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The Bing Crosby Show is a 28-episode television
Television

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 situation comedy
Situation comedy

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 starring crooner
Crooner

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, film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 star, and businessman Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
 (1903-1977) and actress Beverly Garland
Beverly Garland

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 (1926-2008) as a middle-aged couple, Bing and Ellie Collins, rearing two teenaged daughers during the early 1960s
1960s

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. In the format, Crosby portrayed an archtectural designer
Architecture

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 with a penchant for singing
Singing

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, and each episode usually contained at least one song. Produced by Crosby's own company, affiliated with Desilu Studios and subsequently CBS Paramount Television
CBS Paramount Television

CBS Paramount Television is an United States television Film production/Film distributor company that was formed on January 17, 2006 by CBS Corporation merging Paramount Television and CBS Productions....
, the series aired on ABC from September 14, 1964, to April 5, 1965.






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The Bing Crosby Show is a 28-episode television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 situation comedy
Situation comedy

A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. Today, sitcoms are found almost exclusively on television as one of its dominant narrative forms....
 starring crooner
Crooner

Crooner is an epithet given to a male singer of a certain style of popular songs, dubbed pop standards. A crooner is a singer of popular ballads and thus a "balladeer"....
, film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 star, and businessman Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
 (1903-1977) and actress Beverly Garland
Beverly Garland

Beverly Garland was an American film and television actress, businesswoman and hotel owner. Garland gained prominence for her role as Fred MacMurray's second wife, "Barbara Harper Douglas," in the long-running 1960s sitcom, My Three Sons ....
 (1926-2008) as a middle-aged couple, Bing and Ellie Collins, rearing two teenaged daughers during the early 1960s
1960s

The 1960s list of decades were the years from the start of 1960 to the end of 1969. The term also refers to an era more often called The Sixties, denoting the complex of inter-related cultural and political trends in the west, particularly United States, United Kingdom, France, Canada, Brazil, Australia, Spain, Italy, and Ger...
. In the format, Crosby portrayed an archtectural designer
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
 with a penchant for singing
Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
, and each episode usually contained at least one song. Produced by Crosby's own company, affiliated with Desilu Studios and subsequently CBS Paramount Television
CBS Paramount Television

CBS Paramount Television is an United States television Film production/Film distributor company that was formed on January 17, 2006 by CBS Corporation merging Paramount Television and CBS Productions....
, the series aired on ABC from September 14, 1964, to April 5, 1965. Rebroadcasts continued until June 14.

The roles of the daughters Janice and Joyce Collins were played by Carol Faylen (born 1949) and Diane Sherry, respectively. Faylen, the first wife of television talk show
Talk show

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 host Regis Philbin
Regis Philbin

Regis Francis Xavier Philbin is an United States television personality and occasional actor known for his roles as a talk show host, game show host, and presenter at various events....
, was a daughter of the actor
Actor

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 Frank Faylen
Frank Faylen

Frank Faylen was an United States movie and television actor.Born Frank Ruf in St. Louis, Missouri, he began his acting career as an infant appearing with his vaudeville performing parents on stage....
 (1905-1985), remembered as the stern-willed father, Herbert T. Gillis, in the CBS series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

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, with Dwayne Hickman
Dwayne Hickman

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 and Bob Denver
Bob Denver

Robert Osbourne "Bob" Denver was an United States comedic actor best known for his role as Gilligan on the television series Gilligan's Island....
.Top Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.

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 character actor
Character actor

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 Frank McHugh
Frank McHugh

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 (1898-1981) appeared as Willie Walters, the Collins's live-in handyman. McHugh made his last television appearance in 1969, also as a handyman, on CBS's Lancer
Lancer (TV series)

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 western
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 series.Christopher Riordan (born 1937) and Pamela Austin (born 1941) appeared twice on the program, he as an unnamed "Neighbor" and she as Clarissa Roberts.

