The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1946–1946
- Surviving broadcasts
- 13
- Genre
- theatre
Encore Theatre is perhaps one of those overlooked dramatic anthologies that deserve a deal more attention than they have generally achieved. You will find the series has a medical thread running through it and is in fact a highly compelling and sympathetic series of well-produced, medical-themed dramas. Within the stories, you get a great deal of medical history into the bargain. While the theme ties them all together, you will find these 13 productions stand on their own as good drama. They recall a period of amazing advances in common medical science, as well as recalling Medical Profession was a true vocation and…
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
3 dated broadcasts across 1 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 1946, in original transmission order.
- 1. Encore Theater Magnificent Obsession · 4 Jun 1946
- 2. Encore Theater The Life of Louis Pasteur · 11 Jun 1946
- 3. Encore Theater Yellowjack · 18 Jun 1946
Encore Theater Magnificent Obsession
4 Jun 1946 · 29 min
Broadcast 4 June 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Encore Theater The Life of Louis Pasteur
11 Jun 1946 · 29 min
Broadcast 11 June 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Encore Theater Yellowjack
18 Jun 1946 · 29 min
Broadcast 18 June 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Encore Theater Green Light
25 Jun 1946 · 29 min
Broadcast 25 June 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Encore Theater The Man in White
2 Jul 1946 · 29 min
Broadcast 2 July 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Encore Theater White Angel
9 Jul 1946 · 29 min
Broadcast 9 July 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Encore Theater Dr Ehrlichs Magic Bullet
23 Jul 1946 · 29 min
Broadcast 23 July 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Encore Theater Dark Victory
30 Jul 1946 · 29 min
Broadcast 30 July 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1946–1946
Other series the network carried while Encore Theater was on the air.
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 Encore Theater
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