''The Jane Powell Show'' - Unsold Pilot (1961)

★★★★ · Pilot Episode · HaarFager872 · 2014-03-12

Overall, I thought it was good. Just a little more intelligent than the typical sitcoms of the day. Jane Powell and Russell Johnson played off of each other pretty well considering it was just the pilot and the first time they'd worked together so closely. I think they would have been pretty good together had it went to series. The costars were cast fairly well, too. I guess our loss was The Beverly Hillbillies' gain in that it freed up Harriet MacGibbon.

★★★ · Is this an inspiration for Gilligan's Island? · 1110babe · 2012-12-01

At the least it must have gotten this staid math professor portrayer hired as that staid science professor. There is also the beautiful actress character, the older couple, and the rest of the cast who might be likened to someone on Gilligan's Island if you wanted to stretch the comparison some more. Three stars because of Powell's singing.

★★★ · Too busy · sammyk1964 · 2015-02-22

I think this show could have made a go of it, if it didn't have so many sub plots in the pilot. Too many different things going on at one time. I think Jane Powell was beautiful, but the singing was a bit too much. And I am a musician/singer. Her voice was too operatic for the show. Her opening song, "I'm In Love" from Rodger's & Hammerstein's South Pacific was too much. The only thing she needed at the end of that was a viking helmet & spear for that last note. Russell Johnson, on the other hand, was charming & oh so dashing. He carried off the role with his dry but funny since of humor…

★★ · The Jane Powell Show - Pilot · I_h8_screen_names · 2014-03-18

A popular singer meets a bookworm professor they have a whirlwind romance and true to the mores of the day, when they marry she leaves her profession behind to live with him in a small college town. The husband's colleagues are predictable snobby male intellectuals who look down their noses at "entertainers". Of course, this causes problems for the two newly weds and this is made worse when the new wife kills the husband's beloved "queen bee" when it flies into her kitchen. Yes... in this fantasy world queen bees fly... I was a little surprised that the couple actually are shown to be…

★ · ignorant selfish woman.. · Futuristfood · 2013-05-06

the root of evil.. cares more about her trivial bullshit than nature,. i had to turn this un-funny ignorant crap off.. and that singing,. ,. my head almost came unscrewed,.