''Happy and Glorious'' was a 1952 British television series which aired on the BBC. It starred Renée Asherson as Queen Victoria and Michael Aldridge as

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. The series aired live, and the transmissions were not recorded. The oldest surviving examples of British television drama come from 1953, consisting of two episodes of ''The Quatermass Experiment'' and two or three episodes of '' Sunday-Night Theatre'', recording using the then-experimental

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process. Half the scripts were by Laurence Housman, drawn from his 1934 play '' Victoria Regina'', also adapted for BBC Radio in 1981 under the title ''Happy and Glorious''.

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* 1950s British television miniseries 1950s British drama television series 1952 British television series debuts 1952 British television series endings Lost BBC episodes Black-and-white British television shows Television series set in the 19th century BBC television dramas Cultural depictions of Queen Victoria on television Cultural depictions of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha {{BBC-tv-prog-stub