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The Frank Sinatra Show

Season 1 1957 - 1958
NR

  • 1957-10-18T04:00:00Z on ABC
  • 25m
  • 18h 25m (37 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Drama, Musical
The series was originally slated to consist of thirteen variety episodes, thirteen dramas starring Sinatra, and ten dramas hosted by Sinatra, filmed at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood rather than broadcast live.

37 episodes

Series Premiere

1957-10-18T04:00:00Z

1x01 Bob Hope, Kim Novak & Peggy Lee

Series Premiere

1x01 Bob Hope, Kim Novak & Peggy Lee

  • 1957-10-18T04:00:00Z30m

Songs included: The Lonesome Road - Sinatra / I Could Write A Book - Sinatra / Autumn Leaves - Sinatra / Bewitched - Sinatra / Listen To The Rocking Bird - Lee / He's My Guy - Lee / All The Way - Sinatra / I Get A Kick Out Of You - Sinatra.

1957-10-25T04:00:00Z

1x02 That Hogan Man

1x02 That Hogan Man

  • 1957-10-25T04:00:00Z30m

Sinatra starred in the first dramatic episode of the series as a New York cab driver who is raising a pair adopted war orphans. His neighbors, his friends and even the children themselves think Hogan should find a wife. The youngsters arrange a date for Hogan with their pretty teacher, Miss Douglas, and then some of his cabbie friends try to pair him up with a real ""doll"".

1957-11-01T05:00:00Z

1x03 Nancy Sinatra

1x03 Nancy Sinatra

  • 1957-11-01T05:00:00Z30m

Songs included: You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To - Sinatra / The Girl Next Door - Sinatra / I've Got You Under My Skin - Sinatra / Side By Side - Sinatra & Tri-Tones / Exactly Like You - Sinatra & Tri-Tones / All The Way - Sinatra / Violets For Your Furs - Sinatra / The Lonesome Road - Sinatra.

1957-11-08T05:00:00Z

1x04 Peggy Lee

1x04 Peggy Lee

  • 1957-11-08T05:00:00Z30m

Songs included: Pennies From Heaven - Sinatra / Autumn Leaves - Sinatra / Nice Work if You Can Get It - Sinatra & Lee / You Brought A New Kind of Love to Me - Sinatra / Our Love is Here to Stay - Sinatra & Lee / I Thought About You - Sinatra / I'll Be Seeing You - Sinatra / Old Devil Moon - Lee / That's All - Lee.

1957-11-15T05:00:00Z

1x05 McGuire Sisters

1x05 McGuire Sisters

  • 1957-11-15T05:00:00Z30m

Songs included: Something's Gotta Give - Sinatra & McGuire Sisters / Them There Eyes - McGuire Sisters / From This Moment On - Sinatra.

1957-11-22T05:00:00Z

1x06 Erin O'Brien

1x06 Erin O'Brien

  • 1957-11-22T05:00:00Z30m

Songs included: Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams - Sinatra / I Get Along Without You Very Well - Sinatra / I'm Glad There Is You - O'Brien / Let's Get Away From It All - Sinatra & O'Brien / My Funny Valentine - Sinatra / I Wish I Were In Love Again - Sinatra / I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter - Sinatra / One For My Baby - Sinatra / Everything Happens To Me - Sinatra.

1957-11-29T05:00:00Z

1x07 Dean Martin

1x07 Dean Martin

  • 1957-11-29T05:00:00Z30m

Musical selections included: Night and Day - Sinatra / Old Devil Moon - Sinatra / Medley: On a Slow Boat to China,Saturday Night(is the Loneliest Night of the Week),Memories are Made of This,The Girl That I Marry,Innamorata,I've Got a Crush on You,Oh Marie,Don't Cry Joe(Let Her Go, Let Her Go, Let Her Go) - Sinatra & Martin / The House I Live In - Sinatra.

1957-12-06T05:00:00Z

1x08 Show 8

1x08 Show 8

  • 1957-12-06T05:00:00Z30m

Frank devotes the show to spotlighting eight of his most popular song numbers. Also appearing are Australian actress Pamela Light and dancers Jean Goodall, Mary Thomas, Pat Tribble and Dolores Durett. Songs included: Young At Heart / I've Got The World On A String / With Every Breath I Take / A Foggy Day / You Make Me Feel So Young / I Won't Dance / I'm Gonna Live Till I Die / I Couldn't Sleep A Wink Last Night.

