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Orson Welles Compilation

Heard
1938–1950
Episodes
133

This upload contains 136 episodes of Old Time Radio programs created and produced by the legendary Orson Welles.

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The compilation includes:

1. Mercury Theater (1938) - 18 episodes

2. Campbell Playhouse (1938-1940) - 47 episodes

3. Ceiling Unlimited (1942-1943) - 17 episodes

4. Orson Welles' Radio Almanac (1944) - 23 episodes

5. This Is My Best (1944-1945) - 13 episodes

6. Mercury Summer Theater (1946) - 15 episodes

The dates, episode numbers and titles are believed to be correct based on available information, but any corrections are welcome.

Initial upload: 4/21/2020 (123 episodes)

1st update: 10/5/2020 (1 episode - 1/9/1945 episode of This Is My Best)

2nd update: 12/11/2020 (1 episode - 11/28/1944 episode of This Is My Best)

3rd update: 7/18/2021 (3 episodes of OWRA - 2/9/1944, 2/16/1944, 4/12/1944)

4th update: 9/27/2024 (6 new episodes of Ceiling Unlimited and 1 replacement)

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Episodes, in broadcast order page 1 of 2

  1. Dracula

    · No. 1 · 56 min

  2. Treasure Island

    · No. 2 · 1 h 03 min

  3. A Tale of Two Cities

    · No. 3 · 1 h 00 min

  4. The Thirty Nine Steps

    · No. 4 · 1 h 01 min

  5. I'm a Fool, My Little Boy, Open Window

    · No. 5 · 59 min

  6. Abraham Lincoln

    · No. 6 · 1 h 00 min

  7. The Affairs of Anatole

    · No. 7 · 1 h 00 min

  8. The Count of Monte Cristo

    · No. 8 · 59 min

  9. The Man Who Was Thursday

    · No. 9 · 58 min

  10. Julius Ceasar

    · No. 10 · 48 min

  11. The Immortal Sherlock Holmes

    · No. 12 · 56 min

  12. Hell on Ice

    · No. 14 · 1 h 00 min

  13. Seventeen

    · No. 15 · 1 h 00 min

  14. Around the World in 80 Days

    · No. 16 · 58 min

  15. War of the Worlds

    · No. 17 · 57 min

  16. 2 Complete Stories

    · No. 18 · 58 min

  17. A Passenger to Bali

    · No. 19 · 1 h 00 min

  18. Pickwick Papers

    · No. 20 · 1 h 01 min

  19. Rebecca

    · No. 1 · 1 h 00 min

  20. A Christmas Carol

    · No. 3 · 1 h 01 min

  21. Counsellor at Law

    · No. 5 · 57 min

  22. Mutiny on the Bounty

    · No. 6 · 59 min

  23. I Lost My Girlish Laughter

    · No. 8 · 57 min

  24. Arrowsmith

    · No. 9 · 59 min

  25. The Green Goddess

    · No. 10 · 57 min

  26. The Glass Key

    · No. 14 · 59 min

  27. Beau Geste

    · No. 15 · 44 min

  28. 20th Century

    · No. 16 · 58 min

  29. Show Boat

    · No. 17 · 59 min

  30. The Patriot

    · No. 19 · 55 min

  31. Private Lives

    · No. 20 · 58 min

  32. Ordeal at Wickford Point

    · No. 22 · 58 min

  33. Our Town

    · No. 23 · 58 min

  34. Bad Man

    · No. 24 · 59 min

  35. American Cavalcade

    · No. 25 · 57 min

  36. Victoria Regina

    · No. 26 · 55 min

  37. Ah, Wilderness

    · No. 28 · 44 min

  38. What Every Woman Knows

    · No. 29 · 52 min

  39. The Count of Monte Cristo

    · No. 30 · 58 min

  40. Algiers

    · No. 31 · 55 min

  41. Escape

    · No. 32 · 57 min

  42. Liliam

    · No. 33 · 58 min

  43. Magnificent Ambersons

