The Nat King Cole Show (1957), 2 Episodes, Colored on TV

THE NAT KING COLE SHOW (Musical Variety) FIRST TELECAST: November 5, 1956 LAST TELECAST: Decemberi7, 1957 BROADCAST HISTORY: Nov 1956Jun 1957, NBC Mon 7:307:45 Jul 1957Sep 1957, NBC Tue 10:0010:30 Sep 1957Dec 1957, NBC Tue 7:308:00 REGULARS: Nat King Cole The Boataneers (1956) The Herman McCoy Singers The Randy Van Home Singers (1957) The Jerry Graff Singers (1957) The Cheerleaders (1957) Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra Nat King Cole was a man ahead of his time, and that fact cost him his network series. When his 15minute show premiered in 1956, he became the first major black performer to headline a network variety series. There had been previous attempts at black series, but they were either shortlived fillins with lesserknown talent such as Sugar Hill Times in 1949 and Hazel Scott in 1950, or rather degrading parodies such as Beulah or Amos n Andy. Nat s short Monday evening show, which filled the remainder of the half ho br, br,