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The Steve Allen Show
Overview
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Key Crew
Writer: Leonard B. Stern
Top Cast
Seasons
Season 1 (1956)
No overview available.
9 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Premier with guests Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, Kim Novak, Vincent Price, Wally Cox, Sammy Davis, Jr.
1956-06-24Skits include unlikely endorsements putting Wally Cox in prison, Dane Clark in a bar fight and Vincent Price as a hit and run victim, and later, a gangster scene with Steve and Kim Novak with an educational bent. Jerry Lewis and Bob Hope make only cameos. Sammy Davis Jnr. does imitations and is seen with the Will Maston Trio.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 2: Elvis Presley, Andy Griffith, Imogene Coca, Milton Berle, Steve Lawrence & Edye Gorme
1956-07-01Episode features include Elvis Presley, wearing a tuxedo and singing "Hound Dog" to a mournful basset hound; Andy Griffith explaining Shakespeare's Hamlet in a comedy monologue; Imogene Coca starring in a skit where she tries to tell her husband she's pregnant; Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme doing an opera spoof while wearing viking costumes and Imogene Coca, Andy Griffith and Elvis Presley doing a spoof of country music television programs.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 3: Sammy Davis, Jr., Jack Palance, Vic Damone, Margaret Truman, Gogi Grant
1956-07-08Todays guests are Sammy Davis, Jr./Jack Palance/Don Adams/Margaret Truman.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 4: Buddy Hackett, Count Basie & his Orchestra, The Four Lads
1956-07-22Episode 5: James Mason, Pamela Mason & Portland Mason, Rise Stevens & Jan Peerce, Roger Ray, Eddie Condon, Dayton Allen, Bambi Linn & Rod Alexander
1956-07-29Episode 6: Judy Holliday, Tony Bennett, Carmen Cavallaro, Louis Nye, Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five, The 321st National Military Drill Team
1956-08-05Episode 7: Frank Sinatra, Don Adams, Julius LaRosa, Mamie Van Doren, Eddie Lawrence, Augie & Margo
1956-08-19Episode 8: Buddy Hackett, Andy Williams, Jaye P. Morgan & the Morgan Brothers, Gregory Ratoff, The Ice Capades
1956-08-26Episode 9: Ann Sheridan, Fats Domino, Georgia Gibbs, Steve Lawrence, Smith & Dale
1956-09-02Skits include Smith and Dale doing their "Still Alarm" routine, with Louis Nye,and Steve, Georgia Gibbs and Steve Lawrence do a takeoff on a 30's band remote.Fats Domino is presented a "Cashbox" magazine award.
Runtime: 60 minSeason 2 (1956)
No overview available.
48 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Andy Williams, Milt Kamen, Gogi Grant, The Will Mastin Trio (featuring Sammy Davis, Jr.), Marian Ann McKnight , The Baird Puppets
1956-09-16Episode 2: Billy Eckstine, Rin Tin Tin, Joni James, Professor Irwin Corey, Jose Molina, the Midwestern States Glee Club
1956-09-23Episode 3: Claudette Colbert, Mickey Rooney, Jerome Hines, Erin O'Brien, Joey Forman
1956-09-30Episode 4: Abbott & Costello, Kukla, Fran & Ollie, Peggy King, Lionel Hampton, Don Lamond, Louis Bellson Mrs. Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle
1956-10-07Todays guests are Abbott and Costello/Kukla, Fran and Ollie/Mickey Mantle/Lionel Hampton/Peggy King/Milt Kamen.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 5: Tony Bennett, Doretta Morrow, Mel Torme, Frances Faye, Guy Madison, Kathryn & Arthur Murray
