Holiday Edition - The Campbell Playhouse: A Christmas Carol - Orson Welles

Vintage Classic Radio presents special Christmas classics from the golden age of radio for the 2022 Holiday season.

Description: Starring Orson Welles, this definitive edition of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' almost never came to be. Welles was filling in for an ill Lionel Barrymore who was unable to make it to New York City for the broadcast. The Campbell Playhouse radio drama series ran from 1938-1940, directed by and starring Orson Welles. They were hour-long radio adaptations of plays, books and popular films. The series was continued from the previous, 'The Mercury Theatre on the Air'.

Original release: December 23rd, 1938

Home station: CBS

Cast:

Orson Welles

William Alland

Georgia Backus

Edgar Barrier

Bea Benaderet

Ray Collins

Joseph Cotten

George Coulouris

Arlene Francis

Alice Frost

Helen Hayes

Sam Levene

Agnes Moorehead

Frank Readick

Everett Sloane

Paul Stewart

Virginia Welles

Richard Wilson

Eustace Wyatt