The Garry Moore Show was the name for several separate American variety series on the CBS television network in the 1950s and 1960s. Hosted by the genial and experienced radio performer, Garry Moore, the series helped launch the careers of many comedic talents, such as Don Adams, George Gobel, Carol Burnett, Don Knotts and Jonathan Winters. A variety show is a show with a variety of acts, often including music and comedy skits. ... For other uses, see CBS (disambiguation). ... A television network is a distribution network for television content whereby a central operation provides programming for many television stations. ... Garry Moore (or Gary Moore, although Gary Moore is a musician) (January 31, 1915 – November 28, 1993) was born in Baltimore, Maryland as Thomas Garrison Morfit. ... Don Adams, born Donald James Yarmy, (April 13, 1923 – September 25, 2005) was a New York City-born actor best known for his role as Maxwell Smart (Agent 86) in the TV situation comedy Get Smart (1965–1970, 1995), for which he also directed and wrote. ... George Leslie Gobel (May 20, 1919 - February 24, 1991) was an American comedian, born in Chicago, Illinois, and known as Lonesome George. ... Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is one of the most successful female comediennes on American television, thanks largely to her eponymous variety show that ran on CBS from 1967 through 1978. ... Don Knotts in his thirties. ... Jonathan Winters (born November 11, 1925 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American comedic actor. ...

The first incarnation of the show began in June, 1950 as a Monday-through-Friday 30-minute evening series. The show changed to a once-weekly one-hour format by August. In the fall of 1950 CBS rescheduled the show each weekday in the afternoon, and it ran in this format until mid-1958. The series featured a relaxed and flexible combination of comedy skits, monologues, singing, and interaction with the studio audience. The show became an important commercial success for CBS. 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Comedy is the use of humor in the form of theater, where it simply referred to a play with a happy ending, in contrast to a tragedy. ... A monologue is a speech by one person directly addressing an audience. ... A song is a relatively short musical composition for the human voice (possibly accompanied by other musical instruments), which features words (lyrics). ... A television studio is an installation in which television or video productions take place, either for live television, for recording live on tape, or for the acquisition of raw footage for postproduction. ... An audience is a group of people who participate in and experience or encounter a work of art, literature, theatre, music or academics in any medium. ...

In 1958 Moore ended the show because of his demanding work schedule, but he returned in the fall of the same year with a once-weekly hour-long evening series, with the same title and pretty much the same format. Allen Funt's Candid Camera segments became a regular feature of this series, along with a lengthy recap segment called "That Wonderful Year." Moore again decided to end the series in 1964 to enjoy some rest and relaxation away from a radio and television career that had lasted three decades. Allen Funt (September 16, 1914 _ September 5, 1999) is an American celebrity best known as creator and host of Candid Camera from 1951-1954 and 1960_1966 on CBS. He began the show on radio as Candid Microphone on ABC radio. ... Candid Camera is a long-running television series, created and produced by Allen Funt, which initially appeared on radio as Candid Microphone in the 1940s, then screened in the United States in the 1950s, with local versions produced around the world. ...

Moore returned with yet another version of the show in the fall of 1966. Due to very tough competition from Bonanza on NBC, the show was cancelled after only five months. The Garry Moore Show garnered a number of Emmy nominations and wins, and is now generally considered one of the classic variety series of the early days of American television. The Bonanza logo was superimposed upon a map of a wild west frontier area. ... NBC, formerly called the National Broadcasting Company, is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... An Emmy Award. ...

External links

• Museum of Broadcast Communications page for Garry Moore
• IMDb page for the 1958-64 and 1966-67 versions of The Garry Moore Show
• Summary web site for the 1958-64 and 1966-67 versions of The Garry Moore Show