David Susskind interviews Marlon Brando. Also on hand is author Eugene Burdick and producer-director George Englund. 
During this rare television interview, Marlon Brando discusses many topics including world affairs and the rigors of stardom.                        

Coverage of Major Gordon Cooper's orbital space flight. A sixth attempt to man in space. 
All networks. The countdown begins at T-27 minutes.  
Includes coverage from Walter Cronkite and Douglas Edwards (CBS) and Frank McGee (NBC) news.                                                   

A talk with comedian Jerry Lewis and wife Pattie. Lewis discusses his latest film "The Nutty Professor," Other topics discussed are Lewis's latest two-hour television show, his relationship with fans and children, his approach to his work,
juvenile delinquency, his relationship with his mother and father, his own childhood, and fatherhood with his son, Gary Lewis.                          

September 15th, 1963-September 29th, 1963-(ABC)

One of the shortest-lived game shows in television history. It was canceled by the ABC television network after only three airings. One Hundred Grand was a big-money primetime show in which an amateur faced a panel of experts and tried to answer questions that were posed to them. Jack Clark was the host of the show.

Host: Jack Clark. 

Series premiere.                                                  

September 15th, 1963-September 29th, 1963-(ABC)

One of the shortest-lived game shows in television history. It was canceled by the ABC television network after only three airings. One Hundred Grand was a big-money primetime show in which an amateur faced a panel of experts and tried to answer questions that were posed to them. Jack Clark was the host of the show.



Host: Jack Clark. 

Last show of the series. 

                                                            

October 14, 1958 - August 13, 1961
OPEN END with David Susskind: (WNTA Channel 13 Television)

September 10, 1961-May 5, 1963
OPEN END with David Susskind (WNEW Channel 5 Television)

June 9, 1963 last show of the season broadcast on WPIX TV.

October 13, 1963-September 18, 1966
OPEN END with David Susskind (WPIX Channel 11 Television)

October 2, 1966-September, 1986
DAVID SUSSKIND SHOW (SYNDICATED, PBS, and COMMERCIAL STATIONS, including WNEW, New York). 
            
Open End with David Susskind was a break through talk show which literally had no time limit. The show ended when host, moderator David Susskind, felt all conversation points were discussed. Some of these marathon telecasts lasted over four hours! Jean Kennedy was the producer during the 28 year run of the series.

The series premiered and aired on WNTA Channel 13 in New York for three years, an independent broadcast station, before it would become a Public Broadcast Station in 1962. A myriad of talk show guests, famous, infamous and unknown, found a forum on OPEN END. Subjects varied focusing on usually one topic...show business, politics, the economy, sex, education, crime, etc. Typically, many guests would discuss a subject sitting around a large table with David Susskind moderating, leading his guests with baited questions. On occasion a solo guest would highlight the show.

For the first three years, of its 28 year existence as a regular series, WNTA TV was home to OPEN END which originally began its broadcasts on Tuesday nights, switching on January 18, 1959 to Sunday nights...a future Sunday evening time slot of the week where it would remain until 1986, for the rest of its run.

After broadcasting with a two hour truncated format on WNEW form September 10, 1961 to May 5, 1963 a falling out and rift occurred between Susskind and WNEW management centered on WNEW's reluctance to air discussions regarding race relations in America. WPIX reacted with interest in bringing OPEN END to their flagship New York channel. For the last OPEN END show of the 1962-1963 season WPIX  TOOK LAST MINUTE EMERGENCY MEASURES TO CLEAR TWO HOURS ON SUNDAY NIGHT  June 9, 1963, featuring solo guest Dr. Martin Luther KIng, pre-empting regular scheduled programming (6:30-8:30 pm).

Open End was later cut by WPIX to one hour time slot. David Susskind not satisfied with the shortened format reconnected with WNEW where he returned to a two hour format with a changed  program name. 
THE DAVID SUSSKIND SHOW  had its return premiere on WNEW TV October 2, 1966. 
 
The David Susskind Show also found syndication across the country and each market would run the program at different times at their own discretion. 

Most all of the telecasts were recorded on video tape, 2" quadruplex. Most shows were kept for a year or two like THE MOVIE MAKERS broadcast which was re-run on August 6, 1961 almost a year after it was first telecast on October 2, 1960. By this time the show was no longer without a time limit. It ran for a finite three hours long. Thus the re-run of the MOVIE MAKERS had some footage deleted from its original run which aired for over three and half hours, including commercials. 

