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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.[1]

Plot

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The television series features original musicals and musical plays based of a book or a play.

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.[2]

# 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. ^ "Musical Playhouse (1959-1960)". tvbrain.info.
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