Musical Chairs (1954-55)(Summer 1955)(1975)
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox
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Musical Chairs
(1954-55)
T-L Productions
US Game Show (15-Jan-1954 to 14-Jan-1955)
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Helen O'Connell and Mel Blanc
Fridays at 7pm / moves to 10pm 09-April-1954.
*Note: Bobby Troup takes over for Helen O'Connell in April 1954.
[--] Musical Chairs
15Jan1954 Fri 7pm [KTTV Los Angeles]
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Helen O'Connell and Mel Blanc
[--] Musical Chairs
22Jan1954 Fri 7pm [KTTV Los Angeles]
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Helen O'Connell and Mel Blanc
Guest is Joan Shawlee.
[--] Musical Chairs
29Jan1954 Fri 7pm [KTTV Los Angeles]
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Helen O'Connell and Mel Blanc
[--] Musical Chairs
05Feb1954 Fri 7pm [KTTV Los Angeles]
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Helen O'Connell and Mel Blanc
[--] Musical Chairs
12Feb1954 Fri 7pm [KTTV Los Angeles]
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Helen O'Connell and Mel Blanc
[--] Musical Chairs
19Feb1954 Fri 7pm [KTTV Los Angeles]
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Helen O'Connell and Mel Blanc
[--] Musical Chairs
26Feb1954 Fri 7pm [KTTV Los Angeles]
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Helen O'Connell and Mel Blanc
[--] Musical Chairs
05Mar1954 Fri 7pm [KTTV Los Angeles]
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Helen O'Connell and Mel Blanc
[--] Musical Chairs
12Mar1954 Fri 7pm [KTTV Los Angeles]
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Helen O'Connell and Mel Blanc
[--] Musical Chairs
19Mar1954 Fri 7pm [KTTV Los Angeles]
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Helen O'Connell and Mel Blanc
[--] Musical Chairs
26Mar1954 Fri 7pm [KTTV Los Angeles]
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Helen O'Connell and Mel Blanc
[--] Musical Chairs
02Apr1954 Fri 7pm [KTTV Los Angeles]
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Mel Blanc
[--] Musical Chairs
09Apr1954 Fri 10pm [Program shifts to 10pm timeslot] [KTTV Los Angeles]
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Mel Blanc
Guest is June Christy.
[--] Musical Chairs
16Apr1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Mel Blanc
[--] Musical Chairs
23Apr1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Mel Blanc
[--] Musical Chairs
30Apr1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Helen O'Connell and Mel Blanc
[--] Musical Chairs
07May1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Mel Blanc
Guest is dead-pan singer Virginia O'Brien.
[--] Musical Chairs
14May1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Mel Blanc
[--] Musical Chairs
21May1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Mel Blanc
Guest is Barbara Ruick
[--] Musical Chairs
28May1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Mel Blanc
[--] Musical Chairs
04Jun1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Mel Blanc
Guest is Frances Faye.
[--] Musical Chairs
11Jun1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Mel Blanc
Guest is June Christy.
[--] Musical Chairs
18Jun1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Mel Blanc
Returning guest is Barbara Ruick.
[--] Musical Chairs
25Jun1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Mel Blanc
[--] Musical Chairs
02Jul1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Mel Blanc
[--] Musical Chairs
09Jul1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Sidney Miller (who fills in for Mel Blanc who is
attending the Capitol Records convention at the
Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs along with other Capitol artists.) [Long
Beach Independent]
Guest is Connie Moore.
[--] Musical Chairs
16Jul1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Mel Blanc
[--] Musical Chairs
23Jul1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Mel Blanc
[--] Musical Chairs
30Jul1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Mel Blanc
[--] Musical Chairs
06Aug1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Daws Butler (who fills in for the vacationing Mel
Blanc)
Guest is Peggy King
[--] Musical Chairs
13Aug1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Daws Butler
Guest is Helen O'Connell
[--] Musical Chairs
20Aug1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Wally Brown
Guest is Evelyn Knight
[--] Musical Chairs
27Aug1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Dave Barry
Guest is Peggy King
[--] Musical Chairs
03Sep1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Mel Blanc (returns from vacationing)
Guest is Rose Marie
[--] Musical Chairs
10Sep1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Mel Blanc
Guests are Kay Brown and Daws Butler.
