Happy and Glorious(TV series)
Happy and Gloriouswas a 1952 British television series which aired on the BBC. It starredRenée AshersonasQueen VictoriaandMichael AldridgeasPrince Albert.The series aired live, and the transmissions were not recorded.[1]The oldest surviving examples of British television drama come from 1953, consisting of two episodes ofThe Quatermass Experimentand two or three episodes ofSunday-Night Theatre,recording using the then-experimentaltelerecordingprocess. Half the scripts were byLaurence Housman,drawn from his 1934 playVictoria Regina,also adapted for BBC Radio in 1981 under the titleHappy and Glorious.[2]
References
[edit]- ^"Lost UK TV Shows Search Engine".Archived fromthe originalon 29 November 2014.Retrieved16 November2014.
- ^"Laurence Housman - Happy and Glorious - BBC Sounds".Archived fromthe originalon 31 August 2019.Retrieved31 August2019.
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- 1950s British television miniseries
- 1950s British drama television series
- 1952 British television series debuts
- 1952 British television series endings
- Lost BBC episodes
- Black-and-white British television shows
- Television series set in the 19th century
- BBC television dramas
- Cultural depictions of Queen Victoria on television
- Cultural depictions of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
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