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#10574: FIRESTONE HOUR
1950-07-31, NBC, min.
Eleanor Steber

Firestone Hour started on radio in 1928 and came to television on September 5th, 1949. It was renamed Voice Of Firestone. See Voice Of Firestone for further details.

Guest: singer Eleanor Steber.       
#5897: KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY
1950-11-17, WABC, 54 min.
John Raitt, Dennis King, Doretta Morrow, Loring Smith, William Lynn, Jed Prouty, Phil Coolidge, Stanley Carson, Brooks Dunbar, Jack Manning, Harvey Sheppard

Presented on "PULITZER PRIZE PLAYHOUSE." Television adaptation of the Maxwell Anderson-Kurt Weill musical about Peter Stuyvesant. 

Excellent sound. Broadcast contains opening. Complete.            
#5920: HIT THE DECK
1950-12-11, WNBT, 30 min.
Jack Gilford, John Beal, Iva Withers

Presented on MUSICAL COMEDY TIME. Adaptation of the 1927 Broadway musical. Musical numbers only.   

Very good sound recording for its vintage.

          
#5920*: MUSICAL COMEDY TIME: <b>"HIT THE DECK"</b>
1950-12-11, WNBT, 54 min.
N/A

October 2, 1950-March 19, 1951. Thirteen broadcasts aired on alternate Monday evenings. Broadway musical comedies and standard operettas were adapted for presentation as live one-hour long TV programs. SEARCH PROGRAM TITLE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS.
#5899*: MUSICAL COMEDY TIME: <b>"LOUISIANA PURCHASE"</b>
1951-01-22, WNBT, 30 min.
N/A

October 2, 1950-March 19, 1951. Thirteen broadcasts aired on alternate Monday evenings. Broadway musical comedies and standard operettas were adapted for presentation as live one-hour long TV programs. SEARCH PROGRAM TITLE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS.
#5899: LOUISIANA PURCHASE
1951-01-22, WNBC, 30 min.
Victor Moore, Irene Bordoni, Sandra Deel, Betty Brewer, Jerry Wayne

Presented on "MUSICAL COMEDY TIME." Victor Moore and Irene Bordoni reprise their roles in the television adaptation of this 1940 Broadway hit. Musical numbers only. Variations in sound quality.
#5903*: MUSICAL COMEDY TIME: <b>"REVENGE WITH MUSIC"</b>
1951-02-19, WNBT, 54 min.
N/A

October 2, 1950-March 19, 1951. Thirteen broadcasts aired on alternate Monday evenings. Broadway musical comedies and standard operettas were adapted for presentation as live one-hour long TV programs. SEARCH PROGRAM TITLE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS.
#5903: REVENGE WITH MUSIC
1951-02-19, WNBT, 30 min.
John Raitt, Billy Gilbert, Anne Jeffreys, Audrey Christie, Vicente Gomez

Presented on MUSICAL COMEDY TIME. Dietz-Schwartz musical about the Governor of a Spanish colony in 1812 who cannot resist the ladies. Musical numbers only. A lost television broadcast. 

Very good to excellent sound recording.            
#5898*: MUSICAL COMEDY TIME: <b>"NO NO NANETTE"</b>
1951-03-05, WNBT, 54 min.
N/A

October 2, 1950-March 19, 1951. Thirteen broadcasts aired on alternate Monday evenings. Broadway musical comedies and standard operettas were adapted for presentation as live one-hour long TV programs. SEARCH PROGRAM TITLE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS.
#5898: NO NO NANETTE
1951-03-05, WNBC, 30 min.
Jackie Gleason, Ann Crowley, Danny Scholl, Ruth Matteson

Presented on "MUSICAL COMEDY TIME." This Monday Night anthology series was seen every other week. Thirteen one hour musical comedy presentations were aired.

Jackie Gleason plays an Atlantic City bon vivant showing an aspiring flapper around town. Musical numbers only.
#10575: FIRESTONE HOUR
1951-03-12, NBC, min.
Guest Unknown

Firestone Hour started on radio in 1928 and came to television on September 5th, 1949. It was renamed Voice Of Firestone. See Voice Of Firestone for further details.

