The Pacific Story
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Pacific_Story_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1944–1952
- Surviving broadcasts
- 138
- Genre
- horror
The Mysterious Traveler ran on Mutual from December 1943 until about September of 1952. This tremendously popular radio show was truly an all around favorite for any mystery lover of the time. It was the brainchild and magnum opus of golden age writing greats Robert Arthur and David Kogan.
1951 · 11950 · 21949 · 11948 · 31947 · 21945 · 11944 · 2
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 36 of 40Rough but complete · 4 of 40
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_Mysterious_Traveler_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 9 years on the air, with 2 years 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 1944, in original transmission order.
- 1. The House of Death · 30 Jan 1944
- 2. Mysterious Traveler 1944-09-24 (42) Death Laughs Last · 24 Sep 1944
- 3. Murder Goes Free · 31 Mar 1945
- 01
The House of Death
30 Jan 1944 · 28 min
Broadcast 30 January 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 02
Mysterious Traveler 1944-09-24 (42) Death Laughs Last
24 Sep 1944 · 26 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 24 September 1944. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Murder Goes Free
31 Mar 1945 · 28 min
Broadcast 31 March 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 04
Mysterious Traveler 1947-01-12 (86) No Grave Can Hold Me
12 Jan 1947 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 12 January 1947. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Mysterious Traveler 1947-07-06 (111) The Locomotive Ghost
6 Jul 1947 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 6 July 1947. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Mysterious Traveler 1948-02-24 (142) The Man Who Died Twice
24 Feb 1948 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 24 February 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Murder Is My Business
8 Jun 1948 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 8 June 1948. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 08
Death Rings Down the Curtain
5 Oct 1948 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 5 October 1948. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
24 Sep 1944
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 24 Sep 1944.
Weird Circle
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1944–1952
Other series the network carried while The Mysterious Traveler was on the air.
Same seasons
horror on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The anthology of dread
A voice, a creaking door, and a self-contained story designed to frighten you in half an hour. Suspense and Lights Out built the grammar every horror anthology still uses.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of The Mysterious Traveler
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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