Mystery Playhouse

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Drama: Horror & Supernatural

Scary drama series broadcast on the BBC Home Service from 1962 to 1963.

Mystery Playhouse: No 17 by E. Nesbit

No 17 by E. Nesbit

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Can anyone explain the strange happenings taking place in room 17 of a provincial hotel?

Can anyone explain the strange happenings taking place in room 17 of a small provincial hotel? Starring David Kossoff. From 1963.

"Everything I'm going to tell you is as plain and straightforward as a timetable." 

Can anyone explain the strange happenings taking place in a small provincial hotel - in room No. 17? 

E Nesbit's mystery stars George Hagan as Braithwick, George Merritt as Peel, Will Leighton as Raffety, David Kossoff as Little, Timothy West as Cooper, Sian Davies as the Receptionist and Arthur Gomez as the Night Porter.

Adapted for radio by Michael and Mollie Hardwick.

Producer: Charles Lefeaux 

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in March 1963

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