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The Garry Moore Show

The Garry Moore Show is the name for several separate American variety series on the CBS television network in the 1950s and 1960s. Hosted by experienced radio performer Garry Moore, the series helped launch the careers of many comedic talents, such as Dorothy Loudon, Don Adams, George Gobel, Carol Burnett, Don Knotts, Lee Goodman, James Kirkwood, Jr., Lily Tomlin, and Jonathan Winters. The Garry Moore Show garnered a number of Emmy nominations and wins.

The Garry Moore Show

Garry Moore
Carol Burnett (1959–1962)
Durward Kirby
Marion Lorne (1958–1962)

United States

30/60 minutes

CBS

June 26, 1950 (1950-06-26) –
January 8, 1967 (1967-01-08)

Origins[edit]

The show originally started as a radio program; CBS eventually awarded Moore his own early-evening television show in its place. Durward Kirby, Moore's radio partner since 1940, made the move to TV with him and appeared throughout all three versions of the TV show.

Original version (1950–1958)[edit]

The first incarnation of the show began in June 1950 as a Monday-through-Friday, 30-minute evening series. It was also simulcast on radio. The show changed to a once-weekly, one-hour format by August. The primetime edition, titled The Garry Moore Evening Show, alternated with The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show on Thursday nights from September through December 1951.


In the fall of 1950, Moore moved to a daytime show on CBS, at first in the early afternoon and later in midmorning. The series featured a relaxed and flexible combination of comedy skits, monologues, singing, and interaction with the studio audience. It was an important commercial success for CBS, and it ran in this format until mid-1958.


On October 6, 1952, the program was cut from an hour to 30 minutes, still beginning at 1:30 pm Eastern Time but ending at 2 pm rather than the previous 2:30 ending. It originated at WCBS-TV in New York City.[1]

The Garry Moore Show Presents: A Carol Burnett Christmas (2012) features the Christmas episodes from 1959, 1960, and 1961. Guests included Mahalia Jackson and Henry Morgan (1959), Jonathan Winters and Louise O'Brien (1960), and Julie Andrews and Gwen Verdon (1961). The 1961 show includes Julie's earliest televised recording of "My Favorite Things", three years before filming The Sound of Music.

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: Carol's Favorites (2012) includes as a bonus feature the March 6, 1962, episode where Burnett, playing Supergirl, delivers her first televised "Tarzan yell".[7] The episode guests included Alan King and Barbara McNair, and a peek at the end credits shows how many of the production and writing staff on whom she relied during her own show came from those with whom she worked on The Garry Moore Show.

The Carol Burnett Show

As of 2012, at least four episodes of the second version of the show are available on DVD.

Museum of Broadcast Communications page for Garry Moore

at IMDb

The Garry Moore Show

Summary web site for the 1958–64 and 1966–67 versions of The Garry Moore Show