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- Mary Contrary is set to marry Tom Piper when he is kidnapped by Roderigo and Gonzorgo, two goons working for the evil Barnaby who wants to marry Mary for her inheritance.
- Fifteen years after his death, a carousel barker is granted permission to return to Earth for one day to make amends to his widow and their daughter.
- The funny story of mad but kind and chivalrous elderly nobleman Don Quixote who, aided by his squire Sancho Panza, fights windmills that are seen as dragons to save prostitute Dulcinea who is seen as a noblewoman.
- An Englishman on a Ruritarian holiday must impersonate the king when the rightful monarch, a distant cousin, is drugged and kidnapped.
- The daughter of a riverboat captain falls in love with a charming gambler, but their fairy tale romance is threatened after his luck turns sour.
- The legend of Santa Claus is placed into jeopardy when an unscrupulous toy manufacturer attempts to take over Christmas.
- An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by German agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.
- Nightclub singer and her brother-in-law try to find her husband's killer.
- During the Napoleonic era, in Spain, a young postulant called Teresa falls in love with handsome British captain Michael Stuart, who is recovering with others of his regiment after being wounded. Before leaving, Michael asks Teresa to leave the convent and marry him. Devoted to the statue of the Virgin Mary, Teresa asks for a heavenly sign, but leaves when nothing happens. Then the statue of the Virgin descends from its pedestal and takes Teresa's place, as the young woman joins a gypsy caravan believing Michael has been killed.
- Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public figure," a rascal who's a carousel barker, loved by the experienced merry-go-round owner and by a young, innocent maid. The maid, Julie, loses her job after going out with Liliom; he's fired by his jealous employer for going out with Julie. The two lovers move in with Julie's aunt; unemployment emasculates him and a local weasel tempts him with crime. Julie, now wan, is true to Liliom even in his bad temper. Meanwhile, a stolid widower, a carpenter, wants to marry Julie. Is there any future on this earth for Julie and Liliom, whose love is passionate rather than ideal?
- A press agent brings a dead actress home for burial. To promote her one film, he asks churches to ring bells for 3 days, hoping to get the studio head to release it.
- Wilderness girl Rose Marie has adventures in life and love when Mountie Mike Malone takes her out of the wild.
- A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried sister, who takes care of him. As he writes more and more to her, he begins to fall in love, and she, knowing that it is her brother who is writing, discovers a new, tender side to him. But trouble looms when he asks to meet her in person.
- A history of the English language from its early beginnings to present day English in all its variations.
- In Spain, in the sixteenth century, an elderly gentleman named Don Quixote has gone mad from reading too many books on chivalry. Proclaiming himself a knight, he sets out with his squire, Sancho Panza, to reform the world and revive the age of chivalry, choosing a slut to be his noble lady Dulcinea. He mistakes inns for castles, a play about chivalry for the real thing, flocks of sheep for armies, convicts for wronged prisoners, and windmills for giants. While he and Sancho are off on their adventures, his niece, her fiancee, and the local priest think up a strategy to get him back home.
- The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. His hanging will be postponed for 24 hours, and in that time he must defeat the invading Burgundians and win the love of the beautiful Katherine.
- A mostly silent version of Edna Ferber's original novel, with some songs from the musical as a last-minute addition
- Conflict ensues when a young man's childhood sweetheart becomes betrothed to his older brother.
- A domineering, reclusive and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.
- The French version of G.W.Pabst's monumental three-language (English, French and German - separate versions each) filming of Cervantes' classic novel. The German version seems to be lost, but it is spoken of in three books, "The Film Till Now", and two of Pauline Kael's books of movie criticism.
- A human, played by Art Carney, makes friends with a forest full of talking animals (played by the Bil Baird Marionettes). Together, they must decide what to do about the troublemaking wolf. This leads to a marionette presentation of Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf".
- Macbeth (Maurice Evans), the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his King and takes the throne for himself.
- This is a documentary on the career of the great maestro (perhaps intended as a rebuttal to the controversial book "Understanding Toscanini", which was being written at the same time that the documentary first aired. PBS aired it in 1988, a year after the book hit the stores.). The documentary features clips from several of Toscanini's television appearances, as well as from his only film appearance in 1943. It also includes rare color home movie footage of not only Toscanini, but Salzburg in the 1930's during the Salzburg festival, as well as interviews with some of the surviving musicians, singers, and recording technicians who worked with him.
- Author-designer Mikhail Shemiakin's sinister re-imagining of Tchaikovsky's beloved Christmas ballet.
- A documentary detailing the writing and premiere production of the famous Kern-Hammerstein musical, as well as the recording of the landmark 1988 EMI 3-CD "authentic" version, the first album using all the 1927 orchestrations and vocal arrangements.
- The ghost of Charles Dickens (Sir Michael Redgrave) materializes in twentieth century London and escorts actress Juliet Mills on a tour of some of the locales important to Dickens, both in his own life and his novels. Included is Redgrave's bravura dramatic re-creation of a public reading by Dickens as he must have done it during his own lifetime.
