7 /10 1 Votes
6.5/10 TV Genre Variety show | 7.6/10 IMDb First episode date 6 April 1950 Cast Alan Young | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy-Variety Or Music Program Similar The Kaiser Aluminum Hour, Pulitzer Prize Playhouse, Arthur Godfrey and His F, Tales of the 77th Bengal L, Variety show | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Alan Young Show is an American radio and television series presented in diverse formats over a nine-year period and starring British-Canadian-American actor Alan Young.
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Radio
The series began on NBC Radio as a summer replacement situation comedy in 1944, featuring vocalist Bea Wain. It then moved to ABC Radio with Jean Gillespie portraying Young's girlfriend Betty. The program was next broadcast by NBC for a 1946-47 run and was off in 1948. When it returned to NBC in 1949, Louise Erickson played Betty and Jim Backus was heard as snobbish playboy Hubert Updike III, a character he later adapted as Thurston Howell III in Gilligan's Island
Television
In 1950 The Alan Young Show moved to CBS television as a variety, sketch comedy show, taking an 11-month hiatus in 1952. It finished at No. 22 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1950-1951 season. When it returned for its final season in 1953, the tone and format of the show changed into the more conventional sitcom, with Young playing a bank teller with Dawn Addams cast as his girlfriend and Melville Faber portraying his son. The show alternated weeks with Ken Murray's The Ken Murray Show under the title Time to Smile.
In the last two weeks of the season, the format returned to its earlier style, but it was cancelled at the end of the season. The Alan Young Show received two Emmy Awards during its run.