View Full Version : I never really heard of Bob Cummings, what happened to him?


Yong Fang
06-03-2013, 06:05 AM
I cannot say I have ever heard of Bob Cummings in my life before coming to this message board. I watched plenty of television as a teenager and I never knew he existed. I have never seen this TV show either, because it hasn't been syndicated in all of the places that I lived.

Reading about the show on Wikipedia, it looked interesting, and it stayed on for four years in the late 1950's. Was it a good show?

So, why was this performer seemingly so under the radar after his show went off the air? I know all those "old school" performers from back in the black and white days. I never heard of Bob Cummings. Why?

Mr. Television
06-03-2013, 08:36 AM
I used to watch The Bob Cummings Show sometimes on the old CBN Network in the early 1980's. That's about the only time I saw it in syndication. It came on real late at night with a bunch of other 1950's sitcoms. Before television Cummings did star in quite a few movies. One of my favorites was Alfred Hichcock's Saboteur. Cummings died quite a few years ago and it's sad that he is little remembered today. I wish Antenna TV would pick up his show.

Marvo301
06-03-2013, 01:45 PM
After The Bob Cummings Show (Love That Bob) Bob had another sitcom in the early 60's that was short lived. After that he returned to apearing in movies.