41-485: The Bigelow Theatre (also known as Bigelow-Sanford Theater and as Hollywood Half Hour and Marquee Theater in syndication) is an American anthology series originally broadcast on CBS Television and on the DuMont Television Network . This series is not to be confused with the similarly named The Bigelow Show , a musical variety program which aired on NBC and CBS in the late 1940s. The series
82-501: A collection of poetry, later retitled anthology – see Greek Anthology . Anthologiai were collections of small Greek poems and epigrams, because in Greek culture the flower symbolized the finer sentiments that only poetry can express. Many popular old-time radio programs were anthology series. On some series, such as Inner Sanctum Mysteries , the only constant was the host, who introduced and concluded each dramatic presentation. One of
123-440: A composition must necessarily be brief, and as a result, conciseness of expression, pregnancy of meaning, purity of diction and singleness of thought are the indispensable conditions of excellence in the epigrammatic style. The term was soon extended to any piece by which these conditions were fulfilled. About 60 BC, the sophist and poet Meleager of Gadara undertook to combine the choicest effusions of his predecessors into
164-796: A different story and a different set of characters in each different episode , season , segment, or short . These usually have a different cast in each episode, but several series in the past, such as Four Star Playhouse , employed a permanent troupe of character actors who would appear in a different drama each week. Some anthology series, such as Studio One , began on radio and then expanded to television. The word comes from Ancient Greek ἀνθολογία ( anthología , "flower-gathering"), from ἀνθολογέω ( anthologéō , "I gather flowers"), from ἄνθος ( ánthos , "flower") + λέγω ( légō , "I gather, pick up, collect"), coined by Meleager of Gadara circa 60 BCE, originally as Στέφανος ( στέφανος ( stéphanos , "garland")) to describe
205-589: A masterly poem one had never seen before." Its influence can be seen on writers as diverse as Propertius , Ezra Pound and Edgar Lee Masters . Since full and uncensored English translations became available at the end of the 20th century, its influence has widened still further. The art of occasional poetry had been cultivated in Greece from an early period, being used to commemorate remarkable individuals or events, on funerary monuments and votive offerings. These compositions were termed epigrams, i.e. inscribed poems. Such
246-554: A new type of anthology format in the U.S. Each season, rather than each episode, is a standalone story. Several actors have appeared in the various seasons, but playing different roles—in an echo of the Four Star Playhouse format. The success of American Horror Story has spawned other season-long anthologies such as American Crime Story and True Detective . Anthology film series are rare compared to their TV and radio counterparts. There have been several attempts within
287-579: A photographic facsimile. Brunck's edition was superseded by the standard one of Friedrich Jacobs (1794–1814, 13 vols.), the text of which was reprinted in a more convenient form in 1813–1817, and occupies three pocket volumes in the Tauchnitz series of the classics. The best edition for general purposes is perhaps that of Dubner in Didot 's Bibliotheca (1864–1872), which contains the Palatine Anthology ,
328-424: A single body of fugitive poetry. Collections of monumental inscriptions, or of poems on particular subjects, had previously been formed by Polemon Periegetes and others; but Meleager first gave the principle a comprehensive application. His selection, compiled from forty-six of his predecessors, and including numerous contributions of his own, was entitled The Garland ( Στέφανος ); in an introductory poem each poet
369-535: A synonym for a collection of literary works for future generations. Meleager's Anthology was popular enough that it attracted later additions. Prefaces to the editions of Philippus of Thessalonica and Agathias were preserved in the Greek Anthology to attest to their additions of later poems. The definitive edition was made by Constantine Cephalas in the 10th century, who added a number of other collections: homoerotic verse collected by Straton of Sardis in
410-512: A weekly program from the second season until the end of its run in 1956. Ida Lupino was brought on board as the de facto fourth star, though unlike Powell, Boyer, and Niven, she owned no stock in the company. American television networks would sometimes run summer anthology series which consisted of unsold television pilots . Beginning in 1971, the long-run Masterpiece Theatre drama anthology series brought British productions to American television. In 2011, American Horror Story debuted
