Cabaret (British TV programme)
One of the earliest BBC television variety series.
Cabaret was a live television variety programme series broadcast by BBC Television from 1936 to 1939 and again in 1946. Devised by Dallas Bower and later developed by Harry Pringle, who produced 68 episodes, it was among the first television series ever, premiering on 7 November 1936, just days after the BBC began regular scheduled broadcasts. No episodes of the series have survived.
Quick Facts
- Genre
- Variety show
- Creator
- Dallas Bower
- Country
- England
- Language
- English
- Episodes
- 132
- Producer
- Harry Pringle and others
- Company
- BBC Television
- First aired
- 7 November 1936
Facts from the source article.
Performers
Around 280 performing acts appeared in Cabaret over the five years it was broadcast. The following individuals or groups appeared five or more times, or are subjects of Wikipedia articles as of February 2016, with their number of appearances in parentheses: BBC Television Orchestra (11), Eric Cardi, conjuror (10), Hyam Greenbaum, orchestral conductor (9), Charles Harrison, comedian (9), Edward Cooper, singer-pianist (7), Flotsam and Jetsam, Anglo-Australian musical comedy duo (6), Charles Heslop, British compere/actor (6), Horace Kenney, comedian (6), Steven Geray, Hungarian-born film actor (5), Ken Harvey, banjoist (5), Magda Kun, Hungarian-born actress (5), Gaston Palmer, comedy juggler (5).
Other performers with fewer appearances included Avril Angers, Arthur Askey, Teddy Brown, Una Mae Carlisle, Jane Carr, Jean Colin, Evelyn Dall, The Knife-Throwing Denvers, Richard Dolman, Fred Duprez, Cyril Fletcher, Ronald Frankau, Peter Godfrey, Walter Gore, Adelaide Hall, Richard Haydn, Richard Hearne, Leslie Henson, Charlie Higgins, Hildegarde, Valerie Hobson, Stanley Holloway, Renée Houston, Nelson Keys, Nosmo King (and Hubert), Ann Lenner, Queenie Leonard, Eve Lister, Sara Luzita, Arthur Marshall, Lu Ann Meredith, Billy Milton, Lily Morris, Richard Murdoch, Talbot O'Farrell, Paddie O'Neil, and Jack Payne and His Orchestra.
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