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At the beginning, the show aired for a half-hour every week, but was expanded to an hour in January 1965. In the fall of 1965, the show split into two half-hour telecasts, on Thursday and Saturday nights. The show was hosted by Jimmy O'Neill , who was a famous disc jockey in Los Angeles at the time. Accompanying the music acts of the week was a dance troupe called the Shindiggers.

Many popular performers of the day played on the program, and this show is widely considered to have jumpstarted the career of future teen idol Bobby Sherman. In the fall of 1965, transmissions from London would commence, allowing performers from the British Invasion bands to play without having to leave the United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly.

The show was eventually canceled and replaced in both time slots by BatmanFor other uses see Batman (disambiguation Batman more properly known as The Batman and occasionally as The Bat-Man is a fictional character, a comic book superhero, first appearing in Detective Comics #27 in 1939. Most accounts suggest that he was co-crea. Shindig! also spawned a rival show, HullabalooThis article is about the album by Muse. For the movie, see Hullabaloo (movie . Hullabaloo is a 2-Disc Live Album and DVD recorded by the alternative rock band Muse. The album is a recording of the band's performance in Le Zenith, Paris on the 28th and 29, on NBC.