Shabondama Holiday

***Shabondama Holiday*** (シャボン玉ホリデー, "*Soap Bubble Holiday*") Is a musical variety show broadcast on NTV from June 4, 1961 to October 1, 1972 and October 9, 1976 to March 26, 1977. Released by Cow Brand Soap Kyoshinsha Co.,Ltd. in the 1st and 2nd period (the company name was changed from Kyoshinsha Yushi Kogyo to Milk Soap Kyoshinsha in 1967 at the time of the 1st period to avoid copyrights) . The number of episodes was about 591 in the first part and 24 in the second part. The first show was aired every Sunday from 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. and the second series aired every Saturday from 11:45 p.m. to 12:15 a.m. JST.

## Shabontama Holidays Part I (1961-1972)

Produced by theNippon Television and Watanabe Productions (later inherited the talent division of Watanabe Entertainment). It was produced as a musical variety show featuring twin female duo The Peanuts, currently on sale by Watanabe Productions. The site was run by Haruo Matsushita (later representative of Wisemen Co., Ltd.), the production manager of Watanabe Productions. The search for sponsors was extremely difficult and the company asked for a reward because Milk Soap, which was initially reluctant to provide the contract, eventually reluctantly went, and NTV changed the name of the program to "Shabontama Holiday" in return. is a story.

The name of the program is Holiday, which was appointed by Torashiro Miyazaki, the president of Milk Soap, and since it was a sale of Teiichiro Hori from Dentsu to Milk Soap, the name of the moat was borrowed from Hori Sada, who was on his vacation in the United States for a business meeting. Also, since it was supplied by a dairy soap company, at the start of the program the dairy cow would scream "Moo!". In return, they decided to put the subtitle "Peanuts!" at the end of the title theme song. However, with the audience rating being high, the result was a success.

The program first called “Provide milk soap, Shabontama Holiday!”, Then performed a tale with the cry of a dairy cow, then The Peanuts sang the theme song while Shabontama danced, and there are had one each time. to the theme, The Peanuts, Hajime Hana and Crazy Cats, and the guests who show up each time, develop the contest, song, discussion, and skits. Many gags were born from the program, and in particular, "Don't call me? I'm sorry again!" As Ueki was popular as a legendary phrase representing the program.

It was the first colour television show to be recorded and broadcast on a color VCR instead of a live broadcast. Due to the performers' schedules, the recording was often shot at midnight, and sometimes before dawn. As you can see from the opening theme and the ending theme, the main character in the show is The Peanuts, but actually it was Hajime Hana and his Crazy Cats. Additionally, in August of each year, the Crazy Cats performed a special performance at the Umeda Arts Theater in Kita, Osaka, so it was recorded using the Yomiuri TV studio (which existed in Tenma at that time). In 1972, all the members of the Crazy Cats will no longer appear (only Hajime Hana or Kei Tani will appear). For about six months from May, it became a public program, with Kei Tani, Peanuts, and Jun Inoue (currently Junji Inoue) acting as the principal, and the content is different from the past, like putting animals in the studio. At that time, Jackey Yoshikawa & His Blue Comets were also appeared to performed musical number.

Audience ratings for the program were slow around this time, and when The Peanuts made an appearance on "Young Oh! Oh!" (produced by Mainichi Broadcasting System), which was popular in Kansai at the time, “This (Young Oh!) There's also an episode where he disclosed his true intentions, saying,“ Oh!), making the show more interesting."

The show ended on October 1, 1972, with a history of 11 years and 4 months. Usually when we speak of "Shabontama Holiday", they often refer here to the first period.

## Shabontama Holidays Part II (1976-1977)

On October 9, 1976, four years after the end of the first program, another program was produced with the original title and the offer (milk soap). The regular team consisted of members including Utako Mitsuya, Shunji Fujimura, and Dankichi Kuruma in addition to the Pink Lady who had just made their debut, and was broadcast on NTV as in the first period.