1956-10-14Episode 6: Peter Lawford, Frank Parker, The Harlem Globetrotters, Rocky Graziano, Olga James, Janik & Arnaut, cameo appearance by Julius LaRosa
1956-10-21Episode 7: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Alfred Drake, Erin O'Brien, T.C. Jones, Jim Henson & the Muppets, Rod Alexander Dancers, Les Brown & His Band of Renown
1956-11-04Episode 8: Jerry Lewis, Georgia Gibbs, Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steel, Buster Crabbe, cast members of "Jack and the Beanstalk"
1956-11-11Episode 9: Bob Hope, Duke Ellington & Orchestra, Gene Nelson, Betty Walker, Erin O'Brien, George Hamilton IV, Olsen & Johnson, World's Champion Women Boxers
1956-11-18Episode 10: Gene Autry, Jim Lowe, Betty Kean & Lew Parker, Floyd Patterson & Archie Moore, the Chicago Bears
1956-11-25Episode 11: Charlton Heston, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ethel Waters, Bobby Van, Don Newcombe, Floyd Patterson, Archie Moore, Vince Martin & The Tarriers
1956-12-02Episode 12: Anne Jeffreys & Robert Sterling, The Hi-Lo's, Bud Wilkinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, Betty Kean & Lew Parker
1956-12-09Episode 13: Martha Raye, Alan Young, the Collins Kids, Ricky Vera, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, the Vienna Boys Choir
1956-12-23Episode 14: Tony Bennett, Andy Griffith, the New York Rangers, live premiere of the motion picture "Around the World in 80 Days"
1956-12-30Episode 15: Errol Flynn, Polly Bergen, Guy Mitchell, Alan Young
1957-01-06Episode 16: Joe E. Brown, Julius La Rosa, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Rocky Graziano, Dorothy Miller ("Mrs. Miller", audience member)
1957-01-13Episode 17: New York Film Critics Awards
1957-01-20Most of the show concerns a filmed Steve presenting the Critic's award to several stars, including 'Ingrid Bergman' and 'Kirk Douglas', along with some small talk interviews. These were shot at Sardi's restaurant in New York, probably when it was closed, due to the utter quietness.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 18: Season 2, Episode 18
1957-01-27Pearl Bailey, Lilli Palmer, Don Adams, The Collins Kids, Steve Lawrence, Charles Van Doren
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 19: Peter Lawford, Charles Van Doren, Lou Costello, Margaret Whiting, The Step Brothers
1957-02-10Episode 20: Frankie Laine, Alan Young, Martha Carson, Tab Hunter, Ken Rosewall, Pancho Gonzales, Jack Kramer, Pancho Segura
1957-02-17Episode 21: Yehudi Menuhin, Arlene Dahl, Aldo Ray, Robert Ryan, Brenda Lee, the Hilltoppers
1957-02-24Episode 22: Jerry Lewis, Martha Raye, Steve Lawrence, Diahann Carroll, Fernando Lamas
1957-03-10Episode 23: Greer Garson, Lou Costello, Dean Jones, Steve Peck, Janik & Arpaut, Howard McNear, Sandra Gould, Veola Vonn, The Lancers
1957-03-24Episode 24: Tennessee Ernie Ford, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mercer, Dinah Shore, Esther Williams, The Collins Kids
1957-03-31Episode 25: Salute to the All American Basketball Teams
1957-04-07Episode 26: Esther Williams, Eydie Gorme, Jackie Cooper, Stan Freberg, The Four Lads
1957-04-14Episode 27: Mickey Rooney, Eleanor Steber, Joey Forman, Betty Walker, Mickey & Sylvia, Jim Henson's Muppets
1957-04-21Episode 28: Brenda Lee, Don Adams, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Jack Carson, Peter Gennaro & Ellen Ray
1957-04-28Episode 29: Orson Welles, Jill Corey, Peggy Cass, The Will Mastin Trio featuring Sammy Davis Jr.
