www.botar.us http://www.botar.us/mercurytheatre.html The Mercury Theatre was a theatre company founded in New York City by Orson Welles and John Houseman. They had initial success in the theatre, then went to radio, and one of the most notable radio broadcasts of all time, The War of the Worlds. The Mercury Theatre on the Air was an hour-long dramatic radio program which began in the summer of 1938 on the CBS radio network. Most episodes dramatized many works of classic and contemporary literature. boston blackie The Mercury Theatre was a theatre company founded in New York City by Orson Welles and John Houseman. They had initial success in the theatre, then went to radio, and one of the most notable radio broadcasts of all time, The War of the Worlds. The Mercury Theatre on the Air was an hour-long dramatic radio program which began in the summer of 1938 on the CBS radio network. Most episodes dramatized many works of classic and contemporary literature. en-us botar botar botar@sprynet.com Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:00:00 -0700 720 http://www.botar.us/foto/mercuryicon.jpg http://www.botar.us/mercurytheatre.html Old Time Radio Drama,Adventure,Audio Theater,OTR,Old Time Radio,botar no www.botar.us http://libsyn.com/media/botar/OTR_mercury_theatre__39_steps_08_01_1938.mp3 http://libsyn.com/media/botar/OTR_mercury_theatre__39_steps_08_01_1938.mp3 In May 1914, Europe is close to war and spies are everywhere. Richard Hannay has just returned to London from Rhodesia in order to begin a new life, when a freelance spy called Franklin P. Scudder calls on him to ask for help. Scudder reveals to Hannay that he has uncovered a German plot to murder the Greek Premier and steal British plans for the outbreak of war. Scudder claims to be following a ring of German spies called the Black Stone. A few days later, Hannay returns to his flat to find Scudder murdered. If Hannay goes to the police, he will be arrested for Scudder's murder. Hannay decides to continue Scudder's work and his adventure begins. He escapes from the German spies watching the house and makes his way to Scotland, pursued both by the spies and by the police. original air date 08/01/1938 The finest radio drama of the 1930s was The Mercury Theatre on the Air. A show featuring the acclaimed New York drama company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman. In its brief run, it featured an impressive array of talents, including Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Herrmann, and George Coulouris. The show is famous for its notorious War of the Worlds broadcast, but the other shows in the series are relatively unknown. Mercury Theatre on Air was first heard as a summer series of nine shows, on CBS affiliated stations and in Canada on the CBC. It was the first time a theater company brought drama to the radio, primarily. The shows were hour-long dramatizations of classic books. It was produced and directed by Orsen Welles, probably one of the most versatile and creative talents in the history of entertainment. On December 9, 1938, the Campbells Soup Company took up sponsorship of the series, changing the name to the Campbells Playhouse. Orsen Welles announced the change at the end of the November 6, 1938 broadcast of the Mercury Theatre. Sun, 04 Jun 2006 09:00:00 -0700 Old Time Radio no mercury theatre,orson welles,OTR,old time radio,botar www.botar.us http://libsyn.com/media/botar/OTR_mercury_theatre__apple_tree_01_12_1942.mp3 http://libsyn.com/media/botar/OTR_mercury_theatre__apple_tree_01_12_1942.mp3 In their silver-wedding day Ashurst and his wife were motoring along the outskirts of the moor, intending to crown the festival by stopping the night at Torquay, where they had first met. This was the idea of Stella Ashurst, whose character contained a streak of sentiment. If she had long lost the blue-eyed, flower-like charm, the cool slim purity of face and form, the apple-blossom colouring, which had so swiftly and so oddly affected Ashurst twenty-six years ago, she was still at forty-three a comely and faithful companion, whose cheeks were faintly mottled, and whose grey-blue eyes had acquired a certain fullness. original air date 01/12/1938 The finest radio drama of the 1930s was The Mercury Theatre on the Air. A show featuring the acclaimed New York drama company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman. In its brief run, it featured an impressive array of talents, including Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Herrmann, and George Coulouris. The show is famous for its notorious War of the Worlds broadcast, but the other shows in the series are relatively unknown. Mercury Theatre on Air was first heard as a summer series of nine shows, on CBS affiliated stations and in Canada on the