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''The Black and White Minstrel Show'' was a British
light entertainment show that ran for twenty years on
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prime-time television. Running from 1958 to 1978, it was a weekly
variety show
Variety show, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is entertainment made up of a variety of acts including musical theatre, musical performances, sketch comedy, magic (illusion), magic, acrobatics, juggling, and ventriloquism. It is ...
that presented traditional American
minstrel
A minstrel was an entertainer, initially in medieval Europe. It originally described any type of entertainer such as a musician, juggler, acrobat, singer or fool; later, from the sixteenth century, it came to mean a specialist entertainer ...
and country songs, as well as show tunes and
music hall numbers, lavishly costumed. It was also a successful stage show that ran for ten years from 1962 to 1972 at the
Victoria Palace Theatre
The Victoria Palace Theatre is a West End theatre in Victoria Street, in the City of Westminster, opposite Victoria Station. The structure is categorised as a Grade II* listed building.
History Origins
The theatre began life as a small conc ...
,
London
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. This was followed by tours of UK seaside resorts, together with
Australia
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and
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
.
History
Minstrel shows had become a long-established feature of British music halls and seaside entertainment since the success of acts such as the
Virginia Minstrels
The Virginia Minstrels or Virginia Serenaders was a group of 19th-century American entertainers who helped invent the entertainment form known as the minstrel show. Led by Dan Emmett, the original lineup consisted of Emmett, Billy Whitlock, ...
in Liverpool in the 1840s and
Christy's Minstrels
Christy's Minstrels, sometimes referred to as the Christy Minstrels, were a blackface group formed by Edwin Pearce Christy, a well-known ballad singer, in 1843, in Buffalo, New York. They were instrumental in the solidification of the minstrel s ...
in London in the 1850s. These led directly to many British imitators such as Hamilton's Black and White Minstrels in the 1880s and many others, with Uncle Mac's Minstrels becoming such a popular mainstay in
Broadstairs from the 1890s to the 1940s, that a plaque was erected to honour their memory. Though any development in the performance of such acts may have ended before the First World war, the "old-time" minstrel theme remained a consistently popular form of entertainment well into the 1950s.
''The Black and White Minstrel Show'' was created by BBC producer George Inns working with
George Mitchell. It began as a one-off special in 1957 called ''The 1957 Television Minstrels'' featuring the male Mitchell Minstrels (Mitchell was the musical director) and the female
Television Toppers dancers. The show was first broadcast on the
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on 14 June 1958. It developed into a regular 45-minute show on Saturday evening prime-time television in a