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.