CBC. It was the first time a theater company brought drama to the radio, primarily. The shows were hour-long dramatizations of classic books. It was produced and directed by Orsen Welles, probably one of the most versatile and creative talents in the history of entertainment. On December 9, 1938, the Campbells Soup Company took up sponsorship of the series, changing the name to the Campbells Playhouse. Orsen Welles announced the change at the end of the November 6, 1938 broadcast of the Mercury Theatre. Sun, 04 Jun 2006 09:00:00 -0700 Old Time Radio no mercury theatre,orson welles,OTR,old time radio,botar www.botar.us http://libsyn.com/media/botar/OTR_mercury_theatre__around_the_world_in_80_days_10_23_1938.mp3 http://libsyn.com/media/botar/OTR_mercury_theatre__around_the_world_in_80_days_10_23_1938.mp3 The story begins at England. We are introduced to Fogg, a very precise man who regularly goes to the Reform Club every evening. At one such visit to the club to play cards, he gets into a conversation with his fellow card players as to whether it is possible to go around the world in eighty days. original air date 10/23/1938 The finest radio drama of the 1930s was The Mercury Theatre on the Air. A show featuring the acclaimed New York drama company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman. In its brief run, it featured an impressive array of talents, including Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Herrmann, and George Coulouris. The show is famous for its notorious War of the Worlds broadcast, but the other shows in the series are relatively unknown. Mercury Theatre on Air was first heard as a summer series of nine shows, on CBS affiliated stations and in Canada on the CBC. It was the first time a theater company brought drama to the radio, primarily. The shows were hour-long dramatizations of classic books. It was produced and directed by Orsen Welles, probably one of the most versatile and creative talents in the history of entertainment. On December 9, 1938, the Campbells Soup Company took up sponsorship of the series, changing the name to the Campbells Playhouse. Orsen Welles announced the change at the end of the November 6, 1938 broadcast of the Mercury Theatre. Sun, 14 May 2006 09:00:00 -0700 Old Time Radio no mercury theatre,orson welles,OTR,old time radio,botar www.botar.us http://libsyn.com/media/botar/OTR_mercury_theatre__count_of_monte_cristo_08_29_1938.mp3 http://libsyn.com/media/botar/OTR_mercury_theatre__count_of_monte_cristo_08_29_1938.mp3 A t the age of nineteen, Edmond Dantes seems to have the perfect life. He is about to become the captain of a ship, he is engaged to a beautiful and kind young woman, Mercedes, and he is well liked by almost everyone who knows him. This perfect life, however, stirs up dangerous jealousy among some of Dantes's so-called friends. Danglars, the treasurer of Dantes's ship, envies Dantes's early career success; Fernand Mondego is in love with Dantes's fiancee and so covets his amorous success; his neighbor Caderousse is simply envious that Dantes is so much luckier in life than he is. Together, these three men draft a letter accusing Dantes of treason. original air date 08/29/1938 The finest radio drama of the 1930s was The Mercury Theatre on the Air. A show featuring the acclaimed New York drama company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman. In its brief run, it featured an impressive array of talents, including Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Herrmann, and George Coulouris. The show is famous for its notorious War of the Worlds broadcast, but the other shows in the series are relatively unknown. Mercury Theatre on Air was first heard as a summer series of nine shows, on CBS affiliated stations and in Canada on the CBC. It was the first time a theater company brought drama to the radio, primarily. The shows were hour-long dramatizations of classic books. It was produced and directed by Orsen Welles, probably one of the most versatile and creative talents in the history of entertainment. On December 9, 1938, the Campbells Soup Company took up sponsorship of the series, changing the name to the Campbells Playhouse. Orsen Welles announced the change at the end of the November 6, 1938 broadcast of the Mercury Theatre. Sun, 14 May 2006 09:00:00 -0700 Old Time Radio no mercury theatre,orson welles,OTR,old time radio,botar www.botar.us http://libsyn.com/media/botar/OTR_mercury_theatre__dracula_07_11_1938.mp3 http://libsyn.com/media/botar/OTR_mercury_theatre__dracula_07_11_1938.mp3 J onathan Harker, a young English lawyer, travels to Castle Dracula in the Eastern European country of Transylvania to conclude a real estate transaction with a nobleman named Count Dracula. As Harker wends his way through the picturesque