
Festival
1960 · 1 season · 15 episodes · Returning Series · CBC Television
anthology series
Festival is a Canadian entertainment anthology television series which aired on CBC Television.
Episodes
- S01E01H.M.S. Pinafore1960-10-10
A sailor falls for the daughter of his captain, while being unaware of the love a young country girl holds for him.
- S01E02Colombe1960-10-17
- S01E03The Old Ladies1960-10-31
- S01E04Peking Opera1960-11-21
- S01E05Julius Caesar1960-12-19
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
- S01E06Ring Around the Moon1961-01-02
Twin brothers with very different personalities are in conflict over the love of a less than worthy woman. One brother comes up with an ingenious solution to the problem.
- S01E07Home of the Brave1961-01-09
In the jungle, during war, racial prejudice seems likely to destroy the teamwork of American soldiers.
- S01E08Lord Arthur Savile's Crime1961-01-16
When a fortune-teller informs Lord Arthur that he's soon to commit a murder, he elects to do it as soon as possible, to get it out of the way before his impending marriage.
- S01E09Elektra1961-01-23
- S01E10The Subject Is Beethoven1961-02-06
- S01E11The Three Sisters1961-02-13
Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.
- S01E12Night Must Fall1961-02-20
A charming handyman beguiles an old lady and her niece - who don't realize he's a murderer.
- S01E13The Dumb Waiter/The Zoo Story1961-03-06
A couple of one-act two-handers - in "The Zoo Story", a middle-class man is harangued by a stranger in the park, whilst in "The Dumb Waiter", two hit-men waiting for their target are disorientated by mysterious messages.
- S01E14Orphee1961-03-13
- S01E15Great Expectations1961-03-27
Pip, a poor orphan, meets a convict in a graveyard and is later taken to Satis House, where he meets the sinister Miss Havisham and also her ward Estella.
- S01E16Royal Gambit1961-04-03
- S01E17Pictures in the Hallway1961-04-10
- S01E18The Dybbuk1961-05-01
A young bride is possessed by a dybbuk, a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person, on the eve of her wedding.
- S01E19The Police1961-05-08
- S01E20Falstaff1961-05-15
Cast
Frances HylandCalpurnia, May Beringer, Olga
Ivor BarryGaulois,
Neil McCallumDanny, Jerry- Tony Van Bridge, Ben
Leo Leyden, Mr. Podgers
John VernonVershinin,
Eric House, The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Porter, KCB, First Lord of the Admiralty- Betty LeightonLucy Amorest,
Kate ReidMasha, Portia
Timothy FindleySoliony, Edouard
Gillie FenwickJoshua, Julius Caesar
Joseph WisemanMessenger, Prisoner