               
#10576: FIRESTONE HOUR
1951-05-28, NBC, min.
Guest Unknown

Firestone Hour started on radio in 1928 and came to television on September 5th, 1949. It was renamed Voice Of Firestone. See Voice Of Firestone for further details.

                            
#5964*: NBC TELEVISION OPERA THEATRE: <b>"TROUBLE IN TAHITI"</b>
1952-01-16, WNBT, 54 min.
N/A

January 1950-April 1957. Primarily, monthly airings of classic musicals, some in color. SEARCH PROGRAM TITLE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS.
#5964: TROUBLE IN TAHITI
1952-01-16, WNBC, 54 min.
Beverly Wolff, David Atkinson, Miriam Workman, Earl Rogers, Robert Bollinger

Presented on "NBC TELEVISION OPERA THEATER." A day in the life of Sam and Dinah, a typical suburban couple who bicker at breakfast and dinner, then go to see the movie "Trouble In Tahiti" together. A short 45 minute modern opera, libretto and music by Leonard Bernstein, who conducted the orchestra. A little TV musical gem, clever and timely. Performed with great spirit and an exceptional cast.
#6000: OMNIBUS:135TH STREET
1953-03-29, WCBS, 30 min.
George Gershwin, Alistair Cooke, Jimmy Rushing, De Sylva, B.G., Seymour Robbie

Presented on "OMNIBUS." The third part of this Omnibus presentation is complete. An un-staged George Gershwin one-act opera with an all-Negro cast. Composed by Gershwin in 1922 when he was 23. It's primitive in construction and content, although "The Blue Monday Blues" and some other early Gershwin excursions into the Jazz idiom stand out.  
  
Host for Ominbus series, Alistair Cooke

Directed by Seymour Robbie.  
De Sylva, B.G. -  Librettist
Starring Jimmy Rushing                    
#5908: COLGATE COMEDY SHOW: "ANYTHING GOES"
1954-02-28, WNBC, 54 min.
Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr, Ethel Merman

September 10, 1950-December 25, 1955.

 Most COLGATE COMEDY SHOWS were comedy-variety hours with guest hosts Martin & Lewis, Abbott & Costello, Eddie Cantor, Donald O'Connor, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, & Gordon MacRae. Starting in the Fall of 1952, occasional revues and musicals were broadcast. In the summer of 1955, the name of the series was changed to "Colgate Variety Hour," and when Colgate dropped its sponsorship, the show continued in January 1956 for one half season as the "NBC Comedy Hour." Woody Allen was one of the writers. 
 Presented on "COLGATE COMEDY HOUR." A Sunday evening variety hour. Most shows were comedy variety hours with guest hosts. A few comedy plays and musicals were also televised. 

Ethel Merman recreates her starring role in ANYTHING GOES, loosely based adaptation of the 1934 Cole Porter musical.             
#10599: STAGE SHOW: STARRING TOMMY AND JIMMY DORSEY
1954-07-17, CBS, min.
Jack E. Leonard, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, DeMarco Sisters, Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, Los Gatos, June Taylor Dancers

July 3rd, 1954-September 18th, 1954 (CBS)
October 1st, 1955-September 22nd, 1956 (CBS)      

Musical variety series hosted by Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. 
Introduced as a one-hour show in 1954, it was a summer replacement for the Jackie Gleason Show. Gleason resurrected the show in the fall of 1955, trimming it to a half-hour, preceding his own show.  In 1956, comedian Jack Carter became the permanent emcee of the show, which saw both Elvis Presley and Bobby Darin make their national TV debuts.   

Guests: Jack E. Leonard, DeMarco Sisters.              
#10604: STAGE SHOW: STARRING TOMMY AND JIMMY DORSEY
1954-07-17, CBS, min.
Jack E. Leonard, Tony Bennett, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, DeMarco Sisters, Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, Los Gatos, June Taylor Dancers

July 3rd, 1954-September 18th, 1954 (CBS)
October 1st, 1955-September 22nd, 1956 (CBS)      

Musical variety series hosted by Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. 
Introduced as a one-hour show in 1954, it was a summer replacement for the Jackie Gleason Show. Gleason resurrected the show in the fall of 1955, trimming it to a half-hour, preceding his own show.  In 1956, comedian Jack Carter became the permanent emcee of the show, which saw both Elvis Presley and Bobby Darin make their national TV debuts.   

