The Mercury Theatre on the Air, broadcast 1938-07-11 on CBS. The season that produced The War of the Worlds, week by week.
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30 October 1938
The War of the Worlds
The Mercury Theatre panics America
The famous thing about that Sunday night is mostly wrong: the panic was smaller than the newspapers, who had their own reasons, wanted it to be. The interesting thing is the craft. Welles and Howard Koch built the first half hour as an ordinary evening of dance music repeatedly broken into by bulletins — a form every listener had learned by heart six weeks earlier during the Munich crisis, when the networks really did keep cutting in from Europe. We have put the whole 1938 season here so you can hear the company find that voice: Dracula in July, Julius Caesar in September, Around the World in 80 Days the Sunday before.
20 recordings · 1 broadcasters
Who carried it
CBS20
Monday, 11 July 1938
Monday, 18 July 1938
The Mercury Theatre on the Air, broadcast 1938-07-18 on CBS. The season that produced The War of the Worlds, week by week.
Monday, 25 July 1938
The Mercury Theatre on the Air, broadcast 1938-07-25 on CBS. The season that produced The War of the Worlds, week by week.
Monday, 1 August 1938
The Mercury Theatre on the Air, broadcast 1938-08-01 on CBS. The season that produced The War of the Worlds, week by week.
Monday, 8 August 1938
The War of the Worlds
The Mercury Theatre on the Air — Three Short Stories: I'm a Fool, The Open Window, My Little Boy
8 Aug 1938 · 58 min
The Mercury Theatre on the Air, broadcast 1938-08-08 on CBS. The season that produced The War of the Worlds, week by week.
Monday, 15 August 1938
The Mercury Theatre on the Air, broadcast 1938-08-15 on CBS. The season that produced The War of the Worlds, week by week.
Monday, 22 August 1938
The Mercury Theatre on the Air, broadcast 1938-08-22 on CBS. The season that produced The War of the Worlds, week by week.
Monday, 29 August 1938
The Mercury Theatre on the Air, broadcast 1938-08-29 on CBS. The season that produced The War of the Worlds, week by week.
Monday, 5 September 1938
The Mercury Theatre on the Air, broadcast 1938-09-05 on CBS. The season that produced The War of the Worlds, week by week.
Sunday, 11 September 1938
The Mercury Theatre on the Air, broadcast 1938-09-11 on CBS. The season that produced The War of the Worlds, week by week.
Sunday, 25 September 1938
The War of the Worlds
The Mercury Theatre on the Air — The Immortal Sherlock Holmes
25 Sep 1938 · 56 min
The Mercury Theatre on the Air, broadcast 1938-09-25 on CBS. The season that produced The War of the Worlds, week by week.
Sunday, 9 October 1938
The Mercury Theatre on the Air, broadcast 1938-10-09 on CBS. The season that produced The War of the Worlds, week by week.
Sunday, 16 October 1938
The Mercury Theatre on the Air, broadcast 1938-10-16 on CBS. The season that produced The War of the Worlds, week by week.
Sunday, 23 October 1938
The War of the Worlds
The Mercury Theatre on the Air — Around the World in 80 Days
23 Oct 1938 · 57 min
The Mercury Theatre on the Air, broadcast 1938-10-23 on CBS. The season that produced The War of the Worlds, week by week.
Sunday, 30 October 1938
The Mercury Theatre on the Air, 30 October 1938: Orson Welles's Halloween adaptation of H. G. Wells, broadcast without commercial interruption on CBS.
The Mercury Theatre on the Air, broadcast 1938-10-30 on CBS. The season that produced The War of the Worlds, week by week.
Sunday, 6 November 1938
The Mercury Theatre on the Air, broadcast 1938-11-06 on CBS. The season that produced The War of the Worlds, week by week.
The War of the Worlds
The Mercury Theatre on the Air — Heart of Darkness / Life with Father
6 Nov 1938 · 58 min
The Mercury Theatre on the Air, broadcast 1938-11-06 on CBS. The season that produced The War of the Worlds, week by week.
Sunday, 13 November 1938
The Mercury Theatre on the Air, broadcast 1938-11-13 on CBS. The season that produced The War of the Worlds, week by week.
Sunday, 20 November 1938
The Mercury Theatre on the Air, broadcast 1938-11-20 on CBS. The season that produced The War of the Worlds, week by week.