Television Musicals: Plots, Critiques, Casts and Credits for 222 Shows Written for and Presented on Television, 1944-1996

by Joan Baxter

Overview

In this reference work 222 musicals developed specifically for television are fully detailed, including musical episodes from nonmusical shows, animated specials that appealed to adults as well as children, and operas and related works commissioned for the small screen. Each entry provides air date, network, running time, cast and credits, and a listing of all the songs. A plot synopsis follows, focusing on the show itself and the story from which it was adapted; information on award nominations and awards won, recordings, videos and published music is then provided. Contemporary reviews of the show complete the entry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476641898
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	05/01/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

The late Joan Baxter lived in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
The late Joan Baxter lived in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     
Preface     
Introduction     

THE MUSICALS

The Accused     
Ace Hits the Big Time     
The Adventures of Huck Finn     
The Adventures of Marco Polo     
Aladdin (1958)     
Aladdin (1967)     
Alice in Wonderland or “What’s a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This”     
Alice in Wonderland Part I     
Alice in Wonderland Part II     
Alice Through the Looking Glass     
All About Me     
Amahl and the Night Visitors     
Androcles and the Lion     
Around the World with Nellie Bly     
Art Carney Meets Peter and the Wolf     
Art Carney Meets the Sorcerer’s Apprentice     
Autumn in New York     
Babes in Toyland     
The Bachelor     
The Ballad of Smokey the Bear     
The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas     
Beatrice     
A Bell for Adano     
The Borrowers     
A Bouquet for Millie     
The Box Supper     
The Boys from Boise     
Break of Day     
Burlesque     
Cabeza de Vaca     
The Cage     
The Canterville Ghost     
Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield     
A Charlie Brown Christmas     
A Child Is Born     
A Christmas Carol     
Cinderella (1957)     
Cinderella (1965)     
Cinderella ’53     
Cindy     
Cindy’s Fella     
Come to Me     
Cop Rock     
Copacabana     
The Cricket on the Hearth     
The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood     
The Danny Kaye Show     
The Death Goddess     
The Decorator     
Deseret     
A Diamond for Carla     
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde     
Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas     
Dolcedo     
A Doonesbury Special     
A Drum Is a Woman     
Drummer Man     
The Easter Bunny Is Comin’ to Town     
The Emperor’s New Clothes (1967)     
The Emperor’s New Clothes (1972)     
The Entertainer     
Evening Primrose     
Feathertop     
Fenwick     
The Final Ingredient     
Freedom Is     
Frosty Returns     
Frosty the Snowman     
Galileo Galilei     
Gallantry     
Gift of the Magi (1958)     
Gift of the Magi (1978)     
Gnomes     
Golden Child     
Goldilocks     
La Grande Bretèche     
The Great Man’s Whiskers     
Griffelkin     
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates (1958)     
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates (1969)     
Hansel and Gretel     
The Happiest Day     
Happily Ever After     
Heidi     
Here Comes Peter Cottontail     
The Hero     
He’s for Me     
High Pitch     
High Tor     
Hi-Hat     
The Hobbit     
Holiday     
The Honeymooners     
I’m Getting Married     
In Fashion     
The Incredible, Indelible, Magical, Physical Mystery Trip     
It’s a Brand New World     
It’s Sunny Again     
Jack: A Flash Fantasy     
Jack and the Beanstalk (1956)     
Jack and the Beanstalk (1966)     
Jack and the Beanstalk (1967)     
Jack Frost     
The Juggler     
Junior Miss     
Keep in Step     
The King and Mrs. Candle     
Kingdom Chums: Little David’s Adventure     
Kingdom Chums: The Original Top Ten     
Labyrinth     
The Land of Green Ginger     
The Legend of Robin Hood     
Let Me Go, Lover     
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus     
Li’l Abner     
Li’l Abner in Dogpatch Today     
The Little Drummer Boy     
Little Women     
The Littlest Angel     
Liza Minnelli in Sam Found Out: A Triple Play     
The Lord Don’t Play Favorites     
Madeline     
The Magic Horn     
The Magical Mystery Trip Through Little Red’s Head     
Manhattan Tower     
A Man’s Game     
Maria Golovin     
The Marriage     
Martin’s Lie     
The Mercer Girls     
The Mighty Casey     
Minstrel Man     
Miss Chicken Little     
Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol     
Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree     
Mother Goose     
The Mouse on the Mayflower     
Mrs. Santa Claus     
My Heart’s in the Highlands     
Myshkin     
The New Adventures of Heidi     
The Night the Animals Talked     
The Night They Saved Christmas     
No Man Can Tame Me     
Noah and the Flood     
O’Halloran’s Luck     
Oliver and the Artful Dodger     
Olympus 7-0000     
On the Flip Side     
On the Road to Broadway     
Once Upon a Brothers Grimm     
Once Upon a Christmas Time     
Once Upon a Tune     
Once Upon an Eastertime     
Our Town     
Owen Wingrave     
Paris in the Springtime     
The Parrot     
La Pastorela     
Peter Pan     
The Pied Piper of Hamelin     
Pinocchio (1957)     
Pinocchio (1967)     
Pinocchio (1968)     
Pinocchio (1976)     
Pinocchio’s Christmas     
The Point     
Polly     
Polly—Comin’ Home!     
Queen of the Stardust Ballroom     
Quillow and the Giant     
Rachel, La Cubana     
Really Rosie     
Return of the King     
Return to Oz     
The Road to Lebanon     
The Royal Follies of 1933     
Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July     
Rudolph’s Shiny New Year     
Ruggles of Red Gap     
The Saga of Sonora     
St. George and the Dragon     
Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town     
Sarah     
Satins and Spurs     
The Secret Garden     
Sextuplets     
Sing a Sign     
The Singin’ Idol     
Skinflint     
Snow White Christmas     
So Help Me, Aphrodite     
The Sojourner and Mollie Sinclair     
A Special London Bridge Special     
The Stingiest Man in Town (1956)     
The Stingiest Man in Town (1978)     
The Story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer     
Stover at Yale     
Strawberry Blonde     
Svengali and the Blonde     
The Swing     
Tell Me on a Sunday     
That’s Life     
The Thief and the Hangman     
Think Pretty     
The Thirteen Clocks     
Three for the Girls     
The Tiny Tree     
Tippy Top     
Tom Sawyer     
The Trial at Rouen     
The Trial of Mary Lincoln     
Trouble in Tahiti     
’Twas the Night Before Christmas     
Uncle Sam Magoo     
A Waltz Dream     
What Day Is It?     
Who’s Afraid of Mother Goose?     
Who’s Earnest?     
The Wind in the Willows     
The Year Without a Santa Claus     
Young Man from Boston     

Chronology     
Bibliography     
Song Index     
Name Index     

Editorial Reviews

no comparable book exists…exhaustive…will enrich television and music reference collections”—Reference Reviews; “sensibly arranged…fascinating”—Choice; “will enrich television and musical reference collections more than musicals have enriched TV”—Rettig on Reference; “a thoroughly researched and well written history of an underappreciated genre”—Past Times; “top-notch documentation”—Television Chronicles; “excellent”—Show Music; “as a reference work it succeeds admirably...valuable”—ARBA.

From the Publisher

will enrich television and musical reference collections more than musicals have enriched TV

Rettig on Reference

sensibly arranged...fascinating

Choice

no comparable book exists...exhaustive...will enrich television and music reference collections

Reference Reviews