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  • Evening with Hamlet, An (1954 Television)

    Series
    Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
    Director
    Ozzie Nelson
    Producer
    Ozzie Nelson

    Television sitcom. Ozzie decides to read Hamlet aloud to the family because David is studying the play at school. Before the reading begins a mysterious stranger, Whitfield, appears. With his help, the...

  • Take It from Here [11/02/1951] (1954 Radio)

    aka: Hamlet Pantomime

    Series
    Take It from Here
    Producer
    Charles Maxwell

    BBC radio comedy series. In a sketch within this episode June Whitfield (Hamlet), Jimmy Edwards (Gertrude) and Alma Cogan (Ophelia) stage Hamlet as a pantomime. Sections of the dialogue run thus: June: Now,...

  • George Jessel Show, The [20/09/1953] (1953 Television)

    Series
    George Jessel Show, The
    Director
    Edward Nugent
    Producer
    Mannie Mannheim

    US television variety show. Includes a scene in which Eddie Fisher and Margaret O’Brien perform the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet.

  • One Man’s Experience (1953 Television)

    Director
    Lawrence Menkin
    Producer
    Lawrence Menkin

    Soap opera. Shakespeare is put to work writing soap opera. Jack Manning, in modern dress and using few props, pretends to be Hamlet’s ghost come back to earth to tell about the dark doings at Elsinore. He...

  • Mister Peepers [08/03/1953] (1953 Television)

    Series
    Mister Peepers
    Director
    Hal Keith
    Producer
    Fred Coe

    American television sitcom featuring Wally Cox (Mr Robinson Peepers) as a junior high school science teacher at Jefferson High School, in the small Midwestern town of Jefferson. Mr Peepers is a shy,...

  • Mister Peepers [16/11/1952] (1953 Television)

    Series
    Mister Peepers
    Director
    Hal Keith
    Producer
    Fred Coe

    American television sitcom featuring Wally Cox (Mr Robinson Peepers) as a junior high school science teacher at Jefferson High School, in the small Midwestern town of Jefferson. Mr Peepers is a shy,...

  • Mister Peepers [07/12/1952] (1953 Television)

    aka: Teenage Crush

    Series
    Mister Peepers
    Director
    Hal Keith
    Producer
    Fred Coe

    American television sitcom featuring Wally Cox (Mr Robinson Peepers) as a junior high school science teacher at Jefferson High School, in the small Midwestern town of Jefferson. Mr Peepers is a shy,...

  • Shakespeare (1951 Television)

    Series
    Stud’s Place
    Director
    Bill Locke (2)
    Producer
    Charlie Andrews

    US sitcom chronicling daily life in a small Chicago diner, starring Studs Terkel in the role of the proprietor and Beverly Younger as the waitress, Grace. In this episode a famous actor is supposed to visit...

  • Shakespeare on the Radio (1951 Radio)

    Series
    Magnificent Montague, The
    Director
    Nat Hiken
    Producer
    Nat Hiken

    Radio sitcom. Edwin Montague plays Monty Woolley, an accomplished Shakespearean actor who, unappreciated and unemployed, accepts a role in a sentimental daytime radio serial. In this episode, Monty’s...

  • Life with Buster Keaton, The (1951 Television)

    aka: Buster Keaton Show, The Shakespeare Story, The

    Series
    Life with Buster Keaton, The
    Director
    Edward F. Cline; Arthur Hilton
    Producer
    Clyde Bruckman; Jay Sommers

    Television series about the misadventures of Buster Keaton. Includes a scene in which Keaton attempts to perform the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet and the set falls on him. Eleanor Keaton, Keaton’s...