Guests: Tony Bennett, DeMarco Sisters.                        
#10600: STAGE SHOW: STARRING TOMMY AND JIMMY DORSEY
1954-07-24, CBS, min.
Henny Youngman, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, June Taylor Dancers, Jimmy Nelson, Danny ODay, Clark Brothers, Betty Riley, Farfel The Dummy, The DeMathazzis

July 3rd, 1954-September 18th, 1954 (CBS)
October 1st, 1955-September 22nd, 1956 (CBS)      

Musical variety series hosted by Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. 
Introduced as a one-hour show in 1954, it was a summer replacement for the Jackie Gleason Show. Gleason resurrected the show in the fall of 1955, trimming it to a half-hour, preceding his own show.  In 1956, comedian Jack Carter became the permanent emcee of the show, which saw both Elvis Presley and Bobby Darin make their national TV debuts.   

Guests: Henny Youngman, Jimmy Nelson, Betty Riley, Clark Brothers, The DeMathazzis.                      
#10601: STAGE SHOW: STARRING TOMMY AND JIMMY DORSEY
1954-07-31, CBS, min.
Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, June Taylor Dancers, Jean Carroll

July 3rd, 1954-September 18th, 1954 (CBS)
October 1st, 1955-September 22nd, 1956 (CBS)      

Musical variety series hosted by Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. 
Introduced as a one-hour show in 1954, it was a summer replacement for the Jackie Gleason Show. Gleason resurrected the show in the fall of 1955, trimming it to a half-hour, preceding his own show.  In 1956, comedian Jack Carter became the permanent emcee of the show, which saw both Elvis Presley and Bobby Darin make their national TV debuts.   

Guest: Jean Carroll.                              
#5953: SATINS AND SPURS
1954-09-12, WNBC, 80 min.
Betty Hutton, Genevieve, Guy Raymond, Josh Wheeler, Edwin Phillips, Kevin McCarthy, Neva Patterson

Presented on "MAX LIEBMAN PRESENTS." This was the first of Max Liebman's "Spectaculars," starring Betty Hutton in an original musical comedy vehicle about a romance between a rodeo queen and a writer-photographer who is doing an article about her. No open. Some sound variations.
#5953*: MAX LIEBMAN PRESENTS: <b>"SATINS AND SPURS"</b>
1954-09-12, WNBT, 78 min.
N/A

September 12, 1954-June 6, 1956. Max Liebman, producer of "Your Show of Shows," created lavish variety & musical programming spectaculars (later called specials), which aired on Saturday & Sunday nights once every four weeks. SEARCH PROGRAM TITLE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS.
#10592: YOUR HIT PARADE
1954-09-18, NBC, min.
Dorothy Collins, Gisele McKenzie, Snooky Lanson

October 7th, 1950-June 7th, 1958 (NBC)
October 10th, 1958-April 24th, 1959 (CBS) 
August 2nd, 1974-August 30th, 1974- (CBS)

A musical show where the top songs of the week were performed by the series regulars. Among the show's regulars included Dorothy Collins, Russell Arms, Snooky Lanson, Eileen Wilson, Sue Bennett, and June Valli. Gisele McKenzie joined the group in 1953, replacing June Valli. During the show's final season on NBC in 1957, four new regulars were brought in; Tommy Leonetti, Jill Corey, Virginia Gibson and Alan Copeland who sang with the musical group The Modernaires on bandleader Bob Crosby's daytime show, "Bob Crosby and The Bobcats" on CBS. In 1958 when the show went over to CBS, Dorothy Collins was brought back and co-starred with Johnny Desmond for one season, but the show failed to regain the popularity it once had on NBC. The show left the air in April 1959. The 1974 CBS revival also failed to gain popularity.

All Top Ten Hits.

