Musical Comedy Time

Musical Comedy Time is an anthology television series that was broadcast on CBS in 1950 and 1951. It was the first television program in the history of the medium to feature televised adaptations of musical theatre works from the Broadway stage. These adaptations were abridged versions of the musicals, and did not present the entire work in order to fit within time limits of a television series. Broadcast twice monthly, the premiere broadcast on October 2, 1950, featured a television adaptation of Cole Porter's Anything Goes with Ethel Merman reprising her role from the original 1934 Broadway production.