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Every broadcast in the archive first aired on October 3 — across the years.

October 3, 1932 Jack Benny — World Series Night
October 3, 1932 Tarzan — Tarzan Saves Clayton Listen
A rifle shot rings out as Tarzan examines Clayton's gun, and the lioness Sabor menaces Jane inside the cabin.
October 3, 1934 The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show —
October 3, 1934 The Shadow —
October 3, 1936 Shell Chateau — Guests-Bob and Fail Meusel, Baseball Players
The bill brings Edward Everett Horton (actor); and Bob and Emil Meusel (baseball players).
October 3, 1937 Jack Benny — Guest: Abe Lyman Listen
October 3, 1937 The Shadow — The Red Macaw
A society seance is really a cover for jewel theft -- and the police blame The Shadow for the very crime he is trying to stop.
October 3, 1938 Blair of the Mounties — The Ibex Mystery Part 3 Listen
A decoded signal names the next ship, the Navy puts submarines in the water, and Blair goes after the gold and the men who took it.
October 3, 1938 Lux Radio Theatre — Another Dawn
'Another Dawn', starring Madeleine Carroll, Franchot Tone.
October 3, 1938 The Lone Ranger — A Second Chance Listen
October 3, 1939 The Green Hornet — Hot Cars Leave a Trail
October 3, 1940 The Green Hornet — The Highway That Gra Listen
October 3, 1941 The Lone Ranger — Relief Train Listen
October 3, 1942 The Green Hornet — It Pays to Advertise
October 3, 1943 OTRR Singles & Doubles, Vol. 2 — xxx The Sun Rising Listen
October 3, 1943 The Great Gildersleeve —
October 3, 1943 The Green Hornet — The Green Hornet Does Underground Listen
October 3, 1943 The Shadow — The Crystal Globe Listen
October 3, 1943 The Whistler — Mirage Listen
A restaging of the tale of a lawyer, the nightclub owner who made him, and the woman scorned when he marries elsewhere.
October 3, 1943 Weird Circle — A Terribly Strange Bed Listen
A traveler wins big at a Paris gambling house and is offered a bed for the night -- a canopied bed built as a slow, silent machine for murder. After Wilkie Collins.
October 3, 1944 Casey, Crime Photographer — A Treatment for the Doctor
October 3, 1944 Molle Mystery Theatre — Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
October 3, 1944 OTRR Singles & Doubles (T-Z) — ep0002TwoOnAClue TheCaseOfTheSilentWitness Listen
October 3, 1944 Romance — (untitled)
October 3, 1944 The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show — George Is Jelous of Gracie's Old Boyfriend
October 3, 1944 The Green Hornet — Murder Masquerade Listen
A condemned killer escapes by trading clothes with the minister sent to console him.
October 3, 1944 Words at War — Pacific Victory, 1945 Listen
Robert Nathan's tender story of wartime refugees on the American coast, with Signe Hasso and Ralph Bellamy; the last Johnson's Wax-sponsored broadcast.
October 3, 1945 Mr. and Mrs. North — The Mystery Book Murder
October 3, 1945 The Lone Ranger — Reform of Luther Gates
October 3, 1946 A Day in the Life of Dennis Day — How Dennis Got His Radio Program Listen
To win a masquerade-ball cash prize and cover the fender Dennis dented, Mildred plots to go as Amber from 'Forever Amber' -- until her mother forbids it and the only costume left fits Dennis.
October 3, 1946 Abbott and Costello — Costello Is Incorrigible Listen
The new season opens with Bud fed up and a remorseful Lou dreaming of his good and bad deeds; enter bandleader Skinnay Ennis and singer Marilyn Maxwell.
October 3, 1946 Casey, Crime Photographer — (untitled)
October 3, 1946 Challenge of the Yukon — The Wooden Case Listen
Two boys and their dog stumble on a cave stuffed with a fortune in furs, just as Preston hunts the thieves who cached them.
October 3, 1946 Jack Benny — The Dennis Day Show Listen
October 3, 1946 Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons — Vanishing Strangler
October 3, 1946 Suspense — Three Times Murder Listen
This Suspense broadcast, "Three Times Murder" (1946-10-03), starred Rita Hayworth, Hans Conried, Bill; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
October 3, 1946 The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show — Guest: Eddie Cantor Listen
Meredith Willson may be headed for marriage to a daughter of guest Eddie Cantor.
