Sunday, September 26, 2021

When Legends meet: Barbara Stanwyck on The Joey Bishop Show (1961)

 The Joey Bishop Show, the 2nd of two spin-offs from The Danny Thomas Show, aka Make Room For Daddy (CBS' Andy Griffith Show had a backdoor pilot on Thomas' show), was part of NBC's experiment in color a few times in the first season. This first color episode was a doozy.

Barbara Stanwyck, who'd fronted her own Desilu-produced anthology series a while earlier, guest stars in "A Windfall For Mom", that mom being Joey's mom (Madge Blake). Series co-creator Louis Edelman served as executive producer for The Barbara Stanwyck Show, and helped develop The Big Valley, in which Stanwyck starred, four years later.


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