"Hey There"                                                                                                 
#10593: YOUR HIT PARADE
1954-09-25, NBC, min.
Dorothy Collins, Gisele McKenzie, Snooky Lanson

October 7th, 1950-June 7th, 1958 (NBC)
October 10th, 1958-April 24th, 1959 (CBS) 
August 2nd, 1974-August 30th, 1974- (CBS)

A musical show where the top songs of the week were performed by the series regulars. Among the show's regulars included Dorothy Collins, Russell Arms, Snooky Lanson, Eileen Wilson, Sue Bennett, and June Valli. Gisele McKenzie joined the group in 1953, replacing June Valli. During the show's final season on NBC in 1957, four new regulars were brought in; Tommy Leonetti, Jill Corey, Virginia Gibson and Alan Copeland who sang with the musical group The Modernaires on bandleader Bob Crosby's daytime show, "Bob Crosby and The Bobcats" on CBS. In 1958 when the show went over to CBS, Dorothy Collins was brought back and co-starred with Johnny Desmond for one season, but the show failed to regain the popularity it once had on NBC. The show left the air in April 1959. The 1974 CBS revival also failed to gain popularity.

All Top Ten Hits.

                                                                                                         
#10594: YOUR HIT PARADE
1954-10-09, NBC, min.
Dorothy Collins, Gisele McKenzie, Snooky Lanson

October 7th, 1950-June 7th, 1958 (NBC)
October 10th, 1958-April 24th, 1959 (CBS) 
August 2nd, 1974-August 30th, 1974- (CBS)

A musical show where the top songs of the week were performed by the series regulars. Among the show's regulars included Dorothy Collins, Russell Arms, Snooky Lanson, Eileen Wilson, Sue Bennett, and June Valli. Gisele McKenzie joined the group in 1953, replacing June Valli. During the show's final season on NBC in 1957, four new regulars were brought in; Tommy Leonetti, Jill Corey, Virginia Gibson and Alan Copeland who sang with the musical group The Modernaires on bandleader Bob Crosby's daytime show, "Bob Crosby and The Bobcats" on CBS. In 1958 when the show went over to CBS, Dorothy Collins was brought back and co-starred with Johnny Desmond for one season, but the show failed to regain the popularity it once had on NBC. The show left the air in April 1959. The 1974 CBS revival also failed to gain popularity.

All Top Ten Hits.

                                                                                                                      
#5902: COLGATE COMEDY HOUR: "REVENGE WITH MUSIC"
1954-10-24, WNBC, 54 min.
Edward Everett Horton, Jerry Colonna, Harpo Marx, Ray Middleton, Ilona Massey, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Dietz-Schwartz

September 10, 1950-December 25, 1955.
 Most shows were comedy-variety hours with guest hosts Martin & Lewis, Abbott & Costello, Eddie Cantor, Donald O'Connor, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, & Gordon MacRae. Starting in the Fall of 1952, occasional revues and musicals were broadcast. In the summer of 1955, the name of the series was changed to "Colgate Variety Hour," and when Colgate dropped its sponsorship, the show continued in January 1956 for one half season as the "NBC Comedy Hour." Woody Allen was one of the writers. 


Presented on "COLGATE COMEDY SHOW. Dietz-Schwartz musical about the Governor of a Spanish colony in 1812 who cannot resist the ladies.                          
#5942A: PANAMA HATTIE
1954-11-10, WCBS, 54 min.
Art Carney, Jack E. Leonard, Ethel Merman, Ray Middletown, Karin Wolfe, Neil Hamilton, Joseph Macauley, Betty O'Neill

Presented on "THE BEST OF BROADWAY." Ethel Merman reprises her Broadway role from the 1940 Cole Porter musical about a singer's efforts to impress the scion of Philadelphia society. Betty Furness contributes to the live commercials.
#5942*: BEST OF BROADWAY, THE: <b>"PANAMA HATTIE"</b>
1954-11-10, WCBS, 54 min.
N/A

September 15, 1954-May 4, 1955. An anthology series of nine live broadcasts presented every fourth Wednesday. SEARCH PROGRAM TITLE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS.
#5946: BEST FOOT FORWARD
1954-11-20, WNBC, 80 min.
Marilyn Maxwell, Arte Johnson, Jeannie Carson, Bob Cummings, Charlie Applewhite, Hope Holliday

Presented on "MAX LIEBMAN PRESENTS." Based on the 1941 Broadway hit, set on a school campus. A few edits during the opening of the program.
#5946*: MAX LIEBMAN PRESENTS: <b>"BEST FOOT FORWARD"</b>
1954-11-20, WRCA, 78 min.
N/A