October 3, 1947 Claudia — The New Apartment Listen
David turns up an apartment of their own.
October 3, 1947 Let George Do It — 42 on a Rope Listen
A strange run-in over a snapped pearl necklace and the woman who dropped it lands George somewhere very awkward -- first a sewer, then a tree.
October 3, 1947 Molle Mystery Theatre — Night Must Fall
October 3, 1947 The Lone Ranger — City of Masks
October 3, 1947 This Is Your FBI — ?? Title Unknown ??
October 3, 1948 Box 13 — Short Assignment Listen
A nervous little man who calls himself a detective enlists Holiday to head off a suicide.
October 3, 1948 Comic Weekly Man — (untitled)
October 3, 1948 Destination Freedom — Citizen Toussaint Listen
Dramatizes Toussaint L'Ouverture, the general who led the Haitian Revolution and broke slavery on the island.
October 3, 1948 Gene Autry's Melody Ranch —
October 3, 1948 Jack Benny — Jack Returns to America by Ship and Hears an Echo Listen
October 3, 1948 Nick Carter, Master Detective — The Case of the Substitute Slayer Listen
October 3, 1948 Our Miss Brooks — (untitled)
October 3, 1948 The Adventures of Philip Marlowe — The Persian Slippers Listen
Marlowe searches for a woman who has vanished rather than face a decision about leaving her husband.
October 3, 1948 The Adventures of Sam Spade — The Sugar Kane Caper Listen
A beautiful young woman is set to marry into the wealthy Cavanaugh family, but a hoodlum, an old scandal and a sudden death say the wedding will not go smoothly.
October 3, 1948 The Phil Harris - Alice Faye Show — First Show For Rexall Listen
The first Rexall-sponsored broadcast: fresh off a European trip and a shiny new English roadster, Phil and Alice head in to sign with their new sponsor.
October 3, 1948 The Roy Rogers Show — (untitled)
October 3, 1948 The Shadow — The Phantom Racketeer
October 3, 1948 The Whistler — Big Gamble Listen
Twin foals are bred to be a winner and a loser, while Sergeant Joe Friday works to break up a roving gambling ring.
October 3, 1949 Candy Matson, Yukon 2-8209 — The Fort Ord Story Listen
Candy reigns as Queen of the NCO Ball at Fort Ord, but the evening's glamour is shattered by a double murder that only she can unravel.
October 3, 1949 Challenge of the Yukon — The Scent of Blood Listen
October 3, 1949 Inner Sanctum Mysteries — Catch a Killer Listen
October 3, 1949 Let George Do It — (untitled)
October 3, 1949 Lux Radio Theatre — It Happens Every Spring Listen
'It Happens Every Spring', starring Ray Milland, Colleen Townsend.
October 3, 1949 Murder by Experts — The Last Detail
October 3, 1949 My Friend Irma — (untitled)
October 3, 1949 Screen Directors Playhouse — The Senator Was Indescreate Listen
A bumbling senator's diary of his party's dirtiest secrets goes missing, and everyone scrambles to grab it first.
October 3, 1949 The Lone Ranger — Barnaby Boggs, Eradicator Listen
October 3, 1949 The Railroad Hour — Showboat Listen
October 3, 1950 Cavalcade of America — Six Men of Wood Listen
A family weathers the Depression by going into the furniture business.
October 3, 1950 Life with Luigi — Luigi Gives Blood Listen
October 3, 1950 Molle Mystery Theatre — The Divorce MILL Murder Case
October 3, 1950 Mr. and Mrs. North — Letter at Midnight
Mailing a letter at midnight, the Norths meet a woman posting a murder confession her husband forced her to write.
October 3, 1950 The Mysterious Traveler — What's in It for Me?
October 3, 1951 Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator — The Simultaneous Man
October 3, 1951 Family Theater — The Kid from Scratch Gravel Listen
A raw country pitcher is targeted by big-city gamblers as his manager tries to lift a last-place club.
October 3, 1951 The Big Story — Two Brutal Murders and Two Contradictory Theories Lead to Kille
October 3, 1951 The Great Gildersleeve — Gildy Wants to Be Re-Elected President of the Jolly Boys Club Listen
Gildersleeve's re-election as Jolly Boys president is held up by a bout of group self-criticism.
