August Heat by The Hallmark Playhouse

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🗓️ 8 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This week on Strange Tales, we'll hear an adaptation of W.F. Harvey's story, August Heat. This episode of The Hallmark Playhouse originally aired September 29, 1949. Listen to more from The Hallmark Playhouse https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/e55e1c7a-e213-4a20-8701-21862bdf1f8a/StrangeTales803.mp3 Download StrangeTales803 | Subscribe | Spotify | Support Strange Tales Relic Radio is funded solely by listener donations. If you would like to help support it, [...]

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0:00.0	Strange Tales
0:02.0	RELES
0:03.0	Relicradio.
0:20.0	Relic Radio.com presents tales of the strange and bizarre, the weird and the wicked.
0:26.2	Stories not necessarily of the supernatural, but of the unnatural.
0:35.1	Join us now for Strange Tales, featuring radio drama at its most mysterious and unusual.
1:08.8	Music Welcome back to Strange Tales, Weird Stories from the Golden Age of Radio every Sunday at Relic. Radio.com.
1:14.0	Our story comes from the Hallmark Playhouse this week, a series that aired over CBS stations from June of 1948 to February of 1953.
1:18.6	Our story today is based on one by W.F. Harvey and features Fred McMurray.
1:23.6	Here's August Heat from September 29, 1949.
1:38.6	Music Here's August Heat from September 29, 1949. Remember a hallmark card when you care enough to send the very best.
1:56.3	Tonight from Hollywood, the makers of Hallmark reading cards bring you Fred McMurray in W.F. Harvey's August Heat on the Hallmark playhouse.
2:09.7	Each week, Hallmark will bring you Hollywood's greatest stars and outstanding stories chosen by one of the world's best-known authors.
2:17.0	The distinguished novelist, Mr. James Hilton.
2:29.4	Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
2:31.0	This is James Hilton.
2:32.5	Tonight on our Hallmark Playhouse,
2:39.4	we are justly proud to present a dramatization of W.F. Harvey's extraordinary tale, August
2:44.7	Heat. Originally, the locale of the story was in England, but since many of you are more familiar with New York, we have taken the liberty of transferring it there. I wonder how many
2:50.2	of you can remember the August heat in New York this year.
2:53.6	The hordes of people with only one thought in mind.
2:56.6	Somewhere there must be a relief from the terrific heat.
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