September 30th, 1958-June 16th, 1964

The Garry Moore variety series made a star out of Carol Burnett,brought back Allen Funt's Candid Camera and showcased many fine musical and comedic talents from 1958-1964.The highlight of most shows was "That Wonderful Year," consisting of film clips, comedy sketches and production numbers based on the events and styles of a given year.

Regulars: Garry Moore, Carol Burnett (1959-1962), Dorothy Loudon (1962-1964),Allen Funt (1959-1960, Durward Kirby (1958-1964)and Marion Lorne (1958-1962).

Christmas Show

Satire sketch on "What's My Line?" is included.   

                                                                                                                                                                                                      

October 28th, 1950- September 15th, 1964 (CBS)
September 25th,1964-September 10th, 1965 (NBC)    

Jack Benny's half-hour show mixed variety and situation comedy with a company of regulars: Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, announcer Don Wilson, Dennis Day, Mel Blanc, and Mary Livingston.   

Guests: Sentimental Sweethearts

                                                                                    

World Today is a radio news program broadcast over the Mutual Broadcasting System and hosted by Tony Marvin. 

The top news stories of 1962. Part 1-the Cuban missile crisis, the Cuban invasion prisoners ransomed by Castro for $63 million dollars, the China-Indian fighting, the rift between the Soviets and Red China, President Kennedy chides steel companies for threatened price rise, the stock market slumps severely, Edward Kennedy wins Senatorial seat in Massachusetts, Nelson Rockefeller wins reelection as the Governor of New York State, Nixon's farewell news conference
following gubernatorial defeat in the California election, President Kennedy is subject to considerable joking and takeoff by comedians. 

Host: Tony Marvin. 

                                                                                                                                                           

Comment on Indian-Red China conflict and future possibilities, comment on Peking-Moscow rift, the war in South Vietnam, and Laos.             

December 24th, 1948- June 4th, 1950 (NBC) October  2nd, 1950-June 24th 1955 (CBS) September  17th 1955- June 12th, 1963 (NBC) 

In 1944, the year his first record was released, Perry Como appeared on radio in The Chesterfield Supper Club; when that show came to television late in 1948, Como came with it, and has remained on television for more than four decades. The Chesterfield Supper Club, which also featured The Mitchell Ayres Orchestra and the Fontane Sisters, was originally seen on Friday nights but soon shifted to a half-hour slot on Sundays, opposite Ed Sullivan's "Toast Of The Town." In the fall of 1950, Como shifted to CBS where he hosted his own show for the next five seasons; the fifteen-minute program was seen Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, following the network news. Also featured were the Mitchell Ayres Orchestra and The Fontane Sisters, together with announcer Frank Gallop. In the fall of 1955 Como returned to NBC, where he hosted a weekly hour show for the next eight years; from 1955 to 1959 it was seen Saturdays and was titled The Perry Como Show. From 1959 to 1963 it was seen on Wednesdays and was titled The Kraft Music Hall. The Mitchell Ayres Orchestra and Frank Gallop were again featured, along with The Ray Charles Singers and The Louis DaPron Dancers (later, The Peter Gennaro Dancers). The Como Music Hall Players included Don Adams, Paul Lynde, Kaye Ballard, Jack Duffy, and Sandy Stewart.

Show of 12-26-62. Guests: Dancer Eleanor Powell, Singer Caterina Valente, pianist Roger Williams. Medley of songs from the movies of Eleanor Powell. Tap dance number.

Commercials included. Announcer Frank Gallop. 

Elwood P. Goodman (Jonathan Winters), poses as Merv Griffin's uncle and opens the show. Winters, Griffin, and Carol Channing take on numerous comedy improvisations. 
Note: Originally scheduled guest Woody Allen could not make the show at the last minute and Jonathan Winters filled in. One of the most hilarious appearances on the Merv Griffin NBC show. It would be Winter's only appearance.             

  WOR AM newscast and commentary by John Wingate who worked as a reporter for WOR radio and Television from 1947 to May 1977.                          

World Today is a radio news program broadcast over the Mutual Broadcasting System and hosted by Tony Marvin. 

