[3] Hayes said, "The show hits that large middle ground among performers — actors who want to sing and singers who want to act.
[5] The premiere episode was "A Nice Place to Hide', with French singer Genevieve and Jackie Cooper, in which a librarian from France helped a "literary-minded bum" avoid arrest.
[9] Jack Gould, in a review distributed by the New York Times News Service, described the show's format as "a half-hour story in which snatches from popular songs are awkwardly inserted.
"[10] additionally, in the opening episode, he added, the lead character "never had time to offer more than a few bars" when a song was inserted.
"[10] Shortly after the program was canceled, Val Adams wrote in The New York Times that Oldsmobile Music Theatre "has been universally criticized by the press for its lack of originality and its mediocrity.