The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1942–1943
- Surviving broadcasts
- 12
- Genre
- theatre
Hello Americans was a 12 episode show Orson Welles made as another contribution to the war effort, and stems in part from his interest in Latin and South American culture. It was no doubt spurred by his time in Brazil working on the movie It's All True . The show is a generally lighthearted affair, and Welles clearly seems to enjoy himself. The first episode in particular, with Carmen Miranda, is a prime example of this. Hello Americans did have some more serious moments, and despite some lapses into melodramatics, most were carried off reasonably well. The show is peppered with numerous editorial insertions,…
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
3 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1942, in original transmission order.
- 1. Brazil · 15 Nov 1942
- 2. Andes · 22 Nov 1942
- 3. The Islands · 29 Nov 1942
Brazil
15 Nov 1942 · 28 min
Broadcast 15 November 1942. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Andes
22 Nov 1942 · 28 min
Broadcast 22 November 1942. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Islands
29 Nov 1942 · 28 min
Broadcast 29 November 1942. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Alphabet A to C
6 Dec 1942 · 29 min
Broadcast 6 December 1942. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Alphabet C to S
13 Dec 1942 · 29 min
Broadcast 13 December 1942. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Alphabet Slavery (Abednego) to End
20 Dec 1942 · 29 min
Broadcast 20 December 1942. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Bad Will Ambassador
27 Dec 1942 · 29 min
Broadcast 27 December 1942. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
(xx) Ritmos de las Americas No. 1
3 Jan 1943 · 29 min
Broadcast 3 January 1943. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1942–1943
Other series the network carried while Hello Americans was on the air.
Same seasons
theatre on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Theatre of the mind
Full-cast drama with a live orchestra and a studio full of sound effects. Lux Radio Theater and the CBS Radio Workshop are the direct ancestors of scripted podcast fiction.
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Descendants
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