1957-05-05Steve Allen and Sammy Davis, Jr. perform a card trick with a little help from Orson Welles; Davis joins his uncle Will Mastin and his father Sammy Davis, Sr., for an athletic dance number; Davis performs singing impressions of Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Louis Armstrong, and others; and the "Allen Report to the Nation" deals with the tranquilizer pill, with Allen interviewing Louis Nye as the head of a pharmaceutical company, Tom Poston as chief of laboratory research, and Don Knotts as a jittery fill-in speaker at a medical convention. Additionally, singer Jill ...
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 30: Tallulah Bankhead, Milton Berle, Pearl Bailey, Dean Jones, Reverend Billy Graham
1957-05-12Episode 31: Ann Sothern, Bert Lahr, Brenda Lee
1957-05-19Episode 32: Andy Griffith, Marty Robbins, Errol Garner, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Martha Raye, a cameo appearance from Dean Martin
1957-05-26Episode 33: Xavier Cugat, Abbe Lane, Pat Carroll, The Four Diamonds, Erin O'Brien, Jerry Lewis
1957-06-02Steve's guests are The Diamonds (singing "Little Darlin'"), Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra with singer Abbe Lane doing "All Of You" and "Babalu," comedian Pat Carroll as a wife whose husband (Allen) tries to prove to her that a joke he told is funny, Erin O'Brien singing "Where's A Happy Ending?" Jerry Lewis plays Gordon Hathaway and a dopey boxer in the "Man on the Street" segment, Steve gives passionate readings of real "Letters to the Editor," delivers a silly speech to graduating seniors, and shows works of art used in magazine ads.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 34: Orson Welles, Wally Cox, Meg Myles, Jim Reeves, The Step Brothers, Reverend Billy Graham
1957-06-09Episode 35: Steve Lawrence, Mamie Van Doren, The Hi-Lo's, Walter Chiari
1957-06-16Episode 36: Lou Costello, Pat Boone, Jonathan Winters, Abbey Lincoln, Fay DeWitt, Dulcie Cooper, The Ames Brothers
1957-06-23Lou Costello in a restaurant skit where Gabe Dell takes the part of the bullying, Bud Abbott-type companion.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 37: Bob Hope, George Jessel, Alexis Smith, Vera Miles, Dean Martin, the Rod Alexander Dancers, The Axidentals
1957-06-30In a salute to Hope's new film, "Beau James", skits, dance numbers and film clips devoted to onetime crooked prohibition-era New York mayor Jimmy Walker.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 38: Benny Goodman, Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Lawford, Professor Irwin Corey
1957-07-07Goodman's in top form, and Steve does a duet with him. Yvonne and Steve in a baby-naming skit, Lawford and Steve play bored life guards. A "Night Beat" parody includes Knotts as his classic nervous nerd, and a bellicose Nye cracks Steve up.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 39: Debra Paget, Buddy Rich, Frankie Laine, Cornelia Otis Skinner
1957-07-14Episode 40: Tony Bennett, George Nader, Joanne Gilbert, Hal Le Roy, Floyd Patterson & Joe Louis
1957-07-21Tony Bennett sings "One For My Baby". Floyd Patterson and Joe Louis talk to Steve about boxing and Floyd's title defense against Tommy "Hurricane" Jackson. Joanne Gilbert sings "Hello Bluebird". Show regulars, appear in a comedy satire on television quiz-masters. Steve plays a piano version of "Do You Ever Think of Me?" For the finale, the entire cast and guest list join in with a bevy of hula dancers for a production entitled "In the Middle of an Island".