The top news stories of 1962. Space: John Glenn orbits the earth three times, Scott Carpenter also orbits the Earth three times, the Russians orbit two spacemen Nikolayev and Popovich, the US's Walter Schirra orbits the earth six times, the Mariner 11 spacecraft passes near Venus. a comment by Dr. Willy Ley, the US to resume nuclear testing, the Soviets propose a nuclear test ban, "Der Spiegel affair" in West Germany, German politics, British politics, Eddie Fisher, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton affair, comment by Fisher, he denies rumors of a breakup, comments by man-in-the-street, racial crisis in Oxford, Mississippi, Governor Barnett denies the registration of James Meredith, President Kennedy says he will send troops, two die in suceeding riots, a hospital error results in several baby deaths, doctors strike in Canada, thialiminide deformities in newborn babies, Adolf Eichmann, Robert Soblen, Fritz Kreisler, Charles Laughton, Thomas Mitchell, Marilyn Monroe, and Eleanor Roosevelt all died in 1962, comments by Isaac Stern on Kreisler, Marilyn Monroe talks about acting, Boxing deaths Benny (Kid) Paret dies from injuries he suffered in his fight against Emile Griffith in Madison Square Garden in New York City, Sonny Liston wins the heavyweight boxing crown defeating Floyd Patterson in a first round knockout, John Steinbeck wins the Nobel Prize, a comment on Hollywood films.

Host: Tony Marvin. 

                                                                                                                                                                        

September 27, 1962-September 3, 1967 (NBC); September 20, 1969-July 17, 1971 (NBC); 1976 (Syndicated). In 1962, Williams was finally given a fall series on NBC; the hour show lasted five seasons and featured The New Christy Minstrels and the Osmond Brothers. His third NBC series, which premiered in 1969, featured comics Charlie Callas and Irwin Corey, along with Janos Prohaska; the hour show lasted another two seasons. In 1976, Williams hosted a syndicated series, entitled "Andy." The half-hour show featured puppeteer Wayland Flowers. 

Tournament Of Roses Queen Nancy Davis is a guest. 
                                                                                                                    

January 27, 1961-April 21, 1961; September 28, 1961-September 21, 1964. This was the first broadcast of the series. Home viewers were able to participate in this hour-long musical series, as the lyrics to the songs were superimposed at the bottom of their screens; viewers were invited to "follow the bouncing ball" as it moved from one lyric to the next. Goateed composer-arranger Mitch Miller led the Sing-Along Gang, and on-stage aggregation of about two dozen. Among the featured vocalists were Leslie Uggams, Diana Trask, Barbara McNair, and Gloria Lambert. "Sing Along with Mitch" was introduced on "Ford Startime" in 1960 and had a limited run in the spring of 1961, alternating with "The Bell Telephone Hour," before going weekly in the fall of that year. Reruns were exhumed in the spring of 1966 to replace the faltering "Sammy Davis Jr. Show." Bill Hobin produced and directed the series.  

                                                                                                                              

8-4-62-?? 1963

Frankly Jazz was a thirty minute musical television program, produced in Los Angeles and broadcast on KTLA television in the early 1960's. Each program featured one or more prominent West Coast Jazz performers of the day. The program was hosted by jazz disk jockey Frank Evans. Regulars on the show included musicians Bud Shank, Gary Peacock, Larry Bunker, Terry Morel, Chico Guerrero and composer, arranger and pianist Clare Fischer. 

                                                                           

NEW YEARS EVE SHOW

July 2, 1955-September 4, 1971; 1971-1982 (Syndicated). "The Lawrence Welk Show" presented middle-of-the-road music for almost three decades. Numbers were performed by the members of Welk's television family. That large group included the Lennon Sisters (Dianne, Peggy, Kathy and Janet), Alice Lon, Norma Zimmer, Tanya Falan, Arthur Duncan, Joe Feeney, Guy Hovis, Jim Roberts, Ralna English, Larry Hooper, Jerry Burke and former Mouseketeer Bobby Burgess.                                                                                                        

Dupe 0f 346.                                                                                       

President Kennedy speaking to the 1200 Cuban invasion prisoners
recently returned to the US, in Miami, Florida,              

October 1, 1960-September 22, 1962 (CBS)
September 29, 1962-December 28, 1963(ABC)
April 25, 1964-December 12, 1964 (ABC)

Magician Mark Wilson hosted this Saturday kid's show which blended magic tricks and illusions with a fantasy story line.         

The New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther chooses the ten best films of 1962. Jack Gould comments on this year's TV programs.  

