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The Judy Garland Show was an American musical variety television series that aired on CBS on Sunday nights during the 1963-1964 television season. Despite a sometimes stormy relationship with Judy Garland, CBS had found success with several television specials featuring the star. Garland, who for years had been reluctant to commit to a weekly series, saw the show as her best chance to pull herself out of severe financial difficulties.

Production difficulties beset the series almost from the beginning. The series had three different producers in the course of its 26 episodes and went through a number of other key personnel changes. With the change in producers also came changes to the show's format, which started as comedy/variety but switched to an almost purely concert format.

While Garland herself was popular with critics, the initial variety format and her co-star, Jerry Van Dyke, were not. The show competed with Bonanza, then the fourth most popular program on television,[1] and consistently performed poorly in the ratings. Although fans rallied in an attempt to save the show, CBS cancelled it after a single season.

NOTE
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Released in two boxsets. Most discs are double sided, made into 2xDVD5s. Internal numbering was a mess, so volume/disc numbers here are somewhat arbitrary. Some episodes were not recorded and considered lost (most notably, the original #5, with Nat King Cole and Gene Kelly). Consult cover/inlay scans to find a particular show, episode production number and/or very extensive cast for a particular episode.

Format: NTSC
DVD Size: ~104 Gb in 21 discs (DVD5+DVD9) -- Exact Untouched Copy
Runtime (main feature): 1800+ minutes
Type: Black and White
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Sound (main feature): English DD2.0
Subtitles: none

Set Features
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# Every recorded episode.
# 'Songs for America' special.
# The Christmas Show.
# Over 15 never-broadcast outtakes from all of the shows in this set.
# Audio commentary.
# Photo gallery.
# Complete index of the shows in the 1963-64 season.

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