A company called Infinity Entertainment has announced and Amazon is taking advance orders for a DVD set of The Jerry Lewis Show…but don't click on this Amazon link yet. My question is: Which Jerry Lewis Show? There have been many…
- There was The Jerry Lewis Show we recently discussed here…the two-hour live talk/variety show that debuted on ABC in 1963 with enormous fanfare only to disappear thirteen weeks later.
- There was The Jerry Lewis Show, a one-hour weekly variety series on NBC from 1965-1967.
- There was The Jerry Lewis Show, a syndicated one-week "pilot" talk show in 1984 that did not turn into a regular series.
There were also a number of pre-1963 specials called The Jerry Lewis Show and this set could be a collection of them.
So which is it? The announcements and Amazon page don't say and if there's a webpage for Infinity Entertainment, it's doing a good job of hiding from Google. We see that this the set is supposed to have a running time of 780 minutes so that would seem to eliminate the '84 talk show. It only ran one week of one-hour shows. The various specials Lewis did in the fifties would also probably not total 780 minutes.
There are two problems with it being the two-hour 1963 show. One is that Jerry reportedly wanted that buried forever and I think he controls the rights. The other is that 780 minutes is not divisible by 120 minutes.
That would lead us to suspect that the set contains a half season of the '65 variety show…and it may. Or it may also be a conglomeration of different Jerry Lewis appearances all being packaged together under the title. Or maybe the thing isn't actually 780 minutes or maybe it's one of those products that gets listed on Amazon but never actually comes out. It's also worth noting that a couple of sites that are taking orders for this DVD list Jerry Lee Lewis as its star. So maybe this is all a DVD of The Jerry Lee Lewis Show and someone left out a Lee.
I've exhausted my sleuthing abilities here. If someone gets some info on what this set is actually all about, lemme know.