Russia (1936)
Ports Of Call - 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.*Show Notes From The Old Time Radio Researcher's Group.
THIS EPISODE:
1936. Transco syndication. "Russia". Music fill for local commercial insert. In 1605, Boris Gudenov learns that his murdered brother is being impersonated. The missing Dmitri conquers Moscow and Boris takes poison. Prince Shuski gets his revenge. The city of St. Petersburg is built at a cost of one hundred thousand lives. Tsar Nicholas II causes the massacre of 1905 and plants the seeds of revolution. The Tsar and his family are shot, Communists rule the country. The identity of the syndicator is subject to correction. . 28:43.
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