Before Orson Welles became the film director he is primarily remembered as today, he stirred the imagination as a pioneer on the radio. "The War of the Worlds" incident is woven into our popular culture, but Welles' body of radio work is vast and far more varied than that one broadcast. On the pages linked below, you'll find details on Welles' diverse radio output. Brief logs are provided below, with further links where noted; shows in red are believed lost.
Early Radio Work
Les Miserables (1937)
The Mercury Years
The Mercury Theater on the Air (1938)
| 7-11-38 |
Dracula
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| 7-18-38 |
Treasure Island
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| 7-25-38 |
A Tale of Two Cities
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| 8-1-38 |
The 39 Steps
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| 8-8-38 |
I'm a Fool/The Open Window/My
Little Boy
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| 8-15-38 |
Abraham Lincoln
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| 8-22-38 |
The Affairs of Anatole
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| 8-29-38 |
The Count of Monte Cristo
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| 9-5-38 |
The Man Who Was Thursday
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| 9-11-38 |
Julius Caesar
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| 9-18-38 |
Jane Eyre
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| 9-25-38 |
Sherlock Holmes
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| 10-2-38 |
Oliver Twist
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| 10-9-38 |
Hell On Ice
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| 10-16-38 |
Seventeen
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| 10-23-38 |
Around the World in 80 Days
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| 10-30-38 |
The War of the Worlds
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| 11-6-38 |
Heart of Darkness/Life With
Father/Gift of the Magi
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| 11-13-38 |
A Passenger to Bali
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| 11-20-38 |
The Pickwick Papers
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| 11-27-38 |
Clarence
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| 12-4-38 |
The Bridge
at San Luis Rey
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The Campbell Playhouse (1938-40)
| 12-9-38 |
Rebecca
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| 12-16-38 |
Call It
a Day
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| 12-23-38 |
A Christmas Carol
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| 12-30-38 |
A Farewell
to Arms
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| 1-6-39 |
Counsellor At Law
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| 1-13-39 |
Mutiny on the Bounty
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| 1-20-39 |
The Chicken
Wagon Family
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| 1-27-39 |
I Lost My Girlish Laughter
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| 2-3-39 |
Arrowsmith
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| 2-10-39 |
The Green Goddess
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| 2-17-39 |
Burlesque
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| 2-24-39 |
State Fair
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| 3-3-39 |
Royal Regiment
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| 3-10-39 |
The Glass Key
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| 3-17-39 |
Beau Geste
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| 3-24-39 |
Twentieth Century
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| 3-31-39 |
Showboat
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| 4-7-39 |
Les Miserables
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| 4-14-39 |
The Patriot
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| 4-21-39 |
Private Lives
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| 4-28-39 |
Black Daniel
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| 5-5-39 |
Wickford Point
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| 5-12-39 |
Our Town
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| 5-19-39 |
The Bad Man
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| 5-26-39 |
The Things We Have (An American
Cavalcade)
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| 6-2-39 |
Victoria Regina
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| 9-10-39 |
Peter Ibbetsen
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| 9-17-39 |
Ah, Wilderness
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| 9-24-39 |
What Every Woman Knows
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| 10-1-39 |
The Count of Monte Cristo
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| 10-8-39 |
Algiers
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| 10-15-39 |
The Escape
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| 10-22-39 |
Lilliom
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| 10-29-39 |
The Magnificent Ambersons
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| 11-5-39 |
The Hurricane
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| 11-12-39 |
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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| 11-19-39 |
The Garden of Allah
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| 11-26-39 |
Dodsworth
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| 12-3-39 |
Lost Horizon
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| 12-10-39 |
Vanessa
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| 12-17-39 |
There's Always a Woman
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| 12-24-39 |
A Christmas Carol
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| 12-31-39 |
Come and
Get It
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| 1-7-40 |
Vanity Fair
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| 1-14-40 |
Theodora Goes Wild
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| 1-21-40 |
The Citadel
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| 1-28-40 |
It Happened One Night
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| 2-4-40 |
Broome Stages
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| 2-11-40 |
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
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| 2-18-40 |
Dinner at Eight
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| 2-25-40 |
Only Angels Have Wings
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| 3-3-40 |
Rabble in Arms
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| 3-10-40 |
