ABOUT THE SHOW:  Judy Canova as herself, a pigtails-and-calico bumpkin, who had come to Hollywood from "Rancho Canova" in "Cactus Junction.''Judy Canova was a Jacksonville native who aspired to a serious career in music. But early in her career she was typed as a hillbilly. hog- caller, and hayseed, a female answer to Bob Burns, and she never shook it off. In the early 1930s she was billed with her sister Annie and her brother Zeke as the Three Canovas. Rudy Vallee caught the act, and in 1933 she appeared on his Fleischmann Hour. She was a regular on Paul Whiteman's Musical Varieties of 1937 and on Edgar Bergen' s Chase and Sanborn Hour in the fall of 1938.

FIRST BROADCAST: July 6, 1943

LAST BROADCAST: May 28, 1953

SPONSORS: Emerson Drug, Smith Brothers, and General Motors

CAST: Judy Canova as herself, Verna Felton as her Aunt Aggie, with whom she lived, Ruth Perrott also as Aunt Aggie,Ruby Dandridge as Geranium, the fat Negro maid who also lived there. Mel Blanc as Pedro, the Mexican gardener- chauffeur. Hans Conried as Mr. Hemingway, the house guest who complained about everything. Sheldon Leonard as Joe Cnmchmiller, Judy's boy- friend, who drove a cab. Gerald Mohr as the muscular Humphrey Cooper. Joe Kearns as the nonsensical Benchley Botsford. Gale Gordon, George Niese, Elvia Allman, Sharon Douglas.