Happy and Glorious was a 1952 British television series which aired on the BBC. It starred
Renée Asherson as
Queen Victoria and
Michael Aldridge as
Prince Albert. The series aired live, and the transmissions were not recorded.[1] The oldest surviving examples of British television drama come from 1953, consisting of two episodes of The Quatermass Experiment and two or three episodes of Sunday-Night Theatre, recording using the then-experimental
telerecording process. Half the scripts were by
Laurence Housman, drawn from his 1934 play Victoria Regina, also adapted for BBC Radio in 1981 under the title Happy and Glorious.[2]