Craig's Wife
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| 3-17-40 |
The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn
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| 3-24-40 |
June Moon
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| 3-31-40 |
Jane Eyre
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Orson Welles Show (1941-42)
"A New Kind of Radio
Program:" A
History of the Orson Welles Show
| 9/15/41 |
Shredni Vashtar; An Irishman
& a Jew
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| 9/22/41 |
Golden Honeymoon;
Murder in the Bank; The Right Side; The Sexes
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| 9/29/41 |
The Interlopers; Song of
Solomon; I'm a Fool
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| 10/6/41 |
The Black Pearl; Annabel
Lee; There's a Full Moon Tonight
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| 10/13/41 |
If In Years to Come; Noah
Webster's Library; Dorothy Parker Poetry
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| 10/20/41 |
Romance; Kublai Khan; The
Prisoner of Assiout
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| 11/3/41 |
Wild Oranges
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| 11/10/41 |
That's Why I Left You; Maysville
Minstrel
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| 11/17/41 |
The Hitchhiker;
Sonnet from the Portugese
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| 11/24/41 |
A Farewell
to Arms
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| 12/1/41 |
Wilbur Brown-Habitat Brooklyn;
Something's Going to Happen to Henry
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| 12/8/41 |
Symptoms of Being 35; Leaves
of Grass
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| 12/22/41 |
The Happy Prince
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| 12/29/41 |
There are Frenchmen and
Frenchmen
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| 1/5/42 |
Garden of Allah
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| 1/12/42 |
The Apple Tree
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| 1/19/42 |
My Little Boy
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| 1/26/42 |
The Happy
Hypocrite
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| 2/2/42 |
Between
Americans
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"His Honor the Mayor"
(1941)
Broadcast as part of The Free Company
Listen
here
The War Years
Hello Americans (1942-43)
| 11/15/42 |
Brazil
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| 11/22/42 |
The Christ of the Andes
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| 11/29/42 |
Haiti
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| 12/6/42 |
Alphabet of the Islands,
Pt 1
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| 12/13/42 |
Alphabet of the Islands,
Pt 2
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| 12/20/42 |
Alphabet of the Islands,
Pt 3/Abednego
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| 12/27/42 |
The Bad Will Ambassador
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| 1/3/43 |
Rhythms of the Americas
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| 1/10/43 |
Mexico
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| 1/17/43 |
Feed the World
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| 1/24/43 |
Romantic Rhythms of the
Americas
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| 1/31/43 |
Pan-Americanism
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Ceiling Unlimited (1942-43)
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11/9/42
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The Flying Fortress
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11/16/42
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Air Transport Command
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11/23/45
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The Navigator
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11/30/42
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Wind, Sand, and Stars
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12/7/42
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Ballad of Bataan
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12/14/42
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War Workers
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12/21/42
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Gremlins
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12-28-42
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Pan American Airlines
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1/4/43
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Anti-Submarine Patrol *
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1/11/43
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Finger in the Wind
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1/18/43
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Letter to Mother
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1/25/43
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Mrs. James & the Pot
of Tea/With Your Wings
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2/1/43
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The Future
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Orson Welles' Almanac (Mobil) (1944)
| 1/26/44 |
Groucho Marx
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| 2/2/44 |
Lionel Barrymore
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| 2/9/44 |
Ann Sothern
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| 2/16/44 |
Robert Benchley
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| 2/23/44 |
Hedda Hopper
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| 3/1/44 |
Victor Moore
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| 3/8/44 |
Lucille Ball
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| 3/15/44 |
Charles Laughton
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| 3/22/44 |
Betty Hutton
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| 3/29/44 |
Mary Boland
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| 4/5/44 |
Dennis Day
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| 4/12/44 |
Monte Wooley
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| 4/19/44 |
George Jessel
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| 4/26/44 |
Carole Landis
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| 5/3/44 |
Lucille Ball
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| 5/10/44 |
Jimmy Durante
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| 5/17/44 |
Ann Sothern
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| 5/24/44 |
