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  1. The Heart’s a Wonder [scenes] (BBC, 1958)

    The Heart’s a Wonder by Nuala O’Farrell and Mairin O’Farrell
    BBC Television
    Director
    Denis Carey

    1958 BBC presentation of scenes from The Heart’s a Wonder, a musical adaptation by Nuala O’Farrell and Mairin O’Farrell of J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World, televised directly from the...

  2. Meet Me by Moonlight [excerpts] (BBC, 1957)

    Meet Me by Moonlight by Anthony Lesser
    BBC Television (Theatre Night)
    Director
    Terence Dudley

    1957 BBC production of excerpts from Anthony Lesser’s comedy Meet Me by Moonlight, given in a special performance at the Aldwych Theatre, London.

  3. King’s Rhapsody (BBC, 1957)

    King’s Rhapsody by Ivor Novello
    BBC Television
    Producer
    Douglas Moodie

    The producer of this BBC Television production of Ivor Novello’s musical King’s Rhapsody ‘ingeniously cut the three and a quarter hours of the original action to an hour and a half’ (Radio Times, 12...

  4. Zuleika [extract] (BBC, 1957)

    Zuleika by James Ferman (1930-2002)
    BBC Television (Theatre Night)
    Directors
    Eleanor Fazan; Peter Powell

    BBC production of a 45-minute extract from Zuleika, a new musical comedy drawing on Max Beerbohm’s novel Zuleika Dobson, presented in a special performance from the Saville Theatre, London.

  5. Fanny [excerpt] (BBC, 1956)

    Fanny by S. N. [Samuel Nathaniel] Behrman (1893-1973) and Joshua Logan
    BBC Television
    Director
    William Hammerstein

    This BBC presentation of a 45-minute excerpt from the new musical play Fanny was transmitted from a special performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, just a week after opening night.

  6. Bless the Bride (BBC, 1956)

    Bless the Bride by A. P. Herbert
    BBC Television
    Producer
    Francis Essex

    This BBC Television production of A. P. Herbert’s musical Bless the Bride, with music by Vivian Ellis, was considered to be ‘one of [the BBC’s] most ambitious programmes to date’, with four large...

  7. A Girl Called Jo (BBC, 1956)

    A Girl Called Jo by Peter Myers and Alec Grahame and David Climie
    BBC Television
    Director
    Denis Carey

    1956 BBC Television presentation of a 45-minute excerpt from the musical A Girl Called Jo (adapted from Louisa M. Alcott’s novels Little Women and Good Wives), transmitted from a special performance before...

  8. The Water Gypsies [excerpt] (BBC, 1955)

    The Water Gypsies by A. P. Herbert
    BBC Television
    Director
    Charles Hickman

    BBC Television production of a 45-minute excerpt from the first part of The Water Gypsies, described by the Radio Times as a ‘play with music’, in a special performance before an invited audience...

  9. Romance in Candlelight [excerpt] (BBC, 1955)

    Romance in Candlelight by Eric Maschwitz and Siegfried Geyer (1883-1945)
    Director
    Richard Bird

    A BBC transmission of an excerpt from the new musical play Romance in Candlelight, transmitted from a special performance before an invited audience from the Piccadilly Theatre, London.

  10. Twenty Minutes South [excerpt] (BBC, 1955)

    Twenty Minutes South by Maurice Browning
    BBC Television
    Producer
    Hattie Jacques

    1955 BBC presentation of an excerpt from the Players Theatre, London production of the musical comedy Twenty Minutes South by Maurice Browning. A special performance before an invited audience from the St...

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