Garroway at Large

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• 1949-1951
• 2 Seasons
• NBC
• Comedy, Family, Music, Talk & Interview

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"Garroway At Large" started as a Friday evening half hour on a local Chicago station, and had run about two weeks when a request for a Saturday evening show (of any type) came from NBC in New York. The show was moved, went network and six weeks later changed to Sunday evening at 10:00. Creative thinking, utilizing ingenious production ideas, made the television industry look westward to WNBQ for "pure television" and the influence of the Chinese theater, where tables pass for mountains and the prop man, plodding in and out of each scene, maintains the continuity. Producer, Ted Mills and his staff, early in 1949 planned a musical show built around Dave Garroway, a popular radio disc-jockey, incorporating the informal, but entertaining approach of the Chinese. With Garroway as its guide, the camera would weave from set to set, through the maze of backstage scenery, props and people. The regular cast included singers Connie Russell, Betty Chapel, and Jack Haskell; comic/singer Cliff Norton, dancers Margaret and Charles Tate, and Joe Gallicchio and his orchestra.