TV Guide (August 20, 1955)

Record Details:

Title:
TV Guide
Date:
August 20, 1955
Publisher:
Philadelphia: Triangle Publications, Inc.
Volume:
TV Guide - Chicago (August 20, 1955)
Leaf #:
00065
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
August 28, 2022
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Comedy troupe: (from I.) Cliff Norton, Phil Foster, Sandra Deel, Bill Hayes, Sid Gould. Caesar Presents PROGRAM OF THE WEEK Sid Caesar has turned production su¬ pervisor for the summer, filling his regular period with a show of his own choosing. It could be a mistake. With Carl Reiner doing the staging, the familiar Caesar pattern has been placed in the hands of Phil Foster, a more than capable night-club per¬ former who here is asked to play situation comedy. It comes off only in spots. He has the double role of a drug-store proprietor with a stupid helper, and the husband in an all- too-familiar husband-wife situation. Interlarded with the comedy is a good deal of singing by Bill Hayes, whose production numbers are dressed up with both taste and imagination. An occasional guest singer of the female species also is brought aboard. Helping Foster are Sid Gould, as the drug store’s prized but penny- pinching customer, and Cliff Norton, as the bumbling helper. First Barbara Nichols, then Sandra Deel have wres¬ tled valiantly with the madcap-wife role created on TV by Lucille Ball and since essayed far too often. Odd-lot comedy sketches are tossed in now and again. One dealt with the high-handed efforts of an uncle to take movies of his niece’s wedding. True to the Caesar pattern, it was overplayed—and only Caesar himself, at his best, can overplay and get away with it.—D.J. 18