The run
- Network
- CBC
- Years active
- 1942–1942
- Surviving broadcasts
- 6
- Genre
- theatre
Broadcast on the CBC Trans-Canada network in the autumn of 1942 for the National War Finance Committee. Each half hour dramatised a Nazi-occupied Canada, performed by an international cast including Orson Welles, Vincent Price, Helen Hayes and Judith Evelyn.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
2 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1942, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Premiere Show · 20 Sep 1942
- 2. Spies and Sabotage · 27 Sep 1942
- 3. Flame in the House · 4 Oct 1942
The Premiere Show
20 Sep 1942 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on the CBC Trans-Canada network, 1942-09-20. Produced for the National War Finance Committee. Restored from the Internet Archive.
Spies and Sabotage
27 Sep 1942 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on the CBC Trans-Canada network, 1942-09-27. Produced for the National War Finance Committee. Restored from the Internet Archive.
Flame in the House
4 Oct 1942 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on the CBC Trans-Canada network, 1942-10-04. Produced for the National War Finance Committee. Restored from the Internet Archive.
The Maritimes Under the Nazis
11 Oct 1942 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on the CBC Trans-Canada network, 1942-10-11. Produced for the National War Finance Committee. Restored from the Internet Archive.
The Holly Metcalf and Bob Maxwell Story
18 Oct 1942 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on the CBC Trans-Canada network, 1942-10-18. Produced for the National War Finance Committee. Restored from the Internet Archive.
Alameda
25 Oct 1942 · 43 min
Originally broadcast on the CBC Trans-Canada network, 1942-10-25. Produced for the National War Finance Committee. Restored from the Internet Archive.
Same seasons
theatre on the air then
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What it became
Theatre of the mind
Full-cast drama with a live orchestra and a studio full of sound effects. Lux Radio Theater and the CBS Radio Workshop are the direct ancestors of scripted podcast fiction.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Nazi Eyes on Canada
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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