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 41: Jerry Lee Lewis, Shelley Winters, Anthony Franciosa, The Four Coins, Jodie Sands, Shai K. Ophir, Leona Gage
1957-07-28Steve and Shelley Winters in a skit about teaching her to drive by using household objects, Jerry Lee Lewis gives a bravura piano-attacking performance.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 42: Marie MacDonald, The Four Diamonds, Jack E. Leonard, Don Rondo, Brenda Lee
1957-08-04Episode 43: Jane Russell, Ferlin Husky, Larry Storch, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Rod Alexander Dancers
1957-08-11Episode 44: Lou Costello, Liberace, Andy Williams, Abbey Lincoln, Jean Fenn
1957-08-18Episode 45: Hedy Lamar, Joe E. Brown, The Coasters, Irish McCalla, Pat Kirby
1957-08-25Episode 46: Pearl Bailey, Joan Collins, Jeff Chandler, Shaike Ophir, Pete Rademacher
1957-09-01Episode 47: Robert Young, Martha Raye, Marion Lorne, Milton Caniff, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, Dave Garroway, Miss America of 1958
1957-09-08Episode 48: Ed Wynn, Frankie Laine, Dorothy Collins, Don Adams, Audrey Meadows, Sugar Ray Robinson & Carmen Basilio
1957-09-15Season 3 (1957)
No overview available.
40 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: NBC Fall Preview
1957-09-22Episode 2: Corinne Calvet, Jimmy Dean, Jerry Lester, Barbara Nichols, Sugar Ray Robinson & Carmen Basilio
1957-09-29Episode 3: Anthony Perkins, Broderick Crawford, Joanne Dru, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Johnny Puleo & his Harmonica Gang, cameo by Killer Joe Piro
1957-10-06Crawford takes part in the "Man in the street" skit, Tony Perkins and Steve do their impressions of autograph hounds, and Perkins, Abbe Lane and Cugat show some elements of an upcoming TV western.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 4: Dorothy Lamour & Jon Hall, Buddy Knox, Hank Aaron & Lew Burdette
1957-10-13Episode 5: Ginger Rogers, Lou Costello, The Hi-Lo's, The Harlem Globetrotters
1957-10-20Episode 6: Jerry Vale, William Bendix, Judy Canova, Shelley Berman, Janice Harper, Art Blakely, Candido, Sabu Martinez, Bob Rosengarden
1957-10-27Episode 7: Jerry Lee Lewis, Dennis Day, Joanne Gilbert, cameo by Jerry Lewis
1957-11-03Episode 8: Gloria Swanson, Charlie Ruggles, Tony Bennett, Jack E. Leonard, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane
1957-11-10Episode 9: Marie McDonald, Walter Chiari, Edward Everett Horton, Ferlin Husky, The King Sisters
1957-11-17Episode 10: Joan Caulfield, Sam Levenson, Audrey Meadows, Greta Thyssen, Steve Lawrence, Teal Joy, The Treniers
1957-11-24Episode 11: Errol Flynn, Martha Raye, Jimmy Dean, Don Adams, Jennie Smith, the Army-Navy Football Stars
1957-12-01Martha does a song and dance number as planned, then again where all the props fail, Errol Flynn goes on a parody of "To Tell The Truth" where Knotts turns out to be him. Jimmy Dean sings an early Christmas number with Chroma-Key dancers.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 12: Sal Mineo, Rosemary Clooney, Shelley Berman, Dale Robertson, Peter Lawford, Guy Lombardo & Orchestra
1957-12-08Episode 13: Ann Sothern, Jackie Cain & Roy Kral, Lou Costello, Steve Lawrence, Milt Kamen
1957-12-15Episode 14: Anthony Perkins, Mahalia Jackson, Gertrude Berg, George London, the U.N. Singers
1957-12-22Episode 15: Peter Ustinov, Margaret O'Brien, Jerry Vale, Mike Nichols & Elaine May, Martha Davis & Spouse
