Greg Garrison

Greg Garrison was the very definition of a successful television director in the 1950s-60s. Breaking into live TV in the late 1940s directing Milton Berle on his wildly popular The Buick Circus Hour (1952) (AKA "Texaco Star Theater"), Garrison quickly learned the mechanics of fast-paced production, lessons learned in the frenetic world of live TV could would be well applied to taped production, decades later. His career seldom ventured away from the one-eyed monster, he directed a few game shows at ABC (on the short-lived, Bon Voyage (1949) and 1949's Ladies Be Seated (1949)) and CBS (a 1949 game show, Majority Rules (1949)) but had much greater success working on NBC within the now-defunct variety show format. He enjoyed his first extended taste of success with that network's The Kate Smith Hour (1950), which enjoyed a 5-season run into 1954. He was one of 6 rotating directors on John Forsythe's popular Bachelor Father (1957) (running through CBS, NBC and ABC, throughout its 1957-62 p