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, 1933The Canterville Ghost

(MUHLACKER, STUTTGART)
[Friday—7:10-8:30 PM]

October 26, 1934The Canterville Ghost

(VIENNA)
[Tuesday—9:10-10:10 PM]

September 14, 1937The Canterville Ghost

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THE TIMES:

“…Play (Oscar Wilde), arranged Hugin…”]

THE KATE SMITH HOUR (WABC, NEW YORK—CBS)

[Friday—

May 9, 1941The 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 1942The Canterville Ghost

PERSONNEL:

Basil Rathbone (narrator).

THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY (WOR, NEW YORK—MBS)

[Sunday—4:00-4:30 PM]

December 29, 1946The Canterville Ghost

HOLLYWOOD’S OPEN HOUSE (KERMIT-RAYMOND CORP. TRANSCRIPTION

SERIES)

Circa 1946The Canterville Ghost

CAST:

Stu Erwin, Edith Fellows, Guy Kibbee.

WINNIPEG DRAMA (WINNIPEG)

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May 5, 1947The Canterville Ghost

SCRIPT:

Douglas Haskins.

PERSONNEL:

Archie MacCorkindale (producer).

M-G-M THEATRE (

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January 25, 1950The Canterville Ghost

CAST:

Charles Laughton, et al.

PRAIRIE PLAYHOUSE (C??, WINNIPEG)

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July 7, 1955The Canterville Ghost

SCRIPT: Douglas Haskins.

PERSONNEL: Gustaf Kristjanson (producer).

FOUR’S COMPANY (TORONTO)

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June 24, 1961The 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, 1974The 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, 1980The Canterville Ghost

CHRISTMAS SPIRITS (RADIO 4, LONDON)
[???day—2:02-3:30 PM]

January 1, 1993The Canterville Ghost

RADIO TALES (NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO)

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July 3, 2001The Canterville Ghost