The Mysterious Traveler
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 24 September 1944. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
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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1943
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1946
1947
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. Japan s Dream of World Dominion · 11 Jul 1943
- 2. The Phillipines and Their Fight for Freedom · 7 Nov 1943
- 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
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Pacific_Story_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 02
The Phillipines and Their Fight for Freedom
7 Nov 1943 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Pacific_Story_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 03
The Burma Road Highway to the Heart of Japan
20 Feb 1944 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Pacific_Story_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 04
Manchuria The Japanese Ruhr C
4 Jun 1944 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Pacific_Story_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 05
Tokyo Target of the Pacific C
24 Sep 1944 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Pacific_Story_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 06
China s Air Force C
21 Jan 1945 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Pacific_Story_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 07
China s Secret Weapon C
13 May 1945 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Pacific_Story_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 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.
Weird Circle
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC
NBC in 1945–1947
Other series the network carried while The Pacific Story was on the air.
Same seasons
news on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The broadcast desk
Wartime correspondence and Cavalcade of America established the daily explainer and the narrated history hour long before either had a feed.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of The Pacific Story
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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