| Pinocchio | |
| Director: | Ron Field Sid Smith |
| Producer: | Bernard Rothman Jack Wohl |
| Music: | Billy Barnes |
| Editing: | Jerry Greene |
| Studio: | Vidtronics |
| Distributor: | CBS (original telecast) VCI Entertainment (DVD) |
| Runtime: | 73 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
Pinocchio is a 1976 made-for-TV musical starring Sandy Duncan in the title role and Danny Kaye as Geppetto. It was first broadcast March 27, 1976 on CBS and rerun on April 18, 1977.[1]
Framed by the story of a young theater girl's desire to study and work apart from her father, the classic 1883 children's story of Pinocchio is presented as a subplay with the young girl (Sandy Duncan) as Pinocchio and her father (Danny Kaye) as Geppetto.
Pinocchio won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Children's Programming, one for Costume Design (Bill Hargate) and another for Videotape Editing. It was also nominated for Emmys for Outstanding Children's Special and Outstanding Makeup (designed by Stan Winston).
In 1976, this was the first of two TV musical adaptations of a children's classic starring Danny Kaye and costarring a female as a young boy. On December 12, 1976, NBC telecast Peter Pan with Kaye as Captain Hook and Mia Farrow in the title role.
Ron Field was choreographer.
Pinocchio was released on DVD on October 24, 2000.[5]
