The Eddie Fisher Show on October 1, 1957. The show alternated on Tuesday nights with "The George Gobel Show" airing from 8:00-9:00 pm for its entire run. Fisher was married to actress Debbie Reynolds. The two divorced in 1959 and Fisher went on to marry Elizabeth Taylor. Fisher and Reynolds' divorce was very much publicize and after several months of scandals and unflattering publicity for Fisher, NBC decided to cancel the show with its last episode that aired on March 27, 1959. The series aired on Tuesdays from 8:30-9:00 pm for its entire run alternating weekly with "The George Gobel Show". The Eddie Fisher
John Payne Todd up debts in gambling. His parents bailed him out of debtors' prison, mortgaging Madison's Montpelier to raise the money. His stepfather had him manage Montpelier at one point, but Todd was unsuccessful. Todd died of typhoid fever less than three years after his mother's death of old age. John Payne Todd was the first son of Dolley Payne and John Todd Jr. He had a younger brother, William Temple Todd. Both his brother and father died the same day of yellow fever in the 1793 epidemic. The following year, his 26-year-old widowed mother married the future President James Madison, then