1957-12-29Todays guests are Peter Ustinov, Margaret O'Brien, Jerry Vale, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Martha Davis and Spouse.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 16: Sam Cooke, Abbe Lane, Xavier Cugat, Johnny Haymer, Ward Bond, Robert Horton
1958-01-05Episode 17: From the Riviera Hotel, Havana
1958-01-19Episode 18: Martha Raye, Jimmy Dean, Erin O'Brien, Charles Laughton, Rubinoff & his violin
1958-01-26Episode 19: Henry Fonda, Shelley Berman, Jennie Smith, The Treniers
1958-02-02Episode 20: From Hollywood: The Photoplay Movie Awards
1958-02-09Episode 21: Dale Robertson, Peggy King, Don Adams, The Hi-Lo's, Duke Hazlitt, cameo appearances from Jerry Lewis and Red Skelton
1958-02-16Episode 22: The McGuire Sisters, Teddi King, The Playmates, Haller & Hayden, Jayne Meadows, Audrey Meadows
1958-02-23Episode 23: Sam Cooke, Peter Ustinov, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Bobby Rivera, Jill Corey, Tommy Leonetti, Virginia Gibson, Alan Copeland
1958-03-02Episode 24: Lou Costello, Jack Jones, Dolores Gray, Sabrina, Janik & Arnaut
1958-03-09Episode 25: Lena Horne, Keenan Wynn, Jack E. Leonard, Mark Murphy, Carmen Basilio
1958-03-16Episode 26: Anita Ekberg, Alan Young, Joni James, John Bubbles, Tommy Prisco
1958-03-23Episode 27: Edgar Bergen, The Step Brothers, Marie McDonald, The All-American High School & College Basketball Teams
1958-03-30In a comedy sketch with regulars Don Knotts, Joyce Jameson and Tom Poston, Marie McDonald portrays a celebrity approached by interviewers.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 28: Orson Welles, Jane Powell, Senor Wences, Alan Dale, The Bay Bops
1958-04-06Episode 29: Sammy Davis, Jr., Carmen McRae, Dody Goodman, Jayne Meadows, Audrey Meadows
1958-04-13Steve's wife and sister-in-law, Jayne and Audrey Meadows, join him in a skit purporting to be a look at a real incident in their lives when they had a baby nurse, "Miss Huston" (played by Audrey). Dody does her usual rambling on, this time about baseball, as she replaces the "Billboard Girl" that announces next week's guests. Sammy Davis sings a rather obviously lipsynched number at the opening. Steve does a "report to the nation" sketch on the recession. Dody returns with the Meadows girls for the finale, a number based on the extremes of current ladies' fashions.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 30: Season 3, Episode 30
1958-04-20Bob Hope, Patrice Munsel, Ray Anthony, Johnny Haymer, David Allen
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 31: Claudette Colbert, Toni Arden, Abe Burrows, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane
1958-04-27Episode 32: Count Basie, Joe Bushkin, Teddy Wilson, Jane Powell, Phil Harris, Igor and H
1958-05-04Episode 33: Lionel Hampton, Rosemary Clooney, Rory Calhoun
1958-05-11Episode 34: Julie Newmar, Dick Clark, Lou Costello, Ronnie Deauville, Beverly Kenney, Carl Ballantine, Abigail Van Buren, Maurice Gosfield, Sid Gould, Franklin Pangborn
1958-05-18Episode 35: Peter Ustinov, Louis Armstrong, Barbara McNair, Van Cliburn
1958-05-25Episode 36: Henry Fonda, Shari Lewis, Mel Torme, Martha Raye, Terry Gibbs, Gus Bivona, Gary Peacock, Mundell Lowe
1958-06-01Episode 37: Kirk Douglas, Joni James, Roy Hamilton, Jonathan Winters, The Hi-Lo's
1958-06-15Episode 38: Jack Lemmon, Peter Ustinov, Jerry Vale, Jeri Southern
1958-06-22Episode 39: Oscar Levant, Tony Bennett, Don Adams, Dorothy Collins, Sandra McCorkle
1958-06-29Episode 40: Tribute to original 'Tonight' show with Steve Allen
1958-07-06Season 4 (1958)
No overview available.
