The run
- Network
- ABC
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 55
- Genre
- suspense
Old Time Radio Programs "Sunrise and Sunset, Promise and Fulfilment, Birth and Death, The whole Drama of Life is played out in the Sands of Time" This is a great series where the main theme seems to be Retribution. Imported from Austrailia it ran from 1946 until 1948. Stories as told by Father Time. Sort of like Twilight Zone for the radio. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “TheClock”; 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
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. CLOCK_46_12_08ep06 Jungle Drums · Date unknown
- 2. CLOCK_47_02_09ep15 The Hitchh · Date unknown
- 3. CLOCK_47_04_06ep22_Man_With_the_Strange_Trunk · Date unknown
CLOCK_46_12_08ep06 Jungle Drums
Date unknown · 23 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
CLOCK_47_02_09ep15 The Hitchh
Date unknown · 24 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
CLOCK_47_04_06ep22_Man_With_the_Strange_Trunk
Date unknown · 24 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
CLOCK_47_09_04ep44 Mikes Dream
Date unknown · 24 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
CLOCK_48_04_25ep78Bad_Dreams
Date unknown · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
CLOCK_46_12_01ep05One_Eyed_Cat
Date unknown · 24 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
CLOCK_47_01_26ep13 Spanglers
Date unknown · 25 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
CLOCK_47_05_11ep27_Only_Death_Is_Timeless
Date unknown · 24 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 The Clock was on the air.
Same seasons
suspense 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 Clock
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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