The Dean Martin Show
Overview
The Dean Martin Show is a TV variety
-comedy series
that ran from 1965 to 1974 for 264 episodes. It was broadcast by NBC
and hosted by crooner
Dean Martin
. The theme song to the series was his 1964 hit "Everybody Loves Somebody
."
The series was a staple for NBC, airing Thursdays at 10:00 for 8 years, until its move to Fridays at 10:00 for the final season and change in format.
Variety show
A variety show, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is an entertainment made up of a variety of acts, especially musical performances and sketch comedy, and normally introduced by a compère or host. Other types of acts include magic, animal and circus acts, acrobatics, juggling...
-comedy series
Television comedy
Television comedy had a presence from the earliest days of broadcasting. Among the earliest BBC television programmes in the 1930s was Starlight, which offered a series of guests from the music hall era — singers and comedians amongst them...
that ran from 1965 to 1974 for 264 episodes. It was broadcast by NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
and hosted by crooner
Crooner
Crooner is an American epithet given to male singers of pop standards, mostly from the Great American Songbook, either backed by a full orchestra, a big band or by a piano. Originally it was an ironic term denoting an emphatically sentimental, often emotional singing style made possible by the use...
Dean Martin
Dean Martin
Dean Martin was an American singer, film actor, television star and comedian. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You", "Sway", "Volare" and "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?"...
. The theme song to the series was his 1964 hit "Everybody Loves Somebody
Everybody Loves Somebody
"Everybody Loves Somebody" is a song written in 1947 by Sam Coslow, Irving Taylor and Ken Lane. By 1964, the song had already been recorded by several artists , but without much success...
."
- Season 1 (September 16, 1965 - May 5, 1966, 31 episodes): out of the top-30
- Season 2 (September 8, 1966 - April 27, 1967, 33 episodes): #14
- Season 3 (September 14, 1967 - April 4, 1968, 30 episodes): #8
- Season 4 (September 19, 1968 - April 24, 1969, 30 episodes): #8
- Season 5 (September 18, 1969 - June 18, 1970, 31 episodes): #14
- Season 6 (September 17, 1970 - April 8, 1971, 28 episodes): #24
- Season 7 (September 16, 1971 - April 13, 1972, 28 episodes): out of the top-30
- Season 8 (September 14, 1972 - April 12, 1973, 28 episodes): out of the top-30
- Season 9 (September 6, 1973 - April 5, 1974, 25 episodes): out of the top-30
The series was a staple for NBC, airing Thursdays at 10:00 for 8 years, until its move to Fridays at 10:00 for the final season and change in format.
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