The Frank Sinatra Show (1957-1958)

**Marty** · #1 08-23-2004, 10:31 PM

October 1957-May 1958

Broadcast Fridays on ABC between 18th October 1957 and 23rd May 1958, sponsors included Bulova watches and Chesterfield cigarettes, the series took the format of musical shows and dramas. Guest stars included :

Nancy Sinatra (with her group The Tri Tones), Dean Martin, Eddie Fisher, Ella Fitzgerald, Natalie Wood, Kim Novak & Bob Hope

Listing of shows with original airdates : Bold Entries are non variety shows but drama episodes

1957

Bob Hope, Kim Novak and Peggy Lee 18th Oct. 1957
That Man Hogan featuring Reba Waters 25th Oct. 1957
Nancy Sinatra 1st Nov. 1957
Peggy Lee 8th Nov. 1957
McGuire Sisters 15th Nov. 1957
A Gun at His Back 22nd Nov. 1957
Dean Martin 29th Nov. 1957
Pamela Light and 8 Songs By Frank 6th Dec. 1957
Take Me to Hollywood 13th Dec. 1957
Bing Crosby 20th Dec. 1957 (released on DVD as Happy Holidays with Frank & Bing)
The Feeling is Mutual featuring David Wayne 27th Dec. 1957

1958

Dinah Shore 3rd Jan. 1958
Robert Mitchum 10th Jan. 1958
Louis Prima and Keely Smith 17th Jan. 1958
Jo Stafford 24th Jan. 1958
Sammy Davis, Jr. 31st Jan. 1958
Jeannie Carson 7th Feb. 1958
Shirley Jones 14th Feb. 1958
A Time to Cry featuring Anne Bancroft and Lloyd Bridges 21st Feb. 1958
Van Johnson 28th Feb. 1958
Edie Adams and Stan Freberg 7th Mar. 1958
Eydie Gorme and Joey Bishop 14th Mar. 1958
A Man on the Stairs featuring Michael Rennie 21st Mar. 1958
Eddie Fisher 28th Mar. 1958
Spike Jones 4th Apr. 1958
The Brownstone Incident featuring Cloris Leachman and Jack Albertson 18th April 1958
Ethel Merman 25th Apr. 1958
Ella Fitzgerald 9th May. 1958
The Green Grass of St. Theresa featuring Wally Cox 16th May. 1958
Natalie Wood and Pat Suzuki 23rd May. 1958
A Face of Fear 30th May. 1958
The Seedling Doubt featuring Macdonald Carey 6th June 1958

Savatri · #2 08-24-2004, 01:29 AM

I flew up to NY to see that show once. It was the first time I had seen Frank Sinatra. I remember afterwards all of us girls running after his taxi.

There were only 3 songs sung by FS as was the custom in those days.

**Marty** · #3 08-24-2004, 05:46 AM

I have discovered that 8 complete episodes of this series of ABC shows exist in The National Television Archives in the US, would anybody know of a way of finding out what the content of these preserved shows are? Help appreciated.

**Marty** · #4 08-27-2004, 12:40 AM

Episode 1 18th October 1957

Guests :Bob Hope, Kim Novak & Peggy Lee

Songs included:
Lonesome Road - Sinatra
I Could Write A Book - Sinatra
Autumn Leaves - Sinatra
Bewitched - Sinatra
Listen To The Rocking Bird - Peggy Lee
He's My Guy - Peggy Lee
All The Way - Sinatra
I Get A Kick Out Of You - Sinatra.

above listing from "New York Herald Tribune"

The New York Herald Tribune said "Sinatra has bounced back to become the hottest thing in Show Business, and for very good reason. He is one hell of a performer and his first TV show was a triumph in almost all departments."

discrepency

added : according to "Where Or When" data base the show's programme consisted of:

Songs: The Lonesome Road / I Get A Kick Out Of You / Chesterfield / I Could Write A Book / The Lady Is A Tramp / Chesterfield / Autumn Leaves / All The Way / Chesterfield / O Sole Mio / Bewitched / Put Your Dreams Away

thanks to Bob

**Marty** · #5 08-27-2004, 12:48 AM

Episode 2 25th October 1957

"That Hogan Man" Drama.

Stars : Frank Sinatra with Reba Waters

Sinatra starred in the first dramatic episode of the series as a New York Taxi who has adopted war orphans.

Variety said "Mr. Sinatra envelopes himself with a certain aura of charm that has a way of spreading infection. With him easy does it and it was too bad that Hal Goodman and Larry Klein didn't give him a better toy with their well-worn tale of a bachelor father. Without Sinatra it would have been just another Runyonesque drollery that would shrivel in the heat of the opposition."

**Marty** · #6 08-27-2004, 12:53 AM

Episode 3 : 1st November 1957

Guests : Nancy Sinatra, Jane Ross & Belinda Burrell (The Tri-Tones)

Songs included

You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To - Frank Sinatra
The Girl Next Door - Frank Sinatra
I've Got You Under My Skin - Frank Sinatra
Side By Side - Frank Sinatra & Tri-Tones
Exactly Like You - Frank Sinatra & Tri-Tones
All The Way - Frank Sinatra
Violets For Your Furs - Frank Sinatra
The Lonesome Road - Frank Sinatra.

