Editing Bing Crosby (section)

===Television===
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[[File:Bing Crosby and family 1974 Christmas special.JPG|thumb|upright|Crosby and his family in a Christmas special, 1974]]

''The Fireside Theater'' (1950) was his first television production. The series of 26-minute shows was filmed at [[Hal Roach#Hal Roach Studios|Hal Roach Studios]] rather than performed live on the air. The "telefilms" were syndicated to individual television stations. Crosby was a frequent guest on the musical variety shows of the 1950s and 1960s, appearing on various variety shows as well as numerous late-night talk shows and his own highly rated specials. Bob Hope memorably devoted one of his monthly NBC specials to his long intermittent partnership with Crosby titled "On the Road With Bing". Crosby was associated with ABC's ''[[The Hollywood Palace]]'' as the show's first and most frequent guest host and appeared annually on its Christmas edition with his wife Kathryn and his younger children, and continued after ''The Hollywood Palace'' was eventually canceled. In the early 1970s, Crosby made two late appearances on the ''[[Flip Wilson Show]]'', singing duets with the comedian. His last TV appearance was a Christmas special, ''[[Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas|Merrie Olde Christmas]]'', taped in London in September 1977 and aired weeks after his death.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pairpoint |first1=Lionel |title=The Chronological Bing Crosby on Television |url=https://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/BingTV.htm |website=BING magazine |access-date=February 21, 2016}}</ref> It was on this special that Crosby recorded a duet of "[[The Little Drummer Boy]]" and "[[Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy|Peace on Earth]]" with rock musician [[David Bowie]]. Their duet was released in 1982 as a single 45 rpm record and reached No. 3 in the UK singles charts.<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums"/> It has since become a staple of holiday radio and the final popular hit of Crosby's career. At the end of the 20th century, ''TV Guide'' listed the Crosby-Bowie duet one of the 25 most memorable musical moments of 20th-century television.

Bing Crosby Productions, affiliated with [[Desilu Studios]] and later [[CBS Television Studios]], produced a number of television series, including Crosby's own unsuccessful ABC sitcom ''[[The Bing Crosby Show (1964 TV series)|The Bing Crosby Show]]'' in the 1964–1965 season (with co-stars [[Beverly Garland]] and [[Frank McHugh]]). The company produced two ABC medical dramas, ''[[Ben Casey]]'' (1961–1966) and ''[[Breaking Point (1963 TV series)|Breaking Point]]'' (1963–1964), the popular ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'' (1965–1971) military comedy on CBS, as well as the lesser-known show ''[[Slattery's People]]'' (1964–1965).