| The Alcoa Hour (1955–1957) |
| Amahl and the Night Visitors (1955) S1.E6 |
| One night in Judea, a disabled shepherd boy-turned-beggar and his mother are visited by three strangers. They are the Three Kings, and they are on their way to Bethlehem to visit the Christ Child, who has just been born. The last screen in the live telecast was "NBC Opera Theatre", not because it was an episode in the "NBC Television Opera Theatre" series, but rather because it was a commercially supported NBC Opera Theatre production so many of the extras and crew were from the NBC Opera Theatre group. |
Year:
Release Date:
Rating:
Video Type:
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1955
12/25/1955
Approved
TV Series Episode
46 minutes
A
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Genre:
Drama
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Director(s):
Kirk Browning
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Writer(s):
Gian Carlo Menotti
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Christmas Elements:
| Cast:
Bill McIver
/ Amahl
Rosemary Kuhlmann
/ Amahl's Mother
Andrew McKinley
/ King Kaspar
David Aiken
/ King Melchior
Leon Lishner
/ King Balthasar
Francis Monachino
/ Page
Carmen Gutierrez
/ Dancing Shepherd
John Butler
/ Dancing Shepherd
Glen Tetley
/ Dancing Shepherd
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| Trivia: At the 12/24/1951 premier performance of 'Amahl and the Night Visitors', Amahl was played by 12 year old Chet Allen (born 5/6/1939) who also played Amahl in a live Easter telecast 4/13/1952. That summer, Chet Allen's voice changed and he was replaced with 10-year-old Bill McIver who played Amahl in |
