Pantomime at the Lyceum Theatre in 1939. Traditionally performed at Christmas and afterwards, with family audiences, British pantomime continues as a popular form of theatre, incorporating song, dance, buffoonery, slapstick, cross-dressing, in-jokes, topical references, audience participation, and mild sexual innuendo. Pantomime story lines and scripts usually make no direct reference to Christmas, and are almost always based on traditional children's stories, particularly the fairy tales of Charles Perrault, Joseph Jacobs, Hans Christian Andersen and the Grimm Brothers. Some of the most popular pantomime stories include "Cinderella", "Aladdin", "Dick Whittington and His Cat" and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", as well
Pantomime Quiz Pantomime Quiz Pantomime Quiz, initially titled "Pantomime Quiz Time" and later "Stump the Stars", was an American television game show produced and hosted by Mike Stokey. Running from 1947—1959, it has the distinction of being one of the few television series—along with "The Arthur Murray Party"; "Down You Go"; "The Ernie Kovacs Show", "The Original Amateur Hour"; and "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"—to air on all four TV networks in the US during the Golden Age of Television. Based on the parlor game of Charades, "Pantomime Quiz" was first broadcast locally in Los Angeles from November 13, 1947, to 1949. In