September 12, 1954-June 6, 1956. Max Liebman, producer of "Your Show of Shows," created lavish variety & musical programming spectaculars (later called specials), which aired on Saturday & Sunday nights once every four weeks. SEARCH PROGRAM TITLE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS.
#5910: COLGATE COMEDY HOUR: "LET'S FACE IT"
1954-11-24, WNBC, 54 min.
Bert Lahr, Robert Strauss, Betty Furness, Cole Porter, Joan Blondell, Vivian Blaine, Gene Nelson, Jimmy Gleason, Virginia Gibson, Gloria Jean

September 10, 1950-December 25, 1955. 
Most shows were comedy-variety hours with guest hosts Martin & Lewis, Abbott & Costello, Eddie Cantor, Donald O'Connor, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, & Gordon MacRae. Starting in the Fall of 1952, occasional revues and musicals were broadcast. In the summer of 1955, the name of the series was changed to "Colgate Variety Hour," and when Colgate dropped its sponsorship, the show continued in January 1956 for one half season as the "NBC Comedy Hour." Woody Allen was one of the writers. 

Presented on "COLGATE COMEDY SHOW." A group of married women invite soldiers from a nearby Army camp to their homes. Based on the 1941 Cole Porter musical. No close otherwise complete.             
#9483: COLGATE COMEDY HOUR: "LET'S FACE IT"
1954-11-24, WNBC, 49 min.
Bert Lahr, Robert Strauss, Betty Furness, Cole Porter, Joan Blondell, Vivian Blaine, Gene Nelson, Jimmy Gleason, Virginia Gibson, Gloria Jean

September 10, 1950-December 25, 1955. 
Most shows were comedy-variety hours with guest hosts Martin & Lewis, Abbott & Costello, Eddie Cantor, Donald O'Connor, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, & Gordon MacRae. Starting in the Fall of 1952, occasional revues and musicals were broadcast. In the summer of 1955, the name of the series was changed to "Colgate Variety Hour," and when Colgate dropped its sponsorship, the show continued in January 1956 for one half season as the "NBC Comedy Hour." Woody Allen was one of the writers. 

Presented on "COLGATE COMEDY SHOW." A group of married women invite soldiers from a nearby Army camp to their homes. Based on the 1941 Cole Porter musical. 
Among the original songs of the original show are: "Everything I Love," "Farming," "Let's Not Talk About Love," "You Irritate Me So," "Lay Needs a Rest," "A Little Rumba Numba," "Ace in the Hole," "I Hate You Darling," and "Rub Your Lamp." 
No close otherwise complete.                                       
#10595: YOUR HIT PARADE
1954-12-18, NBC, min.
Dorothy Collins, Gisele McKenzie, Snooky Lanson

October 7th, 1950-June 7th, 1958 (NBC)
October 10th, 1958-April 24th, 1959 (CBS) 
August 2nd, 1974-August 30th, 1974- (CBS)

A musical show where the top songs of the week were performed by the series regulars. Among the show's regulars included Dorothy Collins, Russell Arms, Snooky Lanson, Eileen Wilson, Sue Bennett, and June Valli. Gisele McKenzie joined the group in 1953, replacing June Valli. During the show's final season on NBC in 1957, four new regulars were brought in; Tommy Leonetti, Jill Corey, Virginia Gibson and Alan Copeland who sang with the musical group The Modernaires on bandleader Bob Crosby's daytime show, "Bob Crosby and The Bobcats" on CBS. In 1958 when the show went over to CBS, Dorothy Collins was brought back and co-starred with Johnny Desmond for one season, but the show failed to regain the popularity it once had on NBC. The show left the air in April 1959. The 1974 CBS revival also failed to gain popularity.

All Top Ten Hits.

