The Bob Crosby Show (1953–1957) User Reviews (2)

For a daytime variety show, this is excellent

[Thor-Delta · 9/10 · 28 May 2012]

I recently viewed an episode of this series (a 30-minute episode) on the Internet Archive website. I jokingly posted a review saying I showed it to an "professional back-stabbing assassin" who I mentioned as having liked it.

All kidding aside, seeing the old episode of this series was fun. The episode I saw contained a mix of musical segments (including an unusual rendition of the popular standard "Dream"), plus some light-hearted game show segments which incorporated music in some respect. For example, in one of the game segments, the wives played a version of charades where the husbands had to guess the song title.

Production values of the episode were good for a daytime series, but not spectacular. The kinescope recording was in good condition, though the upload on the Internet Archive has somewhat heavy digital compression. I believe the 16mm kinescope print itself is held by archivist Ira Gallen.

I don't know how many episodes of this series survive in the CBS vaults or elsewhere. I've since viewed another episode of this series, plus a partial episode. Both were excellent as well.

My mom always missed the daytime variety shows after the '50s and '60s

[bpatrick-8 · 19 December 2017]

My mom used to never miss this show and Tennessee Ernie Ford's in the afternoons. She enjoyed not only the music but the cast members on both shows. ("American Bandstand" was also one of her favorites, at least when it was a daily show from Philadelphia.) Although she enjoyed the Mike Douglas and Merv Griffin shows I don't think it was the same for her as the musical-variety daytime shows in the '50s, and she would often get nostalgic for the Crosby show in particular and I still think she liked Bob better than she did Bing. . I think she hoped Don Ho's 1976 ABC show would revive the genre but against "The Young and the Restless" (11 AM in Dallas, where we were living then). there was no chance.