S01E01 The Judy Garland Show #1
Taped: 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 / I Can't Give You Anything But...
The Judy Garland Show
S01E12: Episode #12
Taped: 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 River (Judy) ""Crazy Rhythm"" (Zina and Boy Dancers) Getting to Know You (Judy and Zina) Medley: On the Street Where You Live / Let's Take an Old Fashioned Walk (Vic and Girl Dancers) Porgy and Bess Medley: Bess, Oh Where's My Bess? Summertime It Ain't Necessarily So Summertime I Got Plenty o' Nuttin' There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York Bess, You Is My Woman Now (Judy and Vic) Tea for Two segment: George Jessel [insert from Episode #6] All-Purpose Holiday Medley: Auld Lang Syne Deck the Halls Easter Parade Dear Old Donegal Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (I Am The) Yankee Doodle Boy / You're a Grand Old Flag
Overview
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".
Episodes
S01E02 Episode #2
Taped: 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 Sounds / Strike Up the...
S01E03 Episode #3
Taped: 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 Roll Away) (Judy Garland; Liza appears at end)...
S01E04 Episode #4
Taped: 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 Horne) comedy monologue (Terry-Thomas) ""I Want to...
S01E05 Episode #5
Taped: 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 Indeed (Judy Garland, Tony Bennett, Dick Shawn...
S01E06 Episode #6
Taped: 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 Garland and Boy Dancers) Happiness Is a...
S01E07 Episode #7
Taped: September 20, 1963 Aired: September 29, 1963 Regulars: Jerry Van Dyke Guests: Donald O'Connor Program Highlights: Call Me Irresponsible (Judy Garland and Chorus) Sunny Side Up (Judy, joined by Donald and Jerry) ""Sing You...
S01E08 Episode #8
Taped: September 27, 1963 Aired: October 20, 1963 Regulars: Jerry Van Dyke Guests: George Maharis, Jack Carter, The Dillards and Leo Durocher Program Highlights: Alexander's Ragtime Band (Judy) Be My Guest (Judy, George and Jack)...
S01E09 Episode #9
Taped: 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 Lifetime (Judy and Dancers) Be My Guest (Judy,...
S01E10 Episode #10
Taped: 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 Do (Judy) Be...
S01E11 Episode #11
Taped: 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 School fight songs comedy sketch: Cheer...
S01E12 Episode #12
Taped: 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 River (Judy) ""Crazy Rhythm"" (Zina and...
S01E13 Episode #13
Taped: 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 the World Was Young" Judy Garland...
S01E14 Episode #14
Taped: 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 the Strings of My Heart Sing Sing...
S01E15 Episode #15-The Christmas Show
Taped: 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 Little Christmas, Consider Yourself, Where Is Love?,...
S01E16 Episode #16
Taped: 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, Ethel, Shelley, Peter and Dancers) Shelley Berman "Telephone"...
S01E17 Episode #17
Taped: 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 Dancers) I Believe in You (Judy,...
S01E18 Episode #18
Taped: 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, sings "The Man That Got Away," Judy requests voices for...
S01E19 Episode #19
Taped: 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 Wonderful You Do Something to Me Whispering I...
S01E20 Episode #20
aka "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, Sweet Chariot Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away) Make...
S01E21 Episode #21
Taped: 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 Me Hey, Look Me Over Smile I...
S01E22 Episode #22
Taped: 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) Just in Time (Judy) A Foggy...
S01E23 Episode #23
Taped: 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 the Morning On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa...
S01E24 Episode #24
Taped: 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? Lucky Day (Judy) Sweet Danger...
S01E25 Episode #25
Taped: 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 Once in a Lifetime (Judy)...
S01E26 Episode #26
Taped: 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 Being in Love The Man That...
Cast
Judy Garland
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Jerry Van Dyke
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Mel Tormé
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