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The Tab Hunter Show
The Tab Hunter Show is an American sitcom starring Tab Hunter which centers around a young comic-strip artist and his romantic adventures. The Tab Hunter Show originally aired on NBC from September 18, 1960, until April 30, 1961.
Paul Morgan is 29-year-old cartoonist who draws the daily comic strip Bachelor at Large. The strip is essentially his diary, based on his own life as a carefree bachelor in Malibu, California, which is filled with romantic adventures — and misadventures — both in Malibu and during his trips to Europe. Paul perpetually is surrounded by beautiful young women and spends a lot of time trying to gain the favor of a woman he meets or getting out of a relationship that seems to be turning serious. There often are complications, and he often gets in over his head while trying to impress a woman. His best friend Peter Fairfield III is a rich-but-stingy playboy who loves beautiful women, fashion, and fast cars and often is mixed up in Paul's romantic romps. Paul's housekeeper, Thelma, disapproves of the steady stream of women passing through Paul's life and frequently tells him so.
Paul works for Comics, Inc., where his boss is John Larsen. Paul often exasperates Larsen, who is dumbfounded by Paul's antics and frequently has difficulty keeping Paul on task and on deadline in drawing his comic strip. Bachelor at Large is wildly popular and a big moneymaker for the company, however, so as long as Paul turns his strips in on time, Larsen forgives his transgressions.
For the 1960–1961 television season, NBC hoped to counter criticism that network television aired too many violent action-adventure shows by creating a four-hour Sunday-evening lineup completely devoted to family-friendly programming. A particularly important component of the new lineup involved replacing the live comedy and variety shows that previously had dominated the 8:00–9:00 p.m. slot on Sunday evenings on NBC with filmed situation comedies. National Velvet at 8:00 p.m. and The Tab Hunter Show at 8:30 p.m. were the situation comedies NBC chose to fill the hour beginning in September 1960.
Stanley Shapiro created and produced The Tab Hunter Show, which gave 1950s movie heartthrob Tab Hunter his own television show in the hope of attracting young women and girls to NBC on Sunday evenings, and each week the show featured a beautiful young woman as a guest star in the hope of attracting young men and boys as viewers as well. When NBC announced the show in March 1960, it referred to it with the title Bachelor at Large, but by mid-April 1960 it had received the name The Tab Hunter Show.
Tab Hunter says he owned fifty percent of the show. He and his agent Dick Clayton formed Shunto Productions, and NBC funded the pilot which was shot at MGM studios in Culver City. Stanley Shapiro was the writer and producer, but left the show after directing the pilot, which Hunter felt hurt the show. Norman Tokar became the director. In October 1960 Phil Rapp was brought in as the new producer, replacing executive producer Alex Gottlieb and producer-director Norman Tokar who both left the show.
The show cost an estimated $50,000 a week.
When The Tab Hunter Show premiered in September 1960, Hunter was at the peak of his career, having received acclaim for his performance in the 1958 theatrical film Damn Yankees, and he explained that he wanted to switch to a television series — considered a noteworthy development in the entertainment world at the time — because he felt that it was a medium that would allow him greater freedom to act. It was his first comedic role.
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The Tab Hunter Show
The Tab Hunter Show is an American sitcom starring Tab Hunter which centers around a young comic-strip artist and his romantic adventures. The Tab Hunter Show originally aired on NBC from September 18, 1960, until April 30, 1961.
Paul Morgan is 29-year-old cartoonist who draws the daily comic strip Bachelor at Large. The strip is essentially his diary, based on his own life as a carefree bachelor in Malibu, California, which is filled with romantic adventures — and misadventures — both in Malibu and during his trips to Europe. Paul perpetually is surrounded by beautiful young women and spends a lot of time trying to gain the favor of a woman he meets or getting out of a relationship that seems to be turning serious. There often are complications, and he often gets in over his head while trying to impress a woman. His best friend Peter Fairfield III is a rich-but-stingy playboy who loves beautiful women, fashion, and fast cars and often is mixed up in Paul's romantic romps. Paul's housekeeper, Thelma, disapproves of the steady stream of women passing through Paul's life and frequently tells him so.
Paul works for Comics, Inc., where his boss is John Larsen. Paul often exasperates Larsen, who is dumbfounded by Paul's antics and frequently has difficulty keeping Paul on task and on deadline in drawing his comic strip. Bachelor at Large is wildly popular and a big moneymaker for the company, however, so as long as Paul turns his strips in on time, Larsen forgives his transgressions.
For the 1960–1961 television season, NBC hoped to counter criticism that network television aired too many violent action-adventure shows by creating a four-hour Sunday-evening lineup completely devoted to family-friendly programming. A particularly important component of the new lineup involved replacing the live comedy and variety shows that previously had dominated the 8:00–9:00 p.m. slot on Sunday evenings on NBC with filmed situation comedies. National Velvet at 8:00 p.m. and The Tab Hunter Show at 8:30 p.m. were the situation comedies NBC chose to fill the hour beginning in September 1960.
Stanley Shapiro created and produced The Tab Hunter Show, which gave 1950s movie heartthrob Tab Hunter his own television show in the hope of attracting young women and girls to NBC on Sunday evenings, and each week the show featured a beautiful young woman as a guest star in the hope of attracting young men and boys as viewers as well. When NBC announced the show in March 1960, it referred to it with the title Bachelor at Large, but by mid-April 1960 it had received the name The Tab Hunter Show.
Tab Hunter says he owned fifty percent of the show. He and his agent Dick Clayton formed Shunto Productions, and NBC funded the pilot which was shot at MGM studios in Culver City. Stanley Shapiro was the writer and producer, but left the show after directing the pilot, which Hunter felt hurt the show. Norman Tokar became the director. In October 1960 Phil Rapp was brought in as the new producer, replacing executive producer Alex Gottlieb and producer-director Norman Tokar who both left the show.
The show cost an estimated $50,000 a week.
When The Tab Hunter Show premiered in September 1960, Hunter was at the peak of his career, having received acclaim for his performance in the 1958 theatrical film Damn Yankees, and he explained that he wanted to switch to a television series — considered a noteworthy development in the entertainment world at the time — because he felt that it was a medium that would allow him greater freedom to act. It was his first comedic role.