{
  "title": "DR. FU MANCHU",
  "category": "[RADIO-SERIAL]",
  "article": "This serial for Radio Luxembourg is considered the most faithful version of the Fu Manchu stories\never done on the air—which is not surprising considering that Sax Rohmer himself wrote all of the\nearlier episodes and then turned the scripting chore over to his wife Elizabeth and, later, to his\nfriend (and future biographer) Cay Van Ash. “We just went straight through the books in their\nnatural sequence,” explained Van Ash in a letter to Rohmer scholar R. E. Briney. “We did our\nutmost to avoid narration and to translate action directly into dialogue or sound. This often\nrequired additional material, and I think we also used a great many more sound effects than there\nwere in the American Shadow of Fu Manchu radio series.”\nClarke-Smith later reprised his role of Nayland Smith in a Rohmer script entitled “The Peculiar\nCase at the Poppy Club,” which was broadcast on December 16, 1938 as part of the BBC series\nWhat Happened at 8:20? It is not known whether or not Fu made an appearance also.",
  "origination": "Radio Luxembourg.",
  "duration": "December 6, 1936-November 28, 1937 (original series), December 5, 1937-\nFebruary 6, 1938 (repeat series of episodes #19-28).\n[NOTE: There was also a repeat series of the first eleven episodes on Wednesday afternoons at\n4:45, running from July 21 through September 29, 1937. The complete series was also broadcast\nover Radio Lyons from March 7, 1937 through March 6, 1938.]",
  "personnel": "Elizabeth Rohmer (scriptwriter), Sax Rohmer (scriptwriter), Cay Van Ash\n(scriptwriter).\nCAST: D. A. Clarke-Smith (Sir Denis Nayland Smith), Frank Cochrane (Dr. Fu Manchu), Cameron\nHall (Dr. Petrie—EPS. 44-52), Mervyn Johns, Vernon Kelso, Jack Lambert (Dr. Petrie—EPS. 1-9),\nGordon McLeod (Dr. Petrie—EPS. 27-43), John Rae (Dr. Petrie—EPS. 10-24), Pamela Titheradge\n(Karamaneh), Rani Waller (Karamaneh—LATER EPS.), Arthur Young.\nSPONSOR: Milk of Magnesia.",
  "extant_recordings": "None.\nDR. FU MANCHU (RADIO LUXEMBOURG)\n[Sunday—7:00-7:15 PM]\nDec. 6, 1936\n[1] “The Painted Kiss”\nDec. 13, 1936\n[2] “The Clue of the Pigtail”\nDec. 20, 1936\n[3] “The Mystery of Redmoat”\nDec. 27, 1936\n[4] “The Green Mist”\nJan. 3, 1937\n[5] “The Call of Siva”\nJan. 10, 1937\n[6] “The Hulk of the Flats”\nJan. 17, 1937\n[7] “The Brain Thief”\nJan. 24, 1937\n[8] “Aaron’s Rod”\nJan. 31, 1937\n[9] “The Living Dead”\nFeb. 7, 1937\n[10] “The Fungi Cellars”\nFeb. 14, 1937\n[11] “The Lord of Fires”\nFeb. 21, 1937\n[12] “The Wire Jacket”\nFeb. 28, 1937\n[13] “The Cry of the\nNighthawk”\nMarch 7, 1937 [14] “The White Peacock”\nMarch 14, 1937 [15] “The Coughing Horror”\nMarch 21, 1937 [16] “The Capture of\nKaramaneh”\nMarch 28, 1937 [17] “The Silver Buddha”\nApril 4, 1937\n[18] “The Terror Tower”\nApril 11, 1937\n[19] “The Fiery Hand”\nApril 18, 1937\n[20] “The Return of Aziz”\nApril 25, 1937\n[21] “The Six Gates”\nMay 2, 1937\n[22] “The Mummy”\nMay 9, 1937\n[23] “The Brass Box”\nMay 16, 1937\n[24] “The Flower of Silence”\nMay 23, 1937\n[25] “The Golden\nPromegranates”\nMay 30, 1937\n[26] “The Adventure of the\nQueen of Hearts”\nJune 6, 1937\n[27] “The Xagazig Mystery”\nJune 13, 1937\n[28] “The House of Hashish”\nJune 20, 1937\n[29] “The Lillies of Death”\nJune 27, 1937\n[30] “Lady of the Si-Fan”\nJuly 4, 1937\n[31] “The House of the Wild\nCat”\nJuly 11, 1937\n[32] “The Lion Crypt”\nJuly 18, 1937\n[33] “The Flying Death”\nJuly 25, 1937\n[34] “The Shadow Army”\nAug. 1, 1937\n[35] “Satan’s Chapel”\nAug. 8, 1937\n[36] “The Purple Shadow”\nAug. 15, 1937\n[37] “The Flying Plague”\nAug. 22, 1937\n[38] “The House of the Devil\nDoctor”\nAug. 29, 1937\n[39] “The Hairless Horror”\nSep. 5, 1937\n[40] “The Scented Drug”\nSep. 12, 1937\n[41] “The Devil Doctor’s\nDaughter”\nSep. 19, 1937\n[42] “The Flower of Eternal\nLife”\nSep. 26, 1937\n[43] “The Return of the Monk”\nOct. 3, 1937\n[44] “The Big Raid”\nOct. 10, 1937\n[45] “The Arrest of the Devil\nDoctor”\nOct. 17, 1937\n[46] “The Secret of the Living\nDead”\nOct. 24, 1937\n[47] “The Sleeping Venus”\nOct. 31, 1937\n[48] “The Vault of the Living\nDead”\nNov. 7, 1937\n[49] “The House of the\nBloodhound”\nNov. 14, 1937\n[50] “Man Made Gold”\nNov. 21, 1937\n[51] “The Human Incinerator”\nNov. 28, 1937\n[52] “The Hell Below the\nThames”",
  "chronology": "",
  "sources": "",
  "gallery": "",
  "images": []
}