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5.6/10 TV Created by Roland Kibbee Also known as ''The Bob Cummings Show'' Number of seasons 1 Program creator Roland Kibbee | 7.3/10 IMDb Genre Sitcom Composer(s) Stanley Wilson Network CBS Number of episodes 22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Written by Jerry Adelman
Roscoe J. Armbuster Jr
Mel Diamond
Lee Erwin
Robert Fisher
Austin Kalish
Sheldon Keller
Howard Leeds
Alan Lipscott
Milt Rosen
Sheldon Stark Directed by Earl Bellamy
John English
Don Weis Starring Bob Cummings
Roberta Shore
Murvyn Vye Cast Robert Cummings, Roberta Shore, Murvyn Vye Similar The Bob Cummings Show, My Living Doll, Bob and Margaret, The Deputy, It Takes a Thief | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The New Bob Cummings Show is an American situation comedy which was broadcast by CBS during the 1961-62 television season. The series was originally titled The Bob Cummings Show when it first appeared on the CBS schedule on October 5, 1961; however, this led to confusion between this program and series stars Bob Cummings' earlier 1955 series, also called The Bob Cummings Show; thus, the title The New Bob Cummings Show was officially adopted beginning with the December 28 episode.
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Synopsis
The New Bob Cummings Show began two years after production had ended on Cummings' previous, successful sitcom The Bob Cummings Show, which, when the newer program began its run, was still being rerun on ABC's daytime schedule under the title Love That Bob, which it was to retain through many years in syndication. The new program, like its predecessor, took advantage of Cummings' real-life interests; once again, the character he played, Bob Carson, was a pilot. Carson owned two planes, a conventional, twin-engine plane which he used for long trips, and the Aerocar, which, as its name implied, was a vehicle which could be alternately flown or, with its wing detached, driven on highways as an automobile, which he used for short hops near his California base.
In addition to his activities as a charter pilot, Carson was an amateur detective, a fact which provided the basis for the plots of most of the episodes. In contrast to Cummings earlier program, which had several co-stars, the only recurring roles in The New Bob Cummings Show other than Cummings' own were that of "Lionel", Carson's bodyguard, played by Murvyn Vye, and "Hank", the tomboyish-yet-precocious teenage daughter of the owner of the airstrip where Carson's planes were based, played by Roberta Shore.
Reception
Unlike Cummings' previous sitcom, The New Bob Cummings Show was not particularly successful and was cancelled before the season was over, with the last episode being aired on March 1, 1962.