451-564: Is a collection of poems , mostly epigrams , that span the Classical and Byzantine periods of Greek literature . Most of the material of the Greek Anthology comes from two manuscripts, the Palatine Anthology of the 10th century and the Anthology of Planudes (or Planudean Anthology ) of the 14th century. The earliest known anthology in Greek was compiled by Meleager of Gadara in
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#1732876420541492-611: Is also an incomplete edition of the text by Hugo Stadtmüller in the Teubner series, 3 vols., which stops at IX 563 due to Stadtmüller's death. More recent editions are one in the Collection des Universités de France series, 13 vols., started by Pierre Waltz and continued by other scholars, and one edited by Hermann Beckby , 4 vols., in the Tusculum series. The most recent edition is by Fabrizio Conca , Mario Marzi and Giuseppe Zanetto , with
533-410: Is compared to some flower, fancifully deemed appropriate to his genius. The arrangement of his collection was alphabetical, according to the initial letter of each epigram. In the age of the emperor Tiberius (or Trajan , according to others) the work of Meleager was continued by another epigrammatist, Philippus of Thessalonica , who first employed the term "anthology". His collection, which included
574-421: Is recorded until the time of Justinian, when epigrammatic writing, especially of an amatory character, experienced a great revival at the hands of Agathias of Myrina , the historian, Paulus Silentiarius , and their circle. Their ingenious but mannered productions were collected by Agathias into a new anthology, entitled The Circle (Κύκλος); it was the first to be divided into books, and arranged with reference to
615-497: The Golden Age of Television of the 1950s with series such as The United States Steel Hour and The Philco Television Playhouse . Dick Powell came up with an idea for an anthology series, Four Star Playhouse , with a rotation of established stars every week, four stars in all. The stars would own the studio and the program, as Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz had done successfully with Desilu studio. Powell had intended for
656-605: The UCLA Film and Television Archive , at least two of which (October 4 and the December 27 finale) aired on DuMont. The Bigelow Theatre was filmed in Los Angeles at Jerry Fairbanks 's studios. Production of episodes used multiple cameras that were "directed and monitored by a control room staff" as was done with live TV, but the cameras' output was recorded on film. Frank Woodruff was the producer and director. Jack Gould , reviewing
697-552: The 2nd century AD; a collection of Christian epigrams found in churches; a collection of satirical and convivial epigrams collected by Diogenianus ; Christodorus ' description of statues in the Byzantine gymnasium of Zeuxippos ; and a collection of inscriptions from a temple in Cyzicus . The scholar Maximus Planudes also made an edition of the Greek Anthology , which while adding some poems, primarily deleted or bowdlerized many of
738-555: The Cameo series), includes about 140 translations or imitations, with some original compositions in the same style. Further translations and selections include: A small volume on the Anthology, edited and with some original translations by Lord Neaves , is one of W. Lucas Collins's series Ancient Classics for Modern Readers , The Greek Anthology (Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1874) Two critical contributions to
779-859: The Planudean Anthology , in the Didot edition, and in Henry Wellesley 's Anthologia Polyglotta . Imitations in modern languages have been copious, actual translations less common. F. D. Dehèque 's 1863 translation was in French prose. The German language admits of the preservation of the original metre, a circumstance exploited by Johann Gottfried Herder and Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Jacobs . Robert Bland , John Herman Merivale , and their associates (1806–1813), produced efforts that are often diffuse. Francis Wrangham 's (1769–1842) versions, Poems (London, 1795), are more spirited; and John Sterling translated
820-703: The Planudean Anthology. The epigrams hitherto recovered from ancient monuments and similar sources form appendices in the second and third volumes of Dübner's edition. The Liddell Scott Greek Lexicon divides the Anthologia Graeca sources into Anthologia Palatina, Planudea (1864-1968), then Appendix nova epigrammatum (1890 onward). The poems in the anthology represent different periods. Four stages may be indicated: Latin renderings of select epigrams by Hugo Grotius were published in Bosch and Lennep's edition of
