The run
- Network
- AFRS
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 26
- Genre
- docudrama
IF FREEDOM FAILED Brian Kavanaugh If Freedom Failed is a 26-episode series produced by the Armed Forces Radio Service in 1951. It presents a series of alternate-history stories of American life under a Cold War-era Communist regime. No other information is known about the background or production of this series at this point. These recordings originated with a private purchasing group and are all transfers made by Doug Hopkinson ca. 2015. This is the Single Episodes Page. The Maintained Set includes extras not found here. The Maintained set is found here . This Single Episodes page is provided in case you want to sample the shows. Note that in many cases, file names have been modified from the original OTRR names to conform to archive.org naming requirements. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_If_Freedom_Failed_Singles”; these recordings are in the public domain.
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
0 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 11 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 NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Ballplayers · Date unknown
- 2. The Traitor · Date unknown
- 3. Circulation · Date unknown
- 01
The Ballplayers
Date unknown · 30 min
Broadcast on AFRS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
The Traitor
Date unknown · 30 min
Broadcast on AFRS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Circulation
Date unknown · 30 min
Broadcast on AFRS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
No Other Way
Date unknown · 30 min
Broadcast on AFRS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Trial and Terror
Date unknown · 30 min
Broadcast on AFRS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
The Valley of the Shadow
Date unknown · 30 min
Broadcast on AFRS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
A Matter of Fact
Date unknown · 30 min
Broadcast on AFRS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
The Heavens Fall
Date unknown · 30 min
Broadcast on AFRS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on AFRS
AFRS in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while If Freedom Failed was on the air.
Same seasons
docudrama on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The state at the microphone
Programmes made to explain a war, a policy, or a country to its own citizens. The Voice of the Army and Your Army Air Forces are public information as broadcast craft.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of If Freedom Failed
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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