OTRR Stroke Of Fate Singles

STROKE OF FATE Joe Webb From October to December 1953 NBC aired a curious historical series, Stroke of Fate . NBC’s inspiration was the successful CBS radio and television series You Are There . That series started in 1947 as CBS is There and soon adopted the more listener-focused name that made it famous. In 1953, the television version of the series started. NBC and others saw an opportunity to do something historical but with a twist. Rather than dropping modern day reporters into historical events, Stroke of Fate offered a cerebral “what if?” approach with dramas of historical persons in hypothetical circumstances. This was an interesting premise intended to stimulate interest and discussion of the trends of history and the eventual shaping of world affairs and conditions. This is the Single Episodes Page. The Maintained Set includes extras not found here. It is located 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.

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