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Well, we have three very distinct specials we're going to bring you over the next three weeks. And we're going to start off with something we played actually a couple of times.

We played the Mercury Theater on the airs presentation of the Mortal Sherlock Holmes back in 2009, as one of the very first Sherlock Holmes plays we presented.

And then we played it again in 2015 as a listener support special. I'm returning to it this year because I've got a better version of the or of the file than we had in our previous two outings and plus I do enjoy listening to it.

So we're going to go ahead and listen to the Mercury Theater presentation of the Mortal Sherlock Holmes original air date September 25th, 1938. Let's go ahead and take a listen.

Mexico Fire Chief Dealers from coast to coast will present each Wednesday evening beginning October 5th from 9.30 to 10.30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The Texaco Star Theater featuring Adolf Monju, Yuna Mirko, Charlie Ruggles, Jane Foreman and Kenny Baker.

With Betty Davis as guest star in a dramatic sketch directed by Max Reinhardt, David Brokman's orchestra with Harry Simion's chorus tune in the first broadcast Wednesday October 5th at 9.30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

The Mercury Theater on the air.

The Columbia Broadcasting System takes pleasure in bringing you the 12th in a series of weekly broadcast featuring Awesome Welles and the Mercury Theater on the air.

Tonight, Broadway's and Radio's most celebrated theatrical producing company brings to life the best love character in detective fiction, the Immortal Sherlock Holmes.

The play is Awesome Welles' own adaptation for Radio of William Gillette and During Melodrama based on the famous stories by the Arthur Conan Doyle.

Before the performance begins, here is a director of the Mercury Theater. They star and producer of these unique broadcasts, Awesome Welles. Good evening.

Well tonight it's back to Baker Street, back to that unlikely London of the 19th century where high adventure awaits all who would seek it in a handsome cab or under a gas lamp in an infinite cave.

But tonight we pay tribute to the most wonderful member of that most wonderful world, a gentleman who never lived and who will never die.

There are only a few of them, these permanent profiles have a lasting silhouette on the edge of the world.

There is first a little hunchback with a slapstick whose hook nose is shaped like his cap.

There is now and always will be the penguin-footed hobo in the derby in the baggy pants, and the small boy with a wooden head and the long rusty knight on horseback and the fat knight who could only procure a charge on foot.

There is also the tall gentleman with a hawk's face and the under slung pipe, the foreign-ath cap.

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