The Leslie Uggams Show
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The Leslie Uggams Show was a musical variety television series aired in the United States by CBS as part of its 1969 fall lineup.
The Leslie Uggams Show gave the talented Uggams, who had first come to wide public notice as a singer on the early 1960s hit Sing Along With Mitch, her own program to showcase herself and other black performers; unlike other early variety programs which were hosted by black entertainters but featured a large number of whites in the cast, only one of Uggams' regulars, comedian Dennis Allen, was white. A recurring feature of the program was the ongoing series of sketches entitled "Sugar Hill", which dealt with the lives of middle class black family in a large American city.
Scheduled against the venerable Western Bonanza, which was still a massive hit for NBC, and a series of fairly recent (by the standards of the era) movies on ABC, The Leslie Uggams Show had difficulty developing an audience and was cancelled in December.
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Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows
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