    · No. 34 · 56 min

  44. Hurricane

    · No. 35 · 54 min

  45. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

    · No. 36 · 55 min

  46. Garden of Allah

    · No. 37 · 52 min

  47. Dodsworth

    · No. 38 · 41 min

  48. Lost Horizon

    · No. 39 · 54 min

  49. Vanessa

    · No. 40 · 45 min

  50. There's Always a Woman

    · No. 41 · 57 min

  51. A Christmas Carol

    · No. 42 · 52 min

  52. Vanity Fair

    · No. 44 · 44 min

  53. Theadora Goes Wild

    · No. 45 · 57 min

  54. The Citadel

    · No. 46 · 54 min

  55. It Happened One Night

    · No. 47 · 59 min

  56. Broom Stages

    · No. 48 · 58 min

  57. Mr Deeds Goes to Town

    · No. 49 · 59 min

  58. Only Angels Have Wings

    · No. 51 · 59 min

  59. Rabble in Arms

    · No. 52 · 44 min

  60. Craig's Wife

    · No. 53 · 3:51

  61. Huckleberry Finn

    · No. 54 · 51 min

  62. June Moon

    · No. 55 · 59 min

  63. Jane Eyre

    · No. 56 · 59 min

  64. (xx) Wells Meets Welles

    · 7:26

  65. Flying Fortress (Non-cleared wartime broadcast)

    · 17 min

  66. Flying Fortress

    · No. 1 · 16 min

  67. Air Transport Command

    · No. 2 · 14 min

  68. The Navigator

    · No. 3 · 15 min

  69. Wind, Sand and Stars

    · No. 4 · 15 min

  70. War Workers aka Secret Agent 23

    · No. 6 · 14 min

  71. Gremlins

    · No. 7 · 14 min

  72. Pan-American Airlines

    · No. 8 · 14 min

  73. Anti-Submarine Patrol

    · No. 9 · 15 min

  74. Finger in the Wind

    · No. 10 · 15 min

  75. Letter to Mother

    · No. 11 · 15 min

  76. Flyer Come Home (aka With Your Wings, Mrs James and the Pot of Tea)

    · No. 12 · 15 min

  77. The Future

    · No. 13 · 14 min

  78. The Rulers of the Earth (aka Dictators Meeting In Hell)

    · No. 27 · 14 min

  79. A Smart Soldier Like Me

    · No. 38 · 31 min

  80. Letter to an Unborn Son

    · No. 53 · 30 min

  81. Guest - Groucho Marx

    · No. 1 · 30 min

  82. Guest - Lionel Barrymore

    · No. 2 · 30 min

  83. Guest - Ann Sothern

    · No. 3 · 30 min

  84. Guest - Robert Benchley

    · No. 4 · 30 min

  85. Guest - Hedda Hopper

    · No. 5 · 30 min

  86. Guest - Victor Moore

    · No. 6 · 30 min

  87. Guest - Lucille Ball

    · No. 7 · 30 min

  88. Guest - Charles Laughton

    · No. 8 · 31 min

  89. Guest - Betty Hutton

    · No. 9 · 30 min

  90. Guest - Mary Borland

    · No. 10 · 30 min

  91. Guest - Dennis Day

    · No. 11 · 30 min

  92. God's Corporals

    · No. 69 · 30 min

  93. Guest - Monty Woolley

    · No. 12 · 29 min

  94. Guest - Lucille Ball (AFRS)

    · No. 15 · 31 min

  95. Ann Sothern for President

    · No. 17 · 30 min

  96. Guests - The Wilde Twins, Lois Collier

    · No. 18 · 31 min

  97. Donovan's Brain Spoof

    · No. 19 · 30 min

  98. Invasion Special

    · No. 20 · 30 min

  99. Texarkana

    · No. 21 · 30 min

  100. From the Wrigley Building, Chicago Illinois

    · No. 22 · 29 min

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  1. Orson Welles Compilation - 126 episodes of Orson Welles' Old Time Radio Shows

    Old Time Radio · 133 episodes here · archive.org

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