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The Jimmy Dean Show
Variety
Created byJimmy Dean
Written byFrank Peppiatt
John Aylesworth
Presented byJimmy Dean
StarringJimmy Dean
Jim Henson
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes86 (list of episodes)
Production
Production locationsNew York City, US
Running time60 minutes
Original release
NetworkABC (1963–1966)
First-run syndication (1973-1975)
ReleaseSeptember 19, 1963 (1963-09-19) –
April 1, 1966 (1966-04-01)
1964

The Jimmy Dean Show is the name of several similar music and

network television between 1963 and 1975. Each starred country music singer Jimmy Dean
as host.

Daytime

The Jimmy Dean Show, initially called Country Style, aired live on

The Morning Show from 7 to 7:45 a.m. ET Monday–Friday before the station's regular newscast. Guests included Chet Atkins, Jay Chevalier, Billy Walker, Little Jimmy Dickens, George Hamilton IV, and the Country Lads; Mary Klick was a regular. The producer was Connie B. Gay
.

CBS then carried The Jimmy Dean Show on its daytime schedule from September 14, 1958, to June 1959 from New York, airing from 2 to 2:30 p.m. ET Monday–Saturday. Guests on the variety program included Hans Conried and Jaye P. Morgan.

Prime time

The Jimmy Dean Show aired as a live half-hour summer series from Washington, DC, on CBS-TV from June 22 to September 14, 1957 from 10:30 to 11 p.m. on Saturday nights. Guests included

Andrews Sisters.[2]

Jimmy Dean and Rowlf the Dog

The Jimmy Dean Show was later an hour-long weekly music and variety television show carried by ABC for three seasons from September 19, 1963, to April 1, 1966, out of ABC Studio One in New York.[3][4] Its first season was written by Peppiatt and Aylesworth, and Scott Vincent was the announcer. Of the eighty-six episodes produced at ABC, ten shows were made on the road: four at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee; three at ABC Studios in Hollywood, California; one in Winter Haven, Florida, and one at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

The variety program featured country performers such as

Hank Williams, Jr., who at the age of fourteen sang several songs associated with his legendary late father, Hank Williams.[citation needed
]

Jimmy Dean and Rowlf the Dog

The show introduced

Muppet to score a regular spot on a network television show and appeared in 85 of the 86 episodes. While Don Sahlin maintained the puppet, Jerry Juhl assisted in writing the Rowlf sketches with the help of the show's staff writers and even assisted Jim Henson and Jimmy Dean on occasion. During production on episodes that featured Rowlf the Dog, Jim Henson would perform Rowlf with the Muppet's right arm operated by Frank Oz, and later by Jerry Nelson.[6] Henson was so grateful for the exposure Dean offered on his show that he in turn proposed that Dean take a 40 percent stake in Henson's company. Dean refused, however, later saying in 2005, "I didn't do anything to earn that."[7]

When it came to an episode of The Ed Sullivan Show that aired on October 8, 1967, Jimmy Dean and Rowlf the Dog were reunited one final time where they performed "Friendship" while doing the "herd of cows" gag.

Influence

Peppiatt and Aylesworth, a Canadian duo who wrote for The Jimmy Dean Show, noted that while it had a country music star, and rural comedy was extremely popular in the 1960s, the show itself had quite little rural humor. In 1969, Peppiatt and Aylesworth created Hee Haw as a way to cater to the rural audience, bringing on two of Dean's most frequent guests as hosts, Buck Owens and Roy Clark.[4]

ABC schedules

Home media and syndication

The longer-running prime-time series was produced on black and white videotape which was later disposed of by ABC. Eighty-two of the surviving 1960s reference 16mm Kinescope copies of the series were salvaged from the UCLA Archives by the Jimmy Dean Estate and restored by Donna Dean Stevens Entertainment in 2016 and 2017. In January 2017, the painstakingly remastered Season 1 of the show, which had not been seen in over 50 years, was released as a DVD set. The set includes exclusive interviews with Merle Haggard, Bobby Bare, Bill Anderson, and Donna Dean Stevens.[8]

Remastered by restoration producer and editor Steve Boyle, the restored show began broadcast on

RFDTV on January 1, 2017.[8][9]

Notes

  1. WMAL-TV
    .
  2. ^
    ISBN 0-345-37792-3
    .
  3. ^ Adams, Val (January 1, 1964). "A.B.C.-TV TO DROP '77 SUNSET STRIP' / Also Discontinuing 3 Other Series Before April". The New York Times, p.41. Retrieved November 18, 2018.
  4. ^ a b [1], The Jimmy Dean Show Official Site - History
  5. ^ [2], The Jimmy Dean Show Official Site
  6. ^ [3], Jim Henson's Red Book entry, November 18, 1965
  7. ^ [4], Craig McDonald interviews Jimmy Dean, 2005
  8. ^ a b [5], Jimmy Dean Show Restoration Press Conference
  9. ^ [6], The Jimmy Dean Show on RFDTV

References

External links
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