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The Best Episodes of The Lively Ones

Every episode of The Lively Ones ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Lively Ones!

The Lively Ones is an American musical variety series hosted by Vic Damone that aired on NBC in the summers of 1962 and 1963.
Genre:Comedy
Network:NBC

Best Episodes Summary

"Show A" is the best rated episode of "The Lively Ones". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Barry Shear and written by N/A, it aired on 7/26/1962. This episode scored NaN points higher than the second highest rated, "Show B".

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    #1 - Show A

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/26/1962

    The premiere episode features singer Peggy Lee, ""cool jazz"" from Dave Brubeck and his Quartet, bandleader Woody Herman and His New Thundering Herd, and R&B vocalist Damita Jo.

    Director: Barry Shear

    Writer: N/A

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    #2 - Show B

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 8/2/1962

    This show features jazz singing from Fitzgerald and Williams, comedy by Brill & McCall, noted drummers Krupa, Bellson and Manne, and Japanese pantomimist Mamoko. Host Vic Damone sings ""Tonight"", Ella Fitzgerald performs ""Body and Soul"" and ""Lady Be Good"", and Joe Williams does ""Every Day I Have the Blues."" The off-beat treatment is given to the drum trio, who perform ""Bases Loaded"" at the Los Angeles Chavez Ravine/Dodger baseball stadium, and to Mamoko who is seen flying a kite on a Pacific beach.

    Director: Barry Shear

    Writer: N/A

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    #3 - Show C

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/9/1962

    This episode features Stan Kenton and his band, folk vocal group The New Christy Minstrels, folk singing duo Joe and Eddie, ""cool jazz"" trumpeter Shorty Rogers and his Giants and pop pianist Peter Nero. Nero performs ""Something's Coming"" and the Rogers group does ""Not Really the Blues,"" both set at a Nike missile base, while the New Christy Minstrels live it up at a beach party with ""Saint's Train"" (a hybrid of ""When the Saints Come Marching In"" and ""This Train""). Damone is featured with ""Charmaine"" in a studio recording session and Joe and Eddie perform ""Did You Hear About Jerry?"" in a nightclub setting. In director Barry Shear's far-out department, Kenton leads an orchestra of disembodied instruments for ""Malaguena"" and a Mobilux film fuses abstract objects with a jazz background.

    Director: Barry Shear

    Writer: N/A

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    #4 - Show E

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 8/16/1962

    This show spotlights impressionist Frank Gorshin, pop singer Jack Jones with his hit ""Lollipops and Roses,"" the Brazilian jazz guitar of Laurindo Almeida on ""Bad and the Beautiful,"" West Coast jazz singer Ruth Olay and lutenist Jack Marshall. Host Vic Damone sings ""Have You Met Miss Jones?""

    Director: Barry Shear

    Writer: N/A

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    #5 - Show F

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/23/1962

    This program features pop diva Miss Peggy Lee, singer/pianist Buddy Greco, folk pop vocals from The New Christy Minstrels, comedy by Brill & McCall and piano jazz from Oscar Peterson.

    Director: Barry Shear

    Writer: N/A

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    #6 - Show D

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/30/1962

    Vic Damone's ""Lively Ones"" on this episode are pop singer Jack Jones, the folk group The Limeliters, comedy song stylist Dorothy Loudon, California jazz singer Ruth Olay, composer/pianist Andre Previn, and host Damone at Yale University joining the Yale Whiffenpoof Chorus for their signature song. In a Roman arena (Los Angeles Chavez Ravine/Dodger Stadium) Jones serenades a hungry tiger with ""It's a Lonesome Old Town,"" while 'Emporer' Damone ponders his fate. Dorothy Loudon performs ""I'm Not a Real Hot Mama"" and ""Mobile"" at another arena-a Hollywood night club; the Limeliters entertain with ""Mama Don't 'Low"" at a poolside party and Previn contributes the Second Movement of Gershwin's Concerto in F.

    Director: Barry Shear

    Writer: N/A

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    #7 - Show G

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 9/6/1962

    This program featured jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald and one of her frequent collaborators.

    Director: Barry Shear

    Writer: N/A

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    #8 - Show H

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 9/13/1962

    On this episode Cal Tjader and his Latin jazz band perform ""The Continental,"" Si Zentner, with his Big Band sound, contributes ""Take Five"" and ""Up A Lazy River,"" vibraphonist Terry Gibbs and jazz singer Chris Connor, who sings ""Good-bye."" Also shown is another Mobilux film of abstract forms set to a modern jazz background.

    Director: Barry Shear

    Writer: N/A

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    #9 - Show B

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 8/1/1963

    This edition of ""The Lively Ones"" has host Vic Damone performing ""Maria"" at a Brooklyn pool hall. He's joined by trumpeter Al Hirt for ""Easy to Love,"" then on to clarinetist Pete Fountain on a firetruck with ""Bye Bye Bill Bailey,"" The Santa Monica City College marching band does ""South Rampart Street Parade"" and ""Under the Double Eagle"" on a football field, jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd is seen at the Everglades performing ""Meditation"" and singing comedian Allan Sherman entertains at a supper club.

