Max Liebman Spectaculars
(1954)Streaming Episode Guide
Season 2
Holiday
Episode 11 - 6-09-1956
Musical adaptation of Elmer Rice's short-lived (8 performances) 1951 play ""The Grand Tour."" The story involves a New England schoolteacher who falls in love with an embezzling banker during a trip to Europe. In the end she uses her inheritance to cover his crime and returns him to his wife. Songs included: Escape it All / According to the Baedeker / I Want So Much / Qu'est-ce Que C'est? / Pantomime Ballet / It Musn't Happen Now / Chit Chat / Tra-la-la / Once There Was a Man / When a Woman is a Wife.
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The Maurice Chevalier Special
Episode 10 - 5-20-1956
Musical variety with Chevalier and his guests.
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The Music of Gershwin
Episode 9 - 5-12-1956
This ninety minute tribute to the music of George Gershwin includes an eclectic array of musical talent: Broadway stars Ethel Merman & Alfred Drake, pop singers Tony Bennett & Toni Arden, pianist Eugene List, harmonica virtuoso Richard Hayman, Broadway singer/dancer Peter Conlow, classical ballet dancer Patricia Wilde, ""hot"" harpist Robert Maxwell, cool accordian jazz from Art Van Damme and his Quintet, The Ballerinas Diana and more jazz from The Bob Hamilton Trio.
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The Adventures of Marco Polo
Episode 8 - 4-14-1956
Musical selections include: Overture / Beyond the Sunset / You'll Be Seeing Me / Market Day / Xanadu / Population / Silver Bells / The Tartar Song / The Garden of Imagining / Who, Me? / Uneasy Lies the Head / Worlds / Is It You? / You'll Be Seeing Me / Epilogue.
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Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl
Episode 7 - 3-25-1956
Musical comedy salute to the working girl of the past and present.
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Panorama
Episode 6 - 2-26-1956
Revue program with music, comedy skits and song & dance.
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Paris in the Springtime
Episode 5 - 1-21-1956
Dan Dailey is a former nightclub hoofer who dreams of being a ""serious dancer."" He goes to Paris where he reunites with his former dance partner and hooks up with a woman who leads a Bohemian group of starving American actors. The story concerns the type of antics that can happen in Paris in the springtime. Songs included: Sunshine / Stung / Mme. de Paris / Delicado / Old Routine / Can't Be Bothered / From Another World / Paris, Paree / Nobody's Chasing Me / Marie Antoinette / Un Coin de France.
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The Maurice Chevalier Show
Episode 4 - 12-04-1955
Ninety minutes of colorful musical variety with Maurice Chevalier and his guests Jeannie Carson and Pat Carroll and mime Marcel Marceau.
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Dearest Enemy
Episode 3 - 11-26-1955
British officers Howe and Copeland recall how Mrs. Murray and a band of patriotic female colonists were instrumental in England losing the war for American independence. Songs included: Heigh-Ho, Lackaday / I Beg Your Pardon / Here in My Arms / I'd Like to Hide It / Sweet Peter / Bye and Bye / Here in My Arms / War is War / Cheerio / The Hermits / Gavotte / Where the Hudson River Flows / Old Enough to Love / Here's a Kiss.
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The Great Waltz
Episode 2 - 11-05-1955
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Heidi
Episode 1 - 10-01-1955
Poorly received musical version of the children's classic. Most critics felt Jeannie Carson was miscast. Songs included: Heidi / I Got My Way / Greener Pastures / I Love to Rumble / Right or Wrong / The Etiquette Song.
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Season 1
The Chocolate Soldier
Episode 17 - 6-04-1955
Captain Bumerli, a cowardly Swiss Army pastry chef, finds himself in the midst of battle and flees the scene. He escapes up a trellis and ends up in the bedroom of Nadina, the fiancee of a war hero. Nadina helps him avoid capture by the Bulgarians and later helps him escape. A year later Bumerli returns to win Nadina's love and prevent her loveless marriage to Major Spiridoff.
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Promenade
Episode 16 - 5-22-1955
Revue program with music, comedy skits and song & dance.
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The Desert Song
Episode 15 - 5-07-1955
Pierre Birabeau, son of the general of all French troops in Morocco, is secretly sympathetic to the local Riffs. Disguising himself in a red costume, he leads the Moroccans against his own countrymen, but at the garrison he pretends to be a weakly simpleton. His behavior with his fellow Frenchmen does not help further his desire for romance with the beautiful Margot. She prefers dashing, but fickle, Captain Paul Fontaine. Pierre has no choice but to go to Margot in his other identity, the notorious Red Shadow, and carry her off to his desert camp. Complications arise when Azuri, a dancing girl, reveals the camp's location to the French.
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Kaleidoscope
Episode 14 - 4-25-1955
Revue program with music, comedy skits and song & dance.
