Word: pbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Musical Comedy Tonight, Oct. 1, PBS, 8p.m...
...numbers are exceptionally well done. Rather than restage them for television-a deflating technique endemic to PBS's Theater in America series-Kaye shoots them on a proscenium stage, usually with the help of the original set designs, orchestrations and choreography...
...that bearded guy with the boyish grin and the funny accent on the TV commercial for American Express cards. Millions have seen Pavarotti's live performances on public television: the 1978 solo recital from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, for instance, or this week's La Gioconda, winch PBS transmitted from San Francisco across the U.S. and by satellite to Britain and Europe...
Love for Lydia (Sept. 23, PBS). Fluff up the cushions and settle back into the easy chair. It is time for another British soap opera from Masterpiece Theater. Appropriately, this sad tale of the dangers of love, taken from a novel by the late H.E. Bates, begins its run on the first day of autumn and continues through the sea son, ending Dec. 9. Lydia Aspen (Mel Martin) is a beautiful young heiress who comes to Aspen House on the death of her father in 1929. Three middle-class youths from the town, a factory center in the Midlands, fall...
...even greater pity is that American viewers will not be seeing the full BBC version of the play. In Britain, plays are allowed to run at odd lengths, as content dictates. On PBS, which has mimicked the rigid schedules of the commercial networks, content must conform to the clock. As a result, twelve minutes were chopped from the BBC's version of Kean. Most of the loss has been in those offhand moments that give the play texture, but a couple of key scenes have also been dropped, making the first hour unnecessarily difficult. Joan Sullivan, producer of "Masterpiece...