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The Spike Jones Show Season 1 Episodes

  • 1954-1954
  • 1 Season
  • NBC
  • Comedy, Music
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A music-themed variety show, hosted by the experienced bandleader Spike Jones. The regular cast included the singer Helen Grayco (Jones' wife) and Jones' band, "The City Slickers". The series only lasted from January to May 1954. Jones would later re-use the concept and the title for two other short-lived series, the first in 1957 and the second in 1961.

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

19 Episodes 1954 - 1954

Episode 1

Episode #1.1

Sat, Jan 2, 1954

Spike Jones tells guest George Gobel how he discovered his musicians: Sir Frederic Gas was "playing" the pneumatic drill; Freddy Morgan was a janitor who was cleaning Toscanini's dressing room at Carnegie Hall; Helen Grayco was working in the jewelry department of the department store; and George Rock was a blacksmith, singing "Two Front Teeth" while bending horseshoes with his bare hands.

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Episode 2

Panel Shows

Sat, Jan 9, 1954

Guest Harpo Marx suggests format changes to the Spike Jones Show.

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Episode 3

Snow White

Sat, Jan 16, 1954

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Episode 4

Episode #1.4

Sat, Jan 23, 1954

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Episode 5

Peggy Ryan & Ray MacDonald, Dick Contlno, Bill King

Sat, Jan 30, 1954

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Episode 6

This Is Your Life, Spikovsky

Sat, Feb 6, 1954

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Episode 7

Cinderella

Sat, Feb 13, 1954

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Episode 8

Prison Life

Sat, Feb 20, 1954

Spike Jones and Eddy Arnold perform an impromptu duet for guitar and pistol in the park. The two are arrested for "shooting ducks out of season" and sent to prison. It turns out prison is practically a vacation resort and nobody wants to leave, much to the frustration of the warden, Joe Besser.

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Episode 9

Episode #1.9

Sat, Feb 27, 1954

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Episode 10

Foreign Legion

Sat, Mar 6, 1954

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Episode 11

Episode #1.11

Sat, Mar 13, 1954

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Episode 12

Tribute to the Piano

Sat, Mar 20, 1954

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Episode 13

Rumplestiltskin

Sat, Mar 27, 1954

Musical adaptation of the classic children's story "Rumpelstiltskin" with Billy Barty in title role

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Episode 14

Charity Bazaar

Sat, Apr 3, 1954

Zasu Pitts is distressed because the circus performers she has hired for her charity bazaar will not arrive on time. Spike Jones volunteers his band members as replacements.

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Episode 15

Easter Show

Sat, Apr 10, 1954

Spike throws an Easter party for little Spike, Jr., and invites Beany and Cecil, Nutsy the Clown, Doodles Weaver, "Peter Cottontail" (Billy Barty), and others as entertainment for Spike Jr. and his "neighborhood friends" (the children of many of the day's movie celebrities, including Gary Lewis and Christina Crawford).

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Episode 16

Episode #1.16

Sat, Apr 17, 1954

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Episode 17

Pinocchio

Sat, Apr 24, 1954

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Episode 18

Perez Prado's mambo band

Sat, May 1, 1954

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Episode 19

Episode #1.19

Sat, May 8, 1954

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