The Edie Adams Show, an Emmy Award winning SPECIAL, telecast April 9, 1962, was a TAPED pilot for future Edie Adam's monthly TAPED SPECIALS...a total of eight half hour broadcasts were televised on ABC television, premiering October 23, 1962, followed by broadcasts on December 13, 1962, January 20, 1963, February 26, 1963, March 17, 1963, April 19, 1963, May 28, 1963, June 18, 1963 and called "Here's Edie."
On this premiere broadcast, Peter Falk and Duke Ellington join Edie Adams who opens the show with a vocalise (singing without words) featuring members of the Ellington orchestra: "I've Got It Bad," "I'm Beginning to See the Light," and "Sophisticated Lady." In other segments, Edie sings "Lonely Town." Peter Falk, playin a sagacious cab driver, offers Edie his wide-ranging opinions: and, backed by Ellington's rendition of David Ros's "The Stripper," Edie does a burlesque of a reluctant burlesque queen.
