This serial for Radio Luxembourg is considered the most faithful version of the Fu Manchu stories
ever done on the air—which is not surprising considering that Sax Rohmer himself wrote all of the
earlier episodes and then turned the scripting chore over to his wife Elizabeth and, later, to his
friend (and future biographer) Cay Van Ash. “We just went straight through the books in their
natural sequence,” explained Van Ash in a letter to Rohmer scholar R. E. Briney. “We did our
utmost to avoid narration and to translate action directly into dialogue or sound. This often
required additional material, and I think we also used a great many more sound effects than there
were in the AmericanShadow ofFu Manchuradio series.”
Clarke-Smith later reprised his role of Nayland Smith in a Rohmer script entitled “The Peculiar
Case at the Poppy Club,” which was broadcast on December 16, 1938 as part of the BBC series
What Happened at 8:20?It is not known whether or not Fu made an appearance also.
Radio Luxembourg.
December 6, 1936-November 28, 1937 (original series), December 5, 1937-
February 6, 1938 (repeat series of episodes #19-28).
4:45, running from July 21 through September 29, 1937. The complete series was also broadcast
over Radio Lyons from March 7, 1937 through March 6, 1938.]
Elizabeth Rohmer (scriptwriter), Sax Rohmer (scriptwriter), Cay Van Ash
(scriptwriter).
CAST: D. A. Clarke-Smith (Sir Denis Nayland Smith), Frank Cochrane (Dr. Fu Manchu), Cameron
Hall (Dr. Petrie—EPS. 44-52), Mervyn Johns, Vernon Kelso, Jack Lambert (Dr. Petrie—EPS. 1-9),
Gordon McLeod (Dr. Petrie—EPS. 27-43), John Rae (Dr. Petrie—EPS. 10-24), Pamela Titheradge
(Karamaneh), Rani Waller (Karamaneh—LATER EPS.), Arthur Young.
: Milk of Magnesia.
None.
Dec. 6, 1936
The Painted Kiss”
Dec. 13, 1936
The Clue of the Pigtail”
Dec. 20, 1936
The Mystery of Redmoat”
Dec. 27, 1936
The Green Mist”
Jan. 3, 1937
The Call of Siva”
Jan. 10, 1937
The Hulk of the Flats”
Jan. 17, 1937
The Brain Thief”
Jan. 24, 1937
Aaron’s Rod”
Jan. 31, 1937
The Living Dead”
Feb. 7, 1937
The Fungi Cellars”
Feb. 14, 1937
The Lord of Fires”
Feb. 21, 1937
The Wire Jacket”
Feb. 28, 1937
The Cry of the
Nighthawk”
March 7, 1937 [14] “The White Peacock”
March 14, 1937 [15] “The Coughing Horror”
March 21, 1937 [16] “The Capture of
Karamaneh”
March 28, 1937 [17] “The Silver Buddha”
April 4, 1937
The Terror Tower”
April 11, 1937
The Fiery Hand”
April 18, 1937
The Return of Aziz”
April 25, 1937
The Six Gates”
May 2, 1937
The Mummy”
May 9, 1937
The Brass Box”
May 16, 1937
The Flower of Silence”
May 23, 1937
The Golden
Promegranates”
May 30, 1937
The Adventure of the
Queen of Hearts”
June 6, 1937
The Xagazig Mystery”
June 13, 1937
The House of Hashish”
June 20, 1937
The Lillies of Death”
June 27, 1937
Lady of the Si-Fan”
July 4, 1937
The House of the Wild
Cat”
July 11, 1937
The Lion Crypt”
July 18, 1937
The Flying Death”
July 25, 1937
The Shadow Army”
Aug. 1, 1937
Satan’s Chapel”
Aug. 8, 1937
The Purple Shadow”
Aug. 15, 1937
The Flying Plague”
Aug. 22, 1937
The House of the Devil
Doctor”
Aug. 29, 1937
The Hairless Horror”
Sep. 5, 1937
The Scented Drug”
Sep. 12, 1937
The Devil Doctor’s
Daughter”
Sep. 19, 1937
The Flower of Eternal
Life”
Sep. 26, 1937
The Return of the Monk”
Oct. 3, 1937
The Big Raid”
Oct. 10, 1937
The Arrest of the Devil
Doctor”
Oct. 17, 1937
The Secret of the Living
Dead”
Oct. 24, 1937
The Sleeping Venus”
Oct. 31, 1937
The Vault of the Living
Dead”
Nov. 7, 1937
The House of the
Bloodhound”
Nov. 14, 1937
Man Made Gold”
Nov. 21, 1937
The Human Incinerator”
Nov. 28, 1937
The Hell Below the
Thames”