Damn Yankees! is a 1967 American TV adaptation directed by Kirk Browning of the 1955 baseball musical Damn Yankees,Devilish Difficulties Pursue 'Damn Yankees': With Club in 10th, Plot of TV Musical Needs Explaining Once Upon a Time, Beating New York Was a Fantasy By Leonard Koppett. New York Times 26 Feb 1967: S3. itself based on Douglass Wallop's 1954 novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant.
Longtime sportscaster and NBC host Joe Garagiola supplied an on-camera setup to the background for the story's premise of envy of the successful New York Yankees team.
The pop-art production design and stagingTV: New ‘Damn Yankees’; Kirk Browning’s Version of Musical Employs a Mixture of Staging Forms, by Jack Gould. New York Times, 10 Ap. 1967: 71. featured collage animation and early examples of color Chroma key compositing to achieve traveling mattes for TV.The Cleveland Press, TV Showtime, Apr. 7-14, 1967, cover art. The principal cast supplied their own vocals for the soundtrack.
Recorded at NBC's Brooklyn Studios, it was "colorcast" on April 8, 1967 as a special production of General Electric Theater.
Cast Lee Remick as Lola Phil Silvers as Applegate Jim Backus as Benny Van Buren Fran Allison as Mrs. Meg Boyd Jerry Lanning as Joe Hardy Ray Middleton as Joe Boyd Linda Lavin as Gloria Thorpe Bob Dishy as Rocky
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