861-413: The beginning of the 10th century. He appears to have merely made excerpts from the existing anthologies, with the addition of selections from Lucillius , Palladas , and other epigrammatists, whose compositions had been published separately. His arrangement is founded on a principle of classification, and nearly corresponds to that adopted by Agathias . His principle of selection is unknown. The next editor
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#1732876420541902-466: The compositions of thirteen writers subsequent to Meleager, was also arranged alphabetically, and contained an introductory poem. It was of inferior quality to Meleager's. Somewhat later, under Hadrian , another supplement was formed by the sophist Diogenianus of Heracleia (2nd century AD), and Straton of Sardis compiled his elegant Μοῦσα παιδική ( Musa Puerilis ) from his productions and those of earlier writers. No further collection from various sources
943-542: The cooperation in vol. I of Carla Castelli , 3 vols., published by UTET . The Palatine MS., the archetype of the present text, was transcribed by different persons at different times, and the actual arrangement of the collection does not correspond with that signalized in the index. It is arranged into the following books: The epigrams on works of art, as already stated, are missing from the Codex Palatinus , and must be sought in an appendix of epigrams only occurring in
984-610: The earliest such programs was The Collier Hour , broadcast on the NBC Blue Network from 1927 to 1932. As radio's first major dramatic anthology, it adapted stories and serials from Collier's Weekly in a calculated move to increase subscriptions and compete with The Saturday Evening Post . Airing on the Wednesday prior to each week's distribution of the magazine, the program soon moved to Sundays in order to avoid spoilers with dramatizations of stories simultaneously appearing in
1025-449: The epigrams of the Planudean Anthology not collected in the former, an appendix of pieces derived from other sources, copious notes, a literal Latin prose translation by Jean François Boissonade , Bothe , and Lapaume and the metrical Latin versions of Hugo Grotius . A third volume, edited by E. Cougny , was published in 1890. The best edition of the Planudean Anthology is the splendid one by van Bosch and van Lennep (1795–1822). There
1066-405: The first century BC, under the title Anthologia , or "Flower-gathering." It contained poems by the compiler himself and forty-six other poets, including Archilochus , Alcaeus , Anacreon , and Simonides . In his preface to his collection, Meleager describes his arrangement of poems as if it were a head-band or garland of flowers woven together in a tour de force that made the word "Anthology"
1107-532: The horror genre to have a franchise with an anthology format, such as with the Halloween franchise where the third film, Halloween III: Season of the Witch , was meant to be the beginning of a series of anthology horror films, but due to negative reception that plan was shelved. Anthology video games have been very rare since the 1980s. Greek Anthology The Greek Anthology ( Latin : Anthologia Graeca )
1148-566: The inscriptions of Simonides. John Wilson in Blackwood's Magazine 1833–1835, collected and commented on the labours of these and other translators, including indifferent attempts of William Hay . In 1849 Henry Wellesley, principal of New Inn Hall, Oxford , published his Anthologia Polyglotta , a collection of the translations and imitations in all languages, with the original text. In this appeared versions by Goldwin Smith and Merivale, which, with
1189-495: The magazine. Radio anthology series provided for science fiction , horror , suspense, and mystery genres (all produced in the US, unless noted): The final episode of Suspense was broadcast on September 30, 1962, a date that has traditionally been seen as marking the end of the old-time radio era. However, genre series produced since 1962 include: In the history of television, live anthology dramas were especially popular during
1230-703: The only accessible collection, for although the Palatine manuscript known as the Palatine Anthology , the sole extant copy of the anthology of Cephalas, was discovered in the Palatine library at Heidelberg , and copied by Saumaise (Salmasius) in 1606, it was not published until 1776, when it was included in Brunck 's Analecta Veterum Poetarum Graecorum (Crumbs of the Ancient Greek Poets). The manuscript itself had frequently changed its quarters. In 1623, having been taken in
