The Strange and Astounding Memoirs of Watt O'Hugh the Third

by Sal Rendino

A Weird Western / science fiction radio drama, based on Steven S. Drachman's acclaimed series of novels. Watt O'Hugh the Third is a self-made man, Civil War vet, Time Roamer, former orphan of the New York slums and dime novel hero of the lost, magical West of the 1870s, and his story is one of the most original, riotous literary adventures in recent memory. WE HAVE BEEN RENEWED FOR A FULL SEASON! NEW EPISODES ON THEIR WAY. Star ...   ...  Read more
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  • Season 1

  • Episode 1: Watt O’Hugh’s Wild West Extravaganza

    Episode 1: Watt O’Hugh’s Wild West Extravaganza

    S01 E01
    21:13

    Watt O'Hugh, famous dime novel hero, resides in the back room of a saloon somewhere in the American West, where he earns his keep by punching customers who need punching. Until one day, when a New York theatrical agent brings a surprising proposition from J. P. Morgan: a contract for "Watt O'Hugh's Wild West Extravaganza" to open at New York City's Hippodrome Theater. But is the offer what it seems, or does it hide a more insidious plot?

  • Episode 2: New York!

    Episode 2: New York!

    S01 E02
    35:11

    Watt O'Hugh arrives in New York in 1874, determined to make his Wild West Extravaganza a blockbuster, and to make Emelina, his beautiful leading lady, a star of the Big Apple. But one of the show's biggest backers, a shadowy financier named J.P. Morgan, has other plans for the heroic Western icon.

  • Episode 3: Lucy

    Episode 3: Lucy

    S01 E03
    24:27

    The series returns for eight new episodes! This week, Watt O'Hugh reveals secrets of his youth spent in the gilded Manhattan of the 1860s -- and his passionate love for the beautiful, mysterious, tempestuous and scandalous socialite, Lucy Billings.

  • Episode 4: Laramie

    Episode 4: Laramie

    S01 E04
    25:58

    Framed for a "passion crime" he didn't commit, renowned 19th-century dime-novel hero Watt O'Hugh wakes up in Wyoming's infamous territorial prison, in Laramie, proclaiming his innocence ... and plotting escape!

  • Episode 5: Prison Break!

    Episode 5: Prison Break!

    S01 E05
    14:36

    Watt O'Hugh, famed Western shootist and 19th-century dime-novel hero, finds himself imprisoned in the the Wyoming Territorial Prison, in Laramie, a place “for evil-doers of all classes and kinds.” He soon discovers that his prison-mates are ever stranger than he would have expected. But can any prison really hold the heroic Watt O’Hugh the Third?