1957-12-13T05:00:00Z

1x09 Take Me To Hollywood

1x09 Take Me To Hollywood

  • 1957-12-13T05:00:00Z30m

Frank stars in a drama, ""Take Me to Hollywood."" A talent scout is handed an urgent assignment by the head of the studio. A young actress who was given a million-dollar buildup for a costly picture now in production has disappeared, and the scout must find her.

As Frank Sinatra casually trims his Christmas tree on a very hip, fashionable bachelor apartment stage set, his good friend Bing Crosby drops by, bearing an armful of gifts. They go on to perform their favourite Christmas songs, among them Jingle Bells, Sinatra's version of Mistletoe and Holly and Crosby's famed White Christmas.

1957-12-27T05:00:00Z

1x11 The Feeling is Mutual

1x11 The Feeling is Mutual

  • 1957-12-27T05:00:00Z30m

A frozen-food salesman who wants to be a writer, and a secretary who yearns to be an artist, meet while both are feeding pidgeons in Central Park. Soon they are consoling each other.

1958-01-03T05:00:00Z

1x12 Dinah Shore

1x12 Dinah Shore

  • 1958-01-03T05:00:00Z30m

A musical trip around the world with Frank & Dinah. Songs included: Come Fly With Me - Sinatra / Road To Mandalay - Sinatra / London By Night - Sinatra / April In Paris - Sinatra / It's Nice To Go Trav'ling - Sinatra & Shore / Autumn In New York - Sinatra & Shore.

1958-01-10T05:00:00Z

1x13 Robert Mitchum

1x13 Robert Mitchum

  • 1958-01-10T05:00:00Z30m

Guest Robert Mitchum talks Frank into making an appearance at his son's school, even though the youngster was hoping to have a rock 'n' roll singer. Songs included: I Won't Dance - Sinatra / All The Way - Sinatra / Witchcraft - Sinatra / Hey! Jealous Lover - Sinatra / If You Are But A Dream - Sinatra / Put Your Dreams Away - Sinatra.

1958-01-17T05:00:00Z

1x14 Louis Prima & Keely Smith

1x14 Louis Prima & Keely Smith

  • 1958-01-17T05:00:00Z30m

Songs included: I'm An Old Cowhand - Sinatra / The Birth Of The Blues - Sinatra & Smith / Bewitched - Sinatra / I Can't Believe You're in Love with Me - Sinatra, Prima & Smith.

1958-01-24T05:00:00Z

1x15 Jo Stafford

1x15 Jo Stafford

  • 1958-01-24T05:00:00Z30m

Sinatra and Stafford reminisce about their days as singers with The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.Songs included: Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams - Sinatra / This Love Of Mine - Sinatra / I'll Never Smile Again - Sinatra / These Foolish Things - Sinatra / Medley: Street Of Dreams,Violets For Your Furs,The One I Love,Yes Indeed! - Sinatra & Stafford / Our Love Is Here To Stay - Sinatra / Put Your Dreams Away - Sinatra.

1958-01-31T05:00:00Z

1x16 Sammy Davis, Jr.

1x16 Sammy Davis, Jr.

  • 1958-01-31T05:00:00Z30m

Songs included: Isle of Capri - Sinatra / You Make Me Feel So Young - Sinatra / Tell Her You Love Her - Sinatra / Me and My Shadow - Sinatra & Davis / I've Got You Under My Skin - Sinatra.

1958-02-07T05:00:00Z

1x17 Jeannie Carson

1x17 Jeannie Carson

  • 1958-02-07T05:00:00Z30m

In this episode Sinatra opens singing ""South of the Border"" to a group of admiring showgirls. Later, he's joined by English singer Jeannie Carson in a record shop sketch, where she and regular heckler Clifford (Jesse White) compete to get Sinatra's autograph, and he agrees to teach her how to sing like him and sound American. Meanwhile, Clifford keeps bothering Sinatra, mistaking him for ""Sol Mineo."" Sinatra sings Cole Porter's ""From This Moment On"" in an outstanding rendition, as well as ""Witchcraft"" and ""Wishing On a Star."" Jeannie Carson learns how to pronounce words American-style (""mudda, fodda etc."") and sings ""Them There Eyes."" Other songs included: They Can't Take That Away From Me - Sinatra / Put Your Dreams Away - Sinatra.

