Mercury Summer Theatre with their adaptation of the famous radio and television story by Lucille Fletcher, The Hitchhiker. This episode aired Friday, June 21, 1946.

Story: Ronald Adams takes a cross-country drive from New York to California. Along the way he see's a hitchhiker, the stranger keeps appearing over and over no matter how long Ronald drives. The hitchhiker seems to be stalking Ronald, a fateful call home tells Ron that maybe it's safer to stay home.

Featuring: Alice Frost, Hart McGuire, Bernard Herrmann (conductor), Ken Roberts (announcer), Orson Welles

Orson originally did an adaptation, November 17, 1941, on The Orson Welles Show (a lost episode).

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