OTD in early British television: 17 September 1937
John Wyver writes: I hope you’ll forgive me over the next three weeks if on certain days I simply reprise via a link or links one or more earlier posts. Mostly this is because I have just received, and need to spend some serious time on, the page proofs of Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television in Britain. If I keep to the deadlines, Bloomsbury will publish this in hardback and paperback, and as an e-book, on 8 January (and which can be ordered in advance and at a discount here).
I’m not going to count these posts in my running total, and I will continue to offer original columns every other day or so. But meanwhile I’m going to select a handful of favourite posts, as well as some that have some relevance to the particular day of publication, as today.
I wrote previously at the link below about the reprise presentation in March 1938 of W.B. Yeats’ supernatural drama The Words Upon the Window Pane (above), and it was on the afternoon of Friday 17 September 1937 that Eric Crozier’s production was first transmitted:
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