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The New Bob Cummings Show

American TV sitcom (1961–1962)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The New Bob Cummings Show is an American sitcom broadcast by CBS from October 5, 1961 to March 1, 1962. Originally titled The Bob Cummings Show when it first appeared in 1961, effective December 28, 1961, the title was changed to The New Bob Cummings Show because of confusion between this program and the earlier series The Bob Cummings Show (1955-1959).

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “The New Bob Cummings Show” as american TV sitcom (1961–1962). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Cummings, Show and American.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1961, 1962, 1955, 1959—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Cummings, Show and American providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “The New Bob Cummings Show”, the useful work is to connect “american TV sitcom (1961–1962)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1961, 1962, 1955 and 1959.

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This entry incorporates text from “The New Bob Cummings Show” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.