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If Freedom Failed

Networks
AFRS (as its archives name them)
Episodes
26

IF FREEDOM FAILED Brian Kavanaugh

More about it

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.

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. A Matter of Fact

    No date given · No. 1 · 30 min

  2. The Ballplayers

    No date given · No. 2 · 30 min

  3. The Pledge

    No date given · No. 3 · 31 min

  4. The Heavens Fall

    No date given · No. 4 · 31 min

  5. Danse Macabre

    No date given · No. 5 · 31 min

  6. The Traitor

    No date given · No. 6 · 31 min

  7. The Bishop of Springfield

    No date given · No. 7 · 31 min

  8. Tears for Miss Bishop

    No date given · No. 8 · 31 min

  9. Suicide by Order

    No date given · No. 9 · 31 min

  10. The Monkey's Cage

    No date given · No. 10 · 31 min

  11. No Escape

    No date given · No. 11 · 31 min

  12. Springfield Revisited

    No date given · No. 12 · 31 min

  13. Circulation

    No date given · No. 13 · 31 min

  14. Enemy of the People

    No date given · No. 14 · 31 min

  15. No Other Way

    No date given · No. 15 · 31 min

  16. Sapphire Anniversary

    No date given · No. 16 · 31 min

  17. The Lenin Prize

    No date given · No. 17 · 30 min

  18. Trial and Terror

    No date given · No. 18 · 31 min

  19. Delirium

    No date given · No. 19 · 31 min

  20. Your Loving Son, Mike

    No date given · No. 20 · 30 min

  21. Prescription for Murder

    No date given · No. 21 · 30 min

  22. The Man Who Died Twice

    No date given · No. 22 · 30 min

  23. The Valley of the Shadow

    No date given · No. 23 · 31 min

  24. Handicap

    No date given · No. 24 · 31 min

  25. The Toss-Up

    No date given · No. 25 · 31 min

  26. The Union Killer

    No date given · No. 26 · 31 min

Where it comes from 1

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.

  1. OTRR If Freedom Failed Singles

    Old Time Radio Researchers · 26 episodes here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

A set by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group (otrr.org), at the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio collection.

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