Cabaret Cartoons

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

Cabaret Cartoons is a live light entertainment series broadcast by BBC Television 1936–1939 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: the 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^[update] are the subjects of Wikipedia articles. Numbers of appearances are given in parentheses.

• Beverley Sisters, English vocal trio (1) [3]
• Truda Binarová, Czechoslovak actress (5) [4]
• Petula Clark (born 1932), English singer (2) [5]
• Edward Cooper (1883–1956), English actor (1) [6]
• Evelyn Dall (1918–2010), American singer (2) [7]
• Robert Harbin (1908–78), British magician and actor (1) [8]
• Grace (1907–55) and Paul Hartman (1904–73), American dancers (1) [9][10]
• Nosmo King (and Hubert) (1886–1952), English comedian (2) [11]
• Harry Rutherford (1903–85), English artist (19) [1]
• Eric Woodburn (1894–1981), Scottish comedian (1) [12]

See also

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

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

1. Harry Rutherford at IMDb
2. "Hyde's unsung hero". BBC. 25 September 2008. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
3. The Beverley Sisters at IMDb
4. Truda Binarová at IMDb
5. Petula Clark at IMDb
6. Edward Cooper at IMDb
7. Evelyn Dall at IMDb
8. Robert Harbin at IMDb
9. Grace Hartman at IMDb
10. Paul Hartman at IMDb
11. Nosmo King at IMDb
12. Eric Woodburn at IMDb

External links

• Cabaret Cartoons at IMDb
• "Search report for Cabaret Cartoons". BBC. Retrieved 25 February 2016. Includes some false positives