The Ringer

Summary: 1946 live BBC studio production of Edgar Wallace’s thriller The Ringer, which was a popular drama on television before the war.
Theatre play: The Ringer by Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) [more information]
Play synopsis: 'The Ringer is an elusive criminal, reported dead in Australia but now thought to be alive in London. Scotland Yard know the Ringer had left his sister in the care of unscrupulous lawyer Maurice Meister and that she was later found drowned, so they warn Meister that the Ringer is in London. A police guard is set up around his house and, surrounded by burglar alarms, he waits for further news; no intruder could possibly enter. As tension mounts, it seems increasingly clear that the Ringer is one of the people in the close circle around Meister...but which one?' (Source: ‘Edgar Wallace Presents: The Ringer, http://networkonair.com/shop/1822-edgar-wallace-presents-the-ringer-5027626398248.html, accessed 22 March 2014.)
Production history: Stage adaptation by Edgar Wallace of his own novel (published in 1925) that premiered at Wyndham’s Theatre on 1 May 1926. Published in 1929 by London: French and New York: Hodder and Stoughton.
Date of transmission: Friday 12 July 1946
Time: 8.45-10.00pm
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC

Producer

Playwright

Edgar Wallace (1875-1932)

Cast

Peter Ashmore	Benny
Clifford Buckton	Station-Sergeant Carter
Gerald Case	Colonel Walford
D. A. Clarke-Smith	Dr Lomond
Dorothy Dickson	Cora Ann Milton
Wallace Douglas	Divisional Detective Inspector Wenbury
Franklin Dyall	Maurice Meister
Morgan Griffiths	Policeman
Wally Patch	Samuel Hackitt
Marjorie Rhodes	Mrs Hackitt
John Palmer Roberts	Policeman
Leonard Sachs	John Lenley
John [Johnnie] Schofield	Policeman
Sheila Sim	Mary Lenley
George Stanford	Policeman
Edmund Willard	Central Detective Inspector Bliss

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