What’s the status of New Comedy Showcase, a CBS summer replacement series from 1960? It ran for eight weeks and each week offered a half-hour unsold pilot. The UCLA Film & Television Archive has three of these pilots in its collection.
UCLA actually has two different versions of “You’re Only Young Twice.” One version is the pilot as broadcast as part o New Comedy Showcase while the other is the version that aired on ABC in 1968 as part of Vacation Playhouse.
Read more about New Comedy Showcase in my article Unsold Pilots on Television, 1956-1966.
| # | Title | Airdate | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “You’re Only Young Twice” | 08/01/1960 | UCLA |
| With George Murphy and Martha Scott. | |||
| 2 | “Johnny Come Lately” | 08/08/1960 | |
| With Jack Carson and Marie Windsor. | |||
| 3 | “They Went Thataway” | 08/15/1960 | |
| With James Westerfield, Ron Hagerthy. | |||
| 4 | “The Trouble with Richard” | 08/22/1960 | |
| With Dick Van Dyke. | |||
| 5 | “Maggie” | 08/29/1960 | UCLA |
| With Margaret O’Brien, Fay Baker and Leon Ames. | |||
| 6 | “Slezak and Son” | 09/05/1960 | UCLA |
| With Walter Slezak and Leo Slezak. | |||
| 7 | “Maisie” | 09/12/1960 | |
| With Janis Paige. | |||
| 8 | “Waldo” | 09/19/1960 | |
| With Gil Stratton. | |||
Revised June 2nd, 2016
