[Season 2 Premiere]
Jay Johnson and his wife Ann Morath perform a musical adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benet's poem "John Brown's Body".
Last show of the second season, "The Faye Emerson Show" takes Fred's timeslot.
[Season 3 Premiere]
Autumn in New York and a turn-of-the-century minstrel show. [This is a period piece and includes actors in blackface.]
Contains a special introduction by Walt Disney and a segment of the Alice and Wonderland film acted out in live action using the actoress that voiced Alice, Kathryn Beaumont, and the actors who voiced the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat, Hugh Brannum and Sterling Holloway.
The Fred Waring Show on May 20, 1951 featuring Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians singing select numbers from the musical Flahooley.
Tschaikowsky's "Nutcracker Suite" is the highlight in an elaborate production number in the Overture. "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies", "Hussian Trepak", "Toy Flutes" and "Waltz of the Flowers".
[Season 5 Premiere]
[Season 6 Premiere]
Featuring a Musical Tour of the World.
Tribute to Armistice Day.
The Baird Puppets
Christmas music
Saluting the Ladies
A tribute to several late composer friends. George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Peter de Rose, Gus Kahn, Dick Whiting and Fred Ahlert. Songs included are Gus Kahn's "Memories", Fred Ahlert's "Walkin' My Baby Back Home", & George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue". Also appearing are the duo-piano team of Virginia Morley and Livingston Gearhart.
Love Songs
Musical salute to "Our American Heritage".
Folk Songs
Songs of Easter
Salutes Mother's Day and Armed Forces Day.
[Final Primetime Show] Memorial Day