Guest stars included Herbert Anderson
Herbert Anderson

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, Frankie Avalon
Frankie Avalon

Frankie Avalon is an United States actor, Singing, Sex_Symbol, and former teen idol....
, Jimmy Boyd
Jimmy Boyd

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, Macdonald Carey
Macdonald Carey

Edward Macdonald Carey was an United States actor, best known for his role as the patriarch Dr. Tom Horton on NBC's soap opera Days of our Lives....
, Vicki Carr, Dennis Day
Dennis Day

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, Roger Ewing
Roger Ewing

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, Joan Fontaine
Joan Fontaine

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, Kathy Garver
Kathy Garver

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, George Gobel
George Gobel

George Leslie Gobel was an American comedian, best known as the star of his own weekly NBC television show, The George Gobel Show, from 1954 to 1960....
, Kathryn Grant
Kathryn Grant

Kathryn Grant may refer to:* Kathryn Crosby, American actress who also used the stage name Kathryn Grant* Kathryn Ptacek, American author who also wrote under her married name, Kathryn Grant...
 (Crosby's second wife, also known as Kathryn Crosby), Pat Harrington, Jr.
Pat Harrington, Jr.

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, Phil Harris
Phil Harris

Phil Harris was an United States singer, songwriter, jazz musician, actor and comedian. Though successful as an orchestra leader, Harris is remembered today for his recordings as a vocalist, his Voice acting in animation and the radio situation comedy in which he co-starred with his second wife, singer-Actor Alice Faye, for eight years....
, Charles Lane
Charles Lane

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, Nobu McCarthy
Nobu McCarthy

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, Gary Morton
Gary Morton

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, Ken Murray, Lloyd Nolan
Lloyd Nolan

Lloyd Benedict Nolan was an American film and television actor....
, Ruth Roman
Ruth Roman

Ruth Roman was an American actress....
, and James Shigeta
James Shigeta

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.

The Bing Crosby Show aired at 9:30 p.m. Eastern on Monday
Monday

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s, following George Burns
George Burns

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's unsuccessful attempt at a return to weekly television comedy in his Wendy and Me
Wendy and Me

Wendy and Me is a 1964 in television-1965 in television American Broadcasting Company situation comedy, principally starring George Burns and Connie Stevens....
 series, co-starring Connie Stevens
Connie Stevens

Connie Stevens is an United States Actor and singer....
, Ron Harper
Ron Harper (actor)

Ronald Robert "Ron" Harper is an United States television and film actor....
, James T. Callahan
James T. Callahan

James Thomas Callahan was an American film and television actor who appeared in more than 120 films and television shows between 1959 and 2007....
, and J. Pat O'Malley
J. Pat O'Malley

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. The program preceded the Ben Casey
Ben Casey

Ben Casey is a medical drama television series which ran on American Broadcasting Company from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its iconic opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "?, ?, Asterisk, ?, 8" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Pioneering neurosurgeo...
 medical drama
Medical drama

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, another Crosby Production. The series faced competition on CBS from the sitcom entitled Many Happy Returns
Many Happy Returns (TV series)

Many Happy Returns is a situation comedy television series that ran on CBS for twenty-six episodes, from September 21 1964 to April 12 1965....
, about the complaint department of a Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

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 department store
Department store

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 and co-starring John McGiver
John McGiver

John Irwin McGiver was an United States character actor who made more than a hundred appearances in television and motion pictures over a two-decade span from 1955 to 1975....
, Elinor Donahue
Elinor Donahue

Elinor Donahue is an United States actress. The naturally red-headed Donahue played Robert Young 's eldest/popular daughter, Betty Anderson, on the popular 1950s sitcom, Father Knows Best, first on National Broadcasting Company, and then Columbia Broadcasting System....
 and Mark Goddard
Mark Goddard

Mark Goddard is an United States film actor who has starred in a number of television shows. He is most widely known for his role as Jonathan Harris's long-suffering space partner, Major Don West, in the cult 1960s TV series, Lost in Space....
. On NBC, Crosby faced the second half of the popular The Andy Williams Show
The Andy Williams Show

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, which alternated with a Jonathan Winters
Jonathan Winters

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 variety program.

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