Cabaret (British TV series)

Cabaret was a live television variety programme series broadcast by BBC Television 1936–39 and 1946.^{[Note 1]} It was devised by Dallas Bower, and later developed by Harry Pringle, who also produced 68 episodes. BBC Television began regularly scheduled broadcasts on 2 November 1936; the first episode of Cabaret was shown on 7 November 1936,^[1] and this television series was therefore one of the first ever.

No episodes have survived.^{[Note 2]}

Cabaret yielded six spin-off series, among the very earliest of that kind: Cabaret Cartoons (1936–39, 1949), Cabaret Cruise (1937–39, 1946, 1949), Comedy Cabaret (1938–39), Eastern Cabaret (1938–39), Intimate Cabaret (1937–39) and Western Cabaret (1939). In August 1939, Pringle was planning another spin-off, a Hawaiian cabaret to have been broadcast in October 1939;^[2] but that project seems to have been abandoned with the outbreak of World War II.

Performers

Around 280 performing acts appeared in Cabaret over the five years in which it was broadcast. The following appeared five or more times, or as of February 2016 are the subjects of Wikipedia articles. Their numbers of appearances are given in parentheses.^{[1][Note 3]}

Producers

The names of the producers associated with Cabaret are followed by the years in which they were involved. The numbers of episodes in which they were involved are given in parentheses.^{[1][Note 3]}

See also

• Cabaret Cartoons
• Cabaret Cruise
• Comedy Cabaret
• Intimate Cabaret
• Eastern Cabaret
• Western Cabaret

Notes

References

External links

• Cabaret on IMDb
• "Search for Cabaret". BBC. Retrieved 23 February 2016. A search report with many false positives