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The Julie Andrews Hour

  • TV series
  • 1972
  • 1 season
  • 28 episodes

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Overview

The Julie Andrews Hour is a television variety series starring Julie Andrews that was produced by ATV and distributed by ITC Entertainment. It aired on the ABC network in the United States. In order to secure Andrews for the series, Sir Lew Grade and ABC offered her an extremely lucrative contract. In 1963, when another major star, Judy Garland was signed to a weekly television variety series, it failed to catch on with the public. One of the main reasons for its demise was its constant change of format and the fact that critics and audiences felt that Garland was not shown off to her best advantage. In order to avoid that error, Andrews asked producer Nick Vanoff what the premise of the show would be about. Vanoff immediately answered her by saying "Julie Andrews...without Julie Andrews there is no 'Julie Andrews Hour'". The show premiered on ABC Wednesday, September 13, 1972 at 10:00 P.M. ET to rave reviews. Unfortunately, its time slot proved to be daunting because it was up against the popular CBS detective series, Cannon. Another reason for the low ratings was that the lateness of the hour was not conducive to family viewing since children were in bed by that time. On Thanksgiving Eve, November 22, 1972, "The Julie Andrews Hour" devoted an entire episode saluting Walt Disney. To make it more of a "family special", ABC switched the time slot of "The Julie Andrews Hour" that night to 8:30 P.M. and The ABC Wednesday Movie Of The Week to 9:30 P.M. The ratings improved a little so ABC then made a decision to alternate Andrews' time period each week This continued until January, 1973 when the series was moved to Saturday nights at 9:00 P.M. The ratings went from bad to worse as Andrews' chief competition was The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Bob Newhart Show on CBS. "The Julie Andrews Hour" was finally canceled by ABC after its 24th episode in April, 1973.

Roughly 28h to watch every episode. This is an estimate: 28 episodes at the typical episode runtime of 60 minutes.

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Series cast and crew

  • Julie Andrews

    Julie AndrewsSelf - Host
    28 episodes

  • Alice Ghostley

    Alice GhostleySelf
    28 episodes

  • Rich Little

    Rich LittleSelf
    28 episodes

  • Steve Lawrence

    Steve LawrenceSelf
    4 episodes

  • Cass Elliot

    Cass ElliotSelf
    3 episodes

  • Jack CassidySelf
    3 episodes

  • Robert Goulet

    Robert GouletSelf
    3 episodes

  • Carl Reiner

    Carl ReinerSelf
    2 episodes

  • Joel Grey

    Joel GreySelf
    2 episodes

  • Dan Dailey

    Dan DaileySelf
    2 episodes

  • Keith Michell

    Keith MichellSelf
    2 episodes

  • Adriana Caselotti

    Adriana CaselottiSelf
    1 episode

  • Ken Berry

    Ken BerrySelf
    1 episode

  • Don Rickles

    Don RicklesSelf
    1 episode

  • Diahann Carroll

    Diahann CarrollSelf
    1 episode

  • Phyllis Diller

    Phyllis DillerSelf
    1 episode

  • Harry Belafonte

    Harry BelafonteSelf
    1 episode

  • Tony Randall

    Tony RandallSelf
    1 episode

Network
ABC

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