Musical Comedy Time

Season 1

12 episodes · Oct 2, 1950

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  • S1E1

    Anything Goes

    Oct 2, 195060m

    The action takes place on the SS AMERICAN, sailing from New York to England. On board are the beautiful American heiress Hope Harcourt, her English fiancé Sir Evelyn Oakleigh and Hope's mother. Stowing away on board is Billy Crocker, a young admirer of Hope'0 who can't believe she would really marry the silly S1r Evelyn and determines to try and stop her. Public Enemy Number Thirteen, with his moll Bonnie, is also along for the ride and he passes on to Billy the passport and ticket of a gangster friend of his who didn't catch the boat. This leads, to unwelcome complications for Billy as he and the Public Enemy have to keep changing disguises to avoid arrest. Keeping the steam at boiling point in the ship's engine room arid working the stabilisers overtime is sexy, incandescent Reno Sweency, ex-evangelist and currently right club singer, With her help all the shipboard disasters are averted and all the romances sorted out including her own.

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  • S1E2

    Whoopee!

    Oct 16, 195060m

    Hypochondriac millionaire Henry Williams moves out west to Arizona for his health, with his long-suffering nurse Mary Custer in tow. Romantic complications ensue when Henry involves himself in the affairs of Sally Morgan who is engaged to the local sheriff but is really in love with an Indian brave.

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  • S1E3

    The Chocolate Soldier

    Oct 30, 195060m

    When Lieutenant Bumerli, a Swiss mercenary in the Serbian army, takes refuge from his Bulgarian enemies in the house of a Bulgarian general - to be precise, in the daughter's bedroom - he sets hearts a-flutter, almost compromises three ladies and then ruins the daughter's wedding to a Bulgarian soldier-hero by being recognised as the fugitive! This is just as well because he and Nadina, the daughter, were destined for each other anyway.

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  • S1E4

    Rio Rita

    Nov 13, 195060m

    The Texas Rangers are hunting a notorious bandit known only as the Kinkajou. The Rangers are lead by a handsome macho-man, Jim. Jim loves Rio Rita but General Esteban, who also loves her, persuades Rita that Jim courts her because he believes that the man they are looking is her brother. Only when Jim arrests Esteban as the real villain can he and Rita hope for happiness.

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  • S1E5

    The Merry Widow

    Nov 27, 195060m

    Hanna Glawari, the merry widow, faces a dilemma. Pontevedro, her native country, will be left bankrupt if she weds a foreigner. An Embassy plot to marry her off to the debonair Count Danilo Danilovitch is complicated by the secret affair which has developed between the French attaché and the Ambassador's wife. This light-hearted tale of political and amorous intrigue unfolds amidst the gaiety of high society in turn-of-the-century Paris.

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  • S1E6

    Hit the Deck

    Dec 11, 195060m

    Loulou is the owner of a Newport coffee house. She falls in love with Bilge, one of the many sailors who patronise her eatery whenever they're in port. But Bilge is reluctant to consider marriage. So Loulou takes a small fortune she has come into and follows him all the way to China. When she finally seems to have won her point, Bilge discovers she is wealthy. Bilge is unwilling to marry but Loulou wins this round by agreeing to sign away her money to their first child.

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  • S1E7

    Babes in Toyland

    Dec 25, 195060m

    One hour version of Herbert's most famous operetta providing fun for the entire family as Mother Goose and all the favorite nursery rhyme characters deal with Silas Barnaby's attempt to steal Toyland.

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  • S1E8

    Miss Liberty

    Jan 8, 195160m

    It is 1885 and Horace, a newspaper photographer, is fired when he bungles the important assignment of covering the Statue of Liberty ceremonies. At his girl friend Maisie's urging, he goes to Paris in pursuit of the ultimate scoop-to discover the model who actually posed for the statue. When he finds her in sculptor Bartholdi's studio, Maisie sets about persuading the competing paper from which Horace was sacked to underwrite a U.S. tour for the model. What Horace doesn't realize is that he has the wrong model, and what Maisie doesn't know is that Horace has fallen in love with her. Upon their return from Paris, some antic and heartfelt complications ensue but a happy ending is inevitable.

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  • S1E9

    Louisiana Purchase

    Jan 22, 195160m

    Set in New Orleans, this musical lampoons Huey Long and his strangle-hold on Louisiana Politics. When Senator Oliver P. Loganberry arrives in the Big Easy to investigate the dubious doings at the Louisiana Purchasing Company, it isn't long before he's set up for plenty of trouble himself.

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  • S1E10

    Mlle. Modiste

    Feb 5, 195160m

    Operetta about Fifi, an aspiring prima donna, who works in Mme. Cecile's Parisian hat shop.

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  • S1E12

    No! No! Nanette!

    Mar 5, 195160m

    This episode concerns a bible salesman called Jimmy Smith and the troubles that he gets into, and out of, on a summer weekend in New York and Atlantic City.

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  • S1E13

    Flying High

    Mar 19, 195160m

    High-flying tale about an oddball inventor and his revolutionary flying machine. He inadvertantly breaks the world record for high flying due to a fault in the landing gear of his plane.

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