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Shower of Stars Season 2 Episodes

Season 2 Episode Guide

8 Episodes 1955 - 1956

Episode 1

Time Out for Ginger

Thu, Oct 6, 195560 mins

Banker Howard Carroll, who love the sound of his voice, gives a speech at the high school saying women shouldn't play sports because it's unfeminine. This rubs his daughter, Ginger, the wrong way, so she goes out for the football team. Ginger's boyfriend and the school principal are up in arms, but Howard's delighted after his daughter runs in a touchdown.

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Episode 2

Auto Show

Thu, Nov 3, 1955

The 1956 line of Chrysler, Plymouth and Desoto automobiles is promoted during commercials and sketches. Jack Benny delivers a monologue, with interruptions from Frankie Laine and Joe Besser; in an in-joke about Laine, Besser cracks a whip and sings Mule Train. To keep the sponsor happy, Benny sells his Maxwell to a Japanese gardener and buys a new 1956 Plymouth. Jack's jokes are interrupted by a singing Gary Crosby, who tells him that his father Bing bought the airtime. Benny is upstaged while signing an autograph for a little girl, who takes his violin and plays beautifully. Songs by Marilyn Maxwell, Frankie Laine and The Sportsmen Quartet. Chrysler tells Jack they want him to keep the Maxwell to contrast their cars, so he goes searching to buy it back, only to learn that Gracie Allen has bought it to use as a garden planter.

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Episode 3

Gold Records

Thu, Dec 15, 1955

Red Skelton hosts this musical show that features musical stars of 1954 who have sold enough records to receive Gold Record Awards.

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Episode 4

Quentin Reynolds Writing the Life of Jack Benny

Thu, Jan 19, 1956

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Episode 5

More Gold Records

Thu, Feb 16, 1956

Red Skelton emcees this episode saluting million selling records. Guests and their songs are Rudy Vallee ("Whiffenpoof Song"), Martha Tilton with trumpeter Ziggy Elman ("And the Angels Sing"), Georgia Gibbs ("Tweedle Dee"), Gene Austin (medley including "My Blue Heaven"), Frankie Laine ("Jezebel"), The Andrews Sisters (medley of hits), comedians Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson and Flournoy Miller (Mack and Moran's comedy "Early Bird Catches the Worm"), and a Vallee and Gary Crosby duet ("Play a Simple Melody").

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Episode 6

The Flattering World

Thu, Mar 15, 195660 mins

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Episode 7

Bombshells

Thu, Apr 12, 195660 mins

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Episode 8

The Dancers

Thu, May 10, 1956

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