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The Ed Wynn Show is an American variety show originally broadcast from September 22, 1949 to July 4, 1950, on the CBS Television Network.Comedian and former vaudevillian Ed Wynn was the star of the program's 39 episodes, which were the first shows broadcast live from Hollywood, [1] and transmitted via kinescope to New York.
Ed Wynn first appeared on television on July 7, 1936, in a brief, ad-libbed spot with Graham McNamee during an NBC experimental television broadcast. In the 1949–1950 season, Wynn hosted The Ed Wynn Show, one of the first network, comedy-variety television shows, on CBS, and won both a Peabody Award and an Emmy Award in 1949.
The Ed Wynn Show is a filmed sitcom that aired Thursday evenings on NBC [1] from September 25, 1958 [2] to January 1, 1959. It was the second TV show of the same name for the veteran comedian Ed Wynn , and his third television series overall.
Keenan and Ed Wynn in The Man in the Funny Suit (1960) Annie Get Your Gun (1950) Keenan Wynn, Linda Evans, and Jack Ging in an episode of TV's The Eleventh Hour (1963). Francis Xavier Aloysius James Jeremiah Keenan Wynn (July 27, 1916 – October 14, 1986) was an American character actor.
Frederick Hubbard Gwynne (July 10, 1926 – July 2, 1993) was an American actor, artist and author, who is widely known for his roles in the 1960s television sitcoms Car 54, Where Are You? (as Francis Muldoon) and The Munsters (as Herman Munster ), as well as his later film roles in The Cotton Club (1984), Pet Sematary (1989), and My Cousin ...
The show was known as either Ford Startime—TV's Finest Hour or Lincoln–Mercury Startime, depending on which division of the Ford Motor Company was presenting commercials within that show. The contents varied from week to week – dramas, musical comedies, and variety shows were all presented. [1] The show was always broadcast on Tuesday nights.
Wynn also had experience in the then new medium of television. During the 1949-50 television season, Wynn hosted one of the first comedy-variety television shows on CBS, entitled The Ed Wynn Show. [4] Danny Thomas was born Amos Muzyad Yakhoob Kairouz on January 6, 1912, in Deerfield, Michigan.
The episode stars Ed Wynn, a recent Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture nominee for 1956's The Great Man and soon-to-be Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nominee for that year's production of The Diary of Anne Frank. [2] [3] Co-starring with Wynn were married actors Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy.