The King Family Show
| The King Family Show | |
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The King Family on the cover of their 1965 Christmas album
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| Genre | Musical variety |
| Directed by | Marc Breaux |
| Starring | The King Sisters Alvino Rey Robert Clarke Tina Cole Lex de Azevedo Cam Clarke Chris Conkling Ric de Azevedo |
| Theme music composer |
Richard Rodgers Oscar Hammerstein II |
| Opening theme | "The Sound of Music" |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 39 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Nick Vanoff |
| Producer(s) | Saul Ilson (1965-66) |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | Hour long (Jan-June 1965) Half hour (Sept 1965-Jan 1966) Half hour (1969) |
| Production company(s) | KingFam Productions |
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| Original network | ABC |
| Picture format |
B&W (1965–1966) Color(1969) |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | January 23, 1965 – September 10, 1969 |
The King Family Show is an American musical variety series that featured The King Sisters and their extended musical family. The series first aired on ABC from January 1965 to January 1966. The series was revived in 1969, airing from March to September 1969.
After an appearance on The Hollywood Palace in May 1964 drew a reported 53,000 letters, ABC decided to give the Kings their own hour-long special. The Family is King aired on August 29, 1964 to great ratings. More letters poured into ABC and The King Family was given their own hour-long weekly musical variety series (replacing The Outer Limits), debuting on Saturday, January 23, 1965 (the King Family made a third Hollywood Palace appearance a week before the debut of their own series in order to promote it). Bing Crosby introduced the premiere episode. The series was full of songs from Broadway, film, The Great American Songbook and contemporary pop hits of the day. The show starred the Grammy nominated vocal group The King Sisters (Yvonne, Alyce, Luise and Marilyn), along with their husbands, siblings, and children and The Alvino Rey Orchestra. In all, some thirty-nine members of the King family, ranging in age from seven months to 79 years, appeared on the show. Yvonne King's daughter Tina Cole, later featured on My Three Sons, also regularly appeared. At the beginning of the series, King Family patriarch, William King Driggs appeared in every episode, but suffered a stroke on set and died a week later on April 6, 1965.
The series crew consisted of director and choreographer Marc Breaux with choreographer Dee Dee Wood (known for Mary Poppins, and The Sound of Music) and costumer Bob Mackie. This series was Bob Mackie's first credit on his own.
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