I've looked and looked for something about his weekly tv show and can't find any mention of it. I hate to say I'm wrong about it as I can still see him walking on carrying his guitar and sitting on a stool to sing a song and start the show. This is going to bug me big-time until I figure it out. I must be wrong as the people writing about him would not have left out something that important in his career.
I was thinking it was a summer replacement show, but it wasn't. It just wasn't on for very long - just one season in the fall of 1966. Wonder why he liked Arthur Godfrey so much, lol.
Here:
The Roger Miller Show
Episode List
Season: 1
No. Episode Air Date Prod #
1 Bill Cosby / The Doodletown Pipers / Wes Harrison 9/12/1966
2 Jack Jones / The Geezinslaw Brothers 9/19/1966
3 Vince Edwards / Jim Kweskin Jug Band 9/26/1966
4 Peter, Paul & Mary / Casey Stengel 10/3/1966
5 Arthur Godfrey / Jack Burns & Avery Schreiber 10/10/1966
6 Liberace / Wes Harrison 10/17/1966
7 Brasil '66 / Arthur Godfrey 10/24/1966
No, you're not dreaming it. Many of the interviewees in this book brought it up, even without being asked. Roger had his own show on NBC for one season (1966). Stories about that show are scattered all throughout the book.
The show went off the air after only one season because Roger hated it. Roy Clark's comments:
"It was awful hard to structure Roger. In fact, when you tried to structure him, you lost him. You lost his magic. And they had that show very highly produced. It was 'Roger, walk over here and stand here and look at this camera and say this. Walk over here, look at that camera and introduce this guest.' And that wasn't Roger, so he left."Roy goes on to describe how he happened to be in the studio when Roger did his last show and describes everything that happened, their conversation beforehand, etc..
(Have I mentioned that this is a MUST-READ book yet? LOL!