35 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Andy Griffith, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, The McGuire Sisters
1958-09-07Episode 2: Audrey Meadows, Jayne Meadows, Roberta Sherwood, Mary Ann Mobley
1958-09-14Episode 3: NBC Fall Preview
1958-09-21Episode 4: Joan Davis, Art Linkletter, Jimmie Rodgers, Ray Anthony
1958-09-28Episode 5: Lloyd Bridges, Nancy Walker, Larry Daniels, Carole Simpson, the Rocky Mario Trio
1958-10-12Episode 6: Gertrude Berg, Tony Bennett, Peter Lawford, Kathy Linden, The Harlem Globetrotters
1958-10-19Episode 7: Peter Ustinov, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Laura Leslie, Dorothy Collins, Augie & Margo, Warren Covington
1958-10-26Episode 8: Jane Russell, Mike Nichols & Elaine May, Earl Grant, George Melachrino & his orchestra
1958-11-02Episode 9: Harry Belafonte & The Belafonte Singers, Johnny Carson, Martha Raye
1958-11-09Episode 10: Count Basie & his Orchestra, Joe Williams, Alan Young, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Don Cornell
1958-11-16Episode 11: Claudette Colbert, Jackie Cooper, Carol Hughes, Roger Ray, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
1958-11-23Episode 12: Don Adams, Pat Boone, the Incomparable Hildegarde, Augie & Margo
1958-11-30Episode 13: Joan Davis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Leo DeLyon, Andre Previn, The Hi-Lo's
1958-12-07Episode 14: Tony Bennett, Jonathan Winters, Clara Ward & Her Gospel Singers, Ingrid Bergman and Curt Jurgens
1958-12-14Episode 15: The Ice Capades, Pat Kirby, The Four Lads
1958-12-28Episode 16: Patrice Munsel, The King Sisters, Roy Hamilton, Chuck McCann
1959-01-04Episode 17: Diana Dors, Perez Prado & his Orchestra, The Three Stooges, Chuck McCann
1959-01-11Episode 18: Esther Williams, Vic Damone, Jennie Smith, The Mary Dwight Swimmers
1959-01-18Episode 19: Lee Marvin, Johnny Carson, James Darren, Dolores Gray
1959-01-25Carson does a skit showing a children's show M.C. with a hangover, Marvin does different cop show approaches to the same scene.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 20: Martha Raye, Carl Ballantine, Danny Staton, Rex Stuart, Pee Wee Russell, Eddie Condon, Al Clink, Hank Jones, Woody Herman & the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, cameos by Arthur & Kathryn Murray
1959-02-01Episode 21: Liberace, Steve Lawrence, Marie McDonald, the U.S. Army Chorus, Cameo by Phil Silvers
1959-02-08Episode 22: Frank Gorshin, Ray Anthony & his Band, Terry Gibbs, Diana Maxwell, Steve Allen presents Hollywood Merit Awards
1959-02-15Episode 23: Andy Griffith, Diana Dors, Otto Harbach, Jimmy Hurst, The Three Stooges
1959-02-22Episode 24: Jayne Mansfield, Eydie Gorme, Tommy Leonetti
1959-03-01Episode 25: Zsa Zsa Gabor, Johnny Carson, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Vic Damone, Jane Harvey
1959-03-08Episode 26: Charlton Heston, Peter Lawford, Jayne Meadows, Debra Paget, Jonathan Winters
1959-03-15Episode 27: Sammy Davis, Jr., Frank Gorshin, Joanne Gilbert, Carlos Montoya, Sessue Hayakawa, The U.F.O.'s, the Nikolais Dancers
1959-03-22Episode 28: The Three Stooges, Connie Russell, David Allen, Lenny Bruce
1959-04-05The Stooges do their well-worn "Knife Throwing Maharaja" bit without improvisations, Bruce does a monologue about junkies, then moves on to a maudlin song story about loneliness, and Poston and Nye join Steve in a skit about two washed up song writers guesting on Perry Como.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 29: Diana Dors, George Jessel, Mark Murphy, Don Elliott, cameo by Richard Dawson
1959-04-12Episode 30: Richard Kiley, Georgia Gibbs, Jack E. Leonard, Carole Costello
1959-04-19Episode 31: Tony Bennett, Jean Shepherd, Jimmie Rodgers, Betty Walker, The Modernaires
1959-04-26Episode 32: Lenny Bruce, Sarah Vaughan, Anita Ekberg, Tommy Prisco, Georgie Taps
1959-05-10Episode 33: Diahann Carroll, George Gobel, Vaughn Monroe, Marty Ingels, The Nikolais Dancers, The Naval Aviation Cadet Choir
1959-05-17Episode 34: Cyril Ritchard, Irene Kral, The Axidentals, Eli Mintz, the Ruth Walton Dancers
1959-05-24Episode 35: Ginger Rogers, Ingemar Johansson, Steve Lawrence
1959-06-07Season 5 (1959)
No overview available.
