TV ShowEnded

Ford Star Jubilee

7.0 / 10
1955
1 season
12 episodes
ComedyDrama

Ford Star Jubilee is an American anthology series that aired once a month on Saturday nights on CBS at 9:00 P.M., E.S.T. from the fall of 1955 to the fall of 1956. The series was approximately 90 minutes long, aired in black-and-white and color, and was typically broadcast live. Ford Star Jubilee was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company.

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  • Ep 1

    1.The Judy Garland Show

    24-09-195590m

    Musical variety with Judy Garland in her TV debut as a performer. Songs included: You Made Me Love You-Garland/Swanee-Garland/Palace Medley: Shine On, Harvest Moon/Some of These...

  • Ep 2

    2.Together With Music

    22-10-195590m

    Musical revue. Songs included: Together With Music-Martin & Coward/Uncle Harry, Nina, Mad Dogs and Englishmen-Coward/I Only Have Eves For You, I Get A Kick Out of You, Les Fille...

  • Ep 3

    3.The Caine Mutiny Court Martial

    19-11-195590m

    A dramatization of the trial of Lieutenant Maryk for his role in the Caine mutiny against the paranoiac Captain Queeg.

  • Ep 4

    4.I Hear America Singing

    17-12-195590m

    Musical variety salute to America and her music.

  • Ep 5

    5.Blithe Spirit

    14-01-195690m

    Charles Condomine is a writer living in the English countryside with his second wife Ruth. He's researching a book involving metaphysics and invites a medium, Madame Arcati, to hi...

  • Ep 6

    6.The Day Lincoln Was Shot

    11-02-195690m

    The story begins with President Lincoln at 7 a.m. Friday, April 14, 1865 and ends the next day at 7:22 a.m. when he is pronounced dead by Surgeon General Barnes. In between a numb...

  • Ep 7

    7.High Tor

    10-03-195690m

    Van Van Dorn is torn between his love of his fiancee Judith and a mountain, High Tor, which he owns. His fiancee breaks their engagement when Van refuses to sell the mountain to a...

  • Ep 8

    8.Twentieth Century

    07-04-195690m

    When Oscar Jaffe, a brilliant but eccentric Broadway impresario, boards the 20th Century Limited in Chicago, he makes sure that his compartment adjoins that of the tempestuous movi...

  • Ep 9

    9.This Happy Breed

    05-05-195690m

    Noel Coward's salute to the English people shows how an ordinary family lived between the wars. Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. An ordinary...

  • Ep 10

    10.A Bell For Adano

    02-06-195690m

    US Army Major Joppolo is a civil government administration officer assigned to restore government in a small town in Italy at the end of World War II. He grows to understand that p...

  • Ep 11

    11.You're The Top

    06-10-195690m

    Musical salute to Cole Porter. Songs included: Another Op'nin', Another Show-Entire Cast/Anything Goes-Don Crichton & Dancers/You Do Something to Me-Dorothy Dandridge/In the Sti...

  • Ep 12

    12.The Wizard of Oz

    03-11-195690m

    The final Ford Star Jubilee was the first television broadcast of the 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz. The show was expanded to two hours and Bert Lahr was engaged to host with ass...

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