THE STROKE OF FATE
CONTENTS:
This very short series (13 programs), was
heard over the NBC network, and offered a different twist to history -
what would happen if...if Robert E. Lee would have taken charge of the
Union Army, if Abraham Lincoln would not have become President, etc.
The 13 total broadcasts are here.
Some of the cast credits include Ed Begley, Alexander Scourby, Anne
Seymour, Santos Ortega and Patricia Wheel.
The series was produced in New York.
C05418 10/04/53 # 1 What Might Have Happened
If General Lee Had
Accepted
Lincoln's Offer To Command The Union Army
10/11/53 # 2 Queen
Elizabeth I And The Earl Of Essex
C05419 10/18/53 # 3 What Might Had Happened
Had Hamilton Killed Burr
10/25/53
# 4 What Might Had Happened Had Marie Antoinette
Escaped The Guillotine
C05420 11/01/53 # 5 What Might Had Happened
Had Lincoln Obtained The
Consular
Job He Wanted In 1841
11/08/53
# 6 What Might Had Happened Had Benedict Arnold
Plot
To Betrayed America Succeeded
C05421 11/15/53 # 7 What Might Had Happened
Had Julius Caesar Wed Cleopatra
11/22/53
# 8 What Might Had Happened Had The French In 1936 Used
Force
To Oppose Hitler's Occupation Of The Rhineland
C05422 11/29/53 # 9 What Might Had Happened
Had The French Won The Battle
Of
Quebec In 1759
12/06/53
#10 The Alaska Purchase
C05423 12/13/53 #11 What Might Had Happened
If Alexander The Great Lived
To
Continue His Conquest Of The West
12/20/53
#12 What Might Had Happened If America's First Secret
Weapon
- A One Man Submarine - Succeeded In The
Revolutionary
War
C05424 12/27/53 #13 What Might Had Happened
If Fate Prevented The Norman
Conquest
Of England In 1066