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Mystery Theater: The Clock: The Hunter and the Hunted

20/12/2016

The Clock: The Hunter and the Hunted

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1946: Bud hates his family's tradition of hunting. A cautionary tale of role-reversal.

4 Extra Debut. 1946: Bud hates his family's tradition of hunting. A cautionary tale of role-reversal starring Harp McGuire as Father Time.

Father Time himself narrates this cautionary tale. Bud hates his family's tradition of hunting. 

A cautionary tale of role-reversal starring Harp McGuire as Father Time. 

Suspense anthology series, The Clock ran from 1946 - 1948 on ABC. Narrated by Father Time, the 30-minute program featured "unsettling accounts of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary circumstances, the weight of which carry them to an inevitable fate.. ". 

One of a series of selected shows from the golden days of American radio in the 1940s and 50s, when many of Hollywood's greatest screen stars were regular performers - often re-enacting their famous film roles.

Director: William Spier. 

First broadcast in the USA on ABC Radio in 1946.

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