Early BBC drama, first broadcast in 1926…
[Buffalo Courier-Express, November 16, 1930] “Entitled The Blue Penguin, the
initial playlet of the series depicts a page from the history of an old inn of that
name. Two brothers loved the same girl—and on this particular night, with a
storm at its height, the one whose love was unrequited has returned for
vengeance. The sign falling and a death does occur, but the drama has a surprise
ending.”
5 NO, Newcastle (BBC); et al.
November 24, 1926; et al.
HerbertRice (director—1930, WGR),HaroldSimpson
(scriptwriter), Geoffrey Tempest (scriptwriter).
CAST [1926, 1927]: “…played by the London Radio Repertory Players.”
CAST [1930, WGR]: Fred Dampier, Ethel Hinton, Herbert Rice, William Tracey.
None.
November 24, 1926 “The Blue Penguin”
December 7, 1926“The Blue Penguin”
January 10, 1927“The Blue Penguin”
January 17, 1927“The Blue Penguin”
January 27, 1927“The Blue Penguin”
March 7, 1927“The Blue Penguin”
October 16, 1928“The Blue Penguin”
November 20, 1930 “The Blue Penguin”
England—that the falling of the sign outside the hostelry
foreboded a death—is woven into the first of fifteen typically
British radio dramas which will become a Thursday night
event…”]
A WMBC production that for a time ran directly opposite both WJR’sThe
Hermit’s Caveand WXYZ’sThe Green Hornet.
WMBC, Detroit, Michigan.
Circa 1936.
Unknown.
None.
March 22, 1936“A Night at Wang Loos”
Phantom’…”]
March 29, 1936
April 5, 1936 “Graveyard Plot”
‘Phantom’…”]
April 12, 1936
April 19, 1936
April 26, 1936“The Return of Martin
Winthrop”
July 7, 1936