Back-Room Boy

Genre: comedy

Year Published: 1942

Creator: Herbert Mason

Credits: Cast: Arthur Askey, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt

Description: Arthur Pilbeam's fiancée Betty breaks their engagement because he has to speed back to the BBC every hour, on the hour, due to his internationally vital job of creating the BBC pips. He is assigned the solitary job of sending weather reports from a remote Scottish lighthouse. The locals warn him he will go mad from the isolation and the curse of a mermaid within a month, as his predecessors have. He encounters Jane, a young girl and Bobbie, a model and the sole survivor of a torpedoed ship.

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