Aired on ABC TV Mondays at 9:30 PM Eastern time. (30 min.)
Premiered: September 14, 1964. Last Aired: June 14, 1965.
Starring Beverly Garland (Ellie Collins), Frank McHugh (Willie Walters), Bing Crosby (Bing Collins),
Carol Faylen ("Joyce" born 1948), Diane Sherry ("Janice" born 1952)
Competition: "Many Happy Returns" (CBS); Andy Williams / Jonathan Winters (NBC)
Bing Crosby starred as Bing Collins, a middle-aged singer and college engineering professor, in this musical comedy series. In a sharp break from past roles, Bing played a happily married man with two teen-aged daughters and a live-in handyman portrayed by Frank McHugh (Bing's priest friend in Going My Way). The show featured many celebrity guests, including Phil Harris, Mel Torme, Donald O'Connor, Frankie Avalon, George Gobel, Bing's real wife, Kathryn, and real son, Gary. Bing sang at least one song in every episode. Bing's long-time musical director on radio, John Scott Trotter, reprised his role in the TV series. Bing Crosby Productions produced 28 original episodes filmed at Desilu studios. All were filmed in black-and-white except for the Christmas episode. The theme song "There's More to Life Than Just Living" was written by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn and sung by Bing. After a promising start the show fell in the Nielson ratings to 77th and was cancelled after the first season, eliminating any chances of syndication.
| No. | Episode | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Fine Romance (John Scott Trotter co-stars as an orchestra leader) | 9/14/1964 |
| 2 | Exactly Like Who? (Gary Crosby co-stars as Joyce's latest crush) | 9/21/1964 |
| 3 | A Bit of Fresh Danish | 9/28/1964 |
| 4 | The Green Couch | 10/5/1964 |
| 5 | Hoop Shots (Jimmy Boyd co-stars as Joyce's newest crush) | 10/12/1964 |
| 6 | Flashback | 10/19/1964 |
| 7 | The Education of Bing Collins (Macdonald Carey co-stars) | 10/26/1964 |
| 8 | The Dominant Male (Joyce dates 31-year old Gary Crosby) | 11/9/1964 |
| 9 | The Importance of Bea 'N' Willie | 11/16/1964 |
| 10 | The Liberated Woman | 11/23/1964 |
| 11 | Genius at Work (Thomas Gomez and Herbert Anderson co-star) | 11/30/1964 |
| 12 | The Yadwin Report | 12/7/64 |
| 13 | Janice and Me on a Saturday Spent with Random Inputs No. 1 | 12/14/64 |
| 14 | The Christmas Show (filmed in color co-starring The Wellingtons) | 12/21/1964 |
| 15 | The Soft Life | 1/11/1965 |
| 16 | Bugged by the Love Bugs (The Standells co-star) | 1/18/1965 |
| 17 | Are Parents People? (Ken Murray co-stars) | 1/25/1965 |
| 18 | That's the Way the Suki Yakies (James Shigeta and Nobu McCarthy co-star) | 2/1/1965 |
| 19 | The Gifted Child | 2/8/1965 |
| 20 | The Image (Kathryn Crosby and George Gobel co-star) | 2/15/1965 |
| 21 | The Keefers Come Calling (Frankie Avalon, Vicki Carr co-star as newlyweds) | 2/22/1965 |
| 22 | Operation Man Save (Joan Fontaine, Dennis Day co-star as a married couple) | 3/1/1965 |
| 23 | One for the Birds (Phil Harris co-stars) | 3/8/1965 |
| 24 | The Test | 3/22/1965 |
| 25 | Moonlighting Becomes You (Mel Torme co-stars) | 3/29/1965 |
| 26 | What's a Buddy For? (Lloyd Nolan co-stars) | 4/5/1965 |
| 27 | Conform, Conform, Whoever You Are | 4/12/1965 |
| 28 | Real Estate Venture (Ruth Roman and Kathleen Freeman co-star) | 4/19/1965 |
| Bing Crosby Show Blooper Reel (17 minutes) |