Movin' with Nancy

Movin' with Nancy
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Written by	Tom Mankiewicz
Directed by	Jack Haley, Jr.
Starring	Nancy Sinatra, Lee Hazlewood, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., David Winters
Theme music composer	Billy Strange
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of episodes	1
Production
Producer(s)	Nancy Sinatra
Editor(s)	David E. Blewitt, David Saxon
Running time	60 mins.
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	December 11, 1967

Movin' with Nancy was a television special featuring Nancy Sinatra in a series of musical vignettes featuring herself and other artists. Produced by Nancy's production company, Boots Enterprises, Inc., and sponsored by Royal Crown Cola, the show was originally broadcast on the NBC television network on December 11, 1967 (8:00-9:00 p.m. Eastern). It produced a companion soundtrack album, and was later released on DVD.

The TV special was unlike most musical programs of its time, with the numbers performed outdoors on locations instead of the usual stage-bound production filmed before a live audience. Sinatra sang while driving down the highway, strolling in the California countryside, and aloft in a hot-air balloon. She performed duets with the guest stars she encountered along the way, with no introductions or interstitial dialog. The general effect was of a dream-like fantasy that flows from one location to the next, with segments resembling the later format of music videos.

The program included an on-screen interracial kiss, predating the most well-known scripted interracial kiss on U.S. television by several months (in an episode of Star Trek; other scripted kisses have been on U.S. shows previously such as: Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in the 1959 episode, "Siamese Twinge;"Mission: Impossible in the 1966 episode "Elena;"The Man from U.N.C.L.E. in the 1966 episode, "The Her Majesty's Voice Affair," and on I Spy in the 1966 episode, "The Tiger"). It took place at the end of a song-and-dance number by Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr., with him kissing her affectionately on the cheek. Sinatra states in the commentary track on the DVD release that the seemingly spontaneous kiss was carefully planned, and deliberately done at the end of filming, when Davis had to leave for another job and could not shoot a retake.