- Angel (1960 TV series)
infobox television
show_name = Angel
format =Sitcom
picture_format =Black and white
runtime = 30 minutes
starring =Annie Fargé Marshall Thompson Doris Singleton Don Keefer
country =United States
network = CBS
first_aired =October 6 ,1960
last_aired =May 10 ,1961
num_seasons = 1
num_episodes = 33
imdb_id = 0053480Angel is a 33-episode
CBS sitcom in the1960 -1961 season about a pretty young scatterbrained Frenchwoman, Angelique "Angel" Smith, played byAnnie Fargé (pronounced far-ZHAY), who comes to theUnited States and marries a youngarchitect , John Smith, portrayed byMarshall Thompson (1925-1992). Angel, with her distinct French accent, gets into various problems with the culture, language, and procedures in her new country. [ [http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/angel/199754 Angel on CBS] ,TV Guide , accessed March 30, 2008] Though it had much less slapstick comedy, "Angel" was somewhat akin to two other CBS sitcoms, the already concludedLucille Ball 's "I Love Lucy " and the then newly-premieredCara Williams andHarry Morgan series "Pete and Gladys ", aspin-off of CBS's successful "December Bride ", starringSpring Byington . "Angel" was broadcast at 9 p.m. Eastern on Thursdayevening s betweenOctober 6 ,1960 , andMay 10 ,1961 . It switched to Wednesdays at the same time for the summer reruns. Segments included "Voting Can Be Fun" (when the Smith home was turned into a voterprecinct ), "Angel's Temper", "The Valedictorian", "The Dowry", "The Joint Bank Account", "The Driving Lesson", "The French Lesson", "The Trusting Wife", and the concluding episode, "The Trailer". In the latter, Angel thinks that she has won a house trailer but was instead agreeing to make payments on the vehicle. John tries to get out of the contract, and then the company sends a model more extravagant than Angel had unwittingly agreed to purchase. [ [http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Stage/2950/US/Comedy/Angel.htm CTVA Comedy - "Angel" (CBS)(1960-61) Annie Fargé, Marshall Thompson, Doris Singleton ] ]The series costarred
Doris Singleton as Angel's sympathetic friend Susie andDon Keefer as Susie's husband George, somewhat like the Ethel and Fred roles of "I Love Lucy". [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053480/episodes "Angel" (1960) - Episode list ] ] The competititon included two other sitcoms,Fred MacMurray 's first season of "My Three Sons ", which went on to a twelve-year run, first on ABC and then CBS, and "Bachelor Father", starringJohn Forsythe ,Noreen Corcoran , andSammee Tong , then in its last year onNBC , but having been on all three networks during its total five-year run from 1957-1962. "Angel" followed the final season ofDick Powell's Zane Grey Theater and preceded what turned out to have been the last of the three-year run of "The Ann Sothern Show ", which had been highly rated in its two earlier years. [1960-1961 United States network television schedule, Thursdays] . When CBS announced early in 1961 that "Angel" had been cancelled because of low ratings, "Time "magazine suggested that at least the talented Fargé should be "salvaged from the wreckage" for another enterprise. [ [http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,874284,00.html Midseason Countdown - Printout - TIME ] ] Earlier, "Time" had commented that Fargé "triumphantly resists being merely Lucille Ball with a French accent. She is easily the brightest newcomer to situation comedy—small, pert, winsome, and somehow giving the impression of being attractively feathered." [ [http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,871774,00.html The New Shows - Printout - TIME ] ] Fargé (age unavailable) did little acting after "Angel", but Thompson, the brother-in-law of actor Richard Long starred in the mid-1960s CBS series "Daktari " about aveterinarian inAfrica .References
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