Charley Weaver's Hobby Lobby


Charley Weaver's Hobby Lobby was a half-hour television interview show produced by Allan Sherman and the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), and broadcast weekly in
the United States by the ABC network 8-8:30 pm on Wednesdays in the 1959-60 television season.

History

The show premiered on
September 30, 1959. Cliff Arquette, in his Charley Weaver persona, hosted the show
throughout the run of the series. For the first two months, the show was called Charley Weaver's Hobby Lobby, but on November 25, 1959, the name of the show was changed to The Charley Weaver Show.
The first episodes essentially followed the same format as the Hobby Lobby radio interview show hosted by Dave Elman and broadcast from 1937 to 1949: people, both celebrities and not, were interviewed about their hobbies, both unusual and not. But by the end of November,
"variety and comedy sketches" had been added, and hobby discussions were dropped. Charley Weaver's "Letters from Mama" monologues concerning daily life in the fictional town of Mount Idy were always part of the show, with the other members of the cast playing characters referred to in the letters.
The last show was broadcast March 23, 1960.

Cast

Guests

Guests on the show included: