Cabaret Cartoons

Cabaret Cartoons
Genre Variety
Created by Cecil Madden
Based on Cabaret
Country of origin England
Original language(s) English
No. of episodes 19
Production
Producer(s) Cecil Madden
Running time 20–30 minutes
Production company(s) BBC Television
Release
Original network BBC Television
Original release 7 December 1936 (1936-12-07) – 26 October 1946 (1946-10-26)

Cabaret Cartoons was a live light entertainment series broadcast by BBC Television 1936–39 and 1946.[Note 1] It was a spin-off from the series Cabaret. Its distinctive feature was that English artist Harry Rutherford (1903–85) drew cartoon sketches of the performers during the broadcast.[1] Rutherford did not speak: producer Cecil Madden decreed that his Mancunian accent was inappropriate to be heard on the BBC.[2]

No episodes have survived.[Note 2]

Performers

The following performers appeared in Cabaret Cartoons five or more times, or as of February 2016 are the subjects of Wikipedia articles. Numbers of appearances are given in parentheses.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ BBC Television suspended broadcasting on 1 September 1939 with the outbreak of World War II, and did not resume until June 1946.
  2. ↑ The programme was broadcast live. Technology to record live television was only developed in 1947, and was rarely used by the BBC before 1953–55.

References

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