Judy Garland's variety show, while not popular at the time, has come to be regarded as some of her finest work.

The Judy Garland Show was an American musical variety television series that aired on the CBS Network during the 1963-1964 season. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A variety show is a show with a variety of acts, often including music and comedy skits, especially on television. ... radio and United States. ... Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ...

The series was the first and only weekly program starring entertainer Judy Garland, and it was produced as a followup to an Emmy-nominated special broadcast in February 1962 (also called The Judy Garland Show) in which Garland had performed with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. She had just turned 41 when production began on the first episode in July 1963; the series debuted on September 29, 1963. Earlier that year, she had appeared in another, lesser-known television special for CBS, with guests Phil Silvers and Robert Goulet. Superscript text Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an Oscar-nominated American film actress, considered by many to be one of the greatest singing stars of Hollywoods Golden Era of musical film, best known for her role as Dorothy Gale from The... An Emmy Award. ... Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American jazz oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Phil Silvers (May 11, 1911 – November 1, 1985) was an American entertainer and comedy actor. ... Robert Goulet Robert Gerard Goulet (born November 26, 1933 in Lawrence, Massachusetts) is an American entertainer. ...

The Judy Garland Show was shot on videotape at CBS Television City in Los Angeles although it was originally to have been produced in New York City. Bottom view of VHS videotape cassette with magnetic tape exposed Videotape is a means of recording images and sound onto magnetic tape as opposed to movie film. ... CBS Television City is a television studio located in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles West Side at 7800 Beverly Boulevard, at the corner of Beverly and Fairfax Avenue. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...

Judy herself received very positive critical reaction and some of the best notices of her career. The series itself, however, got mixed reviews. The first episode broadcast, featuring Donald O'Connor, beat her competition, NBC's wildly popular western Bonanza, in the national ratings. From then on, however, the viewers who sampled Judy's show went back to Bonanza, as her ratings slipped lower and lower. As a result, CBS adjusted the format of the show several times. Original producer George Schlatter was replaced after the first five episodes by Norman Jewison, who in turn was replaced after another seven episodes by Bill Colleran. This, combined with the fact episodes were shown out of order, led to the series having an uneven quality. Under Colleran, the series increasingly became a one-woman show with a strong emphasis on music. According to Judy Garland: A Portrait in Art and Anecdote by John Fricke, the show registered a sharp rise in the ratings. Donald David Dixon Ronald O’Connor (August 28, 1925 – September 27, 2003) was a dancer, singer, and actor who came to fame in a series of movies in which he co-starred alternately with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule. ... NBC (a former acronym for National Broadcasting Company) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... The Bonanza logo was superimposed upon a map of a wild west frontier area. ... Norman Frederick Jewison, CC, BA, LL.D (born July 21, 1926) is a Canadian film director, producer, and actor. ...

Critics of Garland's work often cite The Judy Garland Show as among her finest late-career work, and the series allowed her to appear with (and vocally duel with) the likes of Lena Horne, Ethel Merman, Peggy Lee, Mel Tormé, Barbra Streisand, Bobby Darin (the closest thing to a rock and roll performer the show ever had), and Vic Damone. Garland also got to perform with her daughters Liza Minnelli and Lorna Luft for the first time in a professional venue. The series also featured much-publicized reunions with some of her MGM movie co-stars such as Mickey Rooney, Peter Lawford, June Allyson, and Ray Bolger. During Bolger's appearance, he and Garland performed "The Jitterbug", presenting to live audiences for the first time the song that had been deleted from their 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz. (The song had previously been featured, as sung by Garland, on a 1939 single, along with Over the Rainbow, and on a 1940 Decca studio recording of songs from the film.) Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (born June 30, 1917 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York) is a popular African American singer. ... Ethel Merman (January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was a Tony Award winning star of stage and film musicals, well known for her powerful voice and vocal range. ... Peggy Lee (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002) was an American Jazz and Traditional Pop singer and songwriter and Oscar-nominated performer. ... Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999), nicknamed The Velvet Fog, is best known as one of the great male jazz singers. ... Barbra Joan Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an Academy Award-winning American singer, theatre and film actress, composer, liberal political activist, film producer and director. ... Bobby Darin (May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) (born Walden Robert Cassotto) was one of the most popular American big band performers and rock and roll teen idols of the late 1950s. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... Vic Damone (born June 12, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York) is an ItalianAmerican singer. ... Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning American actress and singer. ... Lorna Luft (born November 21, 1952 in Santa Monica, California) is the daughter of the legendary singer/actress, Judy Garland and Judys third husband and manager, Sidney Luft. ... MGM logo Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, is a large media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. ... Actor Mickey Rooney speaks at the Pentagon in 2000 during a ceremony honoring the USO. Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule, Jr. ... The Rat Pack. ... June Allyson (October 7, 1917 – July 8, 2006) was an American film and television actress, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. ... Ray Bolger (January 10, 1904 – January 15, 1987) was an American entertainer of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of the Scarecrow (and the farmworker Huck) in the 1939 film classic, The Wizard of Oz. ... The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, see The Wizard of Oz (adaptations). ... Decca may refer to: Decca Records, a 1929 British record label, also known as Decca Music Group Decca Radar (later Racal-Decca Marine), a British marine electronics manufacturer, a spin-off from the gramophone and records company Decca tree, a microphone recording system London Decca, a maker of turntable tonearms...

