TV Guide (September 25, 1954)

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And Away They Go!' VARIETY SHOW STARS ARE MOVING TO NEW TIMES AND FORMATS blood stars, plus such pen-and-ink celebrities as Mickey Mouse, Pluto and Donald Duck, scheduled for ap¬ pearances on ABC’s Disneyland. That critics’ darling, long-suffering George Gobel, gets a network spot all his own on Oct. 2. Some summertime recruits—Kaye Ballard, Orson Bean, Ronny Graham—seem set for post- September starring chores. Jack Paar, replacing Walter Cronkite on The Morning Show, put the show’s stress on variety. Recently contracted to brighten up various CBS variety shows — and slated for a stanza of her own—is The jokes may be old, but TV’s 40- plus variety shows will offer plenty that’s new this sea¬ son — new names, new times, new formats. Most video varieties have been Class “A” productions, but this year there’ll be a number in the “AA” category as well. NBC’s three month¬ ly series of 90-minute “spectaculars,” CBS’ Shower of Stars, and one-time- only dream shows like the four-net¬ work “Diamond Jubilee of Light” call for purse strings as loose as pre-diet togs on a post-diet Jackie Gleason. There’ll be many new flesh-and- operatic soprano Helen Traubel, who decided after tete-a-tete (or nez-a- nez) TV encounters with J. Durante that she preferred wags to Wagner. A number of TV’s most capable per¬ formers will be back under somewhat altered circumstances. Exhibit A, certainly, is the gifted Sid Caesar, whose formidable bag of tricks will be showcased on Monday nights, beginning Sept. 27. Without Max Liebman and Imogene Coca as collaborators for the first time in his TV career, Caesar is planning to com¬ bine some of his more popular Your Show of Shows routines with brand- new stunts in a “loose” format utiliz- 8