The Complete Orson Welles

Mercury Summer Theater of the Air || The Search For Henri Lefevre | July 12, 1946 || This is a repeat post || Story: No sooner does a composer finish his composition, then he hears it being performed on the radio! Welles mentions that next week, he will do again "Treasure Island," which he says "is the first drama I ever did on CBS." Next week however, "Life With Adam" was substituted. Starring: J...

The Orson Welles Almanac || Guest: Groucho Marx || January 26, 1944 : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are through my duane.media PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MSL7S8FKCSL94 My other podcast channels include: MYSTERY x SUSPENSE -- DRAMA X THEATER -- SCI FI x HORROR -- COME...

The Shadow || The Bride of Death | Silent Avenger | The White Legion || March 6, 1938; March 13, 1938; March 20, 1938 || 01:15 ... The Bride of Death 30:42 ... Silent Avenger 58:15 ... The White Legion : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are through my duane.media PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/dona...

The Columbia Workshop || The Fall of the City | April 11, 1937 Columbia Workshop , pioneered all kinds of special sound effects and other dramatic techniques. In 1937 it put on a poetic drama by Archibald MacLeish called The Fall of the City , featuring a 22-year-old actor with an unforgettably expressive voice. The play was a sensation, which helped point the way to what radio could achieve. It a...

Mercury Summer Theater || (301) Around the World in 80 Days (musical) | June 7, 1946 : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are through my duane.media PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MSL7S8FKCSL94 My other podcast channels include: MYSTERY x SUSPENSE -- DRAMA X THEATER -- SCI FI...

The Black Museum | (018) The Hammerhead | 1951–1952 || | The dead woman’s sister gets the hunt down the trail going when suspicious activity surrounds a telegram, and the woman’s travel plans. The questioning begins, but where will it all lead? What will turn up? A bloody hammerhead with no handle is found, but now it’s time to link it to the crime. One link in the Hain after another fall into pla...

The Adventures of Harry Lime || (019) The Third Woman || December 7, 1951 || During the war, Corporal Lime is ordered to a tailor on Saville Row for three suits, and told to report to the Savoy Hotel for a special assignment, with the rank of Colonel + All through his military career Corporal Harry Lime had never been able to force himself to be fond of the brass. : : : : : You can donate to show...

The Shadow || Murders in Wax | Message from the Hills || May 15, 1938; May 22, 1938 || : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are through my duane.media PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MSL7S8FKCSL94 My other podcast channels include: MYSTERY x SUSPENSE -- DRAMA X THEATER -- SCI...

This Is My Best | (27) Heart of Darkness (Welles' first episode as producer and host) | March 13, 1945 Sponsored by: Cresta Blanca. A trip up an African river...into the heart of darkness! An excellent use of radio. This is one of the best regarded and most typical of the works of Joseph Conrad described as a deliberate masterpiece for a downright incantation. : : : : : You can donate to show your...

The Mercury Theatre on the Air | Around World 80 Days | October 23, 1938 : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are through my duane.media PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MSL7S8FKCSL94 My other podcast channels include: MYSTERY x SUSPENSE -- DRAMA X THEATER -- SCI FI x HORROR --...

Campbell Playhouse || (05) Counsellor at Law | January 6, 1939 || Sponsored by: Campbell's Soup. A good story about a powerful attorney with a secret past. Announced as the first radio performance by Gertrude Berg in a program other than, "The Goldbergs." Attorney Sam Liebowitz also appears. Starring: Gertrude Berg; Sam Liebowitz; Aline MacMahon : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my...

The Jack Benny Program || Host Orson Welles - Return of Phil Harris | March 14, 1943 || : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are through my duane.media PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MSL7S8FKCSL94 My other podcast channels include: MYSTERY x SUSPENSE -- DRAMA X THEATER -- SCI...