October 3, 1951 The Halls of Ivy — Adoption Listen
October 3, 1951 The Lone Ranger — Backtrail Listen
October 3, 1952 Frontier Town — His Name Is John Smith Listen
October 3, 1952 Gunsmoke — Cain Listen
A quiet, consumptive musician buys a gun in Dodge to kill a man he has never even met.
October 3, 1952 Mr. District Attorney — The Case of the Knifing in the Park Listen
October 3, 1952 Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons — Murder and the Emerald Snuffbox
October 3, 1952 The Adventures of Horatio Hornblower — Guerrilla Action Listen
Given three days to do all the harm he can, Hornblower snaps up a supply brig, levels a shore battery, and takes seven small craft.
October 3, 1952 The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok — The Wolf Of Ghost Mountain Listen
Something is killing Sarah Stevens's sheep on Ghost Mountain, and behind the 'werewolf' scare Wild Bill finds a hidden gold mine.
October 3, 1952 The Green Hornet — Spy Master Listen
October 3, 1952 The Lone Ranger — The Easterner Listen
October 3, 1952 This Is Your FBI — The Sight Seeing Killer Listen
A desperate man kidnaps two elderly sisters who run the Echo Cave Lodge.
October 3, 1953 Broadway Is My Beat — Frankie Spain
A Central Park tennis hustler named Frankie Spain is beaten to death.
October 3, 1953 Gunsmoke — How to Kill a Friend Listen
Two gamblers Dillon is running out of town hire an old friend of his to kill him.
October 3, 1953 Romance — Autumn Heroes
October 3, 1953 Space Patrol — Return to Planet X Listen
A blasted heap of rubble. That's all that remains of the camouflaged launching base on Jupiter moon number four, aiming point from which Prince Baccarratti planned to hurl guided missiles across half-a-million miles of space to destroy two key...
October 3, 1954 A Day in the Life of Dennis Day — Guests: Patti Andrews, Race Gentry Listen
Patti Andrews and Race Gentry join Dennis on the variety hour.
October 3, 1954 Amos 'n' Andy — #389 (D Richards) Andy's Engaged (aka Andy's Engaged To Susan Bennett Listen
October 3, 1954 Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator — The Corpse That Couldn't Swim
Betty Lou Gerson plays a woman who has killed her husband -- a man mixed up with stolen jewels.
October 3, 1954 Comic Weekly Man — (untitled)
October 3, 1954 Gene Autry's Melody Ranch —
October 3, 1954 Jack Benny — Garden of Evil Listen
October 3, 1954 Nick Carter, Master Detective — The Case of the Panama Lady
October 3, 1954 Our Miss Brooks — Mr. Conklin Threatens to Abolish Football Listen
October 3, 1954 The Shadow — The Cult of Death
October 3, 1954 The Whistler — Stolen Letter Listen
A dying man's letter naming his niece sole heir vanishes, leaving her the prime suspect when he is poisoned before changing his will.
October 3, 1955 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — The Macormack Matter Ep 1 Listen
A dying convict points Johnny toward a fortune in stolen loot (part 1 of 5).
October 3, 1956 Family Theater — The Coward Listen
October 3, 1956 Ranger Bill — An Old Horse Learns New Tricks Listen
When his faithful horse Storm falls gravely ill, Bill flies the animal to city vets who cannot help, then insists on a country doctor's know-how.
October 3, 1956 Recollections at 30 — Pickens Sisters, Joe Cook Listen
The Pickens Sisters harmonize on The Magic Key and Joe Cook clowns for Rudy Vallee, with Jeanette MacDonald and Allan Jones from "The Firefly."
October 3, 1956 X Minus One — Protective Mimicry Listen
Currency that is supposed to be impossible to fake is turning up counterfeited, and the investigators cannot fathom how it is being done -- from Algis Budrys.
October 3, 1956 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — The Picture Postcard Matter Ep 3 Listen
Shot at on the slopes, Johnny nearly skis off a cliff (part 3 of 5).
October 3, 1957 X Minus One — The Wind is Rising Listen
The settlers of a windy planet treat the constant gale as a fact of life -- until the day the wind starts getting stronger -- from Finn O'Donovan.
October 3, 1961 The Bing Crosby - Rosemary Clooney Show — A Lot of Living to Do Listen
Opening number "A Lot of Living to Do" -- one day of Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney's 20-minute taped CBS music-and-chat strip, songs drawn from the Buddy Cole library.