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The Mercury Theatre on the Air is a radio series of live radio dramas created and hosted by Orson Welles.The weekly hour-long show presented classic literary works performed by Welles's celebrated Mercury Theatre repertory company, with music composed or arranged by Bernard Herrmann.
The Hitch-Hiker is a radio play written by Lucille Fletcher.It was first presented on the November 17, 1941, broadcast of The Orson Welles Show on CBS Radio, featuring a score written and conducted by Bernard Herrmann, Fletcher's first husband.
On October 30, 2002, XM Satellite Radio collaborated with conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck (who named his production company, Mercury Radio Arts, after Welles' Mercury Theatre) for a live recreation of the broadcast, using Koch's original script and airing on the Buzz XM channel, as well as on Beck's 100 AM/FM affiliates.
For example, the March 18, 1949, radio episode titled "Giveaway Program" inspired the November 24, 1952, I Love Lucy episode "Redecorating". Many of the actors who appeared on My Favorite Husband on radio later appeared on I Love Lucy , often in episodes where they reprised their original roles from a reworked My Favorite Husband script.
Wyllis Cooper, creator of Lights Out!. Lights Out is an American old-time radio program devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural.. Created by Wyllis Cooper and then eventually taken over by Arch Oboler, versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 3, 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television.
Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, [1] radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story: "It is auditory in the physical dimension but equally powerful as a ...
Ma Perkins (sometimes called Oxydol's Own Ma Perkins) is an American radio soap opera that was heard on NBC from 1933 to 1949 and on CBS from 1942 to 1960. [1] It was also broadcast in Canada, and Radio Luxembourg carried it in Europe. [2] The program began on WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio, where it was broadcast from August 14, 1933 to December 1 ...
A radio program, radio programme, or radio show is a segment of content intended for broadcast on radio. [1] It may be a one-time production, or part of a periodically recurring series. A single program in a series is called an episode .