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Plays - The
Queen's Messenger by J. Hartley Manners was the first play aired on
September 11, 1928 under the guidance of radio station WGY in Schenectady,
New York. Principal performers included Izetta Jewell, Maurice Randall,
Joyce Evans and William J. Toniski.
The first "television" play entitled The
Adventure of the Three Garridebs was broadcast on the NBC network on 1937.
It starred Louis Hector (the first to portray Holmes on TV) as the British
criminologist Sherlock Holmes who investigated the case of Nathan Garrideb,
an eccentric living alone in a room that contained a hidden counterfeiters
printing press and engraving plates.
The Donovan Affair by Owen Davis was
the first full-hour play televised on June 29, 1939 over NBC's W2XBS in New
York City. The actors included William Harrigan, Laura Baxter, Matt Briggs,
Henry Wadsworth, and Horace Braham.
Peter Pan starring Mary Martin was the first television
network presentation of a full Broadway production. The musical based on
Barrie's classic children's story of a boy who refused to grow up was
televised in color for NBC on March 7, 1955. The telecast was so successful,
it was repeated in January of 1956.
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