The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1966–1967
- Surviving broadcasts
- 49
- Genre
- theatre
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 Ida Oerdling · 26 Oct 1966
- 3. Stories of Pacific Powerland Willamette Meteor · 4 Nov 1966
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.
Stories of Pacific Powerland Ida Oerdling
26 Oct 1966 · 3 min
Broadcast 26 October 1966. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Stories of Pacific Powerland Willamette Meteor
4 Nov 1966 · 4 min
Broadcast 4 November 1966. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
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.
Stories of Pacific Powerland Hay Palace Fair
23 Nov 1966 · 3 min
Broadcast 23 November 1966. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Stories of Pacific Powerland Howard Collins
2 Dec 1966 · 3 min
Broadcast 2 December 1966. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Stories of Pacific Powerland The Castle
12 Dec 1966 · 4 min
Broadcast 12 December 1966. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Stories of Pacific Powerland Forest Products Lab
21 Dec 1966 · 3 min
Broadcast 21 December 1966. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Same seasons
theatre on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
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 Stories Pacific Powerland
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