The Best of Mercury Theater with Orson Welles (The Golden Age of Radio, Old Time Radio Shows and Serials) [CD] [Audio CD]

PDQ Audioworks (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2007

The Best of the Mercury Theater, with Orson Welles 12-CD set, 12 Episodes Running Time: 12 Hours 12 of the best episodes from the original broadcasts of the Mercury Theater, featuring Orson Welles. Includes the original broadcast of "War of the Worlds." 12-CDs, digitally remastered (NOT low-quality MP3s). Click on the PDQ Audioworks link under the title above to see a complete listing of all of our Old Time Radio Shows available here on Amazon.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: PDQ AUDIOWORKS (2007)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000YJIGIU
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,499,174 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars The 411 please!, November 6, 2011

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M. G Watson "Miles Watson" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of Mercury Theater with Orson Welles (The Golden Age of Radio, Old Time Radio Shows and Serials) (Audio CD)

I am not one to review products I haven't bought, but as a huge fan of Old Time Radio, the product description for "The Best of Mercury Theater with Orson Welles" annoyed me so much I just had to weigh in a bit, if only in the hopes the manufacturer will read this and add some information. Seriously, if you are going to ask fifty bucks for a collection of old-time radio shows, is it too much to ask that you list the shows on your product advertisement?

The product advert says: "The Best of the Mercury Theater, with Orson Welles 12-CD set, 12 Episodes Running Time: 12 Hours 12 of the best episodes from the original broadcasts of the Mercury Theater, featuring Orson Welles. Includes the original broadcast of "War of the Worlds." 12-CDs, digitally remastered (NOT low-quality MP3s)." Well and good, but what about the OTHER eleven shows? What are they? The Mercury Theater produced a pretty hefty number of radio plays, at least 29 of which have survived. They include some really good stuff, such as "A Passenger To Bali", "Julius Caesar", "Life With Father", "Dracula", and "The Count of Monte Cristo." The selling point of a collection like this is presumably the sound quality (digital remastering to partially compensate for the low-fidelity recordings), but when you can get a lot of old-time radio free on the Net, it helps to tell the customer not only how good the quality is but WHAT they are getting.

I'd like to add in closing that I ran a search and went to about a dozen or more sites trying to get a proper product description, and came up with a big donut hole for my efforts. Near as I can figure there is not a single review or itemized list of this anywhere on the Net, probably because nobody wants to "buy blind" when the price-tag is so high. So how about making one? It will only help your cause!