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The Merry Widow
Episode 13 - 4-09-1955
Sonja Sadoya is a wealthy young widow who is being romanced by the dashing Prince Danilo, a womanizing Marsovian embassy attache who is courting Sonia in hopes of using her money to restore his country's fiscal solvency. Sonia attempts to convince Dalio that she is penniless and still get him to marry her.
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A Connecticut Yankee
Episode 12 - 3-12-1955
Max Liebman presents A Connecticut Yankee, inspired by the Mark Twain tale. It tells of a modern-day groom-to-be who is projected back in time to the days of King Arthur. There, the people he knows at home assume the identities of the characters about the Round Table and their lady-loves. Songs included: This is My Night to Howl / My Heart Stood Still - Eddie Albert / Thou Swell - Eddie Albert / At the Round Table - Boris Karloff / On a Desert Island with Thee / To Keep My Love Alive - Gale Sherwood / Hymm to the Sun / Ye Lunchtime Follies / Can't You Do a Friend a Favor? - Eddie Albert / I Feel At Home with You - Jack Thompson / You Always Love the Same Girl - Eddie Albert / The Camelot Samba.
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Variety
Episode 11 - 1-30-1955
A melange of music, comedy and song & dance, including a jazz version of Gilbert & Sullivan's ""H.M.S. Pinafore.""
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Naughty Marietta
Episode 10 - 1-15-1955
Operetta set in New Orleans circa 1780. Marietta is there to escape from an unwanted marriage in France and Capt. Dick is there to lead his Rangers against a pirate gang. Marietta is first attracted to the son of the lieutenant govenor. But when he is revealed as the pirate leader, she turns her attentions to Capt. Dick. She decides he is the man for her when he is able to finish the ""Dream"" melody that Marietta recalls from childhood.
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Good Times
Episode 9 - 1-02-1955
Revue program with music, comedy skits and song & dance.
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Babes in Toyland
Episode 8 - 12-18-1954
A department store Santa entertains a lost young girl with tales of a land where storybook characters live. The girl dreams of Toyland and the story of Tommy Tucker who wants to win the hand of Jane Piper despite the evil Silas Barnaby who wants Jane for himself.
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Spotlight
Episode 7 - 12-05-1954
Ice show revue program with music, comedy skits and song & dance featuring Olympic gold medalist and movie star Sonia Henie.
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Best Foot Forward
Episode 6 - 11-20-1954
1h 30m
The story of a fading Hollywood movie star, Gale Joy, who descends on a boy's prep school as a publicity stunt to accompany a student, Bud Hooper, to his prom. The kids at the Junior Prom go wild over the movie star and she's forced to seek refuge in the boy's dormitory - a move that could get the boys expelled from school.
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Fanfare
Episode 5 - 11-07-1954
Revue program with music, comedy skits and song & dance.
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The Follies of Suzy
Episode 4 - 10-23-1954
This color spectacular features Steve Allen as a young playwright who daydreams about an imaginary French ballerina, Jeanmarie, as she appears in three romantic stories set in different time periods of American history.
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Sunday in Town
Episode 3 - 10-10-1954
Revue program with music, comedy skits and song & dance.
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Lady in the Dark
Episode 2 - 9-25-1954
Liza Elliot, neurotic editor of Allure magazine, seeks psychiatric help to solve her problems with men, her past and her indecisiveness. Her psychiatric session lead to three musical dream sequences, including: Glamour Dream: Oh Fabulous One/Huxley/One Life to Live/Girl of the Moment / Wedding Dream: Mapleton High Chorale/This is New/The Princess of Pure Delight / Circus Dream: The Greatest Show on Earth/Dance of the Tumblers/The Best Years of His Life/Tschaikowsky/The Saga of Jenny / Childhood Dream: My Ship.
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Satins and Spurs
Episode 1 - 9-12-1954
Original musical about Cindy Smathers, a rodeo star who appears at Madison Square Garden in New York City and becomes the subject of a Life magazine photo essay about a country girl in the big city. The photographer at first makes her feel like such a rube but eventually they fall in love and the pictures land Cindy the lead in a Broadway musical. Songs by Ray Evans & Jay Livingston, all sung by Betty Hutton, include: Whoop-Diddy-Ay / Wildcat Smathers / Satins and Spurs / The Little Roll Rock / I've Had Enough - Hutton & McCarthy / Nobody Cares / Back Home / You're So Right for Me - Hutton & McCarthy / Sexy Sadie/Finale.
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Top 5 Highest Rated Episodes 8/10
Best Foot Forward
Episode 6 - 11-20-1954
1h 30m
The story of a fading Hollywood movie star, Gale Joy, who descends on a boy's prep school as a publicity stunt to accompany a student, Bud Hooper, to his prom. The kids at the Junior Prom go wild over the movie star and she's forced to seek refuge in the boy's dormitory - a move that could get the boys expelled from school.
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