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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...