Broadcast on WQXR radio.                                                

The space flights of John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Pavel Popovich, Walter Schirra, and Andriyan Nikolayev, the first TV transmission via Telstar to and from Europe, the Ecumenical Council opens in Rome through the efforts of Pope John. Russia and the US continue nuclear testing, Ban-the-Bomb demonstrators in US and England, racial crisis: James Meredith, University of Mississippi, conflict, riots, the crisis in Albany, Georgia, President Kennedy objects to US Steel price rise, Black Monday, May 28th, Wall Street plunges, mid-term elections- Rockefeller, Romney, Scranton win Governorships, Pat Brown defeats Richard Nixon for Governorship of California, Edward Kennedy wins Massachusetts Senate seat, the Kennedy family and its activities such as Mrs. Kennedy's travels and social activities, a tour by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kennedy of the Far East, US involvement in South Vietnam, Chinese armies invade India, Prime Minister Nehru comments on India's position, Cuban missile crisis, the return of the Cuban "Bay-Of-Pigs" prisoners, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt dies, comments by Mrs. Roosevelt and President Kennedy.                                                                                    

Guests are Henry Morgan, Jimmy Piersall, Adam Keefe and Woody Allen.             

Beginning in 1929, a New Year's Eve Tradition...Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians. Guy Lombardo was best known to TV audiences for his annual New Year's Eve telecasts. His brothers Carmen (the band's musical director), Victor, & Lebert were all members of the orchestra. Guy, the eldest, was designated the leader. For most of his years in television, Guy Lombardo represented nostalgia for the '30s and '40s. At midnight the traditional welcoming in of the New Year at Times Square is presented. Jack Lescoulie brings in the New Year at Times Square.   

The best-known New Year's Eve shows on radio and then television was hosted by bandleader Guy Lombardo, who hosted 21 consecutive New Year's Eve shows from 1956 to 1976 on CBS, and for a time in syndication. Lombardo's first radio broadcast on New Year's Eve was heard on December 31, 1928 over CBS Radio, and for a time he even split hosting duties by broadcasting on CBS Radio before 12 Midnight EST and on NBC Radio after Midnight. Lombardo would host 48 straight New Year's Eve broadcasts until his death in 1977, and famously performed "Auld Lang Syne" by his Royal Canadians as the clock struck 12 Midnight, ushering in the start of a New Year. 

Once the Lombardo orchestra began their annual television shows, there would be a live segment from Times Square, which was (and still is) the focal point of the nation's largest New Year's celebration. In the early years of Lombardo's television specials, Robert Trout reported on and counted down to Midnight in New York's Times Square; but for most of Lombardo's years on television, another legendary newsman, Ben Grauer, had the honor. (Grauer, by the way, also reported from Times Square for NBC Radio on celebrations following the surrender of Japan on August 14, 1945.

The first New Year's Eve special on television was broadcast on December 31, 1941 on WNBT New York, and consisted of entertainment broadcast from the Rainbow Room, atop the RCA Building in New York's Rockefeller Center.[3]

Due to World War II, there would be no more New Year's Eve specials on television until December 31, 1945. WNBT produced a remote broadcast of festivities in Times Square. While NBC had begun to feed programs to WRGB is the Albany area and WPTZ in Philadelphia, information is unavailable as to whether either or both of these stations broadcast the program, or if it was seen just locally in New York.[4]

Unless New Year's Eve fell on a weekend, NBC would carry a special New Year's version of "The Tonight Show" each year beginning in 1954, including coverage of the arrival of the New Year in Times Square.

Dick Clark himself had actually emceed one New Year's Eve TV special prior to 1972; on December 31, 1959, he emceed a 90-minute New Year's special on ABC. One of the guests was Frankie Avalon. But it would be the last time Clark would do a New Year's Eve television special for the next thirteen years.

By the 1970s, Lombardo's big band music skewed to an older generation, so Dick Clark started his telecast in 1972 to compete.  

New Year's Eve celebration, ushering in the year 1963. pickup from Times Square with Robert Trout and Guy Lombardo's orchestra (The Royal Canadians) from the Americana Hotel in New York City.                                                          

Voices in The Headlines was an American news program broadcast on ABC radio featuring the top news stories of the day. It was hosted by long-time radio and television announcer Fred Foy. 
The top news stories of 1962: The Algerian rebellion ends, the OAS (secret army) insurrection to maintain a French Algeria, problems of nuclear disarmament, the cycle of Nuclear testing, comments by Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater and Edwin Walker on the "communist conspiracy," Walker's involvement in the integration crisis, Oxford racial crisis, comments by Governor Ross Barnett, racial tension in Southern cities, JFK's domestic problems. 

