New Comedy Showcase is an American anthology television series that aired on CBS in the summer of 1960.

By the mid-1950s, the practice of television executives of ordering dozens of pilots for proposed television series each year – far more than their networks could possibly broadcast as series – had created a sizable body of unsold pilots that had never aired.

[1] By 1954, the American television industry had begun to consider the idea of packaging these unsold pilots in anthology series and airing them during the summer, providing television networks with a way of both providing fresh programming during the summer rerun season and recouping at least some of the expense of producing them.

[3][4] Stars appearing in the series included Leon Ames, Jack Carson, Dick Van Dyke, Wayne Morris, George Murphy, Margaret O'Brien, Janis Paige, Martha Scott, Walter Slezak, and Gil Stratton.

[1][2][3] New Comedy Showcase ran for eight episodes over the course of eight consecutive weeks in the summer of 1960, airing on CBS from 10:00 to 10:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday evenings.