The Spike Jones Show
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.
- 1954-1954
- 1 season
- NBC
- Comedy, Music
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
19 Episodes 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.
Episode 2
Panel Shows
Sat, Jan 9, 1954
Guest Harpo Marx suggests format changes to the Spike Jones Show.
Episode 3
Snow White
Sat, Jan 16, 1954
Episode 4
Episode #1.4
Sat, Jan 23, 1954
Episode 5
Peggy Ryan & Ray MacDonald, Dick Contlno, Bill King
Sat, Jan 30, 1954
Episode 6
This Is Your Life, Spikovsky
Sat, Feb 6, 1954
Episode 7
Cinderella
Sat, Feb 13, 1954
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.
Episode 9
Episode #1.9
Sat, Feb 27, 1954
Episode 10
Foreign Legion
Sat, Mar 6, 1954
Episode 11
Episode #1.11
Sat, Mar 13, 1954
Episode 12
Tribute to the Piano
Sat, Mar 20, 1954
Episode 13
Rumplestiltskin
Sat, Mar 27, 1954
Musical adaptation of the classic children's story "Rumpelstiltskin" with Billy Barty in title role
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.
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).
Episode 16
Episode #1.16
Sat, Apr 17, 1954
Episode 17
Pinocchio
Sat, Apr 24, 1954
Episode 18
Perez Prado's mambo band
Sat, May 1, 1954
Episode 19
Episode #1.19
Sat, May 8, 1954
