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Radio comedy series written by and starring Fred Allen. Maurice Evans and Allen joke about the misfit between lowbrow radio and highbrow culture (Shakespeare). Evans performs an extract from the ghost scene...
Radio commercial for Specsavers, the biggest optical retailer in the UK. The three witches, reciting lines from the witches spell in Macbeth IV i ("Double, double toil and trouble") inform the approaching...
Musical radio show. A spin-off series derived from Your Hit Parade and devoted to all-time favourites and standards mixed with some current hits. In what at first appears to be a dramatic scene from the...
A series of television, radio and cinema advertisements for Benson and Hedges Hamlet cigars. The campaign was created in 1960 by the Collett Dickenson Pearce agency and launched in the UK in 1964 running...
A sixty second radio commercial about the New York Shakespeare Festival Marathon performed by Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara.
Television, radio and online campaign for the BBC to launch its Shakespeare Unlocked season in April/May 2012. The brief was "to bring the works of Shakespeare to a wider audience and celebrate how one man...
US television advertisement for ‘post toasties’ . ‘The Thinker’ [the Rodin sculture], Shakespeare, and Napoleon all break stereotypical poses and reveal Toasties as "the serious breakfast food".
An obscure, early, and short-lived US sitcom set in a Hollywood boarding house, home to an assortment of theatricals. In episode 6, Shakespeare (Pucci) is writing a 20 second radio commercial that is due to...
Radio programme. A celebration of LOVE THY NEIGHBOR (1940) which includes some of the film’s stars - Jack Benny, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson and Fred Allen. Announcer Ken Carpenter and Benny ask...
TV-Movie inspired by Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. In this version Hailey (Shakespeare’s Hero), the daughter of the wealthy Leona (Leonato), falls for Claud (Claudio), an advertising executive....
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