For its final broadcast, on November 3, 1956, Ford Star Jubilee abandoned its usual format of presenting live shows, and lengthened its time slot to two hours, in order to broadcast
Il mago di Oz (1939). The first television showing of that movie, and the first theatrical movie to be broadcast in its entirety on CBS. This was not a special television adaptation of the movie. The broadcast was hosted by
Bert Lahr, who played the Cowardly Lion in the movie, by Justin Schiller, a thirteen-year-old Oz book collector, and by a very young
Liza Minnelli, daughter of
Judy Garland.
