The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show has it. Burns was once asked this question and said it would have been a funny line. Asked why he did not do it, Burns replied, "Incredibly enough, no one ever thought of it." In March 1953, "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show" joined "I Love Lucy" as part of the CBS Monday-night primetime lineup. As a result, the show entered the top 30 television programs in the Nielsen ratings ranking at number 20. For the 1954–1955 season, it ranked number 26, and for both the 1955–56 and 1956–57 seasons it was number 28. With "I Love Lucy" ending
The Leslie Uggams Show The Leslie Uggams Show The Leslie Uggams Show is an American variety television series starring actress/singer Leslie Uggams. The series aired on CBS as part of its 1969 fall lineup, and was the second variety series to feature an African American host since 1956's "The Nat King Cole Show". "The Leslie Uggams Show" gave Uggams, who had first come to wide public notice as a singer on the early 1960s hit "Sing Along With Mitch", her own program to showcase herself and other black performers; unlike other early variety programs which were hosted by black entertainers but featured a large