Early productions included some of the classical works of Shakespeare: "Hamlet", "Richard II", "The Taming of the Shrew", "Macbeth", "Twelfth Night", and "The Tempest". Biographical subjects were very eclectic, ranging from Florence Nightingale to Father Flanagan to Joan of Arc. Popular Broadway plays such as "Harvey", "Dial M for Murder", and "Kiss Me, Kate" were made available to a mass audience, most of them with casts that had not appeared in the film versions released to theatres. In a few cases, the actors repeated their original Broadway roles. Actors such as Richard Burton, Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Maurice Evans, Katharine Cornell, Julie Harris, Laurence Olivier and Peter Ustinov all made what were then extremely rare television appearances in these plays.