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Arch Oboler's Plays
56 episodes Aired 1939-1945
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1. Mirage
   30mins Aired 1939-04-01
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2. Ways of Men - Past, Present, Future
   30mins Aired 1939-04-15
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3. The Cliff
   29mins Aired 1939-04-29
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4. Engulfed Cathedral
   31mins Aired 1939-05-06
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5. Baby
   25mins Aired 1939-05-13
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6. Crazy Town
   27mins Aired 1939-05-20
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7. Steelworker
   9mins Aired 1939-06-03
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8. Nero's Wife
   29mins Aired 1939-06-10
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9. Immortal Gentleman
   22mins Aired 1939-06-17
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10. Ivory Tower
    29mins Aired 1939-07-08
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11. Another World
    29mins Aired 1939-07-29
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12. Bathysphere
    29mins Aired 1939-11-18
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13. Mirage-Miss American
    13mins Aired 1939-11-25
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14. Nobody Died
    28mins Aired 1939-12-16
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15. This Precious Freedom
    27mins Aired 1939-12-30
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16. The Truth
    29mins Aired 1940-01-13
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17. Three Short Plays - Indians - Sun Exploded - Laughing Man
    29mins Aired 1940-01-27
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18. Special to Hollywood
    25mins Aired 1940-02-03
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19. The Dark World
    9mins Aired 1940-02-10
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20. The Women Stayed At Home
    25mins Aired 1940-02-24
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21. Johnny Got His Gun
    30mins Aired 1940-03-09
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22. Adolph and Mrs. Runyon
    32mins Aired 1942-06-21
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23. Speed
    22mins Aired 1943-01-05
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24. Strange Morning
    25mins Aired 1945-04-05
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25. The House I Live In
    29mins Aired 1945-04-26
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26. Love, Love, Love
    30mins Aired 1945-05-03
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27. Holiday 1940X
    30mins Aired 1945-05-10
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28. Mr. Ten Percent
    30mins Aired 1945-05-17
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29. An Excercise in Horror
    29mins Aired 1945-05-24
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30. Double Feature, Ostrich, Report to My Relatives
    30mins Aired 1945-05-31
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31. Night
    29mins Aired 1945-06-07
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32. Mr. Pyle
    29mins Aired 1945-06-14
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33. The Naked Mountain
    29mins Aired 1945-06-21
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34. Dr. Bluff
    28mins Aired 1945-07-05
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35. Gallery of Big Shots Feminine
    30mins Aired 1945-07-12
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36. My Chicago
    18mins Aired 1945-07-26
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37. Parade
    29mins Aired 1945-08-02
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38. History of a Mug
    29mins Aired 1945-08-09
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39. Mirage
    29mins Aired 1945-09-06
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40. A Gallery of Big Shots Masculine
    14mins Aired 1945-09-13
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41. Rocket From Manhattan
    25mins Aired 1945-09-20
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42. The Family Nagachi
    28mins Aired 1945-09-27
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43. Mr. Miller
    30mins Aired 1945-10-04
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44. This Living Book (I Declare War)
    29mins Aired 1945-10-11
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45. Johnny Got His Gun
    30mins Aired 1948-03-09
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46. The Word
    26mins Aired 1964-10-03
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47. The Visitor From Hades
    26mins Aired 1964-10-10
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48. Special to Hollywood
    21mins Aired 1964-10-17
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49. The Day Sinatra Got Fat
    20mins Aired 1964-10-24
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50. Come to the Bank
    21mins Aired 1964-10-31
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51. Big Ben
    26mins Aired 1964-11-14
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52. African Story
    23mins Aired 1964-11-28
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53. Revolt of the Worms
    24mins Aired 1964-12-05
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54. Bathysphere
    21mins Aired 1964-12-12
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55. Him or Me
    28mins Aired 1964-12-26
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56. The Day the Sun Exploded
    14mins Aired 1945-09
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Arch Oboler's Plays is a dramatic anthology series in which each episode explores the terrors and monsters within the human psyche. The show adheres to a stream-of-consciousness style that established radio as a viable new art form. Created, produced, directed, and written by Arch Oboler, the series features leading film actors, such as Ingrid Bergman, James Cagney, Joan Crawford, and Katharine Hepburn, who bring the compelling stories to life. The Bathysphere, an episode from November 18, 1939, was inducted into the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2020 for its cultural, historical, and aesthetic significance.

The show aired on the NBC network from March 25, 1939, to March 23, 1940, and was later revived for a sustaining summer run from April 5, 1945, to October 11, 1945, on the Mutual radio network. Arch Oboler reused some of the scripts from Arch Oboler's Plays in his later series Everyman's Theater. As the first writer accorded name-in-the-title status, Oboler was known for his eccentric and unique approach to storytelling. In addition to his radio work, Oboler was an ardent anti-Nazi and used his writing talents to instill hatred of the enemy during WWII through various war propaganda plays.

Performers: Ingrid Bergman, Gloria Blondell, Eddie Cantor, James Cagney, Ronald Colman, Joan Crawford, Greer Garson, Edmund Gwenn, Van Heflin, Katharine Hepburn, Elsa Lanchester, Peter Lorre, Frank Lovejoy, Raymond Massey, Burgess Meredith, Paul Muni, Alla Nazimova, Edmond O'Brien, Geraldine Page, Hester Sondergaard, Franchot Tone, George Zucco

Sources: wikipedia.org, otrcat.com