7.2 /10 1 Votes
7.1/10 TV Starring Tom Ewell No. of episodes 30 Final episode date 9 May 1961 Number of seasons 1 | 7.5/10 IMDb Genre Situation comedy No. of seasons 1 First episode date 27 September 1960 Network CBS Number of episodes 30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Created by Madelyn Martin and
Bob Carroll, Jr. Composer(s) Jerry Fielding
Rudy Schrager Cast Tom Ewell, Mabel Albertson, Marilyn Erskine, Eileen Chesis, Sherry Alberoni Similar The Tab Hunter Show, The Law and Mr Jones, Temperatures Rising, Best of the West, The Betty Hutton Show | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Tom Ewell Show is an American television situation comedy that aired on CBS during the 1960-61 television season under the alternate sponsorship of Quaker Oats and Procter & Gamble.
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Summary
Tom Ewell stars in this half-hour sitcom as Tom Porter, a real estate agent whose entire life, away from the office, was dominated by females:
Recurring characters included Norman Fell as co-worker Howie Fletcher, heavy-set actor Barry Kelley as friend Jim Rafferty, and child-actor Vance Meadows as a neighborhood youngster.
Broadcast schedule
The thirty episodes of the show were broadcast 9–9:30 PM (EST) on Tuesday nights in the United States from September 27, 1960 through May 23, 1961 on the CBS network. Eight of the episodes were shown as summer repeats in the same timeslot from May 30, 1961 through July 18, 1961. This series was sponsored alternately by The Quaker Oats Company and Procter & Gamble.
Critical reception
TIME magazine said:
"The Tom Ewell Show (CBS) leads a relentless parade of situation comedies, all designed to show that American family life is as cute as a freckle on a five-year-old. The show, which might also be titled Father Knows Nothing, presents the comic with the excavated face as a bumbler named Potter who is trapped in the customary format: Harassed Man Beaten Down by Wife, Three Daughters, Mother-in-Law. In the opening episode, Ewell could find no better way to outsmart his spendthrift women than closing his bank account and ruining his own credit. For those who may have tuned out early, the women were all set to start spending again."