Originally broadcast on NBC, 26 January 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1943–1947
- Surviving broadcasts
- 168
- 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
1947 · 41946 · 41
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
13 dated broadcasts across 5 years on the air, with 3 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1946, in original transmission order.
- 1. Ep132 Help For China s Millions · 27 Jan 1946
- 2. Ep133 Japan s Fisheries · 3 Feb 1946
- 3. Ep134 Mao Tse Tung Scratchy · 10 Feb 1946
Ep184 The Marquees Last Episode
26 Jan 1947 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 26 January 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Ep183 Rubber Bellwether of Malaya
19 Jan 1947 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 19 January 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Ep182 Storm Clouds Over The Philippines
12 Jan 1947 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 12 January 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Ep181 Sinkiang Powder Keg of Asia
5 Jan 1947 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 5 January 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Ep180 Macao Decision Pending
29 Dec 1946 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 29 December 1946. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Ep179 Transition in India
22 Dec 1946 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 22 December 1946. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Ep178 The Japanese And The Soil
15 Dec 1946 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 15 December 1946. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Ep177 China s Wild Men Of The Mountains
8 Dec 1946 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 8 December 1946. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
26 Jan 1947
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 26 Jan 1947.
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 26 January 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1943–1947
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.
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