THE CANTERVILLE GHOST
[SHORT-STORY]
Oscar Wilde’s whimsical ghost story…
[CHRONOLOGY]
TALES OF THE TITANS (WJZ, NEW YORK—NBC-BLUE)
[Friday—8:00-8:30 PM]
August 4, 1933 “The Canterville Ghost”
(MUHLACKER, STUTTGART)
[Friday—7:10-8:30 PM]
October 26, 1934 “The Canterville Ghost”
(VIENNA)
[Tuesday—9:10-10:10 PM]
September 14, 1937 “The Canterville Ghost”
[THE TIMES: “…Play (Oscar Wilde), arranged Hugin…”]
THE KATE SMITH HOUR (WABC, NEW YORK—CBS)
[Friday—
May 9, 1941 “The Canterville Ghost”
[“…an American family defies the Ghost of a Scottish castle…”]
CAST: Henry Hull, et al.
YARNS FOR YANKS (ARMED FORCES RADIO SERVICE)
Circa 1942 “The Canterville Ghost”
PERSONNEL: Basil Rathbone (narrator).
THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY (WOR, NEW YORK—MBS)
[Sunday—4:00-4:30 PM]
December 29, 1946 “The Canterville Ghost”
HOLLYWOOD’S OPEN HOUSE (KERMIT-RAYMOND CORP. TRANSCRIPTION
SERIES)
Circa 1946 “The Canterville Ghost”
CAST: Stu Erwin, Edith Fellows, Guy Kibbee.
WINNIPEG DRAMA (WINNIPEG)
[
May 5, 1947 “The Canterville Ghost”
SCRIPT: Douglas Haskins.
PERSONNEL: Archie MacCorkindale (producer).
M-G-M THEATRE (
[
January 25, 1950 “The Canterville Ghost”
CAST: Charles Laughton, et al.
PRAIRIE PLAYHOUSE (C??, WINNIPEG)
[
July 7, 1955 “The Canterville Ghost”
SCRIPT: Douglas Haskins.
PERSONNEL: Gustaf Kristjanson (producer).
FOUR’S COMPANY (TORONTO)
[
June 24, 1961 “The Canterville Ghost”
SCRIPT: Alan Rossiter King.
PERSONNEL: John Reeves (producer).
THE CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATRE (WRVR, NEW YORK—CBS)
[???day—10:07-11:00 PM]
July 15, 1974 “The Canterville Ghost”
[“…The ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville, who, after 400 years is but a
ghost of his former self, goes into a towering rage when an American
business tycoon, who has brought the Canterville castle to America stone
by stone, refuses to be frightened by the antique spook and even
threatens to tear the castle down again stone by stone…”]
SCRIPT: George Lowther.
PERSONNEL: Himan Brown (producer-director).
CAST: Mildred Clinton (Lady Eleanore), Bob Dryden (Hiram Otis), Arnold Moss
(Sir Simon), William Redfield (Geoff Canterville), Marian Seldes (Virginia).
(WORLD SERVICE—BBC)
[Monday—12:15-12;45 PM]
December 22, 1980 “The Canterville Ghost”
CHRISTMAS SPIRITS (RADIO 4, LONDON)
[???day—2:02-3:30 PM]
January 1, 1993 “The Canterville Ghost”
RADIO TALES (NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO)
[
July 3, 2001 “The Canterville Ghost”