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Sean Snow · 11-23-2001, 09:30 PM

What was this show about? I've heard little about it, except that it ran from 1961-1965, and was a spinoff of the then titled "The Danny Thomas Show"

Also, when did it air on TV Land

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From "Make Room for Daddy":
Danny: What do you need a dollar for?
Rusty: 100 lollipops.
Margeret: Honey, you can't possibly eat 100 lollipops!
Rusty: I'm only going to eat One! The other 99 are for the kangaroo on the corner!
Danny: Louise, what have you been putting in this kid's oatmeal?

jehobden · 12-31-2004, 12:25 AM

I have never seen any first season eps, though I just read that an ep from that season has emerged somewhere. The first season (in B&W) had Joey playing Joey Barnes, a single LA-based press agent. Marlo Thomas and Joe Flynn were among his co-stars in that first season. In the second season, the show switched to color on NBC, and Joey had just married his wife Ellie, played by Abby Dalton. Now Joey Barnes was hosting a talk show in NYC. Guy Marks and later Corbett Monica played his agent, and Joe Besser, formerly a replacement for Shemp Howard in The Three Stooges, played his landlord Jillson. Mary Treen, who had appeared in It's a Wonderful Life and eventually played a replacement maid, Kay, on The Brady Bunch, played his maid. NBC cancelled the show in 1964, and CBS picked it up for one more season but switched it back to B&W. The first ep on CBS was pretty funny, taken a bit from real life, where Joey's show had been cancelled, but it was picked up by CBS as competition for Bonanza! A bit of the Bonanza theme song was heard as the cast began crying at this bit of news. In reality, The Joey Bishop Show began that season up against Bonanza on Sunday night, but it was switched to Tuesday night before long and remained there for the rest of the 1964-65 season before CBS cancelled it.

TV Land began rerunning The Joey Bishop Show sometime in the spring of 1998, and it was rerun in progressively worse time slots (eventually just rerun back-to-back at 6AM ET) until Dec. 31, 1999. A couple eps were rerun during TV Land's fifth anniversary a couple years ago, along w/ other former TV Land shows such as That Girl.

11-23-2001, 09:30 PM	#1
Sean Snow Forum Veteran moo Join Date: May 06, 2001 Location: Georgia Posts: 10,345	Info What was this show about? I've heard little about it, except that it ran from 1961-1965, and was a spinoff of the then titled "The Danny Thomas Show" Also, when did it air on TV Land ------------------ From "Make Room for Daddy": Danny: What do you need a dollar for? Rusty: 100 lollipops. Margeret: Honey, you can't possibly eat 100 lollipops! Rusty: I'm only going to eat One! The other 99 are for the kangaroo on the corner! Danny: Louise, what have you been putting in this kid's oatmeal?

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12-31-2004, 12:25 AM	#2
jehobden Senior Member Member Join Date: Jan 06, 2002 Location: DFW Area, TX Posts: 1,255	I have never seen any first season eps, though I just read that an ep from that season has emerged somewhere. The first season (in B&W) had Joey playing Joey Barnes, a single LA-based press agent. Marlo Thomas and Joe Flynn were among his co-stars in that first season. In the second season, the show switched to color on NBC, and Joey had just married his wife Ellie, played by Abby Dalton. Now Joey Barnes was hosting a talk show in NYC. Guy Marks and later Corbett Monica played his agent, and Joe Besser, formerly a replacement for Shemp Howard in The Three Stooges, played his landlord Jillson. Mary Treen, who had appeared in It's a Wonderful Life and eventually played a replacement maid, Kay, on The Brady Bunch, played his maid. NBC cancelled the show in 1964, and CBS picked it up for one more season but switched it back to B&W. The first ep on CBS was pretty funny, taken a bit from real life, where Joey's show had been cancelled, but it was picked up by CBS as competition for Bonanza! A bit of the Bonanza theme song was heard as the cast began crying at this bit of news. In reality, The Joey Bishop Show began that season up against Bonanza on Sunday night, but it was switched to Tuesday night before long and remained there for the rest of the 1964-65 season before CBS cancelled it. TV Land began rerunning The Joey Bishop Show sometime in the spring of 1998, and it was rerun in progressively worse time slots (eventually just rerun back-to-back at 6AM ET) until Dec. 31, 1999. A couple eps were rerun during TV Land's fifth anniversary a couple years ago, along w/ other former TV Land shows such as That Girl.