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Lyrics by Shakespeare (1964 Television)
- Director
- Robert Fleming
Television programme. Broadcast as part of the television programmes marking the fourth centenary of Shakespeare’s birth. Cleo Laine and John Dankworth perform Shakespeare’s songs. Narrated by Tony...
Lead Man Cometh, The (1964 Television)
- Series
- Steptoe and son
- Producer
- Duncan Wood
Classic British sitcom centred around two rag and bone men. Albert and Harold are reflecting on the possibility of a joint suicide to end their financial problems. Harold quotes from Hamlet ‘to die- to...
Dick Emery Show, The [04/12/1964] (1964 Television)
- Series
- Dick Emery Show, The
- Producer
- David Croft
Television comedy sketch show. Includes a two-minute sketch, written in Shakespearean English, which satirises the BBC television soap opera COMPACT about magazine publishers.
Man of the Year (1964 Television)
- Producer
- Peter Potter
Television revue programme made as part of Shakespeare’s quatercentenary celebrations. The programme is billed in TV Times as ‘displaying the uses and misuses - the mutations and permutations - of his...
Around the Beatles (1964 Television)
- Series
- Around the Beatles
- Director
- Rita Gillespie
- Producer
- Jack Good
Television special featuring The Beatles. At the beginning of the show the group performs a parody of the Pyramus and Thisbe scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a 1960’s version of the Globe Theatre...
Lift Up Your Hearts (1964 Radio)
aka: 1: A King’s Prayer 2: Christianity and Man 3: Tragic Revelation 4: Beyond Tragedy 5: Shakespeare’s England
- Series
- Lift Up Your Hearts
G. Wilson Knight gives the ‘Lift Up Your Hearts’ talks for the anniversary week. The five episodes focus on different aspects of Shakespeare and his faith.
Woman’s Hour [23/04/1964] (1964 Radio)
aka: Shakespeare Quiz, A
- Series
- Woman’s Hour
Radio broadcast. In this instalment of the magazine programme Alan Dent challenges Diana Graves, Irene Thomas and Jonathan Cecil in a Shakespeare quiz.
Danny Kaye Show, The [7/10/1964] (1964 Television)
- Series
- Danny Kaye Show, The
- Director
- Robert Scheerer
US variety show. This episode parodies Romeo and Juliet featuring feuding Romany families - the Shishkebabs and Baklavas. The piece is performed by the ‘Kinderspiel Light Opera’.
Danny Kaye Show , The [02/10/1963] (1963 Television)
- Series
- Danny Kaye Show, The
- Director
- Robert Scheerer
- Producer
- Perry Lafferty
US variety show. An item features Kaye and Jose Ferrer in a musical revue entitled ‘To be or not to be’ that might have resulted had Shakespeare written Hamlet for television. Ferrer is Hamlet and Kaye...
Danny Kaye Show, The [6/11/1963] (1963 Television)
- Series
- Danny Kaye Show, The
- Director
- Robert Scheerer
US variety show. In this episode Danny Kaye and Joanie Sommers perform a song about Romeo and Juliet as contemporary teenagers. The extract is 2 mins 45 secs.