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  • 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.

  • Up to Date (1962 Television)

    Director
    J. Murray Ashford

    Television programme. Sheila Southern sings songs from Shakespeare. No further information known.

  • Ed Sullivan Show, The [16/12/1962] (1962 Television)

    Series
    Ed Sullivan Show, The
    Producer
    Ed Sullivan

    US variety show hosted by Ed Sullivan. Includes a brief routine from comedian Sammy Shore who imitates Elvis Presley acting Shakespeare. [Sadly, no further information known (5/2007)].

  • Bowmans, The (1961 Television)

    Series
    Hancock
    Producer
    Duncan Wood

    Sitcom starring Tony Hancock. Hancock, playing Old Joshua Merryweather, is very unpopular with the cast and is unceremoniously sacked from the radio serial ‘The Bowmans’ (a spoof of ‘The Archers’)....

  • Beyond the Fringe: So That’s the Way You Like It (1961 Video)

    A sketch from the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe, written and performed by Alan Bennett, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller, and first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1960. The sketch...

  • Jack Benny Program, The [07/02/1960] (1960 Television)

    Series
    Jack Benny Program

    US television variety show/sitcom. The episode is sponsored by Lux Liquid and Lux Soap. Don Wilson does the ‘half-time’ commercial as a Shakespearean soliloquy.

  • Command Performer, The (1960 Television)

    Series
    Arthur’s Treasured Volumes
    Producer
    Bill Ward

    Sitcom. Each programme in the series took the form of a comedy dramatisation of a book which Anthea Askey would pull down from a shelf apparently at random. Each week the cast changed except Arthur Mullard...

  • Talent Scouts (1960 Television)

    Series
    Ford Startime
    Director
    Grey Lockwood
    Producer
    Hubbell Robinson

    Series sponsored by the Ford Motor Company episodes alternating between variety, music and drama. In this episode hosted by Dave Garroway and showcasing ‘tomorrow’s entertainment stars’, the...

  • Eternity of Kings, An (1960 Television)

    Series
    Parade

    Television showbusiness magazine series. The sketch ‘An Eternity of Kings’ formed part of the programme and was a spoof on the BBC series An Age of Kings.

  • Dobie Gillis - Boy Actor (1959 Television)

    Series
    Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The
    Director
    Ralph Francis

    American sitcom about life and love seen through the eyes of a daydreaming American teenager. In this episode Dobie and Milton audition to be the leading man in a school play. Dobie loses the audition when...