"Mr. Sandman"

                                                                                                                                                
#5893*: MAX LIEBMAN PRESENTS: <b>"BABES IN TOYLAND"</b>
1954-12-18, WRCA, 78 min.
N/A

September 12, 1954-June 6, 1956. Max Liebman, producer of "Your Show of Shows," created lavish variety & musical programming spectaculars (later called specials), which aired on Saturday & Sunday nights once every four weeks. SEARCH PROGRAM TITLE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS.
#5893: BABES IN TOYLAND
1954-12-18, WNBC, 80 min.
Jack E. Leonard, Wally Cox, Dave Garroway, Barbara Cook, Dennis Day, Ellen Barrie

Presented on "MAX LIEBMAN PRESENTS." This version is a lost television broadcast. Reprising the role of Santa Claus is Dave Garroway, who tells a young girl left in a department store the story of "Babes In Toyland."
#9475: BEST OF ALL: "BLUE MONDAY"
1954-12-27, , min.
Skitch Henderson, Ira Gershwin

          Folk operettas by Ira Gershwin played by Skitch Henderson and company.     
#5918: MERRY WIDOW, THE
1955-04-09, WCBS, 75 min.
Edward Everett Horton, Barry Sullivan, Anne Jeffries, John Conte, Helena Bliss, Jack Russell

Presented on "MAX LIEBMAN PRESENTS." Television adaptation of the 1907 Franz Lehar operetta. No open or close recorded.
#5918*: MAX LIEBMAN PRESENTS: <b>"THE MERRY WIDOW"</b>
1955-04-09, WRCA, 78 min.
N/A

September 12, 1954-June 6, 1956. Max Liebman, producer of "Your Show of Shows," created lavish variety & musical programming spectaculars (later called specials), which aired on Saturday & Sunday nights once every four weeks. SEARCH PROGRAM TITLE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS.
#5904: THREE FOR TONIGHT
1955-06-22, WCBS, 54 min.
Harry Belafonte, Gower Champion, Marge Champion

The three leads from the production of the Broadway musical revue star in this television adaptation. Complete broadcast. Has slight hum.
#5924: ONE TOUCH OF VENUS
1955-08-27, WNBC, 80 min.
Janet Blair, Mort Marshall, Russell Nype, George Gaynes, Laurel Shelby, Iggie Wolfington, Adina Rice, Mildred Traces

Television Adaptation of the 1943 Kurt Weill, musical fantasy about the romantic life of a barber and the statue of Venus that pursues him. No television close is recorded.
#5905: PRODUCER'S SHOWCASE: "OUR TOWN"
1955-09-19, WNBC, 80 min.
Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ernest Truex, Sylvia Field, Peg Hilligs, Carol Venzie

October 18, 1954-June 24, 1957.
 Presented on "PRODUCER'S SHOWCASE." Some of television's most notable single programs were presented on this highly acclaimed series, one of the most costly to be produced during the "Golden Age Of Television."

Frank Sinatra stars in this story of family life in the fictional town of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire.
#19052: OMNIBUS PROGRAM: "THE JAZZ WORLD"
1955-10-16, , min.
Leonard Bernstein

Investigating what separates jazz music from all other forms of music. 

Guest: Leonard Berstein.            
#19047: PORTRAITS IN JAZZ NBC RADIO
1956-01-22, NBC, min.
Thad Jones, Pepper Adams

Featuring Thad Jones and Pepper Adams.      

NBC radio. 
#5987*: FORD STAR JUBILEE: <b>"HIGH TOR"</b>
1956-03-10, WCBS, 96 min.
N/A

September 24, 1955-November 3, 1956. Monthly specials all broadcast in color. A variety of dramas, musicals, and for its final broadcast the TV premiere of the motion picture classic "The Wizard of Oz." Judy Garland's daughter Liza Minnelli and Bert Lahr introduce the film live. SEARCH PROGRAM TITLE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS.
#10519: MAX LIEBMAN PRESENTS: HEAVEN WILL PROTECT THE WORKING GIRL
1956-03-25, NBC, 45 min.
Art Linkletter, Tony Randall, Bert Lahr, Janet Blair, Helen Gallagher, Nancy Walker, Tammy Grimes, Don Pardo, Connie Russell, Robert Carroll, Patricia Hammerlee

Series of monthly specials featuring musical and comedy revues.
Story centers around the hard-working women of the garment industry. Garment workers boss portrayed by Bert Lahr with Tony Randall as program host and salesman in the presentation. Only the musical numbers are heard in this 45-minute special.

