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Tennessee
Ernie Ford in The Ford Show
The Ford Show (also known as The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie
Ford and
The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show) is an American variety program,
starring singer
and folk humorist Tennessee Ernie Ford, which aired on NBC on
Thursday evenings
from October 4, 1956 to June 29, 1961. The show was actually named
for sponsor
Ford Motor Company. Beginning in September 1958, the show began to
be
telecast in color.
Ford first gained attention as the host of Hometown Jamboree in Los
Angeles.
In 1954, he hosted a brief revival of Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical
Knowledge,
a quiz show on NBC. It's also one of the first places that showed
Charles M. Schulz's
Peanuts characters in animated form, which, like the later specials,
was directed
by Bill Melendez. Most of the shows have been lost and the Studios
don't seem
very interested in remastering the few that have been found.
This select group of 22 Very Rare complete shows offers a wide
variety of
guest stars as well as two of the only 5 shows in which Ernie did
not have
a guest star. Taken from old 16MM prints the quality of these shows
are
excellent - ranging 8 to 8.5 and all contain the original vintage
Ford commercials
DVD 1
Jan 1, 1959 - With Danny Thomas (B & W)
Jan 15, 1959 - With Kate Smith (B & W)
May 14, 1959 - With Ethel Waters (B & W)
Jan 22, 1959 - With Kate Smith (B & W)
June 25, 1959 - Andre Previn (B & W)
Jan 21, 1960 - With Charlie Weaver (B & W)
March 10, 1060 - With folk singer Odetta (B & W)
Sept 22, 1960 - With George Gobel (Color)
DVD 2
Dec 1, 1960 -With Tony Bennett (Color)
Jan 5, 1961 - A Salute to American legends
Jan 12, 1961 - Sherri Lewis (Color)
Feb 2, 1961 - With Brenda Lee (Color)
Feb 23, 1961 - With Minnie Pearl (B & W)
March 9, 1961 - A Salute to Sailing
March 23, 1961 - With Robert Horton (Color)
March 30, 1961 - With Joe Flynn aboard U.S. Navy vessel (Color)
DVD 3
April 13, 1961 - With - The Everly Brothers (Color)
April 20, 1961 - With - Roberts Sherwood (Color)
May 18, 1961 - With Andy Devine & Ralph Edwards (Color)
June 1, 1961 - With Tab Hunter (Color)
June 15, 1961 - With Hoagy Carmichael
June 29, 1961 - THE LAST SHOW (Color)
Bonus - 2 Rosemary Clooney Shows from 1956 with Julie London & Tony
Curtis
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