| Damn Yankees! | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Comedy Musical Sport |
| Written by | George Abbott Douglass Wallop |
| Directed by | Kirk Browning |
| Starring | Phil Silvers Lee Remick Jerry Lanning |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Alvin Cooperman |
| Production location | NBC Brooklyn Studios |
| Editor | Jack Shultis |
| Running time | 100 minutes |
| Production company | NBC |
| Original release | |
| Network | NBC |
| Release | April 8, 1967 (1967-04-08) |
Damn Yankees! is a 1967 American TV adaptation directed byKirk Browning of the 1955 baseball musicalDamn Yankees,[1] itself based onDouglass Wallop's 1954 novelThe Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant.
Longtime sportscaster andNBC hostJoe Garagiola supplied an on-camera set-up to the background for the story’s premise of envy of the successfulNew York Yankees team.
Thepop-art production design and staging[2] featuredcollage animation and early examples of colorChroma key compositing to achievetraveling mattes for TV.[3]
It was recorded at NBC'sBrooklyn Studios and “colorcast“ on April 8, 1967 as a production of a relaunchedGeneral Electric Theater which ran from the late 1960s into the early 1970s.
Note: All the principal cast were singers, so they could all supply their own vocals for the soundtrack without being dubbed.
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