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Jack Benny Show (Sun. 7:30 p.m., CBS). With Jackie Gleason...
Shower of Stars (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Burlesque, a musical version of the Broadway hit play, with Dan Dailey Marilyn Maxwell, Joan Blondell, Jack Oakie and James Gleason...
Congregationalist Pope questioned whether a so-called mass audience for religious programs really exists at all. "No matter what we do, we will not compete successfully with Jackie Gleason for the audience out there, not even if we give away free trips to Palestine or old church pews for use as lawn benches. The mystical hope that some Protestant equivalent of Bishop Sheen will arise to speak for us to the vast missions is an unworthy delusion. In the first place, any such voice would be out of keeping with the Protestant emphasis on the necessity that each individual find...
...week's drama was partially redeemed by CBS's Best of Broadway, which revived George Kelly's 1924 Broadway hit, The Show-Off, as a starring vehicle for Comedian Jackie Gleason. As Aubrey Piper, a vainglorious blowhard who enchants his wife but drives her family daffy, Gleason was playing a role not too far removed from his own Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners. He posed and postured as man of affairs, thinker, dude and cocksure authority on everything from high finance to socialism. As his embattled mother-in-law, Hollywood's Thelma (Rear Window) Ritter...
Best of Broadway (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The Show-Off, with Jackie Gleason, Thelma Ritter...