Radio: New Shows, Aug. 20, 1951

The Patricia Bowman Show (Sat., 6:45 p.m., CBS-TV), is a fast-paced series of song & dance turns, mercifully free from television’s usual determined chatter. Ballerina Bowman, who dances to such popular tunes as Over the Rainbow, is usually left too breathless by her own performance to do much more as M.C. than announce the name of the next act, e.g., a smooth vocal quartet called The Pastels. The closing commercial was as original as anything on the show: a woman’s restless legs were propped against a wall while her voice described over the telephone the new Coach & Four shoes she was wearing.

Star of the Family (Sun., 6:30 p.m., CBS-TV), which appeared last year with Morton Downey as M.C., now has a husband and wife team in charge: Peter Lind Hayes, genteel mugger and nightclub comic, and pretty Mary Healy, singing comedienne with a pleasant willingness to let others have their say. Under their easygoing coaxing, relatives of famous entertainers (Mimi Benzell, Mel Tormé) discuss the star of the family, who then obliges with a brief performance.