The run
- Network
- ABC
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 25
- Genre
- horror
Old Time Radio Programs. Diary of Fate is a mystery and horror program where Fate tells the story and always wins by the end of the story. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “DiaryOfFate”; these recordings are in the public domain.
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
6 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 10 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1948, in original transmission order.
- 1. DF48-02-23PeterDrake · 23 Feb 1948
- 2. DF48-03-02JohnCarthageEntry · 2 Mar 1948
- 3. DF48-03-16JoeMattuck · 16 Mar 1948
- 01
DF48-02-23PeterDrake
23 Feb 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
DF48-03-02JohnCarthageEntry
2 Mar 1948 · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
DF48-03-16JoeMattuck
16 Mar 1948 · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
DF48-03-30EdwardMatthews
30 Mar 1948 · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
DF48-04-13HenrickPotenoff
13 Apr 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
DF48-04-27AlbertRiker
27 Apr 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
DF48-05-18LloydMawson
18 May 1948 · 30 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
DF48-06-01PhillipVale
1 Jun 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on ABC
ABC in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while Diary of Fate 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 Diary of Fate
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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