| 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: | Apollo 11 successfully lands 1st man on the Moon (1976) BORN: Sir Edmund Hillary mountaineer (1919) DIED: Bruce Lee martial artist (1973) |
| Quote: | Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. (Napoleon Bonaparte) |
| Fact: | Inventors: Tuning fork - John Shore (1711) / Light Bulb - Sir Joseph Swan (1860) / Stethoscope - Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1816) |
| Word: | drawcansir (noun) A blustering, bragging bully |
| Fortune Cookie: | The skills you have gathered will one day come in handy |
| Poem: | Live in simple faith ... / Just as this trusting cherry / Flowers, fades, and falls / (Haiku by Issa) |
| Joke: | The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate |
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| Jack Benny 136 - Who Killed Mr Stooge Part Five | |||||||||||||
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| Flash Gordon 12 - Flash Regains Memory | |||||||||||||
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| Fibber McGee and Molly 67 - In a Trailer Camp | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 90 - The Barker | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Claudette Colbert & Walter Huston (repeat) | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 855 - The Town With No Guns | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1481 - Sorrel-Jack Outlaw Horse | |||||||||||||
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| Lights Out 313 - Profits Unlimited | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 50 - Murder Goes for a Swim | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Lone Wolf receives a letter from a woman stating she suspects someone is trying to murder her during a beauty pageant. When the Lone Wolf investigates, he finds the woman floating in a swimming pool dead. Who done it? Story by: Louis Joseph Vance ?? | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 338 - Lucky Walters | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 101 - Of Maestro and Man | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A boxing manager accumulates so many gambling debts that he is forced to sign over his star boxer to his debt collector. Unfortunately, the manager learns that his boxer plans to get married and leave the country—something the manager can't allow, because ... | ||||||||||||
| The Avenger 7 - Tunnel of Disaster | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A crowd of several thousand has gathered for the inauguration of the new Riverford tunnel, which runs through South Mountain. Ultimately, it ended up costing twice the initial budget due to various challenges faced by the engineers, who recommended to the council ... | ||||||||||||
| This Is Your FBI 16 - Espionage - File on Cajunko | |||||||||||||
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| Archie Andrews 1946-07-20 - The Hammock | |||||||||||||
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| Lights Out 333 - Haunted Cell | |||||||||||||
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| Nick Carter, Master Detective 297 - The Case of the Wandering Macaroni | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Smuggled secret plans in the pasta are just the dish for Nick and Patsy. | ||||||||||||
| Nick Carter, Master Detective 297 - The Case of the Wandering Macaroni-OR | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Smuggled secret plans in the pasta are just the dish for Nick and Patsy. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1792 - Voice of Doom ep10 | |||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1948-07-20 17 - Ahmed Brings News | |||||||||||||
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| Philo Vance 2 - The Merry Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | After a psychology seminar the speaker turns up dead but several women claim to have done it and the body has bullets from three different guns in it. | ||||||||||||
| The Big Story 121 - The Poison Pen Murders - Tom Mercer | |||||||||||||
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| Challenge of the Yukon 669 - The Case of the Kind Hearted Killer | |||||||||||||
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| Dr Kildare 26 - Mrs Stanford's Angina Pectoris | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Wealthy Mrs. Stanford has had a heart attack and still has angina pectoris. She has a suspicious household, with a potentially perfect crime ... and a ghost! | ||||||||||||
| Dragnet 58 - The Big Gent Part 1 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lineup 3 - Eddie Gaynor Framed For Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Eddie Gaynor has been framed for the murder of Johnny Taranto, and Eddie's no choir boy either! After Eddie is sprung on a writ, his body is found the next morning. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 58 - Henry J Unger Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny gets a visit from an old girlfriend, and from a killer seeking revenge. It's going to be an interesting evening, ending in a frame for murder. | ||||||||||||
| Dr Kildare 78 - Evelyn Briggs | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Dr. Kildare and Dr. Gillespie are in the small town of Wentworth. Evelyn Briggs is staying at the same hotel, and has diptheria. Dr. Kildare diagnoses her problem after just taking her pulse and temperature! | ||||||||||||
| Inspector Thorne 1 - The Fabulous Divorce Pay-Off Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Pamela Beetman, an heiress to one of the world's great fortunes, has paid her current husband, Harold, a million dollars for a divorce. She then plans to marry Lord Cyril Allerton. However, Harold decides not to play ball and is promptly shot dead, with the million ... | ||||||||||||
| Mr Keen 1352 - The Case of Murder and the Strange Woman | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A popular crooner is killed while rehearsing. Was it done by the madwoman locked in his dressing room? | ||||||||||||
| This Is Your FBI 329 - The Roaring Twenties | |||||||||||||
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| The Falcon 387 - King of Clubs | |||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Spy / Espionage | Crime | ||||||||||||
| Contributor: | archive.org | ||||||||||||
| Description: | Michael Waring travels to Berlin for Army Intelligence, where he learns that "when trumps are led, the game can murder!" | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 516 - The Listener | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Old Mrs. Richards is being threatened by her nephew, but she has a surprise up her sleeve ... and in her fireplace poker. | ||||||||||||
| Tales of the Texas Rangers 87 - Round Trip | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | When a friendly newspaper delivery man is murdered, the Rangers follow the killer's trail all the way to Brazil! | ||||||||||||
| Whitehall 1212 ep34 - Case of the Unidentified Woman | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman's stocking is kept in the 'Black Museum' as a keepsake of a woman who was struck by a motorcar. However, the woman wasn't killed by the car, she was seen getting into a green van ... with a shoe painted on the side. | ||||||||||||
| Crime Classics 6 - The Death of a Picture Hanger | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Ford brothers are hired to kill Jesse James, they do just that. | ||||||||||||
| Hall of Fantasy s2 35 - The Treasure of Kublai Khan | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An excellent ghost story about a hidden treasure in old Persia, and the dead warrior who guards it. | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 838 - The Birds | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Herbert Marshall & Betty Lou Gerson | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1954-07-20 - 209) Jail Break | |||||||||||||
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| Crime and Peter Chambers 14 - Donald Sloane Embezzler | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A bank teller steals money from his accounts, but leaves $28,000 behind! | ||||||||||||
| Dragnet 257 - The Big Heel | |||||||||||||
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| Fibber McGee and Molly 947 - Keys Left in Ignition | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2832 - Perry with Mr Apt | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 561 - Telling | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 224 - Jeanne Maxwell Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A beautiful young girl is murdered ... after she committed suicide! | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3250 - A Change At The Circle-B | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 440 - Star of Capetown Matter ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Conclusion, and the diamond recovered. | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1958-07-20 - 629) The Dynamiting of the Bridge | |||||||||||||
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| Frontier Gentleman 24 - Mighty Mouse | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A story about five holdup men outside Laramie, Wyoming Territory, and Kendall's attempt to have them arrested. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 328 - Marshal Proudfoot | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Chester's father is in Dodge to visit his father ... the Marshal! Parley Baer plays the roles of both Chester and his father! | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 760 - It's All in Your Mind | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 596 - Mojave Red Sequel | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Suspicion falls on Red, the fishing guide. | ||||||||||||
| Theater Five 252 - Flights of Angels | |||||||||||||
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