Radio Drama · Old Time Radio · Drama
The Theatre 5 Project
- Heard
- 1964–1965
- Episodes
- 261
IMPORTANT: An upgraded set is now available at https://archive.org/details/T5ProjectUPDATE07112025 Over the 60th anniversary year, many classic radio collections from the hobby's earliest collectors have been reviewed. More than 1 in 7 of the episodes have been upgraded in sound.
More about it
Project purpose: To bring greater awareness and appreciation of this 1964-1965 ABC Radio series. Its recognition has been hampered by extremely poor sound of most all of its recordings and incomplete documentation of its development and production. Since the start of this T5 project in mid-2021, more than 100 recordings of the 256 surviving episodes have been replaced with very good and excellent recordings, and others have been processed to allow for easier listening until they can be replaced with better ones. A detailed log of the series is in process, and the series history and behind-the-scenes decisions and actions are being documented.
Goal: Introduce T5 to a new audience and encourage a fresh consideration of its role in radio history.
NOTE: Recordings are being added as they are being edited and processed, about 7 per week until all 256 of the surviving recordings have been posted. The project will be completed before the end of 2022.
UPDATE 2022-11-06: All of the surviving episodes have been posted. In the next months some of the recordings will be upgraded. Watch this space for a note about those revisions.
Background on each of the episodes can be found at…
Episodes, in broadcast order page 1 of 3
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.
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The Theatre 5 Project
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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