''Nazi Eyes on Canada'' is a five-part Canadian radio play broadcast by

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in the fall of 1942. Each of the stories focuses on a real family from a different province of Canada (Ontario, Alberta, New Brunswick, British Columbia and Saskatchewan), then portrays an imagined horrible future for the family if

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Germany were to win the

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.Rochelle Caviness
Nazi Eyes on Canada
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The cast included

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, Judith Evelyn, war correspondent Quentin Reynolds, House Jameson and Katherine Raht of '' The Aldrich Family'', and Lorne Greene. The episodes, produced by James Frank Willis, were made in co-operation with the

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, a government committee established to encourage the sale of War bonds.

Episodes

* Premier episode with Helen Hayes (20 September 1942) * "Spies and Sabotage" (27 September 1942) * "Flame In The House" (4 October 1942) * "Maritimes Under The Nazis" (11 October 1942) * "The Holly Metcalf And Bob Maxwell Story" (18 October 1942) * "Alameda" (25 October 1942)

Preservation status

"Alameda" is one of four of Orson Welles's wartime radio broadcasts included as supplementary material in the

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restoration of '' The Stranger'' (1946), released on DVD and

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in October 2013.

References

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