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The Mercury Theatre on the Air · November 20, 1938 · 61 min · 8,708 words
The transcript of “Pickwick Papers”, an episode of The Mercury Theatre on the Air first broadcast November 20, 1938. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Orson Welles on the Air plays The Mercury Theatre on the Air free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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The Columbia Broadcasting System and its associated stations present Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the Air. The Night for the 20th broadcast in its series of great narratives, dramatized, produced and directed by Orson Welles, return again to one of the classics of the last century, The Pick Week Papers by Charles Dickens.
Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the Air in the Pick Week Papers, starring Orson Welles as Alfred Jingle and Sergeant Buzz Fuzz. MUSIC May the 12th, 1827, in special session of the corresponding society of the Pickwick Club, Samuel Pickwick Chairman presiding, unanimously resolved that the first expedition of the society would be devoted to the study of the habits and customs of the landed gentry of Southern England,
In pursuit of which places Arthur Bredezard on a Commodore coach down from Golden Cross to Rochester, where in the party will proceed by Calich the men of Dingley-Dell in the county of Suffolk, England. St Samuel Pickwick, permanent chairman, Nathaniel Winkler, permanent vice chairman, Tracy Tubman, permanent honorary treasurer, Augustus Snograss, permanent secretary.
Comi d'oh, comi d'oh, comi d'oh, it's best to be starting now! Brighten still was the day, balm in the air, and beautifully appearance of every object as our lustous chairman rose from his bedding gothles' feet, and proceeded to put himself in his clothes and his clothes into his portmental, as he sat down to breakfast a casual observer
and might possibly have remarked nothing extraordinary in the bald head and circular spectacles, which would intentionally turn towards the griddle kidney that lay on the plate before him. So those who knew that the gigantic brain of Picque was working beneath that forehead, and that the beaming eyes of Picque were twinkling behind those glasses, the sight was indeed
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