The re-run of "THE MOVIE MAKERS" was the next to last broadcast telecast on WNTA channel 13. On September 10, 1961 the show moved to WNEW Channel 5 METROMEDIA in New York.

Sadly, most all of OPEN END broadcasts (1958-1966), later re titled THE DAVID SUSSKIND SHOW (1966-1986), were wiped erased, destroyed, discarded...whereabouts unknown, representing most shows produced and telecast during the late 1950's, 1960's and early 1970's.   Only a handful of OPEN END / DAVID SUSSKIND  shows are known to survive from 1958 thru 1969. Hundreds of programs survive representing the middle 1970's thru 1986. 

                
Open End with David Susskind was a unique break through talk with no time limit, rare during any time in television broadcast history, and never to be replicated in the future of television broadcasting after 1960. 

On occasion only one guest would be profiled. Mostly shows were comprised of many individuals discussing one topic which  included race relations, the draft, organized crime, the Hollywood scene, the politics of the times, sex-change operations, divorce, clairvoyants, psychoanalysis, and prostitutes.

The oldest surviving archived remnant is a December 23,1958 kinescope 20 minute segment of a broadcast titled "Method or Madness?" The topic, "method acting" with guests Michael Benthal, Ben Gazarra,  Adolph Green, Betty Comden, Lawrence Harvey, Jule Styne , and Patricia Neal.

Tonight's Topic: "Goldwater For President:" A triumph or disaster for the Republican Party? The effects of Goldwater conservatism on the outlook for the Republican Party are discussed by Senators Jacob Javits of New York, John G. Tower of Texas, and Norris Cotton of New Hampshire, Rep.Stanley Tupper of Maine and political scientist James McGregor Burns. 


Host: David Susskind. 

This is the second broadcast of "Open End" on WPIX-TV Channel 11 in New York City. 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

David Susskind welcomes guests Montgomery Clift, Robert Ryan, Sybil Burton, George C. Scott, Colleen Dewhurst and Georgia Brown.

NOTE: Only the first half hour of this "lost" program was recorded off the air by Phil Gries at the time of the original broadcast.                           

David Susskind greets laugh makers Jack E. Leonard, Mel Brooks, Bill Cosby, Nipsey Russell and Jackie Kannon.  

Another peerless audio recording off the air by Phil Gries at the time of the original broadcast. A  "lost" TV Broadcast.                         

The opening of the 1964 World's Fair in New York City. (Partial)

Excerpted segment.

Duplicate of #14496.
                                       

The opening of the 1964 World's Fair in New York City. (Partial)

Excerpted segment.

                          

First aired Feb. 16, 1964. "Divorce: The High Cost of Loving and Losing." The subject of divorce is discussed by six divorced people and expert lawyer on the subject, Samuel G. Kling.                          

"Rock N' Roll: The New Loud Sound From Tin Pan Alley," is the topic with guests William B. Williams, Murray "The K" Kaufman, 17 year old Lesley Gore, Bobby Vinton, Goldie Goldmark, Jack Keller and 24 year old Phil Spector, who eventually dominates the conversation with many personal points of view, comments, and disagreements in particular with William B. Williams and moderator, David Susskind.

NOTE: This peerless TV Audio Air Check represents the first time that Phil Spector voiced subjective and personal anecdotal feelings on a TV talk show, revelatory  to his revolutionary work he was doing and portending to do in the future. Of the over 20,000 titles in the collection of ARCHIVAL TELEVISION AUDIO this television audio air check is considered one of the extant audio gems  representing this "lost" television broadcast which was erased soon after it was broadcast August 23, 1964.      

This recording was personally Audio recorded off the air, 1/4" reel to reel tape, direct line, obtaining excellent sound quality at the time of this one time only broadcast, by Phil Gries, founder and owner of ATA.                                                                                    

NBC TV preview coverage of the Tokyo Olympics, which opens on October 10, 1964. Included are a brief history of the past Olympic Games of its champions; a report on Japan's preparations of this year's Games. NBC's Olympic reporters are Bud Palmer, Jim Simpson, Bill Henry and Rafer Johnson (1960 Decathlon champ) discuss new Olympic events.  

The 1964 Summer Olympic games from Tokyo, Japan, were held from October 10th -24th. 93 nations participated. They were the first to be broadcast internationally, without the need for tapes to be flown overseas. Among the participants were Joe Frazier who won a gold medal for boxing and Bob Hayes who ran the 100 yard dash in 10.06 seconds to capture the 100 meter title. Swimmer Don Schollander won four gold medals, most for an American in any sport since Jesse Owens in Berlin in 1936.  