Host: Fred Foy.                                                                                           

October 28th, 1950- September 15th, 1964 (CBS)
September 25th,1964-September 10th, 1965 (NBC)    

Jack Benny's half-hour show mixed variety and situation comedy with a company of regulars: Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, announcer Don Wilson, Dennis Day, Mel Blanc, and Mary Livingston.   

At a New Year's Eve Party Jack is reminded of the time he asked his maid Zelda (Hope Holiday) to go with him to the Rose Bowl.  

                                                                                                                                    

February 14, 1962-June 16, 1963

In his first regular television assignment for ABC, after serving as a news correspondent for CBS for 20 years, Howard K. Smith presented this weekly news and commentary program. It featured a summary of the week's major news events, commentary and analysis by Mr. Smith and interviews with prominent people in the news.

Politics, domestic problems, space, integration, and personalities are discussed. 

Howard K. Smith Reports.                          

June 20, 1948-June 6, 1971. Television's longest-running variety show ran on Sunday nights for twenty-three years. Its host, Ed Sullivan.  

Guests:Jack Carter, Harry Belafonte.         

Joined in progress. 

Songs: "Scarlet Ribbons" "Joy, Joy, Joy."     

World Today is a radio news program broadcast over the Mutual Broadcasting System and hosted by Tony Marvin. 

News analysis and predictions for 1963. 

Host: Tony Marvin. 

                                                                                                                                              

September 25, 1962-June 23, 1970. One of television's most inventive and popular comedians, Red Skelton hosted his own series for twenty years, seven of them in a one-hour format, "The Red Skelton Hour" on CBS. Skelton began his television career on NBC September 30, 1951 with a half-hour filmed variety series lasting until June 21, 1953. He then began his CBS affiliation, and began hosting "The Red Skelton Show," a half-hour variety show broadcast live until October 18, 1960, and subsequently on videotape. This series aired from October 13, 1953, continuing until June 26, 1962. From July 21, 1954 through September 8, 1954, "The Red Skelton Revue" was broadcast live on CBS in a one-hour format. Red Skelton returned to NBC in a half-hour taped format for his final series. "Red" as the show was known, premiered September 14, 1970. The first four broadcasts included introductions by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew (September 14, 1970), Dean Martin (September 21, 1970), Jack Benny (September 28, 1970), and Johnny Carson (October 5, 1970) who got his big break writing for Skelton in the early 1950's. Red Skelton's last first-run regularly scheduled television program aired on March 15, 1971. 

An "Antony and Cleopatra" sketch is performed. 



                                                                                                                  

 December 1, 1963 - April 12, 1964
 
Mostly forgotten but substantive weekly local late night half hour program which aired at different times (11:00 pm,11:30 pm, midnight, and 12:30am) Sunday on WOR. A  similar format to Meet the Press. After 18 weeks WOR went back to televising late night movies. 

News director of WOR TV is the moderator. Each Sunday night three distinguished opinion makers give editorials on a given subject. 

Tonight our opinion makers are:
Joseph Newman (permanent panel member) of the New York Herald Tribune, Richard Hunt,  New York Times political correspondent, and William Ryan, Associated Press special correspondent. 

Tonight's discussion begins related to President Lyndon Baines Johnson's first week in office immediately following  the assassination  of President John F. Kennedy,  November 22nd.                      

November 21, 1962 - February 27 1963

Max Morath, a ragtime pianist and raconteur, hosts this half-hour series focusing on the nations manners and morals at the turn of the century, a period spanning three decades from 1890 to 1920.

The idea that the history of any era can be told in terms of its popular songs is being put to the test on this new series comprised of 15 episodes by New york's educational channel. 


Featuring Max Morath, a ragtime pianist and raconteur, this half-hour series of broadcasts takes a musical look at the turn of the century.

In this episode Robert Benson  and Max Morath take a look at the communication revolution. 

