The Joey Bishop Show is an American

United States

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 sitcom

Situation comedy

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 that aired on NBC

NBC

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 for its first three seasons, premiering on September 20, 1961. The series then moved to CBS for its last season. It was a spin-off

Spin-off (media)

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 from a 1961 episode of The Danny Thomas Show ("Everything Happens To Me"), which introduced the character of "Joey Barnes".

Overview

The series stars entertainer Joey Bishop

Joey Bishop

Joey Bishop was an American entertainer who was perhaps best known for being a member of the "Rat Pack" with Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Dean Martin...

 as Joey Barnes, host of a New York City

New York City

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 TV talk show, and Abby Dalton

Abby Dalton

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 as his wife. The stars on the show included Marlo Thomas

Marlo Thomas

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, Joe Besser

Joe Besser

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, Guy Marks

Guy Marks

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, Corbett Monica and Mary Treen

Mary Treen

-Selected filmography:-External links:...

.

Reception

In the 1962-1963 season, The Joey Bishop Show outpowered the competition series on ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (TV series)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a 1962-1963 ABC sitcom starring Fess Parker as Eugene Smith, an honest but unsophisticated U.S. senator from an unidentified small-populated state. The half-hour program is based on the 1939 Frank Capra film, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, starring James Stewart in...

, starring Fess Parker

Fess Parker

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. In the 1963-1964 season on NBC, The Joey Bishop Show aired at the same time as comedian

Comedian

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 Phil Silvers

Phil Silvers

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's comeback attempt on CBS -- The New Phil Silvers Show

The New Phil Silvers Show

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. Bishop survived that season for the final year on CBS- but appeared opposite NBC's Bonanza

Bonanza

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in the fall, and ABC's Combat

Combat

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in mid-season, before being cancelled at the end of the season.

See also

• The Joey Bishop Show
  The Joey Bishop Show (talk show)
  The Joey Bishop Show is an American talk show which was first broadcast on ABC on April 17, 1967, hosted by Joey Bishop and featuring Regis Philbin in his first concentrated national television exposure, as Bishop's sidekick/announcer...
  
  a 1967-1969 talk show hosted by Bishop on ABC
  American Broadcasting Company
  The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...