Preview of the 1964 Summer Olympics from Tokyo, Japan.  

PLANNED NBC TV COOVERAGE OF DAY'S EVENTS:

October 11th- 6:30 to 7:30 PM- Rowing, Boxing, Weightlifting, Wrestling, Swim-diving. 
       
October 12th, 11:15 to 11:30 PM- Women's breaststroke, Nen's Freestyle, Weightlifting, Women's Springboard Diving.

October 13th 7:30 to 8:30 PM, Rowing, Basketball, Boxing, Wrestling, Swim-Diving, Wrestling.

October 13th- 11:15 to 11:30 PM- Women's Freestyle, Men's Backstroke, Rowing.

October 14th- 11:15 to 11:30 PM- Men's 100 Meter, Men's Javelin, Men's 10,000 Meter, Men's Freestyle Relay.

October 15th- 10:00 to 11:00 PM- Men's Freestyle, Men's Breatstroke, Men's Discus.

October 16th- 11:15 to 11:30 PM- Men and Women's Track and Field, Women's Butterfly.
      
October 17th- 5:00 to 7:00 PM- Cycling, Men And Women's Track.

October 18th- 6:30 to 7:30 PM- Men's Track, Gymnastics, Swim-Diving.

October 19th- 11:15 to 11:30 PM- Men and Women's Track, Equestrian, Weightlifting.

October 20th- 10:00 to 11:00 PM- Decathlon, Judo, Wrestling, Yachting, Gymnastics.

October 20th- 11:15 to 11:30 PM- Women's 800 Meter, Women's Shot Put, Basketball.

October 21st- 11:15 to 11:30 PM- Men and Women's Track. 
      
October 22nd- 11:15 to 11:30 PM- Boxing, Cycling, Equestrian.
 
October 23rd- 7:30  to  8:30 PM- Football, Marathon, Canoeing, Water Polo, Hockey.

October 24th- 5:00 to 7:00PM-     Recap of Week's Highlights.

October 25th- 6:30 to 7:30PM-     Recap of Outstanding Events, 
                                  Preview Of 1968 Olympic Site. 

NOTE:

 The Games were notable as the first ones to be broadcast in the U.S. by NBC. While the satellite broadcast was a huge leap forward in technology, coverage was still limited. NBC supplemented what could be shown live with taped events that had to be flown across the Pacific and then aired in the U.S.

Tokyo was also the first time that Olympic results were tallied and kept via computer, instead of by hand. Japanese engineers from IBM designed a system from scratch that kept records and distributed them to the media and for official record-keeping
                                                             

The state of baseball today is discussed by former Brooklyn Dodger greats Roy Campanella and Jackie Robinson, Charles O. Finley, owner of the Kansas City Athletics, Bob Feller, former pitching star of the Cleveland Indians, Frankie Frisch, former Manager of the St. Louis Cardinals and Keith Morris of Sports Illustrated.

This "lost" television program was audio recorded off the air by Phil Gries at the time of its original broadcast. 
One of the GEMS archived in the collection of Archival Television Audio, Inc.                         

October 14, 1958 - August 13, 1961
OPEN-END with David Susskind: (WNTA Channel 13 Television)

September 10, 1961-May 5, 1963
OPEN-END with David Susskind (WNEW Channel 5 Television)

June 9, 1963, last show of the season broadcast on WPIX TV.

October 13, 1963-September 18, 1966
OPEN-END with David Susskind (WPIX Channel 11 Television)

October 2, 1966-September, 1986
DAVID SUSSKIND SHOW (SYNDICATED, PBS, and COMMERCIAL STATIONS, including WNEW, New York). 
            
Open End with David Susskind was a breakthrough talk show which literally had no time limit. The show ended when host, moderator David Susskind, felt all conversation points were discussed. Some of these marathon telecasts lasted over four hours! Jean Kennedy was the producer during the 28 year run of the series.

The series premiered and aired on WNTA Channel 13 in New York for three years, an independent broadcast station before it would become a Public Broadcast Station in 1962. A myriad of talk show guests, famous, infamous and unknown, found a forum on OPEN END. Subjects varied focusing on usually one topic...show business, politics, the economy, sex, education, crime, etc. Typically, many guests would discuss a subject sitting around a large table with David Susskind moderating, leading his guests with baited questions. On occasion, a solo guest would highlight the show.

For the first three years, of its 28-year existence as a regular series, WNTA TV was home to OPEN END which originally began its broadcasts on Tuesday nights, switching on January 18, 1959, to Sunday nights...a future Sunday evening time slot of the week where it would remain until 1986, for the rest of its run.

After broadcasting with a two hour truncated format on WNEW form September 10, 1961, to May 5, 1963, a falling out and rift occurred between Susskind and WNEW management centered on WNEW's reluctance to air discussions regarding race relations in America. WPIX reacted with interest in bringing OPEN END to their flagship New York channel. For the last OPEN END show of the 1962-1963 season, WPIX  TOOK LAST MINUTE EMERGENCY MEASURES TO CLEAR TWO HOURS ON SUNDAY NIGHT  June 9, 1963, featuring solo guest Dr. Martin Luther KIng, pre-empting regularly scheduled programming (6:30-8:30 pm).

Open End was later cut by WPIX to a one-hour time slot. David Susskind not satisfied with the shortened format reconnected with WNEW where he returned to a two-hour format with a changed program name. 
THE DAVID SUSSKIND SHOW  had its return premiere on WNEW TV on October 2, 1966. 
 
The David Susskind Show also found syndication across the country and each market would run the program at different times at their own discretion. 

Most all of the telecasts were recorded on videotape, 2" quadruplex. Most shows were kept for a year or two like THE MOVIE MAKERS broadcast which was re-run on August 6, 1961, almost a year after it was the first telecast on October 2, 1960. By this time the show was no longer without a time limit. It ran for a finite three hours long. Thus the re-run of the MOVIE MAKERS had some footage deleted from its original run which aired for over three and half hours, including commercials. 

The re-run of "THE MOVIE MAKERS" was the next to last broadcast telecast on WNTA channel 13. On September 10, 1961, the show moved to WNEW Channel 5 METROMEDIA in New York.

Sadly, most all of OPEN END broadcasts (1958-1966), later retitled THE DAVID SUSSKIND SHOW (1966-1986), were wiped erased, destroyed, discarded...whereabouts unknown, representing most shows produced and telecast during the late 1950s, 1960's and early 1970s.   Only a handful of OPEN END / DAVID SUSSKIND  shows are known to survive from 1958 thru 1969. Hundreds of programs survive representing the middle 1970's thru 1986. 

                
Open End with David Susskind was a unique breakthrough talk with no time limit, rare during any time in television broadcast history, and never to be replicated in the future of television broadcasting after 1960. 

On occasion, only one guest would be profiled. Most shows were comprised of many individuals discussing one topic which included race relations, the draft, organized crime, the Hollywood scene, the politics of the times, sex-change operations, divorce, clairvoyants, psychoanalysis, and prostitutes.

The oldest surviving archived remnant is a December 23, 1958 kinescope 20-minute segment of a broadcast titled "Method or Madness?" The topic, "method acting" with guests Michael Benthal, Ben Gazzara,  Adolph Green, Betty Comden, Lawrence Harvey, Jule Styne, and Patricia Neal.

. 


Host: David Susskind. 

Right-wingers discuss their views with host David Susskind.  
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Two part interview with Jerry Lewis, entitled, "Jerry Lewis Uncensored. Part one was broadcast September 26, 1965 and part  two broadcast the following week on October 3, 1965. The offstage personality of the zany, funny man is revealed. Lewis discusses his background, his split with Dean Martin after ten years working together, and the events that have led to his own success.  
Complete sans commercials.                        

1958-1987

Theatrical and television producer David Susskind hosted this talk program consisting of a wide variety of topics. Each show centered around one topic consisting of four to seven guests.

"The Far Left" is the topic.


Host: David Susskind. Seen on WPIX  channel 11 in New York City.                                                                                                                                                                      

Clairvoyant Jeane Dixon offers her predictions for 1966 in an interview with David Susskind.                                       

October 14, 1958 - August 13, 1961
OPEN-END with David Susskind: (WNTA Channel 13 Television)

September 10, 1961-May 5, 1963
OPEN-END with David Susskind (WNEW Channel 5 Television)

June 9, 1963, last show of the season broadcast on WPIX TV.

