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 (Janice Collins), Diane Sherry (Joyce Collins)
Bing Crosby starred as Bing Collins, a middle-aged singer and college engineering professor, in this musical comedy series. Other characters included his wife, their two teen-aged daughters, and a live-in handyman, 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's long-time musical director on radio, John Scott Trotter, reprised his role in the TV series. Bing Crosby Enterprises 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 | 9/14/1964 |
| 2 | Exactly Like Who? | 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) | 10/12/1964 |
| 6 | Flashback | 10/19/1964 |
| 7 | The Education of Bing Collins | 10/26/1964 |
| 8 | The Dominant Male (Gary Crosby co-stars) | 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 co-stars) | 11/30/1964 |
| 12 | The Yadwin Report | 12/7/64 |
| 13 | Janice and Me on a Saturday | 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? | 1/25/1965 |
| 18 | That's the Way the Suki Yakies | 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 and Vicki Carr co-star) | 2/22/1965 |
| 22 | Operation Man Save | 3/1/1965 |
| 23 | One for the Birds (Phil Harris co-stars) | 3/8/1965 |
| 24 | Real Estate Venture (Ruth Roman and Kathleen Freeman co-star) | 3/15/1965 |
| 25 | The Test | 3/22/1965 |
| 26 | Moonlight Becomes You (Mel Torme co-stars) | 3/29/1965 |
| 27 | What's a Buddy For? | 4/5/1965 |
| 28 | Conform, Conform, Whoever You Are | 4/12/1965 |