The Mercury Theatre On The Air
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
← Broadway on the Air
1938 · CBS
The Mercury Theatre on the Air
Twenty-two weeks, no sponsor, no rules
CBS gave the Mercury an hour on Sunday nights with no advertiser attached, which meant no one to answer to. Welles narrated in the first person, cast his Broadway company, and let Bernard Herrmann write a full score every week. It ran twenty-two weeks. The seventeenth of those weeks was Halloween eve, and the newspapers spent the following morning explaining what radio could do to people who had come in late.
19 broadcasts · 1 seasons held · Studio One, New York
193819
The Mercury Theatre On The Air
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
The Mercury Theatre On The Air
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
The Mercury Theatre On The Air
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
The Mercury Theatre On The Air
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Mercury Theatre On The Air
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
The Mercury Theatre On The Air
The one everybody argues about.
The Mercury Theatre On The Air
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
The Mercury Theatre On The Air
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Mercury Theatre On The Air
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
The Mercury Theatre On The Air
The one everybody argues about.
The Mercury Theatre On The Air
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
The Mercury Theatre On The Air
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
The Mercury Theatre On The Air
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
The Mercury Theatre On The Air
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
The Mercury Theatre On The Air
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
The Mercury Theatre On The Air
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
The Mercury Theatre On The Air
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
The Mercury Theatre On The Air
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.