Big Show

The Big Show was heard over NBC from 11/05/50 to 04/20/52.  It was the last major attempt to turn the television tide back to radio.  The broadcast budget per show was set at $100,000.  The biggest stars of the day were heard every week.  Some of the stars to visit the show were, Bob Hope, Fred Allen, Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, Danny Thomas, Groucho Marx, Fanny Brice, Eddie Cantor, Rudy Vallee, Ed Wynn, Judy Garland and Danny Kaye to name but a few.

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Big Show Vol. 1


Big Show Vol. 2

Big Show Vol. 3

Big Show Vols. 1-3

 

Big Show Vol. 1

 11/05/50 # 1 w/Fred Allen, Jimmy Durante, Paul Lukas, Danny Thomas, Larraine Day, Portland Hoffa
 11/12/50 # 2 w/Groucho Marx, Fanny Brice, Ezio Pinza, Hanley Stafford,  John Agar, Jane Powell
 11/19/50 # 3 w/Eddie Cantor, Mindie Carson, Jimmy Durante, Bob Hope, Perry Como, Jose Ferrer, Ray Middleton, Evelyn Bordon
 11/26/50 # 4 w/Fred Allen, Ed Wynn, Jack Carson, Ed "Archie" Gardner, Meredith Wilson
 12/03/50 # 5 w/Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Fred Allen, Joan Davis, Margaret Truman, Mindy Carson, Phil Silvers, Tallulah Bankhead
 12/10/50 # 6 w/Clifton Webb, Jimmy Durante, Imogene Coca, Joe Buskin, Charles Boyer
 12/17/50 # 7 w/Bob Hope, Phil Harris, Louis Armstrong,  Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, Deborah Kerr, Dorothy McGuire
 12/24/50 # 8 w/Jimmy Durante, Robert Merrill, Margaret O'Brien, Bert Lahr,  Ed Wynn, Fran Warren
 12/31/50 # 9 w/Vivian Blaine, Jose Ferrer, Margaret O'Brien, Sam Levine, Ken Murray, Gloria Swanson
 01/07/51 #10 w/Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Danny Thomas,  Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, Phil Baker
 

Big Show Vol. 2

 01/14/51 #11 w/Louis Calhern, Jack Carter, Jimmy Durante, Martha Raye
 01/21/51 #12 w/Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Eddie Cantor, Judy Holliday, Gypsy Rose Lee, Vaughn Monroe, Patrice Munsel
 01/28/51 #13 w/Ray Bolger, Gary Cooper, Danny Kaye, Maxie Rosenbloom, Rudy Vallee, Julie Wilson
 02/04/51 #14 w/Fred Allen, Robert Cummings, Jimmy Durante, Leo Durocher, Laraine Day, Frankie Laine, Judy Holliday, Jane Pickens
 02/11/51 #15 w/Groucho Marx, Judy Garland, Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis
 02/18/51 #16 w/Fred Allen, Jack Carson, Dennis King, Beatrice Lillie, The West Point Choir, Ed Wynn
 02/25/51 #17 w/Jack Haley, Paul Kelly, Olson And Johnson, Monte Wooly, Robert Merrill
 03/04/51 #18 w/Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Clive Brook, Frankie Laine,  Ethel Merman, Herb Shriner, Margaret Truman
 03/11/51 #19 w/Bob Burns, Smith & Dale, Evelyn Knight, Billy Eckstein, Jimmy Durante, Eddie Jackson
03/18/51  #20 w/Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Phil Baker, Eddie Cantor, Ella Fitzgerald, Eddie Fisher, Ethel Waters
 

Big Show Vol. 3

03/25/51 #21 w/Judy Holliday, Carmen Miranda, Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Jimmy Durante,  Don Cornell
04/01/51 #22 w/Groucho Marx, Bob Hope, Ethel Barrymore, Ezio Pinza, Van Johnson
04/08/51 #23 w/Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Ossie Davis, Jane Morgan, Jimmy Durante, Vivian Blaine, Rudy Vallee
04/15/51 #24 w/Eddie Cantor, Jack Carson, Olivia deHavilland, Eddy Arnold, Martha Raye, Phil Foster, Tommy Henrich, Evelyn Varden
04/22/51 #25 w/Fred Allen, Joan Davis, Judy Holiday, Lisa Kirk, Fran Warren, Herb Shriner, Portland Hoffa, Dennis King
04/29/51 #26 w/Jimmy Durante, Milton Berle, Ethel Merman, Gordon MacRae, Frank Lovejoy, Rosemary Clooney
05/06/51 #27 w/Groucho Marx, Fred Allen, Ginger Rogers, George Jessel, Margaret Truman
 

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