ORSON WELLES ON THE AIR

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, March 28, 1998

MERCURY THEATRE ON THE AIR (7-18-38) “Treasure Island” starring Orson Welles as Long John Silver and as Jim Hawkins who tells the classic Robert Louis Stevenson pirate adventure of the journey to an isle of hidden bounty. Cast includes Arthur Anderson, age 14, who appears as Jim Hawkins as a boy; George Colourus, Ray Collins, Alfred Shirley, Agnes Moorehead. Dan Seymour announces. Sustaining, CBS. (28:37; 33:57)

BLACK MUSEUM (1952) “Service Card” star­ring Orson Welles with a tale from London’s “warehouse of homicide… where everyday objects… are touched by murder. An automo­bile service card proves instrumental in solv­ing a brutal murder. Sustaining, MBS. (25:03)

CHARLIE MC CARTHY SHOW (1945) Edgar Bergen stars with Charlie, Effie Klinker, Orson Welles, Joan Merrill, announcer Jim Ameche, Ray Noble and the orchestra, and guest John Robert Powers, head of the famous modeling agency. Welles, apparently a regular on the show, appears as an Irish judge; later looks fifty years into the future with Bergen. AFRS rebroadcast. (30:45)

THIRD MAN (1950) “Earl on Troubled Waters” starring Orson Welles as adventurer Harry Lime who is offered a share of $30,000 if he can smuggle it out of the country. Zither music by Anton Karas. Syndicated. (24:55)

SUSPENSE (9-2-42) “The Hitchhiker” starring Orson Welles in the classic Lucille Fletcher story about a man who makes a terrifying cross-country trip. Sustaining, CBS. (28:37)