"Seventeen" was broadcast by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air on October 16, 1938. This adaptation is based on Booth Tarkington's 1914 novel of the same name1. The story revolves around William Sylvanus Baxter, a young and naive 17-year-old boy who falls in love with a girl named Lola Pratt, who is known for her baby talk.