page_title: Ken Berry
section_title: Arthur Godfrey
hierarchical_section_title: Ken Berry / Television career / Arthur Godfrey
caption_attribution_description: Publicity photo of Carol Burnett and Ken Berry from the television presentation of the play Once Upon a Mattress.
context_page_description: Kenneth Ronald Berry was an American actor, dancer and singer. Berry starred on the television series F Troop, The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry R.F.D. and Mama's Family. He also appeared on Broadway in The Billy Barnes Revue, headlined as George M. Cohan in the musical George M! and provided comic relief for the medical drama Dr. Kildare, with Richard Chamberlain in the 1960s.
context_section_description: Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts was a prime time television talent contest, that ran from 1946 to 1958. The winner got a week's work on Godfrey's morning television program, which was simulcast on radio. Berry won in 1957, performed his week on the show, and was then asked back for six more weeks. He traveled with Godfrey and performed on remote broadcasts in an Omaha stock yard, in Seattle at a lumber camp, at the Boeing aircraft plant, and at the San Diego Zoo. Berry came up with a new routine for every show, which aired daily.
caption: Ken Berry and Carol Burnett in Once Upon a Mattress in 1972
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