ITC, thinking that This is Tom Jones was going to be a long term hit for ABC, complemented Jones with the addition of The Engelbert Humperdinck Show, which launched with a pilot episode the day after Christmas 1969, then began a weekly run three weeks later.
The series episodes would air on ABC on Wednesdays, then air in the UK four nights later, after a simulcast on December 26. Unfortunately, despite Humperdinck's chart success here in the US, the show lasted just one season.
Here is that pilot, with Jose Feliciano, Jones, and Barbara Eden (I Dream of Jeannie), who performs a cover of Dusty Springfield's "Son of a Preacher Man". Jones & Humperdinck shared the same bandleader, Jack Parnell.
No rating. Just a public service.
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