31 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Tab Hunter, The Nikolais Dancers
1959-09-28Episode 2: Teresa Brewer, Buddy Hackett, Jaime Laredo, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
1959-10-05Episode 3: Lee Marvin, The King Sisters, Crystal Joy
1959-10-12Episode 4: Lola Albright, Tony Bennett, the Nikolais Dancers
1959-10-19Episode 5: Rock Hudson, Johnny Carson, Jayne Meadows, Jane Harvey
1959-11-02Episode 6: Chuck Connors, Peggy Lee, George Jessel, Billy Eckstine
1959-11-09Episode 7: Jack Kerouac, William Bendix, Frankie Laine, Pam Garner
1959-11-16William Bendix plays the father in a sitcom scene set in three different ways, once without canned laughs, then with, and then played extra violently. "The Allen Report to the Nation" topic is the common cold. As the Question Man, Steve blows a line. Jack Kerouac reads a few lines from his book, "On The Road". Steve and Don do a skit/ad about a man who packs his empty bags in his 1960 Plymouth and never goes anywhere.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 8: Mickey Rooney, Mel Torme, June Christy, The Nutty Squirrels
1959-11-23Episode 9: Tony Randall, Buddy Hackett, Miriam Makeba, Jo Stafford
1959-11-30Episode 10: Vic Damone, Andre Previn, Sandra 'Sandy' Warner, Jayne Meadows
1959-12-14Episode 11: Gene Autry, Patti Page, Frank Gorshin
1959-12-21Episode 12: 10th Annual Magazine Awards
1959-12-28Episode 13: Keenan Wynn, Sheree North, Roger Williams, Belle Montrose
1960-01-04Episode 14: Tony Bennett, Jayne Meadows, Caroline Richter, Monica Zetterlund
1960-01-11Episode 15: Jimmy Durante, Peggy Lee, Bob Dineri
1960-01-18Episode 16: Tony Randall, Jo Stafford, Jean Wald and her Swingin' Mothers
1960-01-25Episode 17: Jayne Meadows, Steve Lawrence, Carlos Montoya
1960-02-01Episode 18: Julie London, Buddy Hackett, Julius LaRosa
1960-02-08Episode 19: Henry Fonda, Tony Bennett, Don Adams, Pat Kirby, The Jazztet
1960-02-15Episode 20: Maurice Evans, Martha Raye, Johnny Desmond, Tom Poston
1960-02-22Episode 21: Nat 'King' Cole, Cyril Ritchard, Ann Richards, Charlie Manna
1960-03-07Todays guests are Nat 'King' Cole, Cyril Ritchard, Ann Richards, Charlie Manna.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 22: The Movie Premiere of 'Can-Can'
1960-03-14Episode 23: Ann Blyth, Nick Adams, Jan Murray, the Alwin Nikolais Dancers
1960-03-21Episode 24: Johnny Carson, Diana Dors, Johnny Mercer, Belle Montrose
1960-03-28Carson does a monologue about his kids,Steve and Mercer sing a medley competition, Steve's mom Belle Montrose as a hip old lady billboard girl, Diana sings a number and does a skit with Knotts.
Runtime: 60 min
