Theater of the Mind
The Pacific Story
167 episodes · 1943–1947 · NBC · Historical
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NBC's wartime and postwar series of drama-documentaries about the countries and peoples of Asia and the Pacific, produced in Hollywood with commentary by scholars such as Owen Lattimore.
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Episodes
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194323 episodes
- Japan's Dream of World Dominion
The first show of NBC's wartime series on the lands and peoples of the Pacific: an overview of Japan's drive for empire, with Owen Lattimore. - Alaska: America's New Frontier
Alaska, America's northern frontier, and the hope of a road linking the Americas to Asia. - Siberia: America's Nearest Asiatic Neighbor
- The Old China
A dramatized history of old China. - The New China
Recent Chinese history and the war with Japan. - Monsoon Asia: The Geography of Rice and Rain
How rain and rice shape the lives of Asia's peoples, and the war. - Monsoon Asia: Adventurers and International Rivalries
- India: From Clive to Gandhi
India from the days of Robert Clive to Gandhi. - The Islands of the Pacific
- World War I in the Pacific
- The Manchurian Incident and Its Sequel
- China's Exiled Universities
- Burma: Keystone to the Far East
Burma's history and its place in the war. - The Soviet Asiatics: A New Human World
- The Chinese Revolution
- The Philippines and Their Fight for Freedom
The Philippines' fight for freedom, with comment on American policy there. - Chiang Kai-Shek: Freedom and Equality
A portrait of Chiang Kai-shek, followed by Henry Luce's praise of him. - Australia: Rising Power in the Pacific
- Japan's Dynasty of Terror: The Black Dragon Society
The Black Dragon Society and the secret military masters of Japan. - Thailand: The Enslavement a Free People
Thailand's history and its conquest by Japan. - Indo-China: The Collapse of French Empire in the Pacific
French Indochina, now under Japanese control. - The Beggars of the Sea
The history and people of the Dutch East Indies. - Jose Rizal: Patriot-Martyr of the Philippines
José Rizal, the Philippine hero executed by a Spanish firing squad in 1896.
194449 episodes
- Hawaii: Melting Pot of the Pacific
- Korea: Japan's Oldest Enemy
- New Zealand: Sea-Lane Center of the South Pacific
- Nehru of India: The New Man of the New World
- Formosa: Prize of the China Sea
- The Mighty Carolines: Secret Stronghold of the Japanese
- Homer Lee: Prophet of the Pacific
- The Burma Road: Highway to the Heart of Japan
- India at War
- General Tojo: The Razor
A portrait of the Japanese military leader Tojo. - Japan: The Enemy We Face in the Pacific
A portrait of Japan and how it fights the war. - New Guinea: Cinderella-land of the Pacific
- The Moros: Nemesis to the Japs on Mindanao
- The Kurile Islands: Stepping Stones to Tokyo
- Guam: Our Forsaken Stepchild
- The Myth of the Son of Heaven
- Canada on the Pacific
- Sakhalin: Sore Point of the Pacific
- The Case of Russia vs. Japan
- The Commonwealth of the Philippines
- Air Transportation: Lifeline of China
- Manchuria: The Japanese Ruhr
- Chungking: War Capital of China
- The Ainu: Outcasts of Japan
- The Chinese Puppet Government
- Japan's Advanced Base: The Bonin Islands
- The Overseas Chinese
- Will Java Be Free?
- The Chinese Communists
- The Japanese Navy
- The Amur River
- Sinkiang: China's Wild West
- Vladivostok: Mistress of the Far East
- Bose: The Indian Quisling
- The South Manchuria Railroad
- China's New Life Movement
- Tokyo: Target of the Pacific
- Manila: Pearl of the Orient
- China's Little Devils
- The Kwantung Army
- The Long March
- Hainan: Sentry of the South China Sea
- The Filipino Underground
Life in the Philippines under Japanese occupation. - Russia's Strength in the Far East
- Japan's Robber Barons
- Opium: The Curse of the Far East
- Manchuria's Puppet Government
- Japan's Secret Police
- Nanking
194547 episodes
- Japan's Highway of Steel
- Luzon: Philippine Doorway to Japan
- China's Air Force
- The Andaman Islands
- Siberia's People: The Secret of Her Strength (February 1945)
- Saipan: Springboard to Nippon
The battle for Saipan, with General Norstad on its importance. - The Yangtse
- Islam in the Pacific
- Conquest by Japanization
- China's Land Problem
- Malacca Straits: Gateway to the Southwest Pacific
- The Japanese Dilemma
- The Ryukyu Islands
- Yunnan, Anchor of the Burma Road
- San Francisco, Spring 1945
From San Francisco, three days before the United Nations conference opens. - The Philippines Come of Age
- The Guards to the Coast of China
- China's Secret Weapon
- Mongolia: Strife in Asia's Interior
- Yenan: Citadel for Chinese Communism
- Blood for an Outlet to the Sea
- Honshu, Heart of Japan
- Bangkok
- The Yellow River: Barrier and Battle Line
- Sumatra: Return to the Indies
- Japan's Air Power
- The B-29: The Japanese Express
- The Paradox of Korea
Korea, followed by the State Department's statement on the Korean Provisional Government. - The Red Banner Far Eastern Armies
- Singapore
- The Liberals in Chiang Kai-Shek's Camp
- Hong Kong
- The New Milestone
- The Menace of Japan's Old Order
- Nanking: Symbol of Victory
- Russia: The New Power in the Pacific
- Shanghai
- Japan's Food Crisis
- China: The World's Biggest Customer
- France Faces the Music
- Siberia's People: The Secret of Her Strength (November 1945)
- Thunder in Java
- Australia Comes Out
- Black Gold in the Pacific
- Transport in China
- Fireworks in the Philippines
The Philippines after the war, with an eyewitness account of the Japanese invasion of Manila. - The Remaking of Japan
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
194644 episodes
- The Buryat Mongols: A Soviet Minority
- Thailand Heads Back
- New Caledonia
- Help for China's Millions
- Japan's Fisheries: What Now?
- Mao Tse Tung: Chinese Communist Leader
- The Untouchables of India
- Jehol: Keystone of North China
- Silk: The Golden Thread
- Sarawak: Adventure in Statehood
- Hanoi Perfume and Gunpowder End Clipped
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Australia s Heavy Industry
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Hawaii the 49th State End Clipped
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Korea: Political Battlefield
- The Chinese Giant Awakens
- Famine in India
- Ceylon: The New Day
- The Milk and Meat of the Far East
- The Burma Patriotic Front
The first of a run of programs on the United Nations in the Pacific. - Russia Looks to the East
- The Heartland of Asia
- The Atomic Bomb at Bikini Atoll
The atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll, with eyewitness accounts and a recording of the blast. - The Philippines: The Birth of a Nation
- Our Job in Japan
- Crosscurrents in Malaya
- Skyway to the Far East
- Medicine Comes to China
- Sichuan
- The New Voice in the East
- Bali
- Timor: Pawn of the Pacific
- The Celebes: Conflict in Indonesia
- Canada Looks to the West
- Canton: The Symbol of New China
- Our Strategic Needs in the Pacific
- Postwar Formosa
- Redemption in Singapore
The fall of Singapore and the terrible conditions of its prisoners of war. - The Fiji Islands
- Guam: New Outpost in the Pacific
- Tasmania: Switzerland of the South
- China's Wild Men of the Mountains
- The Japanese and the Soil
- Transition in India
India on the eve of independence, and the conflict between Hindus and Muslims. - Macao: Decision Pending