The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1966–1967
- Surviving broadcasts
- 48
- Genre
- docudrama
Ryan Ellett While old-time radio fans are generally aware of post-Golden Age dramatic radio programming such as Theatre 5 and CBS Radio Mystery Theater , a little-known series from this so-called New Time Radio era is Stories of Pacific Powerland . Sponsored by Pacific Power & Light, a utility formed in 1910, the series aired over more than 70 stations across the power company’s service region that stretched from California to Washington and over to Wyoming. This is the Single Episodes Page. The Maintained Set includes extras not found here. It is located here . This Single Episodes page is provided in…
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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
4 dated broadcasts across 2 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 1966, in original transmission order.
- 1. Stories of Pacific Powerland Flying School · 17 Oct 1966
- 2. Stories of Pacific Powerland Thompson's Mill · 24 Oct 1966
- 3. Stories of Pacific Powerland Jean Goedicke · 31 Oct 1966
- 01
Stories of Pacific Powerland Flying School
17 Oct 1966 · 3 min
Broadcast 17 October 1966. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 02
Stories of Pacific Powerland Thompson's Mill
24 Oct 1966 · 3 min
Broadcast 24 October 1966. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 03
Stories of Pacific Powerland Jean Goedicke
31 Oct 1966 · 3 min
Broadcast 31 October 1966. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 04
Stories of Pacific Powerland Wy' East Legene
7 Nov 1966 · 3 min
Broadcast 7 November 1966. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 05
Stories of Pacific Powerland Covered Bridge
14 Nov 1966 · 3 min
Broadcast 14 November 1966. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 06
Stories of Pacific Powerland John Day
21 Nov 1966 · 3 min
Broadcast 21 November 1966. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 07
Stories of Pacific Powerland Julius Neils
28 Nov 1966 · 3 min
Broadcast 28 November 1966. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 08
Stories of Pacific Powerland Madame Dorion
5 Dec 1966 · 4 min
Broadcast 5 December 1966. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1966–1967
Other series the network carried while Stories Pacific Powerland was on the air.
What it became
The documentary hour
Tape, testimony and narration assembled into an argument about something that really happened. Biography in Sound and Hear It Now are the direct ancestors of the narrative documentary podcast.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Stories Pacific Powerland
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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