Draft:Musical Playhouse

  • Comment: Doesn't meet WP:NFILM. The newspaper archive showed nothing reasonable to identify the show before justifying the notability. However, if we have this show on database, e.t.c., there is likely an option to accept, and WP:BLAR to a good list. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 02:18, 23 October 2024 (UTC)


Musical Playhouse
GenreDrama, Musical
Starring
ComposerIvor Novello
Country of originEngland
No. of series1
No. of episodes5 (3 missing)
Production
ProducersGraeme Muir, Francis Essex, Dennis Main Wilson
Production locationEngland
EditorPam Bosworth
Running time75 minutes
Production companyBBC
Original release
NetworkBBC Television
Release11 February 1959 (1959-02-11) –
20 March 1960 (1960-03-20)

Musical Playhouse is a 1959–1960 TV Series that featured television stories as musicals or musical plays. The show was produced by the BBC and aired on BBC Television from 11 February 1959 - 20 March 1960.[1][2]

Plot

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The television series features original musicals and musical plays based of a book or a play with each episode of the series being different form each other.

Production

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The 5 episodes produced for the series were ether based of a book or a play. The episodes were written by Charlie Chester, Maurice Harrison, Eric Maschwitz, Sidney Nelson, Ivor Novello, Armin Robinson, Arthur Schnitzler and Alfred Shaughnessy.

Episodes

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Due to the BBC having no proper archiving policy until 1978 3 episodes of the series are now believed to be lost and only 2 of them have survived. The only things that have survived from the 3 missing episodes are the plots of them and a few posters from the 3 missing episodes.[3]

# Title Original airdate
1"The Dancing Years"
2"A Sparrow in Fleet Street"
3"Carissima"
4"Perchance to Dream"
5"Parasol"

References

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  1. ^ "Musical Playhouse (1959-1960)" – via British Newspaper Archive.
  2. ^ "Birmingham Evening Mail 11 February 1959". britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk.
  3. ^ "Musical Playhouse (1959-1960)". tvbrain.info.
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