Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loudest promises of TV wonders to come were heard from NBC. The network promised more than 75 Spectacular-sized shows, almost twice the number of Spectaculars (39) that it produced during the past season. Among the wonders: a repeat of last season's successful Peter Pan; a two-hour telecast of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, starring Mary Martin and Helen Hayes; a musical version of the Pulitzer Prize play Our Town, starring Frank Sinatra; a series of one-and-a-half-hour Sunday afternoon productions of Shakespeare's plays, starring Maurice Evans...
Savings that the Hoover Commission task forces estimated that their recommendations would effect each year were spectacular. A few: budgeting and accounting, $4 billion, depot utilization, $253,000,000, paperwork management, $288,300,000, use and disposal of federal surplus property (first four years), $2 billion...
...chief idea man, President Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver, with his customary leaning to hyperbole, last month promised that he would wrap up the world and deliver it in a super-spectacular package to U.S. televiewers (TIME, June 13). Last week he delivered. The package was not quite as spectacular as promised, but Wide, Wide World, seen on NBC-TV's Producer's Showcase, was nonetheless a brilliant demonstration of how far and fast TV can travel. It was easily the most rewarding show of the week...
...telecast (some time in January) of the $2,000,000 Shakespearean classic, thereby assuring the movie producers of one-quarter of their investment. Since the film's running time is 2 hours and 49 minutes, it will be, with intermissions for advertising, NBC's first three-hour Spectacular. NBC has also paid $250,000, or a quarter of the movie production cost, for one-time telecast rights to another new Korda film. The Constant Husband, starring Rex Harrison. British film executives, taking a tip from Walt Disney's successful Disneyland, believe that a TV showing...
Allen in Movieland (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). A Spectacular starring Steve Allen, Jeff Chandler, Piper Laurie, Tony Curtis, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Teddy Wilson...