The Judy Garland Show — Season 1, Episode 16: Episode #16
Comedy • 60 min • 1 season, 26 episodes • ★ 8.2/10
Episode synopsis
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" sketch (Shelley, Dancers and Singers as businessmen) Gee! But It's Good to Be Here (Ethel) That Old Feeling (Ethel) [deleted] I Get a Kick out of You (Ethel) I Love a Parade (Peter and Dancers) Shenandoah (Judy) Magazine Sketch (Judy and Shelley) [deleted] Makin' Whoopee (Judy and Peter, joined by Shelley) Judy Garland - Ethel Merman Medley (Judy and Ethel): Friendship Let's Be Buddies You're the Top You're Just in Love It's De-lovely Together (Wherever We Go) Born in a Trunk: A Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow (Judy) Puttin' on the Ritz (Judy) Battle Hymn of the Republic (Judy)
About 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".