Joan Davis Time
October 11, 1947 – July 3, 1948 · 9 broadcasts
By late 1947 the Swan Soap money was gone and Joan Davis's CBS comedy was rebuilt around her again -- new night, new title, new theme song. Joan Davis Time kept the tea-room premise but moved to Saturday evenings and took its musical signature from "Nobody's Sweetheart." The supporting bench sharpened considerably: Lionel Stander and Hans Conried joined the regular company, Andy Russell stayed on as singer, and the guest list ran to Danny Thomas, Rudy Vallee and a memorable crossover with Sam Spade. It was the shortest-lived of Davis's four star vehicles, running a single season from October 1947 into the following summer, and it sits at an interesting hinge in her career -- the last of the tea-room years, just before the department-store premise of Leave It to Joan. Nine broadcasts survive, among them the season premiere, preserved as a West Coast feed.
Episode Spine
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1947
1948
By late 1947 the Swan Soap money was gone and Joan Davis's CBS comedy was rebuilt around her again -- new night, new title, new theme song. Joan Davis Time kept the tea-room premise but moved to Saturday evenings and took its musical signature from "Nobody's Sweetheart." The supporting bench sharpened considerably: Lionel Stander and Hans Conried joined the regular company, Andy Russell stayed on as singer, and the guest list ran to Danny Thomas, Rudy Vallee and a memorable crossover with Sam Spade. It was the shortest-lived of Davis's four star vehicles, running a single season from October 1947 into the following summer, and it sits at an interesting hinge in her career -- the last of the tea-room years, just before the department-store premise of Leave It to Joan. Nine broadcasts survive, among them the season premiere, preserved as a West Coast feed.