countryside, the local peasants warn him about his destination, giving him crucifixes and other charms against evil and uttering strange words that Harker later translates into the word 'vampire'. original air date 07/11/1938 The finest radio drama of the 1930s was The Mercury Theatre on the Air. A show featuring the acclaimed New York drama company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman. In its brief run, it featured an impressive array of talents, including Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Herrmann, and George Coulouris. The show is famous for its notorious War of the Worlds broadcast, but the other shows in the series are relatively unknown. Mercury Theatre on Air was first heard as a summer series of nine shows, on CBS affiliated stations and in Canada on the CBC. It was the first time a theater company brought drama to the radio, primarily. The shows were hour-long dramatizations of classic books. It was produced and directed by Orsen Welles, probably one of the most versatile and creative talents in the history of entertainment. On December 9, 1938, the Campbells Soup Company took up sponsorship of the series, changing the name to the Campbells Playhouse. Orsen Welles announced the change at the end of the November 6, 1938 broadcast of the Mercury Theatre. Sun, 14 May 2006 09:00:00 -0700 Old Time Radio no mercury theatre,orson welles,OTR,old time radio,botar www.botar.us http://libsyn.com/media/botar/OTR_mercury_theatre__heart_of_darkness_11_06_38.mp3 http://libsyn.com/media/botar/OTR_mercury_theatre__heart_of_darkness_11_06_38.mp3 H eart of Darkness centers around Marlow, an introspective sailor, and his journey up the Congo River to meet Kurtz, reputed to be an idealistic man of great abilities. Marlow takes a job as a riverboat captain with the Company, a Belgian concern organized to trade in the Congo. As he travels to Africa and then up the Congo, Marlow encounters widespread inefficiency and brutality in the Company's stations. The native inhabitants of the region have been forced into the Company's service, and they suffer terribly from overwork and ill treatment at the hands of the Company's agents. The cruelty and squalor of imperial enterprise contrasts sharply with the impassive and majestic jungle that surrounds the white man's settlements, making them appear to be tiny islands amidst a vast darkness. original air date 11/06/1938 The finest radio drama of the 1930s was The Mercury Theatre on the Air. A show featuring the acclaimed New York drama company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman. In its brief run, it featured an impressive array of talents, including Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Herrmann, and George Coulouris. The show is famous for its notorious War of the Worlds broadcast, but the other shows in the series are relatively unknown. Mercury Theatre on Air was first heard as a summer series of nine shows, on CBS affiliated stations and in Canada on the CBC. It was the first time a theater company brought drama to the radio, primarily. The shows were hour-long dramatizations of classic books. It was produced and directed by Orsen Welles, probably one of the most versatile and creative talents in the history of entertainment. On December 9, 1938, the Campbells Soup Company took up sponsorship of the series, changing the name to the Campbells Playhouse. Orsen Welles announced the change at the end of the November 6, 1938 broadcast of the Mercury Theatre. Sun, 14 May 2006 09:00:00 -0700 Old Time Radio no mercury theatre,orson welles,OTR,old time radio,botar www.botar.us http://libsyn.com/media/botar/OTR_mercury_theatre__tale_of_two_cities_07_25_1938.mp3 http://libsyn.com/media/botar/OTR_mercury_theatre__tale_of_two_cities_07_25_1938.mp3 T he year is 1775, and social ills plague both France and England. Jerry Cruncher, an odd-job man who works for Tellson's Bank, stops the Dover mail-coach with an urgent message for Jarvis Lorry. The message instructs Lorry to wait at Dover for a young woman, and Lorry responds with the cryptic words, "Recalled to Life." At Dover, Lorry is met by Lucie Manette, a young orphan whose father, a once-eminent doctor whom she supposed dead, has been discovered in France. Lorry escorts Lucie to Paris, where they meet Defarge, a former servant of Doctor Manette, who has kept Manette safe in a garret. Driven mad by eighteen years in the Bastille, Manette spends all of his time making shoes, a hobby he learned while in prison. Lorry assures Lucie that her love and devotion can recall her father to life, and indeed they do. original air date 07/25/1938 The finest radio drama of the 1930s was The Mercury Theatre on the Air. A show featuring the acclaimed New York drama