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268 results found for all records.

  • Muppet Show, The [07/02/1980] (1980 Television)

    Series
    Muppet Show, The

    Children’s puppet/live-action television series. The guest star is Christopher Reeve who is to play Hamlet with Fozzie, Link and Yorick the Skull when Gonzo sprains his nose and has to pull out. The...

  • Shakespeare on Love. Part 1 (1979 Television)

    Series
    Meeting of Minds
    Director
    Alfred Ryder; Loring d’Usseau
    Producer
    Loring d’Usseau

    US television series. A chat show/variety series, hosted by Steve Allen, taking the form of a dramatised debate in which guests interact with each other and discuss wide-ranging issues - history, religion,...

  • Shakespeare on Love. Part 2 (1979 Television)

    Series
    Meeting of Minds
    Director
    Alfred Ryder; Loring d’Usseau
    Producer
    Loring d’Usseau

    US television series. A chat show/variety series, hosted by Steve Allen, taking the form of a dramatised debate in which guests interact with each other and discuss wide-ranging issues - history, religion,...

  • Rock Concert (1979 Television)

    Series
    Sctv
    Director
    George Bloomfield

    Canadian comedy sketch show. The premise is that SCTV (Second City Television) is the television station for the city of Melonville. Rather than broadcast the usual TV re-run fare, the business, run by the...

  • Wie Wärs mit Shakespeare? (1979 Television, Video)

    aka: Wie Waers mit Shakespeare? Balthasar im Stau und Andere Bewegte Geschichten

    Director
    Rudolf Jugert
    Producer
    Gyula Trebitsch; Karl Jobrig

    Television sketch. Fourth of four 15-minute installments featuring German actor Heinz Rühmann as a taxi driver in different countries. In the Shakespeare episode an American couple intends to visit the...

  • Royal Variety Performance 1979, The (1979 Television)

    Director
    David Millard; Norman Maen

    Variety show from the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen. In one sketch comedian Bernie Clifton recites Hamlet’s ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy astride his...

  • Les Dawson Show, The [21/01/1978] (1978 Television)

    Series
    Les Dawson Show. The
    Director
    Phil Bishop
    Producer
    John Ammonds

    Television comedy sketch and music show. In one 4-minute sketch Lulu as Anne Hathaway and Les Dawson as Shakespeare enact a sketch which concludes with them singing ‘Brush Up Your Shakespeare’ from Kiss...

  • Muppet Show, The [01/01/1978] (1978 Television)

    Series
    Muppet Show, The
    Director
    Peter Harris
    Producer
    Jim Henson

    Children’s puppet/live-action television series. The guest star is Peter Sellers who recites the ‘now is the winter of our discontent’ from Richard III in the manner of Laurence Olivier while...

  • Muppet Show, The [22/01/1978] (1978 Television)

    Series
    Muppet Show, The
    Director
    Philip Casson; Peter Harris
    Producer
    Jim Henson

    This edition includes an episode of Veterinarian Hospital (a parody of a soap opera) enacted by Miss Piggy and others which contains appalling Shakespearean puns and references throughout e.g. NURSE PIGGY:...

  • Crackerjack [6/1/1978] (1978 Television)

    Series
    Crackerjack
    Director
    Alan Bell
    Producer
    Brian Penders

    Children’s television series consisting of comic sketches and repartee, and competitions with prizes, presented by Ed Stewart. Includes a 5-minute sketch in which the cast spoof Hamlet’s ‘to be or not...