DRACULA | Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air | Retro Radio

A young English lawyer discovers he's a prisoner in a Transylvanian castle owned by an ancient creature (Dracula) who casts no shadow, has no reflection, and feeds on human blood. Now that creature has set sail for England with fifty boxes of cursed earth — and he's already chosen his next victim. | #RetroRadio EP0586

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Second-Chance Lady” (April 28, 1977) ***WD
00:45:14.680 = Unsolved Mysteries, “The Witch Doctor” (1936) ***WD
01:00:10.931 = Mercury Theater, “Dracula” (July 11, 1938) ***WD
01:55:56.375 = Dark Venture, “Hideout” (January 07, 1947) ***WD
02:19:29.954 = Weird Circle, “River Man” (February 04, 1945)
02:46:45.455 = The Whistler, “Doctor Operates In Crime (December 04, 1944)
03:16:09.843 = Witch’s Tale, “Haunted Crossroads” (October 12, 1937) ***WD
03:38:55.089 = X Minus One, “The Snowball Effect” (August 14, 1956)
04:02:20.504 = Zero Hour, “The Extortionist” (May 02, 1974)
04:19:39.254 = ABC Mystery Time, “Four Fatal Jugglers” (1957) ***WD
04:43:30.242 = Strange Adventure, “Death At Falcon Lodge” (1945) ***WD
04:46:47.308 = Show Close

(ADU) = Air Date Unknown
(LQ) = Low Quality
***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.
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