The Jimmy Stewart Show
| The Jimmy Stewart Show | |
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1971/72 season title card
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| Created by | Hal Kanter |
| Starring |
Jimmy Stewart Julie Adams Jonathan Daly Ellen Geer Dennis Larson Kirby Furlong John McGiver |
| Theme music composer | Jeff Alexander |
| Composer(s) | Jeff Alexander |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 24 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Hal Kanter |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 22–24 minutes |
| Production company(s) | J-K/Ablidon Productions |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Television Distribution |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | September 19, 1971 – August 27, 1972 |
The Jimmy Stewart Show is an American sitcom starring Jimmy Stewart. Twenty-four episodes of the show were broadcast in the 1971–1972 season on the NBC network's Sunday night schedule (8:30-9 pm ET), under the sponsorship of Procter & Gamble. The show is currently seen on the digital subchannel "GetTV."
Stewart starred as James K. Howard, an anthropology professor at Josiah Kessel College, the small-town university founded by his grandfather in the fictional town of Easy Valley, California. His easy life became complicated when his son Peter's house burned down and he invited Peter's entire family to move in temporarily. The show's opening credits are seen while Stewart bicycles through the community.
The show received poor reviews and ratings in its only season and was not renewed.
The show is notable as the only television or film production in which Stewart allowed himself to be billed onscreen as "Jimmy". In all of his movies, he was billed as "James Stewart" (although he also used "Jimmy" for his book Jimmy Stewart and His Poems).
On one program Beulah Bondi portrayed James Stewart's mother. She also played his mother in four films: It's a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Of Human Hearts, and Vivacious Lady.
According to series producer Hal Kanter, Stewart had African American actor Hal Williams dismissed from a guest appearance in one episode (in which Williams' character was to confront Stewart's) on racial grounds.
On January 21, 2014, Warner Home Video released The Jimmy Stewart Show: The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1, via their Warner Archive Collection. This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available via WBShop.com and Amazon.com.
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