This series is one of the earliest examples of programming on the newly formed New York Public Broadcast Station WNDT Ch.13, which debuted on the air September 16, 1962.                                                                                                        

November 21, 1962 - February 27 1963

Max Morath, a ragtime pianist and raconteur, hosts this half-hour series focusing on the nations manners and morals at the turn of the century, a period spanning three decades from 1890 to 1920.

The idea that the history of any era can be told in terms of its popular songs is being put to the test on this new series comprised of 15 episodes by New york's educational channel. 


Featuring Max Morath, a ragtime pianist and raconteur, this half-hour series of broadcasts takes a musical look at the turn of the century.

In this episode Robert Benson  and Max Morath take a look at the transportation revolution. 

This series is one of the earliest examples of programming on the newly formed New York Public Broadcast Station WNDT Ch.13, which debuted on the air September 16, 1962.                                                                                                                     

An English translation of Cuban Premier Fidel Castro's 4th-anniversary speech.             

Commentary on Red China.            

September 21st, 1962- September 10th, 1965 (NBC)

Jack Paar elected to pursue a three year NBC series in prime time soon after stepping down as host of THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JACK PAAR (1957-1962). These broadcasts took on the form of a variety / talk show format. Each telecast opened with a Paar monologue. Also shown from time to time were personal home movies shot by Jack on various trips by the Paar family to Africa, Russia, and Europe.Jack's daughter, Randy Paar would often assist her dad narrating these films.  

Appearing with Jack were many of his old regulars from the TONIGHT SHOW including Alexander King, Oscar Levant and Jonathan Winters. This 10pm Friday prime time slot attracted many notable guests, including Richard Nixon, Barry Goldwater and Ted Kennedy. Also, given exposure were many young and veteran entertainers, Liza Minnelli, Judy Garland, Ethel Merman, Peggy Lee, and stand-up comedians, among them, Woody Allen, Bill Cosby, Godfrey Cambridge, Jackie Vernon, Mike Nichols & Elaine May, Burns & Schreiber, and Dick Gregory. 

Impact appearances occurred introducing footage of The Beatles, prior to the group appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show, and a young Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali), singing and spewing poetry with Jack and Liberace. 

After three years (one and a half years less than his tenure on THE TONIGHT SHOW), Jack Paar called it quits and would prematurely retire from the business with the exception of  producing and starring in a handful of Specials for NBC and accepting one brief return to regular television, for nine months, hosting an ABC late night talk show, JACK PAAR TONITE in 1973).

Jack's guests are Zsa Zsa Gabor and Jayne Mansfield.

                                                   

 News commentary.           

Radio and television news with TV and radio critic Val Adams.                           

Guests are Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jayne Mansfield, The Plaza 9 Review and Senor Wences.                                                                                           

Program 6 of 18 programs in the series originally broadcast in 1961. The funny, frustrating business of acting for the movies, in short takes. Love scenes at 9 a.m., creating brainless roles and the battles against type casting are all deftly recalled by hostess Aileen Pringle. 
Comments from Myrna Loy, Henry Fonda, Janet Gaynor, Mae Murray, Rod Steiger, Basil Rathbone, Melvyn Douglas, Ralph Bellamy, Walter Abel, Roddy McDowall and Nita Naldi. A feature presentation of the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company in collaboration with the Oral History Research Project of Columbia University. Produced by Joan Franklin and Robert Franklin.    

 NOTE: Robert  C. Franklin (1920-1980), inspired by a 1958 newspaper story he read about Columbia University's POPULAR ARTS ORAL HISTORY PROJECT, approached Dr. Louis Starr, then director of the oral-history collection, with a proposal to interview and tape record, on to 1/4" reel to reel audio tapes, movie people as they passed through New York. The objective would be to document, through personal recollections, the era of the silent era in films, the impact of sound, the triumphs and inequities of the major studios, and life in the glittering film capital...a firsthand account revelation of how silent movies were actually made.  

Robert  and his wife, Joan Franklin went on to record 200 reels of audio tape, recording celebrities mostly in New York City hotel rooms in 1958 and 1959. Transcripts of interviews were made available at the time to students and researchers. 

