Radio Drama · Old Time Radio · Drama
Against the Storm
- Networks
- NBC, Mutual (as its archives name them)
- Heard
- 1940–1941
- Episodes
- 23
(18 Episodes) "Against the Storm," another OTR soap opera (the title of which is from 'King Lear'), began the first of its 3 runs (and a small portion of its 13 years of success) on NBC, October 16, 1939. The final episode of this soap opera, took place on the Mutual Broadcasting System (MBS), June 27, 1952. Created and written by Sandra Michael, directed by Axel Gruenberg and starring Roger DeKoven, Gertrude Warner, Arnold Moss and Joan Alexander, this program took place at the "Deep Pool Farm" in Hawthorne, Connecticut.
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It depicted the "every-day-lives" of the Professor (of Hawthorne's fictional Harper University) Jason McKinley Allen (Roger DeKoven, who starred during all 3 runs), his wife, their daughters & this family's many friends. The NBC 'Red Network' which ran "Against the Storm" from Oct '39 - to Dec '42, broadcast the only daytime radio serial to win a Peabody Award (1942).
Sadly, however, not even this successful win could save this excellent program from being axed, in Dec of '42, by the NBC radio 'highers-up.' "Against the Storm" went on a very nearly permanent hiatus, until August of 1949, when Mutual saved the resting serial
Episodes, in broadcast order
Where it comes from 2
The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.
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Against the Storm 18 Eps
Uploader’s mark: Public Domain Mark 1.0: Marked Public Domain Mark 1.0 by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.
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Against The Storm - OTR
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
From the Old Time Radio collection at the Internet Archive, uploaded by the collector named.
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