Episode list

A musical bouquet from Maurice Chevalier is the first of several one-man shows to be presented as part of this variety series. Still going strong at 72, Chevalier is the only performer on the hour-long taped show; but other celebrities converse with him as he recalls highlights of his career. Opening medley, "Give My Regards to Broadway", "Please Don't Talk about Me When I'm Gone", "Yankee Doodle Dandy"; Songs about girls, "Mimi", "Valentine", "K-K-K-Katy", "Dinah". Songs from movies, "Louise", "Ma pomme", "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me", "C'est Magnifique". Al Jolson medley, "Swanee", "Mammy", "Sonny Boy", "Rockabye Your Baby". Songs from "Gigi", "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" (sung to the daughters of Joan Crawford, Jack Paar and other celebrities), and "I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore".

Pat Caroll is again playing the wardrobe mistress and Arnold Stang will play her boyfriend. Miss Lee and Miss Munsel will team up for a medley of songs. Patrice will also do an aria from "Tosca"

Salute to band leader Paul Whiteman on the occasion of his 70th birthday and his 50th anniversary in show business.

Comedians Bob and Ray portray two big spenders visiting New York City's night spots. During their spree, narrated by Mike Wallace, they watch performances by singers Peggy Lee and Felicia Sanders, and Spanish dancer Jose Greco.

The Philadelphia Orchestra presents a one-hour concert from Philadelphia's Academy of Music, The permanent conductor, Eugene Ormandy, leads the performance and acts as host and chats informally about his orchestra during the intermission.

Old-timers and young singers perform American folk songs. Tom Scott, the show's musical director, has organized a 30-voice chorus, and five of these singers also perform as a quintet. There is a Bluegrass band led by Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatt; and several soloists, inciuding John Jacob Niles, Casey Anderson, Peter Yar-row, John Lee Hooker, Cisco Houston and teen-ager Joan Baez. The choral pieces have been created from poems: Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing" and James Weldon Johnson's "The Creation" and "Go Down, Death." Among the solo numbers are Shenandoah," "Waly, Waly" and "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" The program is produced and written by Robert Herridge and staged, without sets, in a format described as "impressionistic."