In 1961 excerpts/highlights from these audio tapes were edited into a 16 part  radio series titled, MEMOIRS OF THE MOVIES. Myrna Loy provided a standard opening. A different celebrity host/hostess was employed to introduce each episode. All of the 90 celebrities interviewed have since passed away with the exception of Joanne Woodward. Two additional episodes were later produced, "Style of the 70's," and "Rush To Reality," both hosted by Ben Gazzara and added, subsequently, to  re-issues of the series which were syndicated in the 1960's and 1970's airing  in New York (WINS), Boston (WBZ), Philadelphia (KYW), Baltimore (WJZ), Fort Wayne (WOWO), Chicago (WIND), San Francisco (KPIX), and Los Angeles (KFWB).  

The original 200 unedited reels of 1/4" audio tape interviews recorded by Joan and Robert Franklin are no longer known to exist. However, audio cassette transfers from these original tapes were donated by Joan Franklin many decades ago to Columbia University's Oral History Research Office where they exist  today.
Confirmed during a 2009 phone conversation with Mary Marshal Clark, archivist at Columbia at that time, who stated that the first on file communication from Robert  Franklin to Columbia University related to his  proposal to do an oral history audio recorded project is dated, July 31, 1958.
                                  

John Henry Faulk was a storyteller and radio show host. A Victim and Supporter of the Blacklist Struggle. 

David Susskind is John Henry Faulks's guest. Susskind raps Merrick and reviews Merrick's review of his own play, "Oliver" which Merrick brought to the United States in 1963. He calls Merrick an Abdominal Snowman, and heavily criticizes the producer.
Susskind also reviews and pans the play "Hidden Strangers." 


                                                                                                                              

September 30th, 1958-June 16th, 1964

The Garry Moore variety series made a star out of Carol Burnett,brought back Allen Funt's Candid Camera and showcased many fine musical and comedic talents from 1958-1964.The highlight of most shows was "That Wonderful Year," consisting of film clips, comedy sketches and production numbers based on the events and styles of a given year.

Regulars: Garry Moore, Carol Burnett (1959-1962), Dorothy Loudon (1962-1964),Allen Funt (1959-1960, Durward Kirby (1958-1964)and Marion Lorne (1958-1962).

"That Wonderful Year" is 1924. 

   

                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

November 21, 1962 - February 27 1963

Max Morath, a ragtime pianist and raconteur, hosts this half-hour series focusing on the nations manners and morals at the turn of the century, a period spanning three decades from 1890 to 1920.

The idea that the history of any era can be told in terms of its popular songs is being put to the test on this new series comprised of 15 episodes by New york's educational channel. 


Featuring Max Morath, a ragtime pianist and raconteur, this half-hour series of broadcasts takes a musical look at the turn of the century.

In this episode Robert Benson  and Max Morath take a look at leisure time at the turn of the century. 

This series is one of the earliest examples of programming on the newly formed New York Public Broadcast Station WNDT Ch.13, which debuted on the air September 16, 1962.                                                                                                                                               

December 24th, 1948- June 4th, 1950 (NBC) October  2nd, 1950-June 24th 1955 (CBS) September  17th 1955- June 12th, 1963 (NBC) 

In 1944, the year his first record was released, Perry Como appeared on radio in The Chesterfield Supper Club; when that show came to television late in 1948, Como came with it, and has remained on television for more than four decades. The Chesterfield Supper Club, which also featured The Mitchell Ayres Orchestra and the Fontane Sisters, was originally seen on Friday nights but soon shifted to a half-hour slot on Sundays, opposite Ed Sullivan's "Toast Of The Town." In the fall of 1950, Como shifted to CBS where he hosted his own show for the next five seasons; the fifteen-minute program was seen Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, following the network news. Also featured were the Mitchell Ayres Orchestra and The Fontane Sisters, together with announcer Frank Gallop. In the fall of 1955 Como returned to NBC, where he hosted a weekly hour show for the next eight years; from 1955 to 1959 it was seen Saturdays and was titled The Perry Como Show. From 1959 to 1963 it was seen on Wednesdays and was titled The Kraft Music Hall. The Mitchell Ayres Orchestra and Frank Gallop were again featured, along with The Ray Charles Singers and The Louis DaPron Dancers (later, The Peter Gennaro Dancers). The Como Music Hall Players included Don Adams, Paul Lynde, Kaye Ballard, Jack Duffy, and Sandy Stewart.

Show of 1-9-63. Guests: Singer, Dancer Jane Powell, Actor Peter Ustinov who reads from his play "Photo Finish." 

Commercials included. Announcer Frank Gallop.