is a 1967 American TV adaptation directed by Kirk Browning of the 1955 baseball musical Damn Yankees,[1] itself based on Douglass Wallop's 1954 novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant.
Longtime sportscaster and NBC host Joe Garagiola supplied an on-camera set-up to the background for the story’s premise of envy of the successful New York Yankees team.
The pop-art production design and staging[2] featured collage animation and early examples of color Chroma key compositing to achieve traveling mattes for TV.
[3] It was recorded at NBC's Brooklyn Studios and “colorcast“ on April 8, 1967 as a production of a relaunched General Electric Theater which ran from the late 1960s into the early 1970s.
Note: All the principal cast were singers, so they could all supply their own vocals for the soundtrack without being dubbed.