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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 Johnny Cash, Jim Reeves, the Andrews Sisters and Gene Austin.
The Jimmy Dean Show is also an hour-long weekly series carried by ABC-TV for three seasons from September 19, 1963 to April 1, 1966 from New York. Although the variety program featured country performers such as Charlie Rich and Roger Miller, more popular music artists appeared. Guests included Eddy Arnold, Connie Smith, Vikki Carr, Buck Owens, Jim Reeves, Red Buttons, Johnny Cash, Eydie Gorme, Carl Smith, Jerry Vale, Gene Pitney, The Four Seasons, Patty Duke, Bobby Rydell and SSgt. Barry Sadler. Molly Bee was a regular, and comics Jackie Mason, Don Adams and Dick Shawn appeared.
On the show's 1963 premier, Dean interacted with an animated Fred Flintstone. The series began in black-and-white but switched to color for the fall 1965 season. Executive producer was Bob Banner.
On October 14, 1966, the program videotaped the Country Music Hall of Fame inductions from the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee of Eddy Arnold, Uncle Dave Macon, Grand Ole Opry founder George D. Hay and music publisher Jim Denny. The program aired October 22.
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