The Judy Garland Show — Season 1, Episode 23: Episode #23
Comedy • 60 min • 1 season, 26 episodes • ★ 8.2/10
Episode synopsis
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 Fe The Boy Next Door The Man That Got Away Over the Rainbow Medley: Once in a Lifetime / I Feel a Song Comin' On (Judy) Medley: If I Had a Talking Picture of You / Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goodbye) (Judy) Dirty Hands, Dirty Face (Judy) Love of My Life (Judy) The Boy Next Door (Judy) On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe (Judy) Alexander's Ragtime Band (Judy) You're Nearer (Judy) Steppin' Out with My Baby (Judy) I'm Always Chasing Rainbows (Judy) The Man That Got Away (Judy) Be a Clown (Judy) Once in a Lifetime (reprise) (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".