bumped up the celebrity factor by interviewing stars like Gary Cooper and Liberace in the show's wraparound segments, to promote the studio's other projects. Guest stars included Maureen O'Sullivan and Anita Ekberg, and Warner Bros.
Presents' presented was a series that followed Rick Blaine, Humphrey Bogart's character from the classic World War II drama, as he continued to run his nightclub in the 1950s and got involved in Cold War spy intrigue.īogart, who obviously wasn't going to do this show, was replaced by Charles McGraw ('Narrow Margin'), and Clarence Muse ('Porgy and Bess') took over the role of the pianist Sam, originally made famous by Dooley Wilson. In the 1970s, for example, in the first season of 'The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries,' you'd get a Hardy Boys episode one week and a Nancy Drew episode the next. Presents.' The idea of a wheel series is that it takes up one time slot but alternates between multiple shows. The first 'Casablanca' TV show came in 1955 in the wheel series 'Warner Bros.