    Director: Barry Shear

    Writer: N/A

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    #10 - Show A

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 7/25/1963

    This episode includes host Vic Damone singing ""Got a Lot of Living to Do,"" Count Basie and his band on a sound stage performing ""This Could Be the Start of Something Big,"" the Benny Goodman Sextet, in Washington, D.C., with ""There'll Be Some Changes Made,"" folksingers Addiss and Crofut singing ""The Missile Song"" on a minesweeper, Joanie Sommers at a Hollywood night club with ""Hard Hearted Hannah"" and ""Blues in the Night,"" Red Nichols and His Five Pennies in New Orleans doing ""Royal Garden Blues"" and last, but not least, Bullwinkle J. Moose dances the bossa nova in an amimated sequence with Vic Damone.

    Director: Barry Shear

    Writer: N/A

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    #11 - Show C

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 8/8/1963

    This episode includes host Vic Damone, from 'the wilds of Hollywood' with ""At Long Last Love,"" trumpeters Roy Eldridge, Charlie Shavers and Bobby Bryant performing ""Post Time"" in a chariot at Hollywood Park race track, the Eddie Cano Quartet with ""Cotton Candy"" from Malibu Beach, dancer Barrie Chase does a routine to ""I Can't Stop Loving You"" at an amusement park, and jazz singer June Christy, from a night club, sings ""I'll Take Romance."" This show also includes a piano roll of George Gershwin playing his ""Rhapsody in Blue"" and a 'air ballet' provided by the Thunderbirds, the U.S. Air Force precision jet team.

    Director: Barry Shear

    Writer: N/A

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    #12 - Show D

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 8/15/1963

    This installment of ""The Lively Ones"" features host Vic Damone with ""Alright, Ok, You Win"", Latin jazz from The Eddie Cano Quartet with ""Panchito,"" and Eduardo Sasson with ""Malaguena"". Charlie Barnet and his band perform ""Cherokee"" and ""Pompton Turnpike,"" and Mel Torme and Frances Faye team up for ""Bess, You is My Woman Now."" On the comedy side Dick Gautier, Ronnie Schell and Dick Patterson are seen performing at night clubs in Dallas, San Francisco and Minneapolis.

    Director: Barry Shear

    Writer: N/A

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    #13 - Show E

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 8/22/1963

    This episode includes host Vic Damone with ""Once in a Lifetime"" from a Hollywood sound stage, Benny Goodman and His Sextet performing ""I Found a New Baby"" from Washington, D.C., alto sax man Stan Getz piping ""When I Go, I Go All the Way"" from a tree limb, Prof. Irwin Corey entertaining on a beach in Malibu, songstress Jaye P. Morgan with ""So in Love"" and ""Nobody's Sweetheart"" from a New York night club and ""The Lively Ones"" musical director Jerry Fielding and a band of far-out music makers with ""Point in Question"" from a Santa Monica, CA football field.

    Director: Barry Shear

    Writer: N/A

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    #14 - Show F

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 8/29/1963

    Host Vic Damone sings ""San Francisco"" and welcomes guests Count Basie and His Sextet who perform ""Nice Shot"" in an abstract setting. The Les Baxter Balladers sing ""Sail Away Ladies"" from a Pacific reef, Lisa Kirk sings ""Gonna Do Some Livin',"" ""Good Little Girls"" and ""How Come You Do Me Like You Do?"" at a posh New York night club, Allan Sherman entertains aboard a Navy minesweeper and is joined by Damone for ""Consider Yourself."" Musical director Jerry Fielding and the orchestra provide musical backing, ""Brass Jass,"" for a Mobilux film about the making of a trumpet.

    Director: Barry Shear

    Writer: N/A

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    #15 - Show G

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 9/5/1963

    This episode features host Vic Damone performing ""Call Me Irresponsible"" from a football gridiron, jazz stylist supreme Anita O'Day at a night club with ""Boogie Blues,"" comedian Prof. Irwin Corey getting laughs on a Malibu beach, singing pianists Matt Dennis and swinging Nellie Lutcher, Page Cavanaugh and the Page 7 Septet, and jazz singer Frances Faye, all performing ""Bye, Bye, Blackbird"" from various night clubs, and Della Reese with ""The Best Thing for You is Me"" and ""Someday."" Also seen are The Rhythm Masters Jazz Combo performing ""Hold That Tiger"" on the fantail of a Navy minesweeper.

    Director: Barry Shear

    Writer: N/A

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    #16 - Show H

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 9/12/1963

    The final show of the series has Vic Damone welcoming Julie London, seen at her home she performs ""Black Coffee,"" Mel Torme in a jail setting, jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd in a showboat lounge and The Characters, a comedy musical group, in Las Vegas.

    Director: Barry Shear

    Writer: N/A