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Phileas Fogg accompanied by his faithful valet, Passepartout, and hounded by the dogged, if unperceptive, Detective Fix, this imperturbable adventurer lets nothing stand in his way. First published in 1873, Jules Verne's classic novel depicting Fogg's epic race against the calendar still retains its power to thrill, despite the ease of long-distance travel provided by modern transport. The novel succeeds because it has all the elements of a great adventure story. Fogg falls in love, undertakes dangerous rescue missions, suffers a serious case of mistaken identity and experiences all the risks of an around the world journey in the late 19th Century.

Broadcast on October 23, 1938. This was the last broadcast before the War of the Worlds changed Welles's life for good.

I was listening to this Mercury Radio Theatre on the Air production last Saturday and the reproduction finished a few moments before Fogg (Orson) entered the Club to win his bet.
Has anyone encountered similar problems on other recordings?

Ouch. I'm sorry. That's such a great episode too.

Have you tried the Mercury Theatre site? They might have the complete version.

I purchased mine on cassette from Radio Yesteryear many years ago and it was complete.

I used to get OTR shows from Napster back before the government shut it down, and I seem to recall that sometimes only part of a file would download but that it would appear to be complete, until you listened to it that is. Maybe something like that happened to your copy.

I've had good luck finding complete episodes, but my gripe has been that so many of the MP3 versions were encoded at 16 or 24 kbps that they sounded too terrible to listen to.

And there are lots of episodes of The Campbell's Playhouse and The Lives of Harry Lime which were cut down when they were syndicated in order to accomodate commercials. Some of the Campbell episodes which originally ran an hour now only run 42 minutes. That's a valid gripe too.