The Buick Circus Hour

It was a variety series with a circus theme. It was a 60-minute show. As the title suggests, it was sponsored by Buick. Archival status is not known, but the debut episode appears on the Internet Archive. == Plot ==

Kim O'Neill was a young singer who is in love with Bill Sothern, owner of the circus in which she worked. An old clown tried to help O'Neill, == Cast ==

• Clown - Joe E. Brown ==Production==

The producer of The Buick Circus Hour was John C. Wilson, and the director was Frank Burns. Writers included Nat Hiken, Anita Loos, and Jerry Seelen. This series aired once a month in the Tuesday night 8 PM Eastern time slot normally occupied by the Texaco Star Theater which starred Milton Berle. ==Critical response==

Peg Simpson wrote in The (Syracuse) Post-Standard that the program made "little impression on the public in its first show" but added that it "shows great promise". Simpson suggested that having stronger motivations for characters and better integrating stories and music would improve the show. John Crosby wrote that the show "was a sort of undigested mixture" of circus, musical comedy, and television without being any one of the three. Crosby wrote that after a circus-themed opening, the rest of the program "was more routine song and dance stuff". As a result, "the plot gets lost in the shuffle, with the drama telescoped into skeletonized, sketchy segments". ==References==