Streisand / Television

CBS wanted a summer substitute for The Garry Moore Show  after it went off the air. Brasselle pitched his show to the CBS brass and recruited “regulars” to appear with him — former boxing champ Rocky Graziano, dancer Noelle Adam, and comic Ann B. Davis (known to all as Alice on The Brady Bunch ).

Streisand, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Fred Gwynne ( The Munsters ) were all Brasselle's guests on the first show.  Streisand sang two songs.

Critic Rick Du Brow wrote:

Tuesday night Brasselle, who is hoping for a year-round spot on CBS, helped initiate his premiere by bringing on Miss Zsa Zsa Gabor for some musical banter, some costumed strutting and some of her remarks about finance ....

What is important is that Miss Gabor was followed by Miss Barbra Streisand, whose appearance is sufficient reason to justify the existence of any show. Not long ago, on Dinah Shore's final program of the season, Miss Streisand's talents exploded through the home screen, with her astounding singing style in which her acting ability and satiric power amount to relevant commentaries. She did it again Tuesday night, though mostly she merely sang beautifully, chillingly, bringing unrestrained cheers from those on hand.

In short, she was a one-woman recovery operation. And in song, she is without question the most impressive stylist of modern songs that this viewer has ever seen on television—so far the superior of any of her competitors that there is really no one even in her league.