Welles and company began
The Mercury Theatre on the Air in the summer of 1938. After the flood of publicity created by "The War Of The Worlds", Campbell's Soup came aboard as sponsor late in the year.
Mercury TheatreCampbell Playhouse
MERCURY THEATRE ON THE AIR1938
7.11 DRACULA
7.18 TREASURE ISLAND
7.25 A TALE OF TWO CITIES
8.01 THE 39 STEPS
8.08 THREE SHORT STORIES
8.15 ABRAHAM LINCOLN
8.22 THE AFFAIRS OF ANATOL
8.29 THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
9.05 THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY
9.11 JULIUS CAESAR
9.25 SHERLOCK HOLMES
10.09 HELL ON ICE
10.16 SEVENTEEN (before the film version)
10.23 AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
10.30 THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
11.06 HEART OF DARKNESS/LIFE WITH FATHER --
Heart of Darkness is the story Welles first intended to film in Hollywood
11.13 A PASSENGER TO BALI
11.20 THE PICKWICK PAPERS
THE CAMPBELL PLAYHOUSE1938
12.09 REBECCA...with Margaret Sullavan & Mildred Natwick (before the film version)
12.23 A CHRISTMAS CAROL...with Joseph Cotten
1939
1.06 COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW...with Aline MacMahon
1.13 MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY...with Joseph Cotten
1.27 I LOST MY GIRLISH LAUGHTER
2.03 ARROWSMITH...with Helen Hayes (Hayes was in the film)
2.10 THE GREEN GODDESS
3.10 THE GLASS KEY (before the Alan Ladd remake)
3.17 BEAU GESTE...with Laurence Olivier
3.31 SHOW BOAT...with Helen Morgan
4.14 THE PATRIOT
4.21 PRIVATE LIVES...with Gertrude Lawrence
5.05 WICKFORD POINT
5.12 OUR TOWN (before the film version)
5.19 THE BAD MAN
5.26 THINGS WE HAVE
6.02 VICTORIA REGINA
9.10 PETER IBBETSON...with Helen Hayes
9.17 AH, WILDERNESS!...with Joseph Cotten & Arlene Francis
9.24 WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS...with Helen Hayes (Hayes was in the film)
10.01 THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
10.08 ALGIERS...with Paulette Goddard
10.15 ESCAPE
10.22 LILIOM...with Helen Hayes
10.29 THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS...with Walter Huston (before Welles' film version)
11.05 THE HURRICANE...with Mary Astor (Astor was in the film)
11.12 THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD...with Edna May Oliver
11.19 THE GARDEN OF ALLAH...with Madeleine Carroll
11.26 DODSWORTH...with Fay Bainter
12.03 LOST HORIZON...with Sigrid Gurie
12.10 VANESSA...with Helen Hayes (Hayes was in the film)
12.17 THERE’S ALWAYS A WOMAN...with Marie Wilson
12.24 A CHRISTMAS CAROL...with Lionel Barrymore
1940
1.07 VANITY FAIR...with Helen Hayes
1.14 THEODORA GOES WILD...with Loretta Young (Young later did THE STRANGER w/Welles)
1.21 THE CITADEL...with Geraldine Fitzgerald
1.28 IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT...with William Powell & Miriam Hopkins
2.11 MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN...with Gertrude Lawrence
2.18 DINNER AT EIGHT...with Hedda Hopper & Lucille Ball (Orson later did an episode of
I Love Lucy, as well as the brilliant pilot film "The Fountain of Youth" for Desilu)
2.25 ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS...with Joan Blondell
3.03 RABBLE IN ARMS...with Frances Dee
3.10 CRAIG’S WIFE...with Ann Harding (before the remake with Joan Crawford)
3.17 HUCKLEBERRY FINN...with Jackie Cooper & Clarence Muse
3.24 JUNE MOON...with Jack Benny