The Shadow || Society of the Living Dead | Poison Death | January 23, 1938; January 30, 1938 || 01:16 .. Society of the Living Dead -- An evil businessman kidnaps his partner and keeps him in a burial vault. He wants him to sign a confession stating how he killed himself by drowning. Once the confession is signed, he will then kill his associate, take over the whole business and marry his partner'...

The Mercury Theatre on the Air || (115) Seventeen | October 16, 1938 || An adaptation of the bittersweet period piece about a young boy in young America, and the growing pains of youth. Orson Welles stars as William Sylvanias Baxter the seventeen-year-old hero of the story, a story of the trials of adolescence. Written by: Booth Tarkington Adapted for radio and produced by: Orson Welles. : : : : :...

The Black Museum || (17) Glass Shards | 1952 The Black Museum, hosted by Orson Welles, was a radio crime-drama program produced by Harry Alan Towers, which was broadcast in the USA on the Mutual network in 1952. It was then broadcast in Europe in 1953 on Radio Luxembourg. : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations...

Suspense || The Hitch-hiker | September 2, 1942 One of the great supernatural stories ever on radio, a modern classic. A cross country motorist sees a man by the side of the road, with spots of fresh rain on his shoulder. : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are through my duane.media PayPal account: https:/...

Hello Americans || (08) Ritmos de las Americas | January 1, 1943 : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are through my duane.media PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MSL7S8FKCSL94 My other podcast channels include: MYSTERY x SUSPENSE -- DRAMA X THEATER -- SCI FI x HORROR -- COMEDY...

The Shadow || League of Terror / Sabotage | January 16, 1938 The Shadow breaks up a spy ring who are destroying shipyards and sinking submarines. Orson Welles as The Shadow / Lamont Cranston; Agnes Moorehead as Margot Lane : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are through my duane.media PayPal account: https:...

The Mercury Theatre on the Air || (114) Hell on Ice | October 9, 1938 Orson Welles own adaptation of Hell On Ice by Commander Edward Ellsberg the gripping story of the disastrous early expedition to the North Pole. It depicts a true life adventure of hell and heroism. : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are...

The Orson Welles Show (Lady Esther) || Shredni Vashtar _ Hidalgo _ An Irishman and a Jew | September 15, 1941 Adaptation of Saki's "Shredni Vashtar", a story about Father Hidalgo and the Mexican revolution in 1810, as well as a story about "An Irishman and a Jew". : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are thr...

Campbell Playhouse || (01)Rebecca (Margaret Sullavan) | December 9, 1939 Adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s novel, Rebecca, by and starring Orson Welles. Starring: Brian Ahene, Ray Collins, Joan Fontaine, Agnes Moorehead, Mildred Natwick, Margaret Sullavan, Orson Welles : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations ar...

The Adventures of Harry Lime || (18) Farthings for Your Thoughts | November 30, 1951 The story of a farthing worth twenty thousand pounds Sterling! It all starts in a pub in Liverpool. In England where they come from a farthing won’t buy you the second section of the day before yesterday’s newspaper. In fact you could hardly describe a farthing as money at all. Once upon a time however there was a...

The Mercury Theatre on the Air || (112) Immortal Sherlock Holmes | September 25, 1938 : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are through my duane.media PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MSL7S8FKCSL94 My other podcast channels include: MYSTERY x SUSPENSE -- DRAMA X THEATER -- SCI F...

The Shadow || Circle of Death | The Death Triangle | November 28, 1937; December 12, 1937 01:18 ... Circle of Death -- Since Lamont Cranston--known to a select few as the Shadow--defeated Shiwan Khan and ended his reign of terror over New York one year ago, the city has started to regenerate. But there is evil brewing elsewhere. And this time the entire world is under threat. 29:50 ... The Death T...

The Mercury Theatre on the Air || (110) Julius Caesar | September 11, 1938 Written by William #Shakespeare 1650 years after Caesar’s murder Julius Caesar is a great political tragedy about the death of a dictator. It is the history of a political assignation, the killing of a man who tried to make himself king. It is an account of how the murder was prepared, how it was carried out and what happen...