The first drama production to be mounted as a part of the new, regular service was a twenty-five-minute selection of scenes from the West End play "Marigold" by L. Allen Harker and F. R. Pryor, produced by O'Ferrall with the original London Royalty Theatre cast. This was broadcast live from the Alexandra Palace studios on the evening of Friday 6 November 1936. Later BBC Television Head of Drama Shaun Sutton wrote about the production for "The Times" in 1972. "It was probably little more than a photographed version of the stage production, with the camera lying well back to preserve the picture-frame convention of the theatre." Most initial drama efforts were of a similar scale; productions of selected dramatised 'scenes' or excerpts from popular novels and adaptations of stage plays, and a programme entitled "Theatre Parade" would regularly use original London theatre casts for re-enacting selected scenes.