company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman. In its brief run, it featured an impressive array of talents, including Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Herrmann, and George Coulouris. The show is famous for its notorious War of the Worlds broadcast, but the other shows in the series are relatively unknown. Mercury Theatre on Air was first heard as a summer series of nine shows, on CBS affiliated stations and in Canada on the CBC. It was the first time a theater company brought drama to the radio, primarily. The shows were hour-long dramatizations of classic books. It was produced and directed by Orsen Welles, probably one of the most versatile and creative talents in the history of entertainment. On December 9, 1938, the Campbells Soup Company took up sponsorship of the series, changing the name to the Campbells Playhouse. Orsen Welles announced the change at the end of the November 6, 1938 broadcast of the Mercury Theatre. Sun, 28 May 2006 09:00:00 -0700 Old Time Radio no mercury theatre,orson welles,OTR,old time radio,botar www.botar.us http://libsyn.com/media/botar/OTR_mercury_theatre__treasure_island_07_18_1938.mp3 http://libsyn.com/media/botar/OTR_mercury_theatre__treasure_island_07_18_1938.mp3 J im Hawkins is a young boy who lives at his parents' inn, near Bristol, England, in the eighteenth century. An old sea captain named Billy Bones dies in the inn after being presented with a black spot. Jim is stirred to action by the spot and its mysterious, accurate portent of Billy's death. Hastily, Jim and his mother unlock Billy's sea chest, finding a logbook and map inside. Excited, they recognize it as a map for a huge treasure that the infamous pirate Captain Flint has buried on a distant island. original air date 07/18/1938 The finest radio drama of the 1930s was The Mercury Theatre on the Air. A show featuring the acclaimed New York drama company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman. In its brief run, it featured an impressive array of talents, including Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Herrmann, and George Coulouris. The show is famous for its notorious War of the Worlds broadcast, but the other shows in the series are relatively unknown. Mercury Theatre on Air was first heard as a summer series of nine shows, on CBS affiliated stations and in Canada on the CBC. It was the first time a theater company brought drama to the radio, primarily. The shows were hour-long dramatizations of classic books. It was produced and directed by Orsen Welles, probably one of the most versatile and creative talents in the history of entertainment. On December 9, 1938, the Campbells Soup Company took up sponsorship of the series, changing the name to the Campbells Playhouse. Orsen Welles announced the change at the end of the November 6, 1938 broadcast of the Mercury Theatre. Sun, 21 May 2006 09:00:00 -0700 Old Time Radio no mercury theatre,orson welles,OTR,old time radio,botar www.botar.us http://libsyn.com/media/botar/OTR_mercury_theatre__war_of_the_worlds_10_30_1938.mp3 http://libsyn.com/media/botar/OTR_mercury_theatre__war_of_the_worlds_10_30_1938.mp3 War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells describing an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians equipped with advanced weaponry. It is a seminal depiction of an alien invasion of Earth. The novel is narrated by an unnamed writer of scientific articles. Throughout the narrative he struggles to reunite with his wife, while witnessing the Martians rampaging through the southern English counties. original air date 10/30/1938 The finest radio drama of the 1930s was The Mercury Theatre on the Air. A show featuring the acclaimed New York drama company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman. In its brief run, it featured an impressive array of talents, including Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Herrmann, and George Coulouris. The show is famous for its notorious War of the Worlds broadcast, but the other shows in the series are relatively unknown. Mercury Theatre on Air was first heard as a summer series of nine shows, on CBS affiliated stations and in Canada on the CBC. It was the first time a theater company brought drama to the radio, primarily. The shows were hour-long dramatizations of classic books. It was produced and directed by Orsen Welles, probably one of the most versatile and creative talents in the history of entertainment. On December 9, 1938, the Campbells Soup Company took up sponsorship of the series, changing the name to the Campbells Playhouse. Orsen Welles announced the change at the end of the November 6, 1938 broadcast of the Mercury Theatre. Sun, 21 May 2006 09:00:00 -0700 Old Time Radio no mercury theatre,orson welles,OTR,old time radio,botar