Episodes (38)
![George Gobel](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Sep 22, 1960
In the final season's opener, Ernie and guest George Goebel mention the upcoming presidential debates between Vice President Nixon and Senator Kennedy, and imagine, how a future match up might degenerate into an overly commercial,semi-entertainment oriented show.
![Jaye P. Morgan](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Sep 29, 1960
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![Gary Crosby](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Oct 06, 1960
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![Eve Arden](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Oct 13, 1960
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![Jack Bailey](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Oct 20, 1960
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![Tab Hunter, Cliff Arquette and Jack Bailey](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Oct 27, 1960
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![Ernie and the Top Twenty](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Nov 03, 1960
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![Joe Flynn, Major Joseph Walker USAF and Major Robert White USAF](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Nov 10, 1960
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![Keenan Wynn](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Nov 17, 1960
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![Merle Travis and Molly Bee](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Nov 24, 1960
Ernie and The Top Twenty perform "Party Song", then Ernie and guest Merle Travis do a duet of "Nine Pound Hammer". Merle sings "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette". Guest Molly Bee joins them and performs "Fallin'" and "He Taught Me How To Yodel". The trio then sings "Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Loud, Loud Music". Wrapping up the Thanksgiving episode, the entire cast joins Ernie on "Bless This House".
![Tony Bennett](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Dec 01, 1960
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![Jimmie Rodgers and Margarethe Vertelson](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Dec 08, 1960
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![Roger Smith](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Dec 15, 1960
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![Kate Smith](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Dec 22, 1960
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![Ernie and the Top Twenty](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Jan 05, 1961
In a rare programme without a guest, Ernie and the Top Twenty perform songs about American heroes, real and legendary. Anoriginal number about Ben Franklin has the girls in period costume, and the show ends with a rousing salute to the defenders of the Alamo.
![Shari Lewis](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Jan 12, 1961
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![Cliff Arquette](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Jan 19, 1961
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![John Raitt](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Jan 26, 1961
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![Brenda Lee](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Feb 02, 1961
Ernie starts the show by trying to play a tuba, in the skit portion, he's a soda jerk. Brenda Lee comes into his shop and orders a "double". While she sings "One For my Baby" as Ernie keeps adding more and more to a sundae until it's a huge, awful mess of ice cream, pineapples, whipped cream and syrup, but her boyfriend takes her away before she even tastes it.
![Bobby Lauher](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Feb 09, 1961
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![Carmen](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Feb 16, 1961
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![Minnie Pearl](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Feb 23, 1961
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![Songs of the Open Sea](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Mar 09, 1961
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![Gordon MacRae](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Mar 16, 1961
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![Robert Horton](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Mar 23, 1961
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![On Location at Sea - Aboard the U.S.S. Aircraft Carrier Yorktown](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Mar 30, 1961
Aboard the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, Ernie and company perform for the sailors, with song and dance numbers and a skit where hayseed Ernie is coaxed into signing up for naval service, and given a plush cabin, a fruit basket and comely WAVES by the ship's Captain when he arrives.
![Charles Laughton](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Apr 06, 1961
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![The Everly Brothers](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Apr 13, 1961
Ford's young guests are the Everly Brothers, whose rock n' roll/ rhythm and blues style brings the tempo up a little faster than usual for the show. Ernie joins them on several numbers, and at one point picks a few bars on the guitar while the brothers strum the along on the same instrument.
![Roberta Sherwood](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Apr 20, 1961
After the opening number, Ernie shows off what an apparent bountiful feast is really made of, wooden cake, plaster sandwiches, rubber vegetables, etc. as well as smudge pots to give the illusion of steam. He joins Roberta at a grand piano to do a medley of southern-themed songs.
![Joe Flynn](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Apr 27, 1961
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![Joanie Sommers](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
May 04, 1961
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![Cliff Arquette](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
May 11, 1961
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![Andy Devine](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
May 18, 1961
Taking the cameras backstage, Ernie runs into a mob from Dean Martin's spectacular and Wagon Train blocking the coffee vending machine, and gets caught in an apple dispenser.Andy Devine tries everything down to begging and blubbering a sad song to get Ernie to buy a broken down horse named Lightning.
![Tab Hunter](https://static-sg.winudf.com/video/image/14f586e4-f245-4bec-91a8-f2c3cd063bd6.jpg?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Jun 01, 1961
After a musical salute to the month of June, Ernie and Tab Hunter imagine what it would be like if they were young unknown actors waiting for a big break in a run down flat. When a call comes in for Tab, they have to improvise a decent wardrobe for him to go in.
![Gary Player](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Jun 08, 1961
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![Hoagy Carmichael](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Jun 15, 1961
In a show without any skits, Ernie and guest Hoagy Carmichael trade songs at a piano, and the Top Twenty sing some numbers too, most all of which come from Hoagy's sizable songbook.
![Joe Flynn, Anita Bryant and the United States Marine Corps Drill Team](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Jun 22, 1961
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![Ernie and the Top Twenty](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Jun 29, 1961
In the final episode of the series, Ernie has no special guest, he shows the large pile of scripts from the five years run of the show, then retells a few selected jokes. He then introduces and reminisces with members of "The Top Top Twenty". Most of the rest of the program is devoted to several of Ernie's favorite hymns, including "The Rugged Cross".
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The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show Season 5 (1960) is released on Sep 22, 1960 and the latest season 5 of The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show is released in 1960. Watch The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show online - the English Comedy TV series from United States. The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show is directed by Bud Yorkin,Selwyn Touber,Bob Finkel and created by Howard Leeds with Tennessee Ernie Ford and The Top Twenty.