NET Playhouse — Season 1, Episode 24: Satire

Episode synopsis

Playwright-actor-director Peter Ustinov presents a satiric "improvisation on musical themes" with pianist Anthony Hopkins, and British satirists Dudley Moore and Bernard Keefe. Ustinov caricatures typical Russian, American, German and English composers with pen and piano, singing along with the wild musical themes he invents for each composer

About NET Playhouse

NET Playhouse is an American dramatic television anthology series produced by National Educational Television. NET subsequently merged with WNDT Newark, New Jersey to form WNET and was superseded by the Public Broadcasting Service. American television anthology series of wide range of genres, from history and drama, to fantasy, and science fiction. Fiction novels, stories, stage plays, fairytales, and historic events are dramatized in each episode.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
• E2The Journey of the Fifth Horse
• E3The Star Wagon
• E4L'Avventura
• E5Victoria Regina, Part 1: Spring
• E6Victoria Regina, Part 2: Summer
• E7Victoria Regina, Part 3: Autumn
• E8Victoria Regina, Part 4: Winter
• E9An Enemy of the People
• E10A Sleep of Prisoners
• E11Ofoeti
• E12The Play of Daniel