George introduces himself, then his orchestra leader, John Scott Trotter to his audience, then his guest, Fred Mac Murray, saxophone in hand, who wants something to do, but George refuses. Next he ...

In the first week of October 1954, comedian George Gobel hosted the first episode of “The George Gobel Show.” This weekly comedy-variety program ran on NBC for about five years and later moved to CBS ...

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George Gobel’s sudden TV popularity is as baffling as a common cold: everybody gets it, but nobody can explain it. A mild-voiced, crewcut, anonymous sort of a man, he says: “The trouble with me is, ...

HOT SPRINGS--A couple of films from the ongoing Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival have colonized my mind; both evoke the shadowlands from just before I was born, when television was still in its ...

With many a TV set, viewers are still subject to double vision. Now both NBC and ABC are trying to add double sound. After a test run in seven cities, Lawrence Welk’s Wednesday show (ABC) was ...

CEDAR FALLS -- I expect it was your reporter rather than Lorenzo Creighton himself who botched the George Gobel quote on your front page. ("Waterloo native wins prestigious U.S. award," Pat Kinney, ...