Editing Judy Garland (section)

===1961–1964: ''The Judy Garland Show''===
[[File:Dean Martin, Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra in 1962.jpg|thumb|left|[[Dean Martin]], Garland and [[Frank Sinatra]] on the 1962 television special ''The Judy Garland Show'']]
In 1961, Garland and CBS settled their contract disputes with the help of her new agent, [[Freddie Fields]], and negotiated a new round of specials. The first, titled ''The Judy Garland Show'', aired on February 25, 1962,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://letterboxd.com/film/judy-frank-dean-once-in-a-lifetime/|title=Judy, Frank & Dean – Once in a Lifetime (1962)|website=Letterboxd.com}}</ref> and featured guests [[Frank Sinatra]] and [[Dean Martin]].{{sfn|Sanders|1990|p=29}} Following this success, CBS made a $24 million offer (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US-GDP|24|1962|r=1}} million in {{inflation-year|US-GDP}}{{inflation-fn|US-GDP}}) to her for a weekly television series of her own, also to be called ''[[The Judy Garland Show]]'', which was deemed at the time in the press to be "the biggest talent deal in TV history". Although she had said as early as 1955 that she would never do a weekly television series,<ref>{{cite news|last=Parsons|first=Louella|author-link=Louella Parsons|title=TV Spectacular Gives New Rainbow to Judy|work=[[The Daily Review]]|date =September 23, 1955}}</ref> in the early 1960s, she was in a financially precarious situation. She was several hundred thousand dollars in debt to the [[Internal Revenue Service]], having failed to pay taxes in 1951 and 1952 and the failure of ''A Star is Born'' meant that she received nothing from that investment.{{sfn|Edwards|1975|p=175}}

Following a third special, ''Judy Garland and Her Guests [[Phil Silvers]] and [[Robert Goulet]]'', Garland's weekly series debuted September 29, 1963.{{sfn|Sanders|1990|p=391}} ''The Judy Garland Show'' was critically praised,{{sfn|Sanders|1990|pp=108–09}}<ref>{{cite news|last=Lewis|first=Richard Warren|title=The TV Troubles of Judy Garland|work=[[The Saturday Evening Post]]|date=December 7, 1963}}</ref> but for a variety of reasons (including being placed in the time slot opposite ''[[Bonanza]]'' on [[NBC]]), the show lasted only one season and was canceled in 1964 after 26 episodes. Despite its short run, the series was nominated for four [[Emmy Award]]s, including Best Variety Series.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Judy Garland Show|publisher=[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]]|url=http://www.emmys.com/shows/judy-garland-show|access-date=January 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170114115820/http://www.emmys.com/shows/judy-garland-show|archive-date=January 14, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

During this time, Garland had a six-month affair with actor [[Glenn Ford]]. Garland's biographer [[Gerald Clarke (author)|Gerald Clarke]], Ford's son [[Peter Ford (actor)|Peter]], singer [[Mel Tormé]], and her husband Sid Luft wrote about the affair in their respective biographies. The relationship began in 1963 while Garland was doing her television show. Ford would attend tapings of the show sitting in the front row while Garland sang. Ford is credited with giving Garland one of the more stable relationships of her later life. The affair was ended by Ford (a notorious womanizer, according to his son Peter) when he realized Garland wanted to marry him.<ref>{{cite book|first=Peter|last=Ford|author-link=Peter Ford (actor)|title=Glenn Ford: A Life (Wisconsin Film Studies)|publisher=[[University of Wisconsin Press]]|location=Madison, Wisconsin|date=2011|pages=209, 210, 211|isbn=978-0-29928-154-0}}</ref>[[File:Backstage with Judy Garland and her kids.png|thumb|243x243px|Garland backstage with her three children]]