The Mercury Theatre on the Air
Broadcast · 1938 · Weekly
CBS
CBS · 1938–1938
Broadcasts
19
Cadence
Weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1938
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1938–1938
- Surviving broadcasts
- 19
- Genre
- drama
The Mercury Theatre on the Air was broadcast by CBS from July to December 1938, with Orson Welles and the Mercury company adapting Dracula, Treasure Island, A Tale of Two Cities, Julius Caesar and, on 30 October 1938, The War of the Worlds. The surviving recordings in this collection are public domain and stream from the Internet Archive.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
5 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1938, in original transmission order.
- 1. Dracula · 11 Jul 1938
- 2. Treasure Island · 18 Jul 1938
- 3. A Tale of Two Cities · 25 Jul 1938
- 01
Dracula
11 Jul 1938 · 59 min
- 02
Treasure Island
18 Jul 1938 · 1h 4m
- 03
A Tale of Two Cities
25 Jul 1938 · 59 min
- 04
The 39 Steps
1 Aug 1938 · 1h 1m
- 05
Three Short Stories I m a Fool The Open Window My Little Boy
8 Aug 1938 · 59 min
- 06
Abraham Lincoln
15 Aug 1938 · 59 min
- 07
The Affairs of Anatol
22 Aug 1938 · 59 min
- 08
The Count of Monte Cristo
29 Aug 1938 · 59 min
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