1958-02-14T05:00:00Z

1x18 Shirley Jones

1x18 Shirley Jones

  • 1958-02-14T05:00:00Z30m

Songs included: I Love You - Sinatra / P.S. I Love You - Sinatra / If I Loved You - Sinatra & Jones / My Funny Valentine - Frank Sinatra to daughter Nancy.

1958-02-21T05:00:00Z

1x19 A Time to Cry

1x19 A Time to Cry

  • 1958-02-21T05:00:00Z30m

A gunman holds a woman captive in a deserted frontier cabin while her husband lies dying from a bullet wound in the next room.

1958-02-28T05:00:00Z

1x20 Van Johnson

1x20 Van Johnson

  • 1958-02-28T05:00:00Z30m

Van Johnson guest stars in this episode and he joins Sinatra in a sketch aimed at fulfilling one of his lifelong ambitions-to forsake playing the All American Boy in favor of playing a genuine heel. Songs included: Come Fly With Me - Sinatra / There's No You - Sinatra / I Could Write A Book - Sinatra / Something In Common - Sinatra & Johnson / At Long Last Love - Sinatra / Put Your Dreams Away - Sinatra.

1958-03-07T05:00:00Z

1x21 Edie Adams & Stan Freberg

1x21 Edie Adams & Stan Freberg

  • 1958-03-07T05:00:00Z30m

Songs included: I'm Gonna Live Till I Die - Sinatra / This Can't Be Love - Sinatra / All Of Me - Sinatra / I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter - Sinatra & Freberg / One For My Baby - Sinatra.

1958-03-14T05:00:00Z

1x22 Eydie Gorme & Joey Bishop

1x22 Eydie Gorme & Joey Bishop

  • 1958-03-14T05:00:00Z30m

Songstress Eydie Gorme and comedian Joey Bishop are Frank's guests on this episode. Bishop plays a entertainment executive who has some unique ideas for improving the show. Songs included: Where Are You? - Sinatra / How About You - Sinatra / When Your Lover Has Gone - Gorme / Gypsy in My Soul - Gorme / Saturday Night is the Loneliest Night of the Week - Sinatra & Gorme / It Happened in Monterey - Sinatra / Moonlight in Vermont - Sinatra / The Most Beautiful Girl in the World - Sinatra / Nature Boy - Sinatra & Bishop / Put Your Dreams Away - Sinatra.

1958-03-21T05:00:00Z

1x23 The Man on the Stairs

1x23 The Man on the Stairs

  • 1958-03-21T05:00:00Z30m

A young woman who lives in a New York apartment is attracted to a temperamental painter who lives in the same building. She tries to draw him out of the depression which seems to prevent him from painting.

1958-03-28T05:00:00Z

1x24 Eddie Fisher

1x24 Eddie Fisher

  • 1958-03-28T05:00:00Z30m

Songs included: A Foggy Day - Sinatra / Taking A Chance On Love - Sinatra / Time After Time - Sinatra / Medley: All The Way, Learnin' The Blues, Young At Heart - Sinatra / It's Nice To Go Trav'ling - Sinatra & Fisher / Put Your Dreams Away - Sinatra.

1958-04-04T05:00:00Z

1x25 Spike Jones

1x25 Spike Jones

  • 1958-04-04T05:00:00Z30m

Spike Jones, his band and his vocalist wife Helen Grayco guest along with Jesse White. Songs included: You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me - Sinatra / Baby, Won't You Please Come Home? - Sinatra / Too Marvelous For Words - Sinatra / Put Your Dreams Away - Sinatra / Makin' Whoppee - Sinatra & Grayco / Chloe - Sinatra / Fascination,All The Way,Tammy,By The Light Of The Silvery Moon - Jones & Band.

1958-04-18T05:00:00Z

1x26 The Brownstone Incident

1x26 The Brownstone Incident

  • 1958-04-18T05:00:00Z30m

A sweltering heat wave triggers an emotional crisis in the Manhattan apartment of Al and Helen Wesson. The married couple feel tension mounting between them because the wife is anxious to move from their city apartment to the suburbs. But her husband has lived all his life in their present neighborhood, and refuses to leave.

