THE MERCURY THEATER ON THE AIR

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     This series had a relatively short broadcast run.  First heard over CBS as a 9 week experimental run of 60 minute programs, CBS then order an additional 13 weeks making the initial broadcast run from 07/11/38 to 12/04/38. The series surfaced again in the 30 minute format from 06/07/40 to 09/13/40. In between the series' name was actually changed.  Known by the sponsors name, it was called The Campbell Playhouse from 12/09/38 to 03/31/40, as a 60 minute broadcast.  This series also resumed between 11/29/40 and 06/13/41 as a 30 minute program.  Both programs featured "the boy wonder" of stage and radio, with his famous "Mercury Players" acting company featuring Martin Gabel, Ray Collins, Kenny Delmar, Edgar Barrier, Paul Stewart, Agnes Moorehead, Joseph Cotton and others.  It was this series that gave us the well known radio scare with the invasion from Mars.

 

C06317 07/11/38 # 1 Dracula  w/Orson Welles, Elizabeth Farrell

 

C06318 07/18/38 # 2 Treasure Island  w/Orson Welles, Arthur Anderson

 

C06319 07/25/38 # 3 A Tale Of Two Cities  w/Orson Welles, Martin Gabel

 

C13748 08/01/38 # 4 The Thirty Nine Steps (Rehearsal)

 

C06320 08/08/38 # 5 I'm A Fool / The Open Window / My Little Boy

                                       w/Orson Welles, Edgar Barrier, Ray Collins

 

C06321 08/15/38 # 6 Abraham Lincoln  w/Orson Welles, Ray Collins, Karl Swenson

 

C13749 08/22/38 # 7 The Affairs Of Anatole w/Ray Collins & Arlene Francis

 

C13750 08/29/38 # 8 The Count Of Monte Cristo w/Edgar Barrier & Ray Collins

 

C13751 09/05/38 # 9 The Man Who Was Thursday w/Edgar Barrier, Ray Collins

 

C13752 09/11/38 #10 Julius Ceasar w/George Coulouris & Martin Gable

 

C13753 09/25/38 #12 The Immortal Sherlock Holmes w/Edgar Barrier, Ray Collins

 

C06322 10/09/38 #14 Hell On Ice w/William Allen & Ray Collins

 

C13754 10/16/38 #15 Seventeen w/Patty Chapman & Ray Collins

 

C06323 10/23/38 #16 Around The World In 80 Days

                                       w/Orson Welles, Ray Collins, Stefan Schnabel

 

C06324 10/30/38 #17 The War Of The Worlds w/Orson Welles, Frank Readick, Bill Herz

 

C13755 11/06/38 #18 Heart Of Darkness / Gift Of The Magi / Life With Father

 

C13756 11/13/38 #19 A Passenger To Bali w/Ray Collins, George Coulouris

 

C13757 11/20/38 #20 Pickwick Papers w/Edgar Barrier, Ray Collins