The Stars' Address

I love the work of Al Hirschfeld and it’s a treat to run into caricatures of his I’ve never seen before. I spotted these in Sponsor magazine and thought I’d pass them on.

CBS commissioned Hirschfeld to draw the line-up for their 1963-64 season. It’s remarkable how long many of these shows remained on television, either on network or syndication, and it’s the reason people of a certain age will recognise many of the caricatures. And I think it’s neat that Hirschfeld drew Bea Benaderet and Frank Fontaine (in character). Hirschfeld seems to have drawn all the big names in Hollywood and it’s nice to see how he handled some of the comparatively lesser known.

A kind copywriter at CBS has numbered the drawings and supplied an index to the names of the shows. I’ve bracketed some names nonetheless.


SUNDAY: 1. The Twentieth Century (W. Cronkite), 2. Mr. Ed (Alan Young), 3. Lassie (Jon Provost), 4. My Favorite Martian (Ray Walston), 5. The Ed Sullivan Show, 6. The Judy Garland Show, 7. Candid Camera (Allen Funt with Durwood Kirby above), 8. What’s My Line (Kilgallen, Cerf, Francis, Daly).


MONDAY: 1. CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, 2. To Tell the Truth (Bud Collyer), 3. I’ve Got a Secret (Garry Moore), 4. The Lucy Show (Ann Sothern to the left?), 5. The Danny Thomas Show, 6. The Andy Griffith Show (with the brilliant Don Knotts below), 7. East Side/West Side (George C. Scott).


TUESDAY: 1. Marshal Dillon (Jim Arness with Dennis Weaver), 2. The Red Skelton Show, 3. Petticoat Junction (Bea Benaderet), 4. The Jack Benny Program, 5. The Garry Moore Show (Carol Burnett to the left, Durward Kirby to her left).


WEDNESDAY: 1. CBS Reports, 2. Chronicle, 3. Glynis (Glynis John), 4. The Beverly Hillbillies (Douglas, Ryan, Ebsen, Baer), 5. The Dick Van Dyke Show (MTM to the left), 5. The Danny Kaye Show.


THURSDAY: 1. Password (Allen Ludden), 2. Rawhide (Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood), 3. Perry Mason (you know who it is), 4. The Nurses (Zina Bethune and Shirl Conway).


FRIDAY: 1. The Great Adventure (Van Heflin), 2. Route 66 (Martin Milner and Glenn Corbett), 3. Twilight Zone (imagine, if you will, Rod Serling in a Dracula cape), 4. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.


SATURDAY: 1. The Jackie Gleason Show (Frank Fontaine above), 2. The New Phil Silvers Show, 3. The Defenders (Robert Reed, E.G. Marshall), 4. Gunsmoke (Weaver, Arness, Blake, Stone).


CBS NEWS: J.F.K., Nikita Krushchev, Charles De Gaulle, Chou En-Lai and Fidel Castro included.

Kennedy would be dead within three months of this ad appearing.