Musical Comedy Time is an anthology television series broadcast on CBS in 1950 and 1951. It was the first television program in the medium's history to feature televised adaptations of musical theatre works from the Broadway stage.[1] These adaptations were abridged versions of the musicals and only presented part of the work to fit within a television series's time limits.[2] The premiere broadcast on October 2, 1950, broadcast twice monthly, featured a television adaptation of Cole Porter's Anything Goes with Ethel Merman reprising her role from the original 1934 Broadway production.[3]