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Ports of Call

Heard
1935–1936
Episodes
41

PORTS OF CALL

More about it

An obscure series from 1935 or 1936 in which each episode deals with a voyage to a different country where events of that country's history are dramatized. They each begin with the low moan of a tramp steamer's whistle and the announcement of the series title, followed by a musical interlude. From the Old Time Radio Researcher's Group. See "Note" Section below for more information on the OTRR.

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Alaska

    · 29 min

  2. South A

    · 29 min

  3. Austria

    · 29 min

  4. Japan

    · 29 min

  5. Peru

    · 31 min

  6. Portugal

    · 28 min

  7. Siam

    · 29 min

  8. Turkey

    · 29 min

  9. United States

    · 29 min

  10. Wales

    · 29 min

  11. Persia

    · No. 4 · 29 min

  12. Arabia

    · 31 min

  13. Argentina

    · 28 min

  14. Australia

    · 29 min

  15. Belgium

    · 29 min

  16. Central Africa

    · 28 min

  17. Chile

    · 29 min

  18. Cuba

    · 29 min

  19. Czechoslovakia

    · 29 min

  20. Denmark

    · 30 min

  21. Ecuador

    · 29 min

  22. Egypt

    · 29 min

  23. England

    · 29 min

  24. Germany

    · 29 min

  25. Greece

    · 28 min

  26. Guyana

    · 29 min

  27. Haiti

    · 30 min

  28. Hungary

    · 28 min

  29. India

    · 32 min

  30. Ireland

    · 29 min

  31. Norway

    · 24 min

  32. Panama

    · 30 min

  33. Russia

    · 28 min

  34. Scotland

    · 29 min

  35. Switzerland

    · 28 min

  36. The Barbary States

    · 28 min

  37. The Philippines

    · 29 min

  38. Venezuela

    · 28 min

  39. Yugoslavia

    · 28 min

  40. Sweden

    · No. 32 · 30 min

  41. New Zealand

    · No. 33 · 29 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. Ports of Call - Single Episodes

    Old Time Radio Researchers · Old Time Radio Researchers Group · 41 episodes here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    CC BY-NC-ND 2.5: CC BY-NC-ND 2.5, as its uploader states it at the Internet Archive.

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

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