The Debbie Reynolds Show

Duration: 2000

Year Published: 1960

Complete Record: “A Date With Debbie”; starts with finger dialing phone; followed by short Revlon commercial; Debbie appears onstage wearing white formal dress and addresses audience before sliding down staircase and breaking into song “Our First Date”(?); followed by commercial for “Berry Bon Bon” lipstick by Revlon with young nicely dressed couple exiting cafe in Paris with a female VO; next scene has Debbie on a couch watching a B/W TV -- the TV program she is watching is a parody of “Face the World” with a CU of Carl Reiner standing next to a globe; Carl Reiner then introduces Debbie Reynolds pretending to be Zsa Zsa Gabor (very funny); Carl Reiner then segues into next segment introducing a “Anna Banana” also played by Debbie Reynolds (dressed as a “bag lady” or homeless person surrounded by numerous cats in Rome); last segment has Carl introducing Debbie Reynolds doing a parody of Bridget Bardot (has Debbie in a bathtub soaping herself seductively); then goes back to Zsa Zsa parody with Debbie Reynolds trying to explain to audience how to make a cup of tea (dressed in garish jewelry and speaking with an exaggerated East European accent); goes back and forth between these three characters; ends with Carl Reiner standing in front of multiple TVs with each parody playing on each; back to a Revlon commercial this time for a “petite” compact makeup case (has young pretty couple speaking in French to each other) with male VO; goes back to MS of Debbie talking about her love of jazz music, then segues into jazz performance by a band called “Cannonball” (jazz band with CU on trumpet player -- all band members are African-American men, Cannonball Adderly?) -- while band continues to play segues into a dance routine with Debbie and four white male backup dancers on white stage and background -- nicely choreographed including a solo tap dance by Debbie; followed by commercial for hair color with nicely dressed white woman checking out herself in front of three full length mirrors, shows women smearing hair dye into her hair with female VO saying “so natural, even a husband will approve”; segue into Debbie Reynolds standing next to four pictures each of which is one of her grandfathers, she then steps into grandfather clock; segues to two old white men (one of whom is Walter Brennan) sitting on rocking chairs speaking with a Southern accent talking about their relationship as grandfathers to Debbie Reynolds; Debbie Reynolds then runs up to the now arguing old men and breaks into song while sitting in between them followed by all three walking towards the camera singing and dancing; followed by commercial for Revlon “Living Curl” hair spray again with nicely dressed women in Paris this time going out to the opera; segues into Debbie alone on darkened stage talking about her first date at age 16 and the dress her mother made for her; does a entire monologue stand up like routine about getting stood up on her date and picked up by someone else (very funny); followed by commercial with white couple dressed in firs riding on a sleigh in the snow for “Aquamarine” skin lotion; segues into Debbie signing “Singing in the Rain” with full sized marionettes on stage and her carrying a broken umbrella -- sings a different song to each puppet (some of the “puppets” are actually people); ends with another Revlon commercial.