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The Mercury Summer Theatre of the Air
The Mercury Summer Theatre of the Air
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The Mercury Summer Theatre of the Air

Broadcast · 1946 · Seasonal

CBS

CBS · 1946–1946

Broadcasts

14

Cadence

Seasonal

Rated

PG

Since

1946

The run

Network
CBS
Years active
1946–1946
Surviving broadcasts
14
Genre
drama

The Mercury Summer Theatre of the Air ran on CBS in the summer of 1946, with Orson Welles revisiting Mercury productions — Around the World in 80 Days, The Count of Monte Cristo, Jane Eyre — in half-hour form, alongside Lucille Fletcher's The Hitch-Hiker. These recordings are public domain.

Source collection

Internet Archive audio collections

Rights

Public domain — no renewed US copyright

Cataloguing

Air dates and notes from the Archive item record

Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OrsonWelles_MercurySummer

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

0 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air, with 1 year where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.

JFMAMJJASOND
1946
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

Episodes

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