The Edsel Show (TV Special 1957)

Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
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Bing Crosby

Self - Host…

Frank Sinatra

Self - Host…

Rosemary Clooney

Self - Singer

Louis Armstrong

Self - Singer…

Lindsay Crosby

Self - Singer

The Four Preps

Themselves - Ivy League Quartet

Edmond Hall

Self - Clarinetist

James Young

Self - Trombonist
(as Trummy Young)

Billy Kyle

Self - Pianist

Squire Gersh

Self - Bass Player

Barrett Deems

Self - Drummer

Bob Hope

Self - Sketch Actor…

The Norman Luboff Choir

Themselves - Singers
(as Norman Luboff Choir)

Conn and Mann

Themselves - Dance Team
(as Mr. Conn and Mr. Mann)

Warren Hull

Self - spokesman for Edsel

Director
- Seymour Berns
Writer
- William Morrow
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"The Edsel Show" is generally not remembered today, but if you saw the 2002 retrospective of the famed CBS Television City studio in Hollywood, you saw a clip of this 1957 show in a medley of memorable musical variety moments. Its place in history is more technical than anything else; it has the distinction of being one of the first ever TV shows to be videotaped (and currently resides as the oldest surviving videotaped show), as opposed to being filmed on kinescope. If you were to purchase the tape of this show today, you'll only find a kinescope print on VHS, but there is a surviving show videotape of it which looks sensational (it resembles a live performance, clear as a bell, but in black-and-white) and is begging to be digitally restored. Maybe a DVD edition of this could be researched?

Paul-308

Show better than the car turned out.

There seemed to be a lot of light hearted joking among Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra not to mention the surprise guest Bob Hope...it seemed they were aiming more for a comedy/music program rather than just a pure music show,and it hit it big.Giant ratings,excellent feedback from those in the business....it was the hit of the 1957/58 TV season.As for the Edsel car,I think those that didnt go to the dealers Oct 4 1957 to view the car,were repulsed by what they saw of it on TV.The close up shots of the vertical Horse Collar grille were the worst angle of the car,and they should have shyed from viewing that area much.Of course all the other bad press about the car (Teletouch shift problems,poor fit/finish,untested new features,squeaks and rattles)didnt help either(the car had been on sale almost 2 weeks before this show).Sales of Edsel were already in the toilet by the time this show aired...and its future in doubt already.Maybe this program would have been given more attention in the past 47 years if it hadnt been called the "EDSEL Show".... In the program Frank Sinatra mentioned "Edsel,its a great car".... Bob Hope said when he heard this was for Edsel cars mentioned " this will certainly get them out on the roads"...

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Not the first, but currently the oldest surviving show on videotape. It was aired live in 1957 in prime time, and simultaneously taped and filmed in kinescope for the sole purpose of broadcasting for the three-hour time delay on the West coast. In those days, shows which were taped (and not erased later) were ALSO kinescoped because the thought was that the tape might malfunction in the middle of the broadcast, but a kinescope film- which was all recorded off of a monitor and developed like motion picture film- would remain intact. Most TV retrospectives only air the kinescope, but a clip of the very pristine tape can be seen in the 2002 documentary "CBS: 50 Years from Television City."