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The Jimmy Durante Show
The Jimmy Durante Show is a 51-episode half-hour comedy/variety television program presented live on NBC from October 2, 1954, to June 23, 1956. 
Production background.
Several guest stars on the program later developed successful show business careers of their own. Jimmy Durante's long nose, piano, and broken vocabulary were the mainstays of the program, which aired at 9:30 p.m. Eastern on Saturdays. In the first 1954-1955 season, Durante alternated with "The Donald O'Connor Show
instant catchphrase, which would later inspire the cartoon "Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy". The duo was one of the nation's favorites for the rest of the decade. Their Armed Forces Radio Network "Command Performance" with Frank Sinatra remains a favorite of radio-show collectors today. Moore left the duo in mid-1947, and the program returned October 1, 1947 as "The Jimmy Durante Show". Durante continued the show for three more years, and featured a reunion of Clayton, Jackson and Durante on his April