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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...
Shakespeare Without Tears (1959 Television)
- Series
- Frankie Howerd in...
- Director
- Eric Miller
BBC television comedy series. Billed as ‘an episode in the life of a laughing stock of television’. Howerd plays an out-of-work, frustrated, small part actor, desperate to secure a Shakespearean role....
Festival of Two Worlds from Spoleto, Italy (1959 Television)
- Series
- Ed Sullivan Show
- Producer
- Marlo Lewis; Ed Sullivan; Gian-Carlo Menotti
Us television variety show hosted by Ed Sullivan. This special broadcast covering the annual Festival of Two Worlds from Spoleto includes John Gielgud speaking a soliloquy from Richard II and Nora Kaye and...
Knighthood, The (1959 Television)
- Series
- Hancock’s Half Hour
- Producer
- Duncan Wood
British sitcom. In this episode Hancock craves a theatrical knighthood via a role at the Old Vic, so becoming the first Duke of Cheam. His ambition culminates in him reciting Hamlet’s ‘to be, or not to...
Pontiac Star Parade (1959 Television)
aka: Victor Borge’s Copenhagen
- Director
- John Goetz
Variety show. Includes a ten-minute item in which Danish/American entertainer and comedian Victor Borge visits Elsinore castle inspiring a comedy version of Hamlet.
Steve Allen Show, The [22/2/1959] (1959 Television)
- Series
- Steve Allen Show, The
- Director
- Dwight A. Hemion
US comedy variety show hosted by Steve Allen. This episode includes a comedy monologue (9 mins) from Andy Griffith relating the plot and characters of Romeo and Juliet.
I’Ve Got a Secret [19/06/1957] (1957 Television)
- Series
- I’Ve Got a Secret
- Producer
- Allan Sherman
US television panel/quiz show hosted by Gary Moore. Each of the four panellists sat together on one side of a plain set and took a 30-second turn questioning and then guessing a contestant’s secret. The...
Music Box, The (1957 Television)
- Director
- Douglas Hurn
Television musical variety show. The second half of the programme is wholly devoted to a performance of the Pyramus and Thisbe scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (V.i) performed by the Crazy Gang. Sets...
Chelsea at Nine [10/12/57] (1957 Television)
- Series
- Chelsea at Nine
Weekly international cabaret from a London theatre presented by Bernard Braden. In TV Times this episode announced among its items ‘Donald Wolfit and Leidman Brown in an exciting scene from Julius...
Steve Allen Show, The [09/06/1957] (1957 Television)
- Series
- Steve Allen Show, The
- Director
- Dwight A. Hemion
US comedy variety show hosted by Steve Allen. In an eight minute excerpt Orson Welles outlines the plot of Othello with the aid of several sketches (drawings) of key scenes. He then proceeds to apply make-up...