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The Pacific Story
The Pacific Story
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Radio

The Pacific Story

NBC

NBC · 1945–1947

Broadcasts

183

Cadence

Twice weekly

Rated

PG

Since

1945

The run

Network
NBC
Years active
1945–1947
Surviving broadcasts
183
Genre
news

The Pacific Story was broadcast on NBC at 11:30pm, with the first broadcast on July 11, 1943. The series lasted 184 weeks with two weeks pre-empted and ended on January 26, 1947. It was considered a documentary. The premise of the show was that with Europe in ruins, the Pacific might emerge as the center of political and social change in

1946 · 31945 · 41944 · 31943 · 2

Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files

Clean transfer · 45 of 45

Source collection

Old Time Radio Researchers Group

Rights

Public domain — no renewed US copyright

Cataloguing

Air dates and notes from the Archive item record

Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_Pacific_Story_Singles

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

12 dated broadcasts across 5 years on the air, with 1 year where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.

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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

Episodes

Start here

Listen to the run in order

Restored broadcasts from 1943, in original transmission order.

  1. 1. Japan s Dream of World Dominion · 11 Jul 1943
  2. 2. The Phillipines and Their Fight for Freedom · 7 Nov 1943
  3. 3. The Burma Road Highway to the Heart of Japan · 20 Feb 1944
  • 01

    Japan s Dream of World Dominion

    11 Jul 1943 · 29 min

  • 02

    The Phillipines and Their Fight for Freedom

    7 Nov 1943 · 29 min

  • 03

    The Burma Road Highway to the Heart of Japan

    20 Feb 1944 · 29 min

  • 04

    Manchuria The Japanese Ruhr C

    4 Jun 1944 · 29 min

  • 05

    Tokyo Target of the Pacific C

    24 Sep 1944 · 29 min

  • 06

    China s Air Force C

    21 Jan 1945 · 29 min

  • 07

    China s Secret Weapon C

    13 May 1945 · 29 min

  • 08

    ep108 Red Banner For Eastern Armies

    12 Aug 1945 · 29 min

    Broadcast 12 August 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

Same night on the air

24 Sep 1944

Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 24 Sep 1944.

Transmission

24 September

1944

The Mysterious Traveler

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Network

Mutual

Slot

Sunday

Running time

26 min

Originally broadcast on Mutual, 24 September 1944.

Internet ArchiveOTRR_Mysterious_Traveler_SinglesClean transfer · 128 kbps

Transmission

24 September

1944

Weird Circle

The Bell Tower

Network

Syndicated

Slot

Sunday

Running time

25 min

Broadcast on Syndicated.

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Also on NBC

NBC in 1945–1947

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