Potter’s Picture Palace (BBC-1 1976-1978 with Eden Phillips and Melvyn Hayes)
UK / BBC One / 13×25 minute episodes / Broadcast 1976 and 1978 Writers: Brian Finch, Phil Redmond, Dick Sharples / Producer: John Buttery…
UK / BBC / 1×45 minute episode / Broadcast 9 December 1949
Play: Oscar Wilde / Music: James Hartley / Producer: Christian Simpson
Ballet based on the play by Oscar Wilde. Broadcast live and as was the norm in those days the whole thing was mounted again a few days later on 14 December.
cast
Celia Franca as Salome
Witaly Osins as Herod
Cynthia Allegro as Herodias
Michael Holmes as The Prophet
Danilo Burniak as The Young Syrian
Nancy Holder as The Page
Rupert John as The Executioner
And The Metropolitan Ballet Company