- Actor Patrick Macnee presents and comments a TV screening of the colorized version of the movie A Christmas Carol (1951)
- A domineering, reclusive and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.
- A quickly organized live tribute to President Kennedy, honoring his interest and encouragement of the arts, and featuring an impressive list of actors in dramatic readings as well as performances by classical artists.
- In a ninety minute interview with excerpts from rehearsals and concerts, Leonard Bernstein reminisces about the beginning of his career as a conductor and his experiences with the New York Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic, and the Vienna Philharmonic.
- Gordon sings "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning", "If I Loved You", "Surrey with the Fringe on Top" and "Oklahoma". Barbara sings "The Look of Love", "Sunny" and "At the Crossroads". Gordon, Barbara and Rich sing, "Everybody's In Show Business" and "Here's to Everybody in Love".
- A star-studded salute to the great lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960). Higlights: Dinah Shore performs, "A Cockeyed Optimist"; Helen Hayes recites the lyrics to "All the Things You Are"; Miyoshi Umeki sings "I Am Going to Like it Here"; Leslie Uggams sings "Why Do I Love You?"; Burt Lancaster performs "Carefully Taught"; John Raitt sings "If I Loved You". Johnny Mercer, Janet Blair, John Raitt and Leslie Uggams do a medley with including "I Whistle a Happy Tune", "The Folks Who Live on the Hill", "Shall We Dance?", "I Won't Dance", "Stouthearted Men", "Getting to Know You" and "Do Re Mi". Celeste Holm sings, "I Can't Say No"' Harve Presnell sings "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top". Jean Fenn and Harve Presnell perform "The Desert Song", "Rose Marie" and "Wanting You". Janet Blair sings "It Might As Well Be Spring". Desi Arnaz Jr., Milton Berle, Larry Hagman, Yaphet Kotto, Ryan O'Neal, Robert Stack and Ray Walston join in for "There is Nothin' like a Dame". Ricardo Montalban performs "A Puzzlement". And John Raitt and Jean Fenn end the program, she with "Climb Every Mountain", and he with the last verse of "Ol' Man River".
- 1978–19852h 31mTV-147.1 (356)TV EpisodeAfter the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.
- The story of a disabled beggar in Charleston, S.C. who falls in love with a prostitute, this is the first filmed version of Gershwin's opera which uses Gershwin's own orchestrations and practically all of the music, with only one major cut.
- The original TV play which evolved into the hit musical, "Man of La Mancha".
- A documentary detailing the history of Gershwin's opera and DuBose Heyward's original novel "Porgy", and the impact it has had on its casts and audiences as well as U.S. black culture in general, with rare archival footage of the 1952 world tour, and clips from the 1993 television production.
- In Spain, in the sixteenth century, an elderly gentleman named Don Quixote has gone mad from reading too many books on chivalry. Proclaiming himself a knight, he sets out with his squire, Sancho Panza, to reform the world and revive the age of chivalry, choosing a slut to be his noble lady Dulcinea. He mistakes inns for castles, a play about chivalry for the real thing, flocks of sheep for armies, convicts for wronged prisoners, and windmills for giants. While he and Sancho are off on their adventures, his niece, her fiancée, and the local priest think up a strategy to get him back home.
- In this classic eighteenth-century satire, Mr. Puff, a foppish, would-be playwright-critic, invites his literary-minded associates to see a production of his horrendous and nonsensical spectacular, "The Spanish Armada", confident that he has written a great play.
- A domineering, reclusive and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.
- Mr. Wilson comes back from vacation with a changed attitude, more free spirited and cheerful. However, that all changes when Dennis and Tommy camp out in the back yard because a friend of Henry and Alice have a record with wild animal sounds on it such as lions and have speakers in the patio turned up so Dennis and Tommy can pretend they are out in the jungle. Mr. Wilson hears the sounds of the animal roars and thinks that the wild animals are after the boys so he runs outside without his glasses on and carries his sword.
- Host George Murphy introduces segments from two MGM productions, the feature length movie Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and the short film The Greatest Gift (1942). He then presents a few common pet peeves, dramatized by an unfortunate man, who must wait to use the only pay telephone booth around which is occupied by a very talkative woman; as a shopkeeper, who is waiting on a customer who doesn't seem to want to spend any money but causes calamity in the store; who slips on a loose rug at the top of a flight of stairs; who battles a stuck ice cube tray in a freezer; and who needs to find the burnt out bulb on a string of Christmas tree lights. Murphy then meets with actor/singer Howard Keel, who is to appear in the upcoming MGM musical Kismet (1955).
- 2007–201022mTV-148.0 (179)TV EpisodeSarah takes a free HIV test, but the questionnaire convinces her, she's got AIDS before seeing the blood test result. She goes overboard as activist promoting herself. Jay's having his first birthday party ever.
- A domineering, reclusive and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.
- A domineering, reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensue among the other daughters.