1958-04-25T05:00:00Z

1x27 Ethel Merman

1x27 Ethel Merman

  • 1958-04-25T05:00:00Z30m

This episode's special guest is Ethel Merman. She and Sinatra trade jokes and act together in a sketch about a married star couple surprised at home by the cameras, who have to cover up their disaster of an apartment. And Jesse White gets a rise out of Sinatra in his regular role of Clifford the heckler. Songs included: Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart - Merman / You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me - Sinatra / You're The Top -Sinatra & Merman / I'm Always Chasing Rainbows - Merman / I Get A Kick Out of You - Sinatra / Just One of Those Things - Sinatra.

1958-05-09T04:00:00Z

1x28 Ella Fitzgerald

1x28 Ella Fitzgerald

  • 1958-05-09T04:00:00Z30m

Ella joins Frank for thirty minutes of great music on this installment of Sinatra's short-lived Friday night series. She sings ""April In Paris,"" ""Angel Eyes,"" and ""When You're Smiling."" Sinatra offers ""Jeepers Creepers,"" ""On the Road to Mandalay,"" and ""We'll Be Together Again."" Together they sing ""Moonlight in Vermont"" and a swingin' version of ""I May Be Wrong.""

1x29 The Green Grass of St. Theresa

  • 1958-05-16T04:00:00Z30m

Young Father Dvorak returns as a parish priest to the church of his childhood. St. Theresa's is now old and neglected and he tries to convince the bishop that even though the church is in a neighborhood that is now almost completely industrialized, it is worth renovating. Father Dvorak tries to stir up some interest in his campaign by attempting to grow grass in the sooty barren plot of ground in front of the church.

1958-05-23T04:00:00Z

1x30 Natalie Wood & Pat Suzuki

1x30 Natalie Wood & Pat Suzuki

  • 1958-05-23T04:00:00Z30m

Music on this episode includes: Night and Day - Sinatra / Lonely Town - Sinatra / I Believe - Sinatra / Them There Eyes - Sinatra & Wood / How Are Ya Fixed For Love? - Sinatra / Put Your Dreams Away - Sinatra.

1958-05-30T04:00:00Z

1x31 A Face of Fear

1x31 A Face of Fear

  • 1958-05-30T04:00:00Z30m

Christine Nolan is hired by Paul Dupree as governess for his young son Claude. She finds the boy in a state of shock from fear.

1958-06-06T04:00:00Z

1x32 The Seedling Doubt

1x32 The Seedling Doubt

  • 1958-06-06T04:00:00Z30m

After three months of treatment in a mental hospital, Jean Armstrong returns to her home and husband. She has been home only a short time when she begins questioning not only her sanity but the identity of her own husband.

1958-06-13T04:00:00Z

1x33 A Gun at His Back

1x33 A Gun at His Back

  • 1958-06-13T04:00:00Z30m

1958-06-20T04:00:00Z

1x34 Take Me to Hollywood

1x34 Take Me to Hollywood

  • 1958-06-20T04:00:00Z30m

1958-06-27T04:00:00Z

1x35 The Feeling is Mutual

1x35 The Feeling is Mutual

  • 1958-06-27T04:00:00Z30m

Season Finale

1957-11-22T05:00:00Z

1x36 A Gun At His Back

Season Finale

1x36 A Gun At His Back

  • 1957-11-22T05:00:00Z30m

A New York cabbie is not satisfied with the progress made by the police department in locating his stolen cab. He decides to take matters into his own hands.

In 1957 Timex sponsored a series of TV Variety Show Specials starring Frank Sinatra broadcast on the ABC Television Network.
This show was taped on October 19, 1958, The special guest stars are Dean Martin and Bing Crosby and includes Dean Martin's less than subtle commercial for his Hollywood restaurant whilst performing 'Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams'. Also appearing are Mitzi Gaynor and a cameo by Jimmy Durante.
This program is remastered from the archive tape of the broadcast, and is the original broadcast including the sponsors promotional segments. Whilst the quality of the reproduction may not meet modern technological standards, it is a rare record of three of the most popular performers of the Twentieth Century performing together.

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