The Judy Garland Show
The Judy Garland Show is an American musical variety television series that aired on CBS on Sunday nights during the 1963-1964 television season. Despite a sometimes stormy relationship with Judy Garland, CBS had found success with several television specials featuring the star. Garland, who for years had been reluctant to commit to a weekly series, saw the show as her best chance to pull herself out of severe financial difficulties. Production difficulties beset the series almost from the beginning. The series had three different producers in the course of its 26 episodes and went through a number of other key personnel changes. With the change in producers also came changes to the show's format, which started as comedy/variety but switched to an almost purely concert format. While Garland herself was popular with critics, the initial variety format and her co-star, Jerry Van Dyke, were not. The show competed with Bonanza, then the fourth most popular program on television, and consistently performed poorly in the ratings. Although fans rallied in an attempt to save the show, CBS cancelled it after a single season. TV Guide included the series in their 2013 list of 60 shows that were "Cancelled Too Soon".
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1.The Judy Garland Show #1
08-12-196360mTaped: June 24, 1963 Aired: December 8, 1963 Regulars: Jerry Van Dyke Guests: Mickey Rooney Program Highlights: Overture: Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody / By Myself...
2.Episode #2
10-11-196360mTaped: July 7, 1963 Aired: November 10, 1963 Regulars: Mel Torme and Jerry Van Dyke Guests: Count Basie and Judy Henske Program Highlights: Medley: I Hear Music / The Sweetest...
3.Episode #3
17-11-196360mTaped: July 16, 1963 Aired: November 17, 1963 Regulars: Jerry Van Dyke Guests: Liza Minnelli, Soupy Sales and The Brothers Castro Program Highlights: Liza (All the Clouds'll R...
4.Episode #4
13-10-196360mTaped: July 23, 1963 Aired: October 13, 1963 Regulars: Jerry Van Dyke Guests: Lena Horne and Terry-Thomas Program Highlights: Day In - Day Out (Judy Garland and Lena Horn...
5.Episode #5
15-12-196360mTaped: July 30, 1963 Aired: December 15, 1963 Regulars: Jerry Van Dyke Guests: Tony Bennett and Dick Shawn Program Highlights: If Love Were All (Judy Garland) [deleted] Yes I...
6.Episode #6
27-10-196360mTaped: September 13, 1963 Aired: October 27, 1963 Regulars: Jerry Van Dyke Guests: Steve Lawrence and June Allyson Program Highlights: Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries (Judy G...
7.Episode #7
29-09-196360mTaped: September 20, 1963 Aired: September 29, 1963 Regulars: Jerry Van Dyke Guests: Donald O'Connor Program Highlights: Call Me Irresponsible (Judy Garland and Chorus) Sunn...
8.Episode #8
20-10-196360mTaped: September 27, 1963 Aired: October 20, 1963 Regulars: Jerry Van Dyke Guests: George Maharis, Jack Carter, The Dillards and Leo Durocher Program Highlights: Alexander'...
9.Episode #9
06-10-196360mTaped: October 4, 1963 Aired: October 6, 1963 Regulars: Jerry Van Dyke Guests: Barbra Streisand, The Smothers Brothers and Ethel Merman Program Highlights: Comes Once in a Lif...
10.Episode #10
01-03-196460mTaped: October 11, 1963 Aired: March 1, 1964 Regulars: Jerry Van Dyke Guests: Ray Bolger and Jane Powell Program Highlights: I Feel a Song Comin' On (Judy) A Lot of Livin' to...
11.Episode #11
05-01-196460mTaped: October 18, 1963 Aired: January 5, 1964 Regulars: Mel Tormé Guests: Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows Program Highlights: This Could Be the Start of Something Be My Guest...
12.Episode #12
03-11-196360mTaped: November 1, 1963 Aired: November 3, 1963 Guests: Vic Damone and Zina Bethune Program Highlights: From This Moment On (Judy) Be My Guest (Judy, Vic and Zina) Moon Riv...
13.Episode #13
01-12-196360mTaped: November 8, 1963 Aired: December 1, 1963 Guests: Peggy Lee, Jack Carter and Carl Reiner Program Highlights: It's a Good Day Never Will I Marry "Kids" monologue "When...
14.Episode #14
29-12-196360mTaped: November 30, 1963 Aired: December 29, 1963 Guests: Bobby Darin and Bob Newhart Program Highlights: Sing Sing Sing (Chorus) Hello, Bluebird If Love Were All Zing! Went...
15.Episode #15-The Christmas Show
7.022-12-196360mTaped: December 6, 1963 Aired: December 22, 1963 Guests: Jack Jones, Liza Minnelli, Lorna Luft, Joey Luft, Mel Torme and Tracy Everitt Program Highlights: Have Yourself a Merry...
16.Episode #16
12-01-196460mTaped: December 13, 1963 Aired: January 12, 1964 Guests: Ethel Merman, Shelley Berman and Peter Gennaro Program Highlights: Medley: Everybody's Doing It / Let's Do It (Judy, Et...
17.Episode #17
19-01-196460mTaped: December 20, 1963 Aired: January 19, 1964 Guests: Vic Damone, Chita Rivera, Louis Nye and Ken Murray Program Highlights: They Can't Take That Away from Me (Judy and Danc...
18.Episode #18
26-01-196460mTaped: January 14, 1964 Aired: January 26, 1964 Guests: Martha Raye, Peter Lawford, Rich Little and Ken Murray Program Highlights: Seventy-Six Trombones (Judy) Rich talks, sin...
19.Episode #19
02-02-196460mTaped: January 17, 1964 Aired: February 2, 1964 Guests: Louis Jourdan, The Kirby Stone Four and Ken Murray Program Highlights: San Francisco Baubles, Bangles and Beads 'S Won...
20.Episode #20
09-02-196460maka "Judy Garland in Concert" Taped: January 24, 1964 Aired: February 9, 1964 Guests: none Program Highlights: Overture: (Orchestra) Give My Regards to Broadway Swing Low, S...
21.Episode #21
16-02-196460mTaped: January 31, 1964 Aired: February 16, 1964 Regulars: Mel Tormé Guests: Diahann Carroll Program Highlights: Overture: I Can't Give You Anything But Love / Just You, Just...
22.Episode #22
23-02-196460mTaped: February 14, 1964 Aired: February 23, 1964 Guests: Jack Jones and Ken Murray Program Highlights: Swanee (Judy) Almost Like Being in Love / This Can't Be Love (Judy) Ju...
23.Episode #23
08-03-196460mTaped: February 21, 1964 Aired: March 8, 1964 Guests: none Program Highlights: Overture (Orchestra): I'm Always Chasing Rainbows Be a Clown I'm Nobody's Baby Carolina in th...
24.Episode #24
15-03-196460mTaped: February 23, 1964 Aired: March 15, 1964 Guests: Vic Damone Program Highlights: Overture: (Orchestra) I Love You When Your Lover Has Gone Old Devil Moon Do I Love You...
- Ep 25
25.Episode #25
22-03-196460mTaped: March 6, 1964 Aired: March 22, 1964 Guests: Robert Cole Program Highlights: Overture: Ol' Man River / Love / By Myself / Get Happy (Orchestra) Sail Away (Judy) Comes O...
- Ep 26
26.Episode #26
29-03-196460mTaped: March 13, 1964 Aired: March 29, 1964 Guests: none Program Highlights: Overture (Orchestra): That Old Feeling Here's to Us Born in a Trunk Love Walked In Almost Like...
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