Your Show of Shows (1950)
Plot.
Your Show of Shows was a live 90-minute variety show that was broadcast weekly in the United States on NBC, from February 25, 1950, until June 5, 1954, featuring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca.
Other featured performers were Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Bill Hayes, Judy Johnson, The Hamilton Trio and the soprano Marguerite Piazza. José Ferrer made several guest appearances on the series. The series was telecast from the now-demolished International Theatre at 5 Columbus Circle and the Century Theater, now demolished, in New York.
During 2002, Your Show of Shows was ranked #30 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Cast & Crew.
Sid Caesar
Self - Regular Performer / Self / Self - Host
Imogene Coca
Self - Regular Performer / Self / Self Regular Performer
Carl Reiner
Self - Regular Performer / Self
Sylvester Weaver
Writer
Howard Morris
Self - Regular Performer / Self
James Starbuck
Self - Regular Performer / Regular Performer / Self
Marguerite Piazza
Self / Self - Dial shampoo commercial / Self - Guest Vocalist
Charlton Heston
Self - Guest Performer / Self - Guest Host
Jayne Meadows
Various
June Lockhart
Various
Eartha Kitt
Self - Guest Perfomrer
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Self
Betty Furness
Herself
Al Capp
Paul Douglas
Gene Nelson
Jane Wyatt
Teresa Wright
Gertrude Lawrence
Pearl Bailey
Marguerite Chapman
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Alicia Markova
Wendy Barrie
Geraldine Page
Basil Rathbone
Wanda Hendrix
Skitch Henderson
Coleen Gray
Leo Genn
Richard Carlson
Henry Morgan
Jack Carson
Melvyn Douglas
John Conte
Larry Storch
Maria Tallchief
Marilyn Maxwell
Cedric Hardwicke
Eva Gabor
Corinne Calvet
Madge Evans
Claude Dauphin
Richard Arlen
Rudy Vallee
Ilona Massey
Richard Ney
Dennis O'Keefe
Lee Bowman
Angela Lansbury
Binnie Barnes
Richard Greene
Robert Cummings
Marsha Hunt
Signe Hasso
Dave Garroway
Nanette Fabray
Michael Redgrave
Madeleine Carroll
Virginia Field
Martha Scott
Paul Winchell
Veronica Lake
Dane Clark
Jeffrey Lynn
Constance Bennett
Jinx Falkenburg
Arleen Whelan
John Hodiak
Kim Hunter
John Cameron Swayze
Laraine Day
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Your Show of Shows is a live 90-minute variety show that was broadcast weekly in the United States on NBC from February 25, 1950, through June 5, 1954, featuring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. Other featured performers were Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Bill Hayes, baritone singer Jack Russell, Judy Johnson, the Hamilton Trio and the soprano Marguerite Piazza. José Ferrer made several guest appearances on the series.
The show has been featured in several lists of the greatest television series. Most of the series has been preserved to some extent, but only some sketches have been released on home video.
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