Editing Edgar Bergen (section)

==Television appearances==
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[[File:Edgar Bergen Do You Trust Your Wife 1956.jpg|right|thumb|Bergen interviewing an actual Mortimer Snerd [[lookalike|doppelganger]] in 1956 on the game show ''Who Do You Trust?'']]
[[File:Edgar Bergen Ellen Corby The Homecoming Waltons 1974.JPG|thumb|Bergen with [[Ellen Corby]] in ''The Homecoming: A Christmas Story'']]
[[File:Dick Powell Show Premiere Episode 1961.JPG|thumb|Guest stars for the 1961 premiere episode of ''[[The Dick Powell Show]]'', "Who Killed Julie Greer?".  Standing, from left: [[Ronald Reagan]], [[Nick Adams (actor, born 1931)|Nick Adams]], [[Lloyd Bridges]], [[Mickey Rooney]], Edgar Bergen, [[Jack Carson]], [[Ralph Bellamy]], [[Kay Thompson]], [[Dean Jones (actor)|Dean Jones]]. Seated, from left, [[Carolyn Jones]] and [[Dick Powell]].]]
Although his regular series never made the transition to [[television]], Bergen made numerous appearances on the medium during his career.  His first appearance was with Charlie McCarthy on [[NBC]]'s pioneering television variety show ''[[Hour Glass (TV series)|Hour Glass]]'' in November 1946. In a filmed [[Thanksgiving]] special, billed as his official TV debut, sponsored by [[Coca-Cola]] on [[CBS]] in 1950, the new character Podine Puffington was introduced; this saucy Southern belle was as tall as a real woman, in contrast to Bergen's other sit-on-the-knee sized characters. On Christmas Day that same year, Bergen and McCarthy appeared as guests on [[Walt Disney]]'s first television show, ''[[One Hour in Wonderland]]''.

In 1954, Bergen was a co-host on a memorable TV musical special, ''[[General Foods 25th Anniversary Show: A Salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein]]''.

On December 26, 1954, Bergen appeared on ''[[What's My Line]]'' as a mystery guest. Bergen also hosted the television game show ''[[Who Do You Trust?|Do You Trust Your Wife?]]'' in 1956–1957, later succeeded, in a daytime edition, by [[Johnny Carson]].

He appeared in the [[Christmas]] 1957 episode of [[National Broadcasting Company|NBC]]'s ''[[The Gisele MacKenzie Show]]''. In 1958, Bergen appeared with his 12-year-old daughter [[Candice Bergen|Candice]] on an episode of ''[[You Bet Your Life]]'' starring [[Groucho Marx]]. In 1959, he appeared in the second episode titled "Dossier" of the NBC [[espionage]] [[television series|series]] ''[[Five Fingers (American TV series)|Five Fingers]]'' starring [[David Hedison]]. On May 21, 1959, he guest-starred with Charlie McCarthy on NBC's ''[[The Ford Show|The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford]]''. Bergen continued to appear regularly on television during the 1960s and into the 1970s, appearing on ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]'' as late as 1977. He guest-starred as Charlie in the 1960 episode "Moment of Fear" of [[Columbia Broadcasting System|CBS]]'s ''[[The DuPont Show with June Allyson]]''. He did a stint as one of the ''[[What's My Line?]]'' mystery guests on the popular Sunday night CBS series. His colleague [[Paul Winchell]] happened to be a panel member during that episode.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU98KwL_pQ8 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140609151908/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU98KwL_pQ8&feature=related |archive-date=2014-06-09 |url-status=dead |title=Edgar Bergen-What's My Line |website=YouTube |date=2008-09-13 |access-date=2013-12-13}}</ref> Bergen appeared on the NBC interview program ''[[Here's Hollywood]]''.

Bergen appeared as Grandpa Zeb Walton in the original ''[[The Waltons|Waltons]]'' television movie, ''[[The Homecoming: A Christmas Story]]'' (1971). The role was played by [[Will Geer]] in the subsequent TV series. During the run of ''The Waltons''—which took place throughout the 1930s and 1940s—the voices of Bergen and Charlie McCarthy were sporadically heard from the Waltons' radio, as family members regularly tuned in for that program.

He appeared on ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' in Season 2.  His daughter, [[Candice Bergen]] had appeared in Season 1.