**Marty** · #7 08-27-2004, 01:02 AM

Episode 4 : 8th November 1957

Guest : Peggy Lee

Songs included

Pennies From Heaven - Frank Sinatra
Autumn Leaves - Frank Sinatra
Nice Work if You Can Get It - Frank Sinatra & Peggy Lee
You Brought A New Kind of Love to Me - Frank Sinatra
Our Love is Here to Stay - Frank Sinatra & Peggy Lee
I Thought About You - Frank Sinatra
I'll Be Seeing You - Frank Sinatra
Old Devil Moon - Peggy Lee
That's All - Peggy Lee.

In July of this year Sinatra conducted the orchestra on Peggy Lee's "The Man I Love" LP

**Marty** · #8 08-27-2004, 04:38 AM

Episode 5 : 15th November 1957

Guests : The McGuire Sisters

**Marty** · #9 08-27-2004, 04:43 AM

Episode 6 : 22nd November 1957

Guest : Erin O'Brien

Songs included:

Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams - Frank Sinatra
I Get Along Without You Very Well - Frank Sinatra
I'm Glad There Is You - Erin O'Brien
Let's Get Away From It All - Frank Sinatra & Erin O'Brien
My Funny Valentine - Frank Sinatra
I Wish I Were In Love Again - Frank Sinatra
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter - Frank Sinatra
One For My Baby - Frank Sinatra
Everything Happens To Me - Frank Sinatra

**Marty** · #10 08-27-2004, 04:48 AM

Episode 7 : 29th November 1957

Guest : Dean Martin

Songs included:
Night and Day - Frank Sinatra
Old Devil Moon - Frank Sinatra
Medley:
On a Slow Boat to China
Saturday Night(is the Loneliest Night of the Week)
Memories are Made of This
The Girl That I Marry
Innamorata
I've Got a Crush on You
Oh Marie
Don't Cry Joe(Let Her Go, Let Her Go, Let Her Go) - Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin
The House I Live In - Frank Sinatra.

**Marty** · #11 08-29-2004, 01:26 AM

Episode 8 : 6th December 1957

Guest : Pamela Light, Jean Goodall, Mary Thomas, Pat Tribble and Dolores Durett (Dancers).

Frank Sinatra sings several of his most popular numbers.

Young At Heart
I've Got The World On A String
With Every Breath I Take
A Foggy Day
You Make Me Feel So Young
I Won't Dance
I'm Gonna Live Till I Die
I Couldn't Sleep A Wink Last Night.

**Marty** · #12 08-29-2004, 01:30 AM

Episode 9. 13th December 1957

Take Me To Hollywood (Drama)

Cast : Frank Sinatra (Kerry Maull) Christine White (Laura Esmay) Celia Lovsky (Madame. Blautsky) Maurice Manson (B.J. Kaye) Sydney Smith (Edward Mallinson)

A talent scout is handed an urgent assignment by the head of a major movie studio to find a young actress who was given a million-dollar build up for a costly picture now in production but has disappeared.

**Marty** · #13 08-29-2004, 01:40 AM

Christmas Show with Bing Crosby

Taped 18th October : Aired 20th December 1957 Colour Show

Producer William Self.

Songs included:

Mistletoe And Holly - Sinatra
Jingle Bells - Sinatra & Crosby
Happy Holidays - Sinatra & Crosby
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear - Sinatra
Away In A Manger - Sinatra
O Little Town Of Bethlehem - Sinatra
Medley: Sinatra, Crosby & Chorus
Deck The Halls
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Adeste Fideles
Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town - Sinatra
Medley: Sinatra & Crosby
The Christmas Song
White Christmas

Released on DVD September 2003 as "Happy Holidays with Frank & Bing." Extras on the disc include an audio commentary by William Self as well as a Q&A session from the Museum of Television & Radio with Self and Nancy & Tina Sinatra.

Link to the DVD Thread below

Happy Holidays Thread

**Marty** · #14 09-01-2004, 04:22 AM

Episode 11. The Feeling is Mutual (Drama) 27th December 1957

Cast Frnk Sinatra, David Wayne & Janice Rule

A frozen-food salesman who wants to be a writer, and a secretary who yearns to be an artist, meet while both are feeding pidgeons in Central Park.

**Marty** · #15 09-01-2004, 04:24 AM

Episode 12 : 3rd January 1958

Guest Dinah Shore

Songs with Travel theme by Frank & Dinah.

**Marty** · #16 09-01-2004, 04:28 AM

Episode 13 : 10th January 1958

Guest Star : Bob Mitchum

Bizarre show in which Mitch enlists Frank's help to persuade his fictional son not to be a Rock n Roll singer (don't ask me I'm just repeating what I discovered, if anyone has details about this one let me know, all my sources are quite vague)

Set Avatar · #17 09-04-2004, 05:52 AM

What are the chances of a DVD boxset of these?

**Marty** · #18 09-10-2004, 08:17 AM

Doubtful that they all exist in entirity anymore.

Rest of this series to follow.

**Marty** · #19 09-23-2004, 11:01 PM

Episode 14. Broadcast 17th January 1958

Guest Stars: Louis Prima & Keely Smith

Sinatra sings Birth Of The Blues with Keely Smith, and also performs Bewitched among other songs.

**Marty** · #20 09-23-2004, 11:05 PM

Episode 15 : 24th January 1958

Guest Star : Jo Stafford

Solo songs and duets with Stafford centered around their Dorsey Days, Sinatra sings one of my favourites in this show "I'll Never Smile Again"