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:''For other TV series sponsored by Ford Motor Company, see Ford Television Theatre, Ford Startime, Ford Festival, and Ford Star Jubilee.'' ''The Ford Show'' (also known as ''The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford'' and ''The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show'') is an American variety program, starring singer and folk humorist Tennessee Ernie Ford, which aired on NBC on Thursday evenings from October 4, 1956 to June 29, 1961. The show was actually named for sponsor Ford Motor Company.〔 Beginning in September 1958, the show began to be telecast in color. Ford first gained attention as the host of ''Hometown Jamboree'' in Los Angeles. In 1954, he hosted a brief revival of Kay Kyser's ''Kollege of Musical Knowledge,'' a quiz show on NBC. His subsequent ''The Ford Show'' was frequently among the Top 20 programs, finishing in the Nielsen ratings at #19 for the 1956-1957 season, #14 in 1957-1958, #20 in 1958-1959, #14 in 1959-1960 and #24 in 1960-1961.〔http://www.classictvhits.com/tvratings/index.htm〕 It's also one of the first places that showed Charles M. Schulz's ''Peanuts'' characters in animated form, which, like the later specials, was directed by Bill Melendez. ==Overview== Despite the objection of studio bosses, Ford closed all but 18 of the 121 episodes of his program with a hymn or other spiritual song.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Amazing Grace: Forty Treasured Hymns )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biography: Tennessee Ernie Ford )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Ford Show/Tennessee Ernie Ford Show )〕 It became one of the most popular segments of his show. Once in 1959 Gisele MacKenzie became the only guest star to close the Ford program with a hymn.〔 Ford often used the country refrain, "Bless your pea-pickin' hearts!" In the first season, the choral group called "The Voices of Walter Schumann" served as backup. After Schumann's death, the group was made more contemporary, renamed "The Top Twenty," and performed in the four later seasons of ''The Ford Show.''〔 On October 8, 1958, Ford introduced the 1959 Ford vehicle models on the program, with the singer/ actress Ann Blyth as his guest.〔 On January 7, 1960, Ford had two big-name guests, Dean Martin and Jack Bailey, host of the ''Queen for a Day'' daytime series. In the skit Martin drops by as Ford and Bailey poke fun at Martin's Rat Pack friends. Gossip columnist Hedda Hopper was among the many guests on the program.〔 On June 8, 1961, South African golfer Gary Player, then twenty-five, guest starred in a comedy skit in which Player presumes to give Ford golfing lessons.〔 On April 28, 1960, Ford presented one of his only five programs without guest stars at Drury College (since University), a Congregationalist institution in Springfield, Missouri. He sang his trademark "Sixteen Tons" and the hymn "Take My Hand, Precious Lord".〔 In his series finale, Ford had no guests. Therefore, singer Anita Bryant and Joe Flynn, later Captain Binghamton on ABC's ''McHale's Navy,'' hold the distinction of having been the final guests on ''The Ford Show'' in the episode which aired on June 22, 1961.〔 On March 30, 1961, Flynn had also appeared on ''The Ford Show'' in a patriotic episode set at sea aboard the ''U.S.S. Yorktown.''〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Ford Show」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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