Web Site Logo

This website is made possible, in part, by displaying a few online advertisements to our visitors.
Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker for this site.
[ <- Back to Radio & TV Appearances ]

 
Click to view full image
 

JOEY BISHOP SHOW, THE - Deep in the Heart of Texas

Air Date/Released Saturday, November 24, 1962
Station/Studio NBC / Danny Thomas Enterprises
Featuring Joe Besser (Solo)

Joey Barnes hosts a network, late-night New York talk show. Episodes revolve around his professional and personal life, with celebrities appearing as themselves. At home are Joey's beautiful wife Ellie, and maid Hilda. Joe Besser costars as Mr. Jillson, the apartment building superintendent, a high-strung man with a heart of gold, and a never-seen wife who is only heard yelling "Jillson!" through the building's ventilation system. Rounding out the main characters is Freddy, Joey's best friend, head writer and manager.

Ellie is homesick for Texas, and Joey tries to get time off to take her home for "Rodeo-Week." When the network refuses, Joey, Freddy and Jillson redecorate the Barnes' apartment into a southwestern utopia, with Texas-style skits and songs to cheer Ellie up.


In the series' 2nd and 3rd seasons it aired in color, one of the first situation comedies to do so.

Guy Marks performs his hilarious "Indian chant" routine.

Cast: Joey Bishop (Joey Barnes), Abby Dalton (Ellie Barnes), Joe Besser (Mr. Jillson), Guy Marks (Freddy), The Frontiersmen & Joanie (Themselves)

Crew: Danny Thomas, Joey Bishop (Executive Producers), Marvin Marx (Producer), James V. Kern (Director), Harry Crane, Stan Dreben (Writers)
[ <- Back to Radio & TV Appearances ]




FAIR USE NOTICE: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We make such material available in an effort to advance awareness and understanding of the issues involved. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information please visit: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission directly from the copyright owner.