm'd in sleep! (John Ford) |
| Joke: | Marriage is when a man and woman become as one; the trouble starts when they try to decide which one. |
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| Fibber McGee and Molly 119 - Homecoming Program | |||||||||||||
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| Fu Manchu 32 - Snake's Head | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Spy / Espionage | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1011 - Manhunt | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 69 - Happyland Amusement Park ep6 | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | The Adventures of Superman | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Superhero | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Midway Martin' has Lois Lane trapped in a hotel room in Parkville. She escapes with the bill of sale and is rescued by Superman after a high-speed car chase. The end of the adventure. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1168 - When Thieves Fall Out | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1637 - Hunt for Wildcat | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 153 - Men in White | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1794 - Double Cross Harvest | |||||||||||||
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| The Green Hornet 1945-07-19 - The Fall Guy | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 150 - Bank Holiday | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1337 - Horatio F. Horn Detective ep14 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2105 - Town Marshall | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Masked / Mystery Men | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| This Is Your FBI 68 - The Walkie-Talkie Stick-Up | |||||||||||||
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| All-Star Western Theatre 50 - Fires Of Sherman Point | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Western | Western Stars | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A rancher has been robbed three times, and it looks like it's going to happen again! | ||||||||||||
| Let's Pretend 1947-07-19 - Rapunzel | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Fantasy / Whimsey | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1791 - Voice of Doom ep9 | |||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1948-07-19 16 - Betty Is Found | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 97 - Cry Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 1 - Conklin's First Day | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Humor | School | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Osgood Conklin becomes the new principal of Madison High ... after a traffic accident with Miss Brooks! | ||||||||||||
| Philo Vance 54 - Racket Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Racketeers are using small stores to run their numbers and horse betting racket. They run into Philo Vance and are the worse for it. | ||||||||||||
| Philip Marlowe 93 - The Last Wish | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Marlowe sets out to find Jack Schiller for his father, Jacob, a dying old man. Not as easy as it sounds. | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 897 - Tom Barry's Return | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Animal | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Dimension X 40 - Dwellers in Silence | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Colonists from Mars return to Earth generations after the Atomic War and discover a few survivors—a family with some very odd peculiarities about them. Part of the Martian Chronicles series. Another version of this story later appeared on X Minus One. ... | ||||||||||||
| Dragnet 110 - The Big Sophomore | |||||||||||||
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| Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle 28 - Drum Without a Heart | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 13 - Doc Holiday | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Doc Holliday has come to Dodge to kill Big Jack Finley. But Big Jack's son, Thorne Finley, is the real problem. | ||||||||||||
| Barrie Craig 94 - Scream for Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Staged murder attempts on the husband are to cover up his murder of her. Barrie has to arrest his client. | ||||||||||||
| Comic Weekly Man 326 - Swimming to Cool Off, First Comic - Beetle Bailey | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Mixed Bag | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Escape 192 - The Open Boat | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Adventure | Mixed Bag | Horror | Science Fiction | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 148 - Chapel Hill Police Officer Symposium Speech | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Description: | A convention of cops in North Carolina leads to murder and a surprising solution. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 579 - Silver Service | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Horror | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Fibber McGee and Molly 946 - Visiting Stringbean Wilson | |||||||||||||
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| Gang Busters 851 - Case of the Manhattan Rampage | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 118 - The Queue | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An educated Chinaman named Chin Wong comes to Dodge to work as a cook. When two bullies steal his pigtail, he threatens to kill them. | ||||||||||||
| Let's Pretend 1954-07-19 - Rapunzel | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Fantasy / Whimsey | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | OTRR Library | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2831 - Halverson at Beekman House | |||||||||||||
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| Dragnet 309 - The Big Bobo | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 607 - Backseat Driver | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 439 - Star of Capetown Matter ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Man overboard, and a clue with him. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 380 - Second Arrest | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Marshal Dillon is forced to free Mort Sealy when Will Hunter fails to appear to testify at his trial for horse theft. There's a good reason for Hunter's absence! | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 35 - Deliver the Body | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Ben Tyler has been accused of murdering the sheriff. Paladin is anxious to leave San Francisco to avoid women fighting over him. He accepts the job to return Ben to trial. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 811 - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 646 - Will and a Way Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A fishing guide at the Lake Mojave resort claims that he's been cheated out of his inheritance. A careful examination of the will is called for! | ||||||||||||
| Theater Five 251 - Summer's End | |||||||||||||
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