A cross-country driver realizes the hitchhiker he keeps impossibly encountering along his route might be the only one of them who's still alive. | Mercury Summer Theater of the Air | #RetroRadio EP0535

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “This Breed Is Doomed” (January 04, 1977) ***WD
00:47:07.210 = Beyond Midnight, “Take Your Partners” (August 29, 1969) (LQ)
01:17:02.645 = MindWebs, “The Evergreen Library” (June 17, 1979)
01:47:24.692 = Mercury Summer Theater of the Air, “The Hitchhiker” (June 21, 1946) ***WD
02:17:11.676 = Mystery In The Air, “Mask of Medusa” (September 04, 1947) ***WD
02:46:57.168 = Molle Mystery Theater, “Make No Mistake” (April 30, 1948)
03:16:20.258 = The Cisco Kid, “Mummy In The Desert” (April 21, 1953) ***WD
03:44:06.225 = Murder at Midnight, “The Man Who Died Yesterday” (December 02, 1946)
04:10:14.826 = The Black Museum, “Jar of Acid” (May 15, 1952)
04:35:44.589 = The Mysterious Traveler, “I Died Last Night” (April 25, 1950) ***WD
05:04:22.898 = Show Close

(ADU) = Air Date Unknown
(LQ) = Low Quality
***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.
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