A Date with Judy (film) this film. The big high school dance in Santa Barbara is coming up. Judy Foster (Jane Powell) expects boyfriend "Oogie" Pringle (Scotty Beckett) to be her escort, but he declines. Meanwhile, Oogie's sister, sophisticated senior Carol Pringle (Elizabeth Taylor), has booked famous bandleader Xavier Cugat and his orchestra for the dance. Cugat's lady friend, Rosita Cochellas (Carmen Miranda), is a dance instructor. She is secretly giving rumba lessons to Judy's dad, Melvin Foster (Wallace Beery), who wants to surprise his wife with a dance for their upcoming wedding anniversary. Soda shop owner Pop Scully (Lloyd Corrigan) introduces a disappointed Judy
A Date with Judy (TV series) Time. The primetime version ran on Thursdays from 8 to 8:30 p.m. (July 1952 - October 1952) and then on Wednesdays from 7:30 to 8 p.m. (June 1953 - September 1953). The primetime version was replaced by "Saber of London", which had been on ABC on a different night the previous season. In the trade publication "Billboard", a review of the first daytime episode described "A Date with Judy" as "a mildly diverting situation comedy aimed at teenagers". Reviewer Leon Morse wrote that the program was cast well, but the script needed improvement. A Date with Judy (TV series) A