Musical Highlights:

"Make A Miracle"- Janet Blair
Working Woman's Fantasy- Helen Gallagher
"Breakfast In Bed"- Tammy Grimes
"Ten Cents A Dance"- Connie Russell
"Poor Young Girl"- Bert Lahr
"Ladies Who Sing With A Band"- Female cast members. Fats Waller rendition. 

This program was telecast in color.

Announcer: Don Pardo. 


                                     
#9477: STAGE SHOW
1956-05-12, CBS, 25 min.
Tommy Dorsey, Roberta Sherwood, Dick Haymes, Jimmy Dorsey, Hines Brothers

      Stage Show with Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey. Guest headliners are all musical. Singer Dick Haymes, song stylist, Roberta Sherwood, in a return engagement, and the Hines Brothers...all perform to music by the Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey Brothers orchestra.       
#5955: PRODUCER'S SHOWCASE: "BLOOMER GIRL"
1956-05-28, WNBC, 80 min.
Barbara Cook, Keith Andes, Paula Stewart, Paul Ford, Carmen Matthews, Nydia Westman

            October 18, 1954-May 27, 1957. 
Live ninety minute productions aired every fourth week. The range of material was vast, from dramas to musicals.

Presented on "PRODUCER'S SHOWCASE." A romantic musical comedy about feminist and abolitionist Dolly Bloomer. This was the only adaptation of the 1944 Broadway hit to be presented on television. A proposed film version in the late 40's and early 50's never materialized due to the blacklist. Partial open, no end credits.                          
#5984*: FORD STAR JUBILEE: <b>"A BELL FOR ADANO"</b>
1956-06-02, WCBS, 96 min.
N/A

September 24, 1955-November 3, 1956. Monthly specials all broadcast in color. A variety of dramas, musicals, and for its final broadcast the TV premiere of the motion picture classic "The Wizard of Oz." Judy Garland's daughter Liza Minnelli and Bert Lahr introduce the film live. SEARCH PROGRAM TITLE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS.
#5984: A BELL FOR ADANO
1956-06-02, WCBS, 50 min.
Barry Sullivan, Edwin Steffe, Frank Yaconelli, James Howell, Marie Siletti, Lisa Fusaro, Naomi Stevens, Michael Vallon, Paul Picerni, John Dennis, Recs Ford, Charles LaLerre, Edwin Firestone, Herbert Patterson, Jay Novello, Ernest Sarracino, Frank Puglia, Hugh Sanders, Anna Maria Alberghetti

Presented on "FORD STAR JUBILEE." An original 90 minute special. An American Army Major serving in the Italian village of Adano, falls in love with a local girl and helps to retrieve the town bell, taken by the Germans. Only a dialog preface and the musical numbers exist on this audio air check.             
#10526: SUNDAY SPECTACULAR: ""THE BACHELOR"
1956-07-15, NBC, 78 min.
Steve Allen, Jayne Mansfield, Hal March, Raymond Bramley, Renzo Cesana, Carol Haney, Harry Holcombe, Georgeann Johnson, Julie Wilson

A bachelor account executive with an advertising agency,thinks he has the perfect set-up with three girlfriends. But his secretary Marion is devoted to him and will do anything for him. Music and lyrics by Steve Allen. Program begins with Allen's signature song, "This Could Be The Start Of Something Big." Directed by Joseph Cates.                                                                           
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The Senior Moments Radio Broadcast show interviews Phil Gries about his Archival Television Audio archive and his restored documentary film, "Harlem School 1970"

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Glen Cove Senior Center
January 23, 2018

visual separator bar Phil Gries' recordings
of vintage sounds
never grow old.
Newsday feature
June 22, 2016

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Hear Phil Gries
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(April 28, 2012)




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Jose Feliciano, at 70, listening to his FIRST TV variety show appearance (Al Hirt: FANFARE), telecast on July 17, 1965, when he was 19 years old.


TV Audio:
Rare & Valued


When TV Variety
Was King


This Anniversary Day
In Television History


ARSC/IASA London Conference: Why Collect?


News 12 Long Island
Live Television Profile:
Archival Television Audio, Inc


CAPTURED LIVE: CULTURES OF TELEVISION RECORDING AND STORAGE, 1945-1975


NBC MATINEE THEATER
FRANKENSTEIN
NBC TV - Feb. 5, 1957
8:23 min. excerpt


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