The Judy Garland Show (1963)
The Judy Garland Show (1963)
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Judy Garland
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Jerry Van Dyke
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Mel Tormé
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Bradford Craig
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Donald O'Connor
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Barbra Streisand
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Dick Smothers
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Tom Smothers
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Lena Horne
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Terry-Thomas
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George Maharis
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Leo Durocher
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Steve Lawrence
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June Allyson
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Zina Bethune
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Count Basie
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Judy Henske
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Peggy Lee
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Jack Carter
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Carl Reiner
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Mickey Rooney
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Tony Bennett
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Dick Shawn
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Lorna Luft
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Joey Luft
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Bobby Darin
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Bob Newhart
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Steve Allen
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Jayne Meadows
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Ethel Merman
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Shelley Berman
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Chita Rivera
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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. Despite it being cancelled relatively early on, it is now revered and considered an important piece of television history.
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 and variety but switched to an almost purely concert format. (In fact, as of episode 20, the on-screen title of the show became Judy Garland In Concert.)
While Garland herself was popular with critics, the initial variety format and her co-star, Jerry Van Dyke, were not. The show competed with NBC's Bonanza, then the second 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".