[--] Musical Chairs
17Sep1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Mel Blanc
Guests are Bob Strauss and Connie Haines.
[--] Musical Chairs
24Sep1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Mel Blanc
Guests are Jerry Colonna and Vickie Young.
[--] Musical Chairs
01Oct1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Mel Blanc
[--] Musical Chairs
08Oct1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Mel Blanc
[--] Musical Chairs
15Oct1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Mel Blanc
Guests are Ken Murray and Virginia O'Brien.
[--] Musical Chairs
22Oct1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Mel Blanc
[--] Musical Chairs
29Oct1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Mel Blanc
Guests are Daws Butler and June Christy.
[--] Musical Chairs
05Nov1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Mel Blanc
[--] Musical Chairs
12Nov1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup
Guests are Mel Blanc and Molly Bee.
[--] Musical Chairs
19Nov1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup
[--] Musical Chairs
26Nov1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup
[--] Musical Chairs
03Dec1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup and Daws Butler
Guests are Rose Marie and Stan Freberg.
[--] Musical Chairs
10Dec1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup
[--] Musical Chairs
17Dec1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup
[--] Musical Chairs
24Dec1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup
[--] Musical Chairs
31Dec1954 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup
[--] Musical Chairs
07Jan1955 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup
[--] Musical Chairs
07Jan1955 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup
[--] Musical Chairs [Last show on KTTV]
14Jan1955 Fri 10pm
Host Bill Leyden
Celebrity panelists
Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup
Guests are Roberta Linn and Del Moore.
"The Star and The Story" replaces "Musical Chairs".
Musical Chairs
(Summer 1955)
NBC
Host Bill Leyden
Regular panelists
Mel Blanc, Johnny Mercer and Bobby Troup.
US Game Show (09-Jul-1955 to 17-Sept-1955) (Summer replacement series on NBC
after a successful two year run in Los Angeles.
"Musical Chairs" had a long run on KTTV but now moves over to NBC as a summer
replacement for "The Imogene Coca Show".
[01] Musical Chairs
09Jul1955 Sat 9pm [Premiere]
Host Bill Leyden
with regulars Mel Blanc, Johnny Mercer and Bobby Troup.
Guest is Denise Darcel
[02] Musical Chairs
16Jul1955 Sat 9pm
Host Bill Leyden
with regulars Mel Blanc, Johnny Mercer and Bobby Troup.
Guest is
[03] Musical Chairs
23Jul1955 Sat 9pm
Host Bill Leyden
with regulars Mel Blanc, Johnny Mercer and Bobby Troup.
Guest is June Christy
[04] Musical Chairs
30Jul1955 Sat 9pm
Host Bill Leyden
with regulars Mel Blanc, Johnny Mercer and Bobby Troup.
Guest is
[05] Musical Chairs
06Aug1955 Sat 9pm
Host Bill Leyden
with regulars Mel Blanc, Johnny Mercer and Bobby Troup.
Guest is Rose Marie
[06] Musical Chairs
13Aug1955 Sat 9pm
Host Bill Leyden
with regulars Mel Blanc, Johnny Mercer and Bobby Troup.
Guest is Helen O'Connell
Featured is Mel Blanc singing "I Taut I Taw a Putty Tat".
[07] Musical Chairs
20Aug1955 Sat 9pm
Host Bill Leyden
with regulars Mel Blanc, Johnny Mercer and Bobby Troup.
Guest is
[08] Musical Chairs
27Aug1955 Sat 9pm
Host Bill Leyden
with regulars Mel Blanc, Johnny Mercer and Bobby Troup.
Guest is
[09] Musical Chairs
03Sep1955 Sat 9pm
Host Bill Leyden
with regulars Mel Blanc, Johnny Mercer and Bobby Troup.
Guest is Connie Haines.
