Holomorphic extensions from open families of circles

For a circle write . A continuous function on extends holomorphically from (into the disc bounded by ) if and only if the function defined on has a bounded holomorphic extension into . In the paper we consider open connected families of circles , write , and assume that a continuous function on extends holomorphically from each . We show that this happens if and only if the function defined on has a bounded holomorphic extension into the domain for each open family compactly contained in . This allows us to use known facts from several complex variables. In particular, we use the edge of the wedge theorem to prove a theorem on real analyticity of such functions.