Question: What series featuring a Judy Garland biography appeared earliest on PBS ?

text: List of Judy Garland biographies
Film and video

Judy Garland has been the subject of many biographies. Since her death in 1969, she has been the subject of over two dozen books. The first of these was Brad Steiger's Judy Garland, published shortly after her death, which includes information on Garland's astrological chart, analysis of her handwriting, numerology and biorhythms. Most of the books are entirely about Garland, but some, including Patricia Fox-Sheinwold's Too Young to Die, Some Are Born Great by Adela Rogers St. Johns and Jane Ellen Wayne's The Golden Girls of MGM, merely feature a chapter about her. Two volumes, Rainbow's End: The Judy Garland Show by Coyne Steven Sanders and Mel Tormé's The Other Side of the Rainbow: On the Dawn Patrol With Judy Garland, focus on Garland's television series, The Judy Garland Show. Garland's last husband, Mickey Deans, co-authored an early biography in 1972 and Garland's daughter Lorna Luft wrote a family memoir in 1988. Garland has been profiled on-screen several times. The earliest known film biography was a 1961 installment of the syndicated television series Hollywood Hist-o-rama, which covered her career through the filming of A Star is Born. Garland was the subject of episodes of the British series Omnibus, 60 Minutes, Biography and the E! True Hollywood Story. Her life story was fictionalized in Rainbow in 1978 and in 2001 in Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, based on daughter Luft's memoir. On stage, Garland is a character in The Boy from Oz, a 1998 musical based on the life of former son-in-law Peter Allen, and the 2006 play The Property Known as Garland, based on tape recordings made prior to her last ever concert appearance.
Year Title Series Network Notes
1961 Judy Garland Hollywood Hist-o-rama Syndicated Syndicated television short covering Garland 's career through A Star is Born , glossing over any mention of Garland 's problems
1972 Judy : Impressions of Garland Omnibus BBC
1975 Judy/The Ultra Secret 60 Minutes CBS The Garland segment was one of two in the episode . The Ultra Secret was a segment about World War II code-breaking
1978 Judy Garland The Hollywood Greats BBC
1978 Rainbow N/A NBC Biopic focusing on Garland 's early years . Andrea McArdle played Garland
1985 Judy Garland : The Concert Years Great Performances PBS Nominated for an Emmy award for Outstanding Informational Special
1997 Judy Garland : Beyond the Rainbow Biography A & E Expanded two-hour episode
2001 Life with Judy Garland : Me and My Shadows N/A ABC Two-part biopic based on the Luft memoir . Garland as a child was played by Tammy Blanchard and Judy Davis played Garland as an adult . The mini-series was nominated for 13 Emmys , and won five , including awards to both Blanchard and Davis
2001 Last Days of Judy Garland E ! True Hollywood Story E !
2004 Judy Garland : By Myself American Masters PBS Won two Emmy awards for Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming and Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming ; nominated for three more
2019 Judy N/A N/A Theatrical film directed by Rupert Goold starring Renée Zellweger as Garland , who earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress