| Genre: | Variety show |
| Producer: | Bob Finkel |
| Composer: | Louis Bellson |
| Director: | Dean Whitmore |
| Country: | United States |
| Starring: | Pearl Bailey |
| Network: | ABC |
| Runtime: | 60 mins |
| Num Episodes: | 15 |
The Pearl Bailey Show is an American variety show that aired on ABC Saturdays 8:30–9:30 P.M. from January 1971 to May 1971.[1] A Cooper-Finkel Company production in association with the Pearl Bailey Production Corporation, the show starred veteran entertainer Pearl Bailey.
Pearl Bailey had a decades long successful career as a singer and stage and film actress by the time she was given her her own variety show in 1971. Bailey's husband, drummer Louis Bellson, was the conductor of the Orchestra for the show. The Robert Sidney Dancers and the Allan Davies Singers were regulars, performing a variety of musical entertainment.
The Pearl Bailey Show featured an array of guest performances by prominent entertainers, including Lucille Ball, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, B.B. King, The Supremes, Tony Bennett, Ike & Tina Turner, and Liberace. "She got everybody she wanted. Nobody would turn her down," recalled the show's producer Bob Finkel. Despite the array of guests, the show was cancelled in less than four months, Finkel suggests due to Bailey "harassing" the executives at ABC with "suggestions and complaints."
| 1 | January 23, 1971 | Louis ArmstrongBing Crosby | |
| 2 | January 30, 1971 | Lucille BallGeorge Kirby | |
| 3 | February 6, 1971 | Liza MinnelliSteve Lawrence | |
| 4 | February 13, 1971 | Ethel WatersRobert Goulet Hines, Hines and Dad | |
| 5 | February 20, 1971(reaired on May 8, 1971) | Phil HarrisKate Smith | |
| 6 | February 27, 1971 | Perry ComoB.B. King | |
| 7 | March 6, 1971 | Jimmy DuranteTony Bennett The Supremes | |
| 8 | March 13, 1971 | Wayne NewtonJoan Rivers | |
| 9 | March 20, 1971 | Debbie ReynoldsErroll Garner | |
| 10 | March 27, 1971 | Douglas Fairbanks Jr.The Ike & Tina Turner Revue | |
| 11 | April 3, 1971 | Danny ThomasLola Falana
Orie Sasaki | |
| 12 | April 10, 1971 | Peggy LeeMoms Mabley
The Pastor Brothers | |
| 13 | April 17, 1971 | Gregory PeckMike Douglas
Phyllis Diller | |
| 14 | April 24, 1971 | Ella FitzgeraldDonna McKechnie | |
| 15 | May 1, 1971 | LiberaceLeontyne Price | |
| — | May 8, 1971 | Rerun of episode #5 |