However, the broadcast time was late every Saturday at 11:45 p.m. Sunday at 12:15 a.m. and the ratings were low. The show ended on March 26, 1977, six months later, in order to get low ratings and a plot for "All Japan Pro-less Broadcast" for the nighttime gaming season, but Pink Lady did. This triggered by the program, and Milk Soap in 1977. Began to appear in the advertisement for "Shawaran Beauty Shampoo & Rinse". On January 1, 1977, the show was suspended due to the formation of "All Japan Pro Wrestling Broadcast" (New Year's performance sponsored by All Japan Pro Wrestling). It was the only break in the series, as the first phase was never interrupted.

## Main performers

**Phase 1**

* The Peanuts
* Hajime Hana and the Crazy Cats (until 1972)
* Hajime Hana
* Hitoshi Ueki
* Kei Tani
* Hiroshi Inuzuka
* Senri Sakurai
* Shin Yasuda
* Ētarō Ishibashi
* Hideo Shiraki - He also had a drumbeat with Hajime Hana in the program.
* Osami Nabe
* Makoto Matsuzaki
* Masao Kojima
* Takehiko Maeda
* Masao Komatsu
* Yukio Aoshima
* Yukari Ito
* Mari Sono
* Akira Fuse
* Ryoichi Tamagawa
* Arihiro Fujimura
* Dark Ducks
* Three Funkys
* Johnny's
* The Tigers
* Jackey Yoshikawa & His Blue Comets
* Jun Inoue (1972)

**Phase 2**

* Pink Lady
* Utako Mitsuya
* Shunji Fujimura
* Dankichi Kuruma

## Guest stars

**First Show**

* The Drifters
* Michiyo Azusa
* Konto gojugo-go
* Minoru Shiraki
* Hachiro Kasuga - One of the first guests.
* Mickey Curtis
* Kōji Tsuruta
* Masaaki Hirao
* Tomoko Matsushima
* Hayashiya Sanpei I
* Hachidai Nakamura Trio
* Fubuki Koshiji
* Akira Takarada
* Tadao Takashima
* Kyu Sakamoto
* Nana Kinomi
* Kanichi Tani
* Chocho Miyako
* Makoto Fujita
* Johnny's
* Teruhiko Saigō
* Kashimashi Girls
* Jimmy Tokita
* Shin'ichi Rūkī
* Tony Tani
* Danshi Tatekawa
* Ryoichi Tamagawa
* Gannosuke Ashiya
* Shincho Kokontei III
* Chiyo Okumura
* Naozumi Yamamoto
* Kiyoko Suizenji
* The Wild Ones
* Shinichi Mori
* San'yūtei Enraku VI
* Utako Kyo
* Keisuke Ootori
* Chiemi Eri
* The Spiders
* Billy BanBan
* Kenji Sawada - In the last episode, he made an appearance with Inoue Takayuki Band.
* Kêshî Takamine
* Toshiaki Minami
* Mari Henmi
* Pinky & Killers
* Rumi Koyama
* Rumiko Koyanagi
* Kingorō Yanagiya
* Saori Minami
* Mari Amachi
* Saori Yuki
* Saburō Kitajima
* Masumi Okada
* Tempuku Trio
* Chinatsu Nakayama
* Izumi Yukimura
* Hoagy Carmichael

**Second Show**

* Yasuo Yamada
* Koichi Morita
* Hideki Saijo
* Naoko Ken
* Junko Sakurada
* Harumi Miyako
* Masao Sen - At that time, he appeared in an advertisement for "Skin Life" of milk soap.
* Kensaku Morita
* Nagisa Katahira
* Akiko Wada
* Kiyoshi Maekawa (member of Hiroshi Uchiyamada and Cool Five)
* Kenji Niinuma
* Goro Noguchi
* Aki Yashiro
* Teruhiko Aoi
* Momoe Yamaguchi - At that time she was appearing in an advertisement for a hair care product from the same company, but for some reason she was called out by a guest.
* Yukari Ito - Appeared in the last episode.
* Other more performers