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The Dean Martin Show, with it's big-name stars-such as Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Stewart, Lucille Ball, and John Wayne-glitzy production number, and often risque skits, for nine years owned Thursday nights at ten o'clock on television. But nothing about the show was as big a draw as it's inimitable host, the breezy, roguishly handsome Dean Martin. Now Lee Hale, the show's musical director, and later producer of The Golddiggers and Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts, let's you peek behind the curtains at all the fun, friendship, and occasional star tantrums that went into making this top-rated variety program.