Mercury Theatre on the Air OTR

The finest radio drama of the 1930’s 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 Sir Laurence Olivier, Helen Hayes, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Paulette Goddard, Arlene Francis, Lucy Ball, Gertrude Lawrence, Joan Blondell, Bernard Herrmann, and George Coulouris. The show is famous for its notorious "War Of The Worlds" broadcast, but other shows in the series are timeless as well.

The show first broadcast on CBS and CBC in July 1938. It ran without a sponsor until December of that year, when it was picked up by Campbell’s Soup and renamed The Campbell Playhouse. Some of the episodes contain commercials for Campbell Soups. All the episodes are in the original recordings and are not edited for today's sound quality.

All the episodes are the original recordings and are not edited for today's sound quality.

A total of approximately 67 hours of listening. Please be aware that this app needs 1.6GB of free space on your device. If you have trouble installing this app please free up space.

Mercury Theatre on the Air and Campbell Playhouse Episodes:

• A Christmas Carol (1938)
  
• A Christmas Carol (1939)
  
• A Passenger To Bali
  
• A Tale Of Two Cities
  
• Abraham Lincoln
  
• Ah, Wilderness
  
• Algiers
  
• Around The World In 80 Days
  
• Arrowsmith
  
• Beau Geste
  
• Counselor-At-Law
  
• Craig’s Wife
  
• Dinner At Eight
  
• Dodsworth
  
• Dracula
  
• Escape
  
• Heart Of Darkness / Life With Father
  
• Hell On Ice
  
• I Lost My Girlish Laughter
  
• It Happened One Night
  
• Jane Eyre
  
• Julius Caesar
  
• June Moon
  
• Les Miserables
  
• Liliom
  
• Lost Horizon
  
• Mr. Deeds Goes To Town
  
• Mutiny On The Bounty
  
• Only Angels Have Wings
  
• Our Town
  
• Peter Ibbetson
  
• Private Lives
  
• Rabble In Arms
  
• Rebecca
  
• Seventeen
  
• Show Boat
  
• The 39 Steps
  
• The Adventures Of Huckelberry Finn
  
• The Affairs Of Anatol
  
• The Bad Man
  
• The Citadel
  
• The Count Of Monte Cristo
  
• The Garden Of Allah
  
• The Glass Key
  
• The Green Goddess
  
• The Hurricane
  
• The Immortal Sherlock Holmes
  
• The Magnificent Ambersons
  
• The Man Who Was Thursday
  
• The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd
  
• The Patriot
  
• The Pickwick Papers
  
• The War Of The Worlds
  
• Theodora Goes Wild
  
• There’s Always A Woman
  
• Things We Have
  
• Treasure Island
  
• Vanessa
  
• Vanity Fair
  
• Victoria Regina
  
• What Every Woman Knows
  
• Wickford Point
  

BONUS MATERIAL !

• Three Short Stories: I’m a Fool, The Open Window, My Little Boy
  
• H.G. Wells Meets Orson Welles
  (A short conversation between the two men, originally broadcast on KTSA San Antonio.)
  

The Android App "Mercury Theatre On The Air Collection" is a full featured media player with:

• Selectable Table of Contents to allow to jump to the start on any of the chapters.
  
• Adjustable Progress Bar to allow to jump to any spot in the current playing chapter
  
• Previous Chapter Button
  
• Rewind Button
  
• Play / Pause Button
  
• Fast Forward Button
  
• Next Chapter Button
  

The "Mercury Theatre On The Air Collection" App will not use up your data plan's minutes by downloading the audio files over and over. You will download load all the data when you install the App. The "Mercury Theatre On The Air Collection" App works even in airplane mode and in places without Wi-Fi or phone network access! So you can listen to your audio book anywhere anytime! The "Mercury Theatre On The Air Collection" App automatically pauses when you make or receive a phone call and automatically resumes after the call ends. The "Mercury Theatre On The Air Collection" App will continue to play until you exit the App or pause the reading so it is perfect for listen in bed, at the gym, or while driving into work.