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Dinah!
Genre	Variety Talk show
Presented by	Dinah Shore
Starring	Dinah Shore
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	568
Production
Running time	90 minutes
Production company	20th Century Fox Television
Original release
Network	Broadcast syndication
Release	October 21, 1974 (October 21, 1974) – October 10, 1980 (October 10, 1980)

Dinah! is a daytime variety talk show that was hosted by singer and actress Dinah Shore. The series was distributed by 20th Century Fox Television and premiered on October 21, 1974, in syndication. In 1979, the show became known as Dinah and Friends and remained so until it ended its run in 1980. The show's announcer was Johnny Gilbert.

Like other syndicated talk/entertainment shows of the day, such as The Merv Griffin Show and The Mike Douglas Show, Dinah! was focused on celebrity interviews promoting recent motion pictures, books and other television programs. It was a popular forum for musical acts receiving national exposure performing short song sets followed by a sit-down interview with Shore. A highly successful vocalist and recording artist herself, Shore would usually sing at least one song on each program, either greeting the television viewing audience or saying goodbye to them at the end; she sometimes dueted with musical guests. Each episode was ninety minutes in length.

Dinah! would often do entire 90-minute episodes devoted to one television series; for example, there was an episode saluting The Waltons which featured the entire cast, including the child cast members, and the series creator Earl Hamner Jr. During the show, Shore did a musical salute to the year 1935, which would have been in the time period in which The Waltons took place. Another series that was saluted was M*A*S*H. Again, the entire cast appeared, Gary Burghoff ("Radar O'Reilly") played the drums, and the musical salute was to 1951.

Production

Origins

The show was the successor to Shore's previous variety effort, Dinah's Place, which aired from 1970 until 1974 on NBC and was cancelled to make way for a network edition of the then-syndicated game show Name That Tune.

References

1. "Dinah Shore Show". Fifties Web. 23 July 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
2. Endrst, James (25 August 1989). "Dinah Shore Returns with 'Safe' TV Talk". Sun Sentinel.
3. "Name That Tune". curtalliaume.com. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2015.

External links

• Dinah! at IMDb

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