Happy and Glorious was a 1952 British television series which aired on the BBC. It starredRenée Asherson asQueen Victoria andMichael Aldridge asPrince Albert. The series aired live, and the transmissions were not recorded.[1] The oldest surviving examples of British television drama come from 1953, consisting of two episodes ofThe Quatermass Experiment and two or three episodes ofSunday-Night Theatre, recording using the then-experimentaltelerecording process. Half the scripts were byLaurence Housman, drawn from his 1934 playVictoria Regina, also adapted for BBC Radio in 1981 under the titleHappy and Glorious.[2]
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