The Bob Cummings Show | |
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Also known as | Love That Bob |
Created by | Paul Henning |
Written by | William Cowley Shirley Gordon Paul Henning Bill Manhoff Lawrence Menkin Phil Shuken Dick Wesson |
Directed by | Rod Amateau Bob Cummings Fred DeCordova Edward Rubin Norman Tokar |
Starring | Bob Cummings Ann B. Davis Rosemary DeCamp Dwayne Hickman |
Narrated by | Bill Baldwin |
Theme music composer | Del Sharbutt Frank Stanton Richard Uhl |
Opening theme | "A Romantic Guy, I" |
Ending theme | "A Romantic Guy, I" |
Composer | Lou Kosloff |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of seasons | 5 |
No. of episodes | 173 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer | George Burns |
Producer | Paul Henning |
Production companies | Laurel Productions McCadden Productions Henning Corporation |
Original release | |
Network | NBC (1955; 1957–1959) CBS (1955–1957) |
Release | January 2, 1955 September 15, 1959 | –
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The Bob Cummings Show (also known in reruns as Love That Bob) is an American sitcom starring Bob Cummings, which was broadcast from January 2, 1955, to September 15, 1959.[1]
The program began with a half-season run on NBC, then ran for two full seasons on CBS, and returned to NBC for its final two seasons. The program was later rerun on ABC daytime and then syndicated under the title Love That Bob. A similar (but less successful) follow-up series, The New Bob Cummings Show, was broadcast on CBS during the 1961–62 television season.