Wilde twins, Lois Collier
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| 5/31/44 |
Marjorie Reynolds
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| 6/7/44 |
D-Day Special w/Agnes Moorehead
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| 6/14/44 |
Part 2 of D-Day Broadcast
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| 6/21/44 |
Martha O'Driscoll, Ethel
Waters
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| 6/28/44 |
Lynn Bari
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| 7/5/44 |
Lana Turner
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| 7/12/44 |
Susan Hayward
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| 7/19/44 |
Ruth Terry
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This is My Best (1945)
| 3/13/45 |
Heart of Darkness
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| 3/20/45 |
Miss Dilly Says No
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| 3/27/45 |
Snow White & the Seven
Dwarfs
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| 4/3/45 |
The Diamond as Big as the
Ritz
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| 4/10/45 |
The Master of Ballantrae
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| 4/17/45 |
I'll Not Go Back
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| 4/24/45 |
Anything Can Happen
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Orson Welles Almanac (Lear) (1945-46)
A topical news and commentary series; Air dates: September 16, 1945 to October 6, 1946
Mercury Summer Theater (1946)
| 6/7/46 |
Around the World in 80 Days
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| 6/14/46 |
The Count of Monte Cristo
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| 6/21/46 |
The Hitch Hiker
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| 6/28/46 |
Jane Eyre
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| 7/5/46 |
A Passenger to Bali
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| 7/12/46 |
The Search for Henri Le
Fevre
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| 7/19/46 |
Life With Adam
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| 7/26/46 |
The Moat Farm Murder
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| 8/2/46 |
Golden Honeymoon
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| 8/9/46 |
Hell On Ice
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| 8/16/46 |
Abednego the Slave
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| 8/23/46 |
I'm a Fool/Tell-Tale heart
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| 8/30/46 |
Moby Dick
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| 9/6/46 |
The Apple Tree
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| 9/13/46 |
King Lear
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The Post-War Work
The Adventures of Harry Lime (1951-52)
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Too Many Crooks
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Dark Enchantress
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See Naples and Live
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Earl on Troubled Waters
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Clay Pidgeon
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Dead Candidate
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Ticket to Tangiers
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It's in the Bag
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Voo Doo
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Hyacinth Patrol
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Bohemian Star
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Turnabout is Foul Play
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Love Affair
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Violets, Sweet Violets
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Rogue's Holiday
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Faith, Lime and Charity
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Work of Art
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Pleasure Before Business
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Operation Music Box
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Fool's Gold
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Golden Fleece
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Man of Mystery (alt title
"Who is Mr Arkadian?")
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Blue Bride
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The Painted Smile
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Every Frame Has a Silver
Lining
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Harry Joins the Circus
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Mexican Hat Trick
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Suzie's Cue
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Art is Long and Lime is
Fleeting
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Vive le Chance
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In Pursuit of a Ghost
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The Elusive Vermeer
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Horse Play
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Murder on the Riviera
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Three Farthings for Your
Thoughts
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Pearls of Bohemia
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The Third Woman
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A Night in a Harem
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An Old Moorish Custom
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Blackmail is a Nasty Word
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It's a Knockout
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The Professor Regrets
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Two is Company
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The Hard Way
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Cher Chez la Gem
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Paris Is Not the Same
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The Hand of Glory
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Honeymoon
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Double Double Cross
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The Blue Cariboo
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5000 Pengoes & a Kiss
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Greek Meets Greek
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The Black Museum
Guest Appearances
List forthcoming
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