Cabaret Cartoons

Cabaret Cartoons was a live light entertainment series broadcast by BBC Television 1936–39 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]

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

No episodes have survived.[Note 2]

Performers

The following performers appeared in Cabaret Cartoons five or more times, or as of February 2016 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 on IMDb
2. "Hyde's unsung hero". BBC. 25 September 2008. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
3. The Beverley Sisters on IMDb
4. Truda Binarová on IMDb
5. Petula Clark on IMDb
6. Edward Cooper on IMDb
7. Evelyn Dall on IMDb
8. Robert Harbin on IMDb
9. Grace Hartman on IMDb
10. Paul Hartman on IMDb
11. Nosmo King on IMDb
12. Eric Woodburn on IMDb

External links

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