1271-547: The other English renderings extant at the time, accompany the literal prose translation of the Public School Selections , executed by the Rev. George Burges for Bohn's Classical Library (1854). In 1864 Major R. G. Macgregor published Greek Anthology, with notes critical and explanatory , an almost complete but mediocre translation of the Anthology. Idylls and Epigrams , by Richard Garnett (1869, reprinted 1892 in
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1312-476: The poems he felt were too explicit. His anthology was the only one known to Western Europe (his autograph copy, dated 1301 survives; the first edition based on his collection was printed in 1494) until 1606 when Claudius Salmasius found in the library at Heidelberg a fuller collection based on Cephalas. The copy made by Salmasius was not, however, published until 1776, when Richard François Philippe Brunck included it in his Analecta . The first critical edition
1353-538: The premiere episode in The New York Times , deemed it "acceptable". He complimented the work of the actors, led by Victor Jory , and wrote, "the work held interest and did not try to do too much in the limited time." The review's major complaint was about the use of film for the episode, "which was hard to watch in comparison with the quality of the average 'live' show." A review of the September 6, 1951, episode in
1394-437: The program to feature himself, Charles Boyer , Joel McCrea , and Rosalind Russell . When Russell and McCrea backed out, David Niven came on board as the third star. The fourth star was initially a guest star. CBS liked the idea, and Four Star Playhouse made its debut in fall of 1952. It ran on alternate weeks only during the first season, alternating with Amos 'n' Andy . It was successful enough to be renewed and became
1435-543: The sack of Heidelberg in the Thirty Years' War , it was sent with the rest of the Palatine Library to Rome as a present from Maximilian I of Bavaria to Pope Gregory XV , who had it divided into two parts, the first of which was by far the larger; thence it was taken to Paris in 1797. In 1816 it went back to Heidelberg, but in an incomplete state, the second part remaining at Paris. It is now represented at Heidelberg by
1476-596: The series ended on CBS because the network was unable to get enough stations to carry it, the show was retitled The Bigelow-Sanford Theatre and aired on DuMont on Thursdays at 10pm EST from September 6 through December 27, 1951. There were 27 episodes on CBS, and 15 on DuMont, however, some of the DuMont episodes were reruns of the CBS series. Seventeen filmed episodes of the program were leased and run after having been shown originally on The Silver Theatre . Nine episodes are held by
1517-538: The subjects of the pieces. These and other collections made during the Middle Ages are now lost. The partial incorporation of them into a single body, classified according to the contents in 15 books, was the work of a certain Constantinus Cephalas, whose name alone is preserved in the single MS. of his compilation extant, but who probably lived during the literary revival under Constantine Porphyrogenitus , at
1558-424: The trade publication Billboard said the story "while paper-thin, was nevertheless amusing light entertainment ..." It complimented the performances of Raymond and Storm, and it said the commercials "were well-filmed and not too intrusive, effectively dramatizing selling points." Anthology series An anthology series is a written series, radio , television , film , or video game series that presents
1599-543: Was sponsored by the Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company . The series aired on CBS on Sunday nights at 6pm EST from December 10, 1950, to June 3, 1951. There were no regularly featured actors on The Bigelow Theatre , but guest stars included James Dean , George C. Scott , Raymond Burr , Cesar Romero , Lloyd Bridges , Martin Milner , Gig Young , Ann Dvorak , Ruth Warrick , Gale Storm , and Chico Marx . After
1640-566: Was that of F. Jacobs (13 vols. 1794–1803; revised 1813–17). Since its transmission to the rest of Europe, the Greek Anthology has left a deep impression on its readers. In a 1971 article on Robin Skelton 's translation of a selection of poems from the Anthology , a reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement wrote, "The time of life does not exist when it is impossible to discover in it
1681-453: Was the monk Maximus Planudes (1320), who removed some epigrams from Cephalas' anthology, added some verses of his own, and preserved epigrams on works of art, which are not included in the only surviving transcript of Cephalas. The Planudean Anthology (in seven books) was the only recension of the anthology known at the revival of classical literature, and was first published at Florence, by Janus Lascaris , in 1494. It long continued to be