NET Playhouse; The Amorous Flea
- Series
- NET Playhouse
- Episode Number
- 14
- Episode Number
- 47
- Episode
- The Amorous Flea
- Producing Organization
- Majestic Productions
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/516-tb0xp6w54t
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- Description
- Episode Description
- The Amorous Flea, a long-run off-Broadway hit, is a musical comedy based on Molieres School for Wives. Its theme is youth and age in competition for a young maidens favors. Arnolphe is an old goat who has raised the lovely Agnes form age four in total ignorance so that she will make him the perfect wife. He has her in solitary confinement and on the brink of marriage when the handsome young Horace, son of a dear friend, arrives to breach the barricades. Horace makes Arnolphe his confidant and the trouble begins. Conniving servants, false names, and falser friends all add to the general madness and lead to the triumph of love. Musical numbers in the program include There Goes a Mad Old Man, March of the Vigilant Vassals, Closeness Begets Closeness, Learning Love, Its a Stretchy Day, When Time Takes Your Hand, and Man is a Mans Best Friend. This aired as NET Playhouse episode 14 on January 6, 1967 and as NET Playhouse episode 47 on August 25, 1967. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Episode Description
- 90-minute piece, produced by Majestic Productions and originally distributed by NET in 1967.
- Broadcast Date
- 1967-08-25
- Broadcast Date
- 1967-01-06
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Drama
- Media type
- other
- Credits
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Actor: Proctor, Philip
Actor: Mitchell, Ann
Actor: Fletcher, Jack
Actor: de Martin, Imelda
Actor: Parker, Lew
Composer: Montgomery, Bruce
Costume Designer: Brooks, Donald
Producer: Devine, Jerry
Producer: Hollerith, Charles, Jr.
Producing Organization: Majestic Productions
Set Designer: Hargate, Bill
Stage Director: Sydow, Jack
Writer: Devine, Jerry
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- Citations
- Chicago: “NET Playhouse; The Amorous Flea,” 1967-08-25, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed December 15, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-tb0xp6w54t.
- MLA: “NET Playhouse; The Amorous Flea.” 1967-08-25. American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. December 15, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-tb0xp6w54t>.
- APA: NET Playhouse; The Amorous Flea. Boston, MA: American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-tb0xp6w54t