Show
# 1
October 4, 1956
Ernie's
Guest: Greer Garson
Script
Notes: Ernie's first guest is film star Greer Garson, whom -we
all find out- is just a country girl at heart. The first televised performance of Ernie's signature inspirational closer, "Take My Hand,
Precious Lord".
Musical Numbers: I Almost Lost My Mind: Ernie / Alabamy
Bound: Ernie and The Voices
/ Take My Hand, Precious Lord: Ernie and The Voices of Walter
Schumann
Cast: Ernie Ford, Reginald Gardner,
Greer Garson, The Voices of Walter Schumann
Show
# 2 October 11, 1956
Ernie's
Guest: Famed Beverly Hills Restraunteur
Mike Romanoff.
Script
notes: After only one show,
NBC quickly rethought their brilliant idea of pairing Ernie with Reginald
Gardner, and replaced him with sportscaster and Hollywood radio personality Gil
Stratton, Jr., who would last only for two shows. In
one of his most memorable performances, Ernie does a classic version of the
ballad, 'First Born'; performing it as the show's inspirational closer.
Musical
Numbers: Breezin' Along With The Breeze:
Ernie and The Voices of Walter Schumann / Cotton Candy And A Toy Balloon:
Ernie / First Born: Ernie
Cast: Ernie Ford, Mike Romanoff, Gil Stratton, Jr., Voices of
Walter Schumann
Show
# 3 October 18, 1956
Ernie's
Guest: The ever-effervescent Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Script
notes: A Ford
Show Classic ~ Ernie's first -and one of his
greatest- Ford Show performances of 'Sixteen Tons'. We say so long
to Gil Stratton, Jr., in this, his last appearance on The Ford Show...and the
last appearance for any straight-man on The Ford Show.
Musical
Numbers: Sixteen Tons: Ernie / Friendly Persuasion: The Voices of
Walter Schumann / Love: Ernie and Zsa Zsa / Noah Found Grace In The
Eyes Of The Lord: Ernie and The Voices Of Walter Schumann
Cast: Ernie Ford, Zsa Zsa Gabor,
Gil Stratton
Show
# 4 October 25, 1956
Ernie's
Guest: Mickey Spillane.
Script notes: Ernie gets
the inside dope on hard-boiled pulp-noir, from the original hard-boiled guy
himself, writer Mickey Spillane, the creator of Mike Hammer. The first of only 18 Ford Shows
in five years to close without an inspirational number.
Musical
Numbers: Happiness Street: Ernie
and The Voices / Whistle A Happy Tune: The Voices / Shine On Harvest
Moon: Ernie
and The Voices
Cast: Ernie Ford, Mickey Spillane, The Voices
Of Walter Schumann
Show # 5
November 8, 1956
Ernie's Guest: Broadway sensation Carol
Channing
Script Notes:
The Ford Show shines the
footlights on Vaudeville in a musical sketch featuring Ernie, Carol and The
Voices. The second Ford Show to close without an inspirational number.
Musical Numbers:
Don't Be Ashamed Of Your
Age: Ernie, Ken Remo, Johnny Guarnieri, Dick Wessler, Don Kent (from The Voices)
/ Hambone: Ernie and Carol / Little Rock: Carol / Love Me
Tender: Ernie /
Floatin' Down To Cotton Town: Ernie, Carol and The Voices
Cast: Ernie Ford, Carol Channing, The Voices
Of Walter Schumann
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