Admiral Broadway Revue
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The Admiral Broadway Revue was a U.S. variety TV series which premiered on 28 January 1949, and was broadcast live simultaneously on both NBC and the now-defunct DuMont network. The show was telecast from the now-demolished International Theatre (also known as the Park Theatre) at 5 Columbus Circle in New York. The hour-long series was directed by Max Liebman, hosted by Sid Caesar, and also starred Imogene Coca. Liebman, Caesar, and Coca all worked later on Your Show of Shows, a new program on NBC. The last show of Admiral Broadway Revue was on June 3, 1949.
The series, oddly enough, was sponsored by TV set manufacturer Admiral, a company which was in direct competition with RCA (the parent company of NBC) and DuMont, which both manufactured TV sets.
The Paley Center for Media holds 16 kinescope film prints of the series.
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Video: Full episode of Admiral Broadway Revue from April 22, 1949, from the Internet Archive. Look out for the wrestling parody sketch at 16:45, with Sid Caesar as "Mr. Gorgeous America" and Caesar's penchant for foreign-language double-talk at 37:26.
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Sid Caesar on his and Max Liebman's creation of the format of Admiral Broadway Revue
(01m 29s)- Sid Caesar on how, in these early days of TV, the show waited for the cameras to come back from sporting events before they could rehearse
(00m 30s) - Sid Caesar on the experience of "live TV" and his insistence that no cue cards be used on his shows (00m 46s)
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