Nom-de-Plume

Country

United Kingdom

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How it feels

This is a British TV drama from the 1950s. Each half-hour episode is a standalone story about a famous person whose pen name or stage name is kept hidden until the end.

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What happens

Nom-de-Plume is a British television drama series made and first broadcast by BBC Television in 1956. Each episode tells a stand-alone story of a notable man or woman and has a length of thirty minutes. The common theme running through them all is that the name the main character is well known by, usually a pen name or stage name, is not revealed until near the end. The series was created by Hector and Dorothy Crawford. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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