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Custody Battle, The (1985 Television)
- Series
- Golden Girls, The
- Director
- Terry Hughes
US sitcom centred on four mature single women living together in Miami, Florida. In this episode Blanche and Rose audition for an amateur production of Macbeth, and Blanche is humiliated by being offered the...
Midsummer Madness (1984 Television)
- Series
- Hinge and Bracket
- Director
- Mike Stephens
- Producer
- Mike Stephens
Television sitcom centred around the genteel village life of Stackton Tressel. In this episode Dame Hilda Bracket takes a leading role in the village annual open-air production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream...
Shakespeare (1983 Television)
- Series
- 3-2-1
- Director
- Terry Henebery
Television quiz shot hosted by Ted Rogers. This episode, transmitted on Shakespeare’s birthday, is devoted to questions about the man and his work. Questions set by Deborah Sutherland.
Foretelling (1485), The (1983 Television)
- Series
- Blackadder, The
- Director
- Martin Shardlow
- Producer
- John Lloyd
Sitcom. Comedy series set in the Middle Ages featuring the exploits of self-serving Blackadder (Atkinson). Reversing history’s perceptions Richard is a kindly monarch and Henry Tudor a self-serving...
Romeo and Juliet (1983 Television)
- Series
- Diff’Rent Strokes
- Director
- Dolores Ferraro
US television sitcom starring Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two orphaned children from Harlem who are taken in by rich Park Avenue businessman Phillip Drummond (Conrad Bain) and...
Adventures of Shake and Bake, The (1983 Television)
aka: Pre-Teen World Telethon
- Series
- Sctv
- Director
- Jim Drake
Sketch from the Canadian comedy series SCTV that parodies the theory that Sir Francis Bacon actually wrote Shakespeare’s plays. It stars Dave Thomas as Shakespeare and Rick Moranis as Bacon in four...
Cambridge Footlights Revue, The (1982 Television)
- Series
- Shakespeare in Perspective
- Director
- John Kilby
- Producer
- Dennis Main Wilson
`The Cellar Tapes’ revue. Includes a sketch (7 mins), written and acted, by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, which parodies a Shakespeare masterclass. The speech being worked on is from Troilus and Cressida,...
Bottom of the Class (1982 Television)
- Series
- Sorry!
- Director
- David Askey
- Producer
- David Askey
Sitcom centred around Timothy Lumsden, a depressed 41-year-old who still lives at home with, and is dominated by, his mother. In this episode Timothy is promoted from prompter to Bottom in the the local...
Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The (1982 Film)
- Series
- Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The
US late-night talk/variety show. In this episode (3 minute sketch) Carson, dressed in Renaissance garb, imagines Shakespeare as written for television and plays Hamlet, reciting, "To be or not to be" and...
Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show, The (1980 Television)
- Producer
- John Ammonds
Variety show. A conceit of the show was Wise’s confident presentation of amateurishly inept plays which often parodied historical television plays or films. Wise’s character would write a play, complete...