Another highlight occurred when Garland performed "Battle Hymn of the Republic" in tribute to the recently assassinated President John F. Kennedy, a personal friend. The Battle Hymn of the Republic is a patriotic anthem written by Julia Ward Howe for the United States during the American Civil War as a replacement for the words to the marching song John Browns Body. ... John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also referred to as John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, John Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, or JFK, was the 35th President of the United States. ...

Appearing as a regular on the series was comedian/actor Jerry Van Dyke. Most episodes ended with Garland singing "Maybe I'll Come Back." The original lyrics for the song included the line "President Coolidge is a cousin of mine." For the TV series, Garland would substitute a different name each time she sang the song. People honored in this way ranged from the show's video camera operator to Bela Lugosi; the Lugosi lyric was the one chosen when a segment of the show was recreated in the made-for-TV biopic Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows. Jerry Van Dyke (born July 27, 1931, in Danville, Illinois) is an American comedian and actor. ... John Calvin Coolidge Jr. ... Bela Lugosi as Dracula United States stamp. ...

Despite the star power, and the aforementioned ratings rebound under Colleran's tenure, The Judy Garland Show was cancelled in the spring of 1964, with 26 episodes produced. Most of these episodes have been released on DVD. Capitol Records released an album of songs from the show, and in 2002, Hip-O Records released, The Judy Garland Show: The Show That Got Away, a collection of soundtrack recordings from the show, including several performances that were never broadcast. DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label, owned by EMI. // The Capitol Records company was founded by the songwriter Johnny Mercer in 1942, with the financial help of movie producer Buddy DeSylva and the business acumen of Glenn Wallichs, (1910-1971) (owner of Music City, at the... Hip-O Records is now part of Universal Music Group. ...

Christmas special

The Judy Garland Show Christmas Special was videotaped on December 6, 1963 and broadcast on December 22, 1963 as a special episode of The Judy Garland Show. The show featured performances by Garland and her children, Liza Minnelli, Lorna Luft, and Joey Luft. Other guest performances were by Mel Tormé, Jack Jones and Tracy Everitt. December 6 is the 340th day of the year (341st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... December 22 is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Jack Jones, singer Jack Jones (born John Allan Jones in January 14, 1938) is an American jazz and pop singer. ...

The set, used only for this episode, was a California-modern style home inspired by Garland's own home, appropriate to the family theme of the episode.

Taped only weeks after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, no mention is made of the national trauma. The poignant side of the Christmas holiday is nevertheless much in evidence.

The episode is often shown as a stand-alone special during the holiday season by the Trio channel in the United States. Categories: Television stubs | U.S. television networks | General Electric subsidiaries ...

Full List of Guests

• Mickey Rooney
• Count Basie
• Liza Minnelli
• Soupy Sales
• Lena Horne
• Terry-Thomas
• Tony Bennett
• Dick Shawn
• Steve Lawrence
• June Allyson
• Donald O'Connor
• Jack Carter
• Leo Durocher
• The Dillards
• Barbra Streisand
• The Smothers Brothers
• Ethel Merman
• Ray Bolger
• Jane Powell
• Steve Allen
• Jayne Meadows
• Vic Damone
• Zina Bethune
• Peggy Lee
• Carl Reiner
• Bobby Darin
• Bob Newhart
• Jack Jones
• Lorna Luft
• Joey Luft
• Mel Tormé
• Shelley Berman
• Chita Rivera
• Louis Nye
• Martha Raye
• Peter Lawford
• Louis Jourdan
• Diahann Carroll

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External links

• The Judy Garland Show at the Internet Movie Database
• The Judy Garland Show (1962 special) at the Internet Movie Database
• Judy Garland Database site on the series
• [1] The Judy Garland Online Discography Television Section