The Leslie Uggams Show

The Leslie Uggams Show
Dick Van Dyke as the guest for the show's premiere in 1969.
Genre	Variety
Written by	Ernest Chambers Frank Shaw
Presented by	Leslie Uggams
Starring	Johnny Brown Lincoln Kilpatrick
Narrated by	Roger Carroll
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	10
Production
Producer(s)	Ernest Chambers David Winters
Running time	45–48 minutes
Release
Original network	CBS
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	September 28 (1969-09-28) – December 14, 1969 (1969-12-14)

The Leslie Uggams Show is an American variety television series starring actress/singer Leslie Uggams. The series aired on CBS as part of its 1969 fall lineup, and was the second variety series to feature an African American host since 1956's The Nat King Cole Show.

The Leslie Uggams Show gave Uggams, who had first come to wide public notice as a singer on the early 1960s hit Sing Along With Mitch, her own program to showcase herself and other black performers; unlike other early variety programs which were hosted by black entertainers but featured a large number of whites in the cast, only one of Uggams' regulars, comedian Dennis Allen, was white. A recurring feature of the program was the ongoing series of sketches entitled "Sugar Hill", which dealt with the lives of middle class black family in a large American city.

The series took over the time slot of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour that CBS pulled due to its controversial content. Scheduled against the venerable Western Bonanza, which was still a massive hit for NBC, and a series of fairly recent (by the standards of the era) movies on ABC, The Leslie Uggams Show had difficulty developing an audience and was cancelled in December 1969.The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour took over the Sunday night slot on CBS starting on 21 December 1969, with Hee Haw taking over Campbell's vacated Wednesday night slot.