Season 1
Max Liebman Presents
17 EPISODES • 1954
Season 1 of Max Liebman Presents was released on September 12 and consists of 17 episodes.

Episodes

1: Satins and Spurs
Sep 12, 1954
Original musical about Cindy Smathers, a rodeo star who appears at Madison Square Garden in New York City and becomes the subject of a Life magazine photo essay about a country girl in the big city. The photographer at first makes her feel like such a rube but eventually they fall in love and the pictures land Cindy the lead in a Broadway musical. Songs by Ray Evans & Jay Livingston, all sung by Betty Hutton, include: Whoop-Diddy-Ay / Wildcat Smathers / Satins and Spurs / The Little Roll Rock / I've Had Enough - Hutton & McCarthy / Nobody Cares / Back Home / You're So Right for Me - Hutton & McCarthy / Sexy Sadie/Finale.
2: Lady in the Dark
Sep 25, 1954
Liza Elliot, neurotic editor of Allure magazine, seeks psychiatric help to solve her problems with men, her past and her indecisiveness. Her psychiatric session lead to three musical dream sequences, including: Glamour Dream: Oh Fabulous One/Huxley/One Life to Live/Girl of the Moment / Wedding Dream: Mapleton High Chorale/This is New/The Princess of Pure Delight / Circus Dream: The Greatest Show on Earth/Dance of the Tumblers/The Best Years of His Life/Tschaikowsky/The Saga of Jenny / Childhood Dream: My Ship.
3: Sunday in Town
Oct 10, 1954
Revue program with music, comedy skits and song & dance.
4: The Follies of Suzy
Oct 23, 1954
This color spectacular features Steve Allen as a young playwright who daydreams about an imaginary French ballerina, Jeanmarie, as she appears in three romantic stories set in different time periods of American history.
5: Fanfare
Nov 7, 1954
Revue program with music, comedy skits and song & dance.
6: Best Foot Forward
Nov 20, 1954
The story of a fading Hollywood movie star, Gale Joy, who descends on a boy's prep school as a publicity stunt to accompany a student, Bud Hooper, to his prom. The kids at the Junior Prom go wild over the movie star and she's forced to seek refuge in the boy's dormitory - a move that could get the boys expelled from school.
7: Spotlight
Dec 5, 1954
Ice show revue program with music, comedy skits and song & dance featuring Olympic gold medalist and movie star Sonia Henie.
8: Babes in Toyland
Dec 18, 1954
A department store Santa entertains a lost young girl with tales of a land where storybook characters live. The girl dreams of Toyland and the story of Tommy Tucker who wants to win the hand of Jane Piper despite the evil Silas Barnaby who wants Jane for himself.
9: Good Times
Jan 2, 1955
Revue program with music, comedy skits and song & dance.
10: Naughty Marietta
Jan 15, 1955
Operetta set in New Orleans circa 1780. Marietta is there to escape from an unwanted marriage in France and Capt. Dick is there to lead his Rangers against a pirate gang. Marietta is first attracted to the son of the lieutenant govenor. But when he is revealed as the pirate leader, she turns her attentions to Capt. Dick. She decides he is the man for her when he is able to finish the ""Dream"" melody that Marietta recalls from childhood.
11: Variety
Jan 30, 1955
A melange of music, comedy and song & dance, including a jazz version of Gilbert & Sullivan's ""H.M.S. Pinafore.""
12: A Connecticut Yankee
Mar 12, 1955
Max Liebman presents A Connecticut Yankee, inspired by the Mark Twain tale. It tells of a modern-day groom-to-be who is projected back in time to the days of King Arthur. There, the people he knows at home assume the identities of the characters about the Round Table and their lady-loves. Songs included: This is My Night to Howl / My Heart Stood Still - Eddie Albert / Thou Swell - Eddie Albert / At the Round Table - Boris Karloff / On a Desert Island with Thee / To Keep My Love Alive - Gale Sherwood / Hymm to the Sun / Ye Lunchtime Follies / Can't You Do a Friend a Favor? - Eddie Albert / I Feel At Home with You - Jack Thompson / You Always Love the Same Girl - Eddie Albert / The Camelot Samba.
13: The Merry Widow
Apr 9, 1955
Sonja Sadoya is a wealthy young widow who is being romanced by the dashing Prince Danilo, a womanizing Marsovian embassy attache who is courting Sonia in hopes of using her money to restore his country's fiscal solvency. Sonia attempts to convince Dalio that she is penniless and still get him to marry her.
14: Kaleidoscope
Apr 25, 1955
Revue program with music, comedy skits and song & dance.
15: The Desert Song
May 7, 1955
Pierre Birabeau, son of the general of all French troops in Morocco, is secretly sympathetic to the local Riffs. Disguising himself in a red costume, he leads the Moroccans against his own countrymen, but at the garrison he pretends to be a weakly simpleton. His behavior with his fellow Frenchmen does not help further his desire for romance with the beautiful Margot. She prefers dashing, but fickle, Captain Paul Fontaine. Pierre has no choice but to go to Margot in his other identity, the notorious Red Shadow, and carry her off to his desert camp. Complications arise when Azuri, a dancing girl, reveals the camp's location to the French.
16: Promenade
May 22, 1955
Revue program with music, comedy skits and song & dance.
17: The Chocolate Soldier
Jun 4, 1955
Captain Bumerli, a cowardly Swiss Army pastry chef, finds himself in the midst of battle and flees the scene. He escapes up a trellis and ends up in the bedroom of Nadina, the fiancee of a war hero. Nadina helps him avoid capture by the Bulgarians and later helps him escape. A year later Bumerli returns to win Nadina's love and prevent her loveless marriage to Major Spiridoff.
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