The Bing Crosby Show is a 28-episode situation comedy television program starring crooner, film star, iconic phenomenon, and businessman Bing Crosby and actress Beverly Garland as a middle-aged couple, Bing and Ellie Collins, rearing two teenaged daughters during the early 1960s.  In this format, Crosby portrayed a former entertainer turned architectural designer with a penchant for singing, and each episode usually contained at least one song.  Produced by Crosby’s own company, affiliated with Desilu Studios and subsequently CBS Paramount Television, the series aired on ABC from September 14th, 1964, to April 19th, 1965.  Rebroadcasts continued until June 14th.

The roles of the daughters Janice and Joyce Collins were played by Carol Faylen and Diane Sherry, respectively.  Top Warner Bros. character actor Frank McHugh appeared as Willie Walters, the Collins’s live-in handyman.  Christopher Riordan and Pamela Austin appeared twice on the program, Riordan as an unnamed “Neighbor” and Austin as Clarissa Roberts.

Guest stars included Herbert Anderson, Frankie Avalon, Jack Benny, Jimmy Boyd, Macdonald Carey, Vikki Carr, Dennis Day, Roger Ewing, Glenda Farrell, Joan Fontaine, Kathy Garver, George Gobel, Kathryn Grant (Crosby’s second wife, also known as Kathryn Crosby), Pat Harrington, Jr., Phil Harris, Charles Lane, Nobu McCarthy, Gary Morton, Ken Murray, Lloyd Nolan, Ruth Roman, and James Shigeta.

The Bing Crosby Show, alternately sponsored by Ford Motor Company’s Lincoln-Mercury division and Lever Brothers, aired at 9:30 p.m. Eastern on Mondays.  The series faced competition on CBS from the sitcom Many Happy Returns, and on NBC, Crosby faced the second half of the popular The Andy Williams Show, which alternated with a Jonathan Winters variety show, The Jonathan Winters Show (the 1956 TV series).