[10] Musical Chairs
10Sep1955 Sat 9pm
Host Bill Leyden
with regulars Mel Blanc, Johnny Mercer and Bobby Troup.
Guest is Rose Marie.
[11] Musical Chairs [Final show of the Summer 1955 series]
17Sep1955 Sat 9pm
Host Bill Leyden
with regulars Mel Blanc, Johnny Mercer and Bobby Troup.
Guest is Martha Stewart.
Musical Chairs
(1975)
CBS
Created by Don Kirshner
Host Adam Wade
Announcer Pat Hernon
US Game Show (16-Jun-1975 to 31-Oct-1975)
CBS Monday to Fridays at 4pm
Premise:
Contestants must complete musical lyrics to songs and answer general musical
questions.
https://www.tvobscurities.com/2013/12/musical-chairs-1975-promotional-spot/
[01] Musical Chairs [Premiere]
16Jun1975 NBC
Host Adam Wade
Celebrity panelists
Kelly Garrett
Ernestine Jackson
and The Tokens art this week's guest panelists.
[--] Musical Chairs
23Jun1975 NBC
Host Adam Wade
Celebrity panelists
Lynn Kellogg
Jane Olivor
and Sister Sledge.
[--] Musical Chairs
30Jun1975 NBC
Host Adam Wade
Celebrity panelists
Lee Kirk
Marilyn Sokol
and The Tokens.
[--] Musical Chairs
07Jul1975 NBC
Host Adam Wade
Celebrity panelists
[--] Musical Chairs
14Jul1975 NBC
Host Adam Wade
Celebrity panelists
[--] Musical Chairs
21Jul1975 NBC
Host Adam Wade
Celebrity panelists
[--] Musical Chairs
28Jul1975 NBC
Host Adam Wade
Celebrity panelists
Kelly Garrett
Alice Playten
and The Tokens.
[--] Musical Chairs
04Aug1975 NBC
Host Adam Wade
Celebrity panelists
Gretchen Wyler
Bobby Rydell
Linda Hargrove
and Cathy Carlson.
[--] Musical Chairs
11Aug1975 NBC
Host Adam Wade
Celebrity panelists
Ernestine Jackson
Janie Sell
and The Tokens.
[--] Musical Chairs
18Aug1975 NBC
Host Adam Wade
Celebrity panelists
Ernestine Jackson
Janie Sell
and The Tokens.
[--] Musical Chairs
26Aug1975 NBC
Host Adam Wade
Celebrity panelists
Phyllis Newman
David James Carroll
and The Flashy Ladies.
[--] Musical Chairs
01Sep1975 NBC
Host Adam Wade
Celebrity panelists
Buddy Greco
Hattie Winston
and Dick Roman.
[--] Musical Chairs
08Sep1975 NBC
Host Adam Wade
Celebrity panelists
Mary Stuart
Donna Cellini
and The Spinners.
[--] Musical Chairs
15Sep1975 NBC
Host Adam Wade
Celebrity panelists
Don Stewart
and The Stylistics.
[--] Musical Chairs
22Sep1975 NBC
Host Adam Wade
Celebrity panelists
Eileen Fulton
Don Stewart
and Blue Magic.
[--] Musical Chairs
29Sep1975 NBC
Host Adam Wade
Celebrity panelists
Michael Nouri
Ernestine Jackson
and The New Christy Minstrels.
[--] Musical Chairs
06Oct1975 NBC
Host Adam Wade
Celebrity panelists
George Kirby
Sheila MacRae
Kelly Garrett
and Larry Kert
[--] Musical Chairs
13Oct1975 NBC
Host Adam Wade
Celebrity panelists
Lou Rawls
Gordon MacRae
Heather MacRae
and Ernestine Jackson.
[--] Musical Chairs
20Oct1975 NBC
Host Adam Wade
Celebrity panelists
Shari Lewis
Larry Kert
and Sister Sledge.
[--] Musical Chairs [Final show of the 1975 series]
27Oct1975 NBC
Host Adam Wade
Celebrity panelists
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