The Guy Mitchell Show The Guy Mitchell Show The Guy Mitchell Show is a half-hour television variety program hosted by and starring recording artist Guy Mitchell, which was broadcast from October 7, 1957, to January 13, 1958. The series aired on Monday evenings at 8 p.m. Eastern time on ABC following a half-hour prime time version of "American Bandstand". "The Guy Mitchell Show" faced strong competition from "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show", a situation comedy on CBS, and from John Payne's NBC Western, "The Restless Gun". Mitchell’s guest stars, performing songs, dances, or skits, included dancer and pianist Johnny Bach, Jack Carson,
The Danny Kaye Show and Performers (1965), and Outstanding Art Direction For A Series (1964). In the spring of 1967 the ratings had slipped, due in part to a time slot too late evening for younger viewers. Children were always a large slice of Kaye's audience. There also was stiff competition from NBC's "I Spy" with three time Emmy winner Bill Cosby. After four years on CBS, "The Danny Kaye Show" ended its prime-time run. Show regular Harvey Korman quickly signed with another CBS variety series premiering in September - "The Carol Burnett Show", where he would remain as a cast member for ten