Plot Archives, 1930 to Present
Episode-by-episode guides for selected radio programmes from 1930 to the present. Each guide includes: plot summaries, reviews, brief histories, themes, cross-referencing, and fan comments. To catalogue all the plots for all the thousands of OTR series ever produced would take an army (which I can't afford), so I have confined myself to those series and genres which I enjoy most: namely Science Fiction/Fantasy, Horror/Thriller, and Action/Adventure, with some straight-up Drama thrown in for good measure.
In addition to the individual guides, this page links to four other pages:
- Overview - easy-to-visualize table, with archives broken down by genre and decade
- Series Index - alphabetical list of all programmes, including a brief summary
- Miscellaneous Shows - independent productions, short series, and miscellaneous shows
- Future Plot Archives - archives which need a lot of work and aren't ready to be published
In the future, I'd love to include much more: pages devoted to theme and background music, cast and crew biographies, and sound bites from each of the major performers! Wouldn't it be cool to be able to click on a series of links and hear an individual performer in a number of different roles? To be able to match up a voice with a name? Alas, grand plans with too little time spent on this Earth.