October 13, 1963-September 18, 1966
OPEN-END with David Susskind (WPIX Channel 11 Television)

October 2, 1966-September, 1986
DAVID SUSSKIND SHOW (SYNDICATED, PBS, and COMMERCIAL STATIONS, including WNEW, New York). 
            
Open End with David Susskind was a breakthrough talk show which literally had no time limit. The show ended when host, moderator David Susskind, felt all conversation points were discussed. Some of these marathon telecasts lasted over four hours! Jean Kennedy was the producer during the 28 year run of the series.

The series premiered and aired on WNTA Channel 13 in New York for three years, an independent broadcast station before it would become a Public Broadcast Station in 1962. A myriad of talk show guests, famous, infamous and unknown, found a forum on OPEN END. Subjects varied focusing on usually one topic...show business, politics, the economy, sex, education, crime, etc. Typically, many guests would discuss a subject sitting around a large table with David Susskind moderating, leading his guests with baited questions. On occasion, a solo guest would highlight the show.

For the first three years, of its 28-year existence as a regular series, WNTA TV was home to OPEN END which originally began its broadcasts on Tuesday nights, switching on January 18, 1959, to Sunday nights...a future Sunday evening time slot of the week where it would remain until 1986, for the rest of its run.

After broadcasting with a two hour truncated format on WNEW form September 10, 1961, to May 5, 1963, a falling out and rift occurred between Susskind and WNEW management centered on WNEW's reluctance to air discussions regarding race relations in America. WPIX reacted with interest in bringing OPEN END to their flagship New York channel. For the last OPEN END show of the 1962-1963 season, WPIX  TOOK LAST MINUTE EMERGENCY MEASURES TO CLEAR TWO HOURS ON SUNDAY NIGHT  June 9, 1963, featuring solo guest Dr. Martin Luther KIng, pre-empting regularly scheduled programming (6:30-8:30 pm).

Open End was later cut by WPIX to a one-hour time slot. David Susskind not satisfied with the shortened format reconnected with WNEW where he returned to a two-hour format with a changed program name. 
THE DAVID SUSSKIND SHOW  had its return premiere on WNEW TV on October 2, 1966. 
 
The David Susskind Show also found syndication across the country and each market would run the program at different times at their own discretion. 

Most all of the telecasts were recorded on videotape, 2" quadruplex. Most shows were kept for a year or two like THE MOVIE MAKERS broadcast which was re-run on August 6, 1961, almost a year after it was the first telecast on October 2, 1960. By this time the show was no longer without a time limit. It ran for a finite three hours long. Thus the re-run of the MOVIE MAKERS had some footage deleted from its original run which aired for over three and half hours, including commercials. 

The re-run of "THE MOVIE MAKERS" was the next to last broadcast telecast on WNTA channel 13. On September 10, 1961, the show moved to WNEW Channel 5 METROMEDIA in New York.

Sadly, most all of OPEN END broadcasts (1958-1966), later retitled THE DAVID SUSSKIND SHOW (1966-1986), were wiped erased, destroyed, discarded...whereabouts unknown, representing most shows produced and telecast during the late 1950s, 1960's and early 1970s.   Only a handful of OPEN END / DAVID SUSSKIND  shows are known to survive from 1958 thru 1969. Hundreds of programs survive representing the middle 1970's thru 1986. 

                
Open End with David Susskind was a unique breakthrough talk with no time limit, rare during any time in television broadcast history, and never to be replicated in the future of television broadcasting after 1960. 

On occasion, only one guest would be profiled. Most shows were comprised of many individuals discussing one topic which included race relations, the draft, organized crime, the Hollywood scene, the politics of the times, sex-change operations, divorce, clairvoyants, psychoanalysis, and prostitutes.

The oldest surviving archived remnant is a December 23, 1958 kinescope 20-minute segment of a broadcast titled "Method or Madness?" The topic, "method acting" with guests Michael Benthal, Ben Gazzara,  Adolph Green, Betty Comden, Lawrence Harvey, Jule Styne, and Patricia Neal.

. 


Host: David Susskind. 

David Susskind and others discuss Robert Kennedy and The White House.  
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

1958-1987

Theatrical and television producer David Susskind hosted this talk program consisting of a wide variety of topics. Each show centered around one topic consisting of four to seven guests.

Tonight's topic: "Is There a White House in Robert Kennedy's Future?"
Four experts discuss the political roles of Senators Robert and Edward Kennedy in the Democratic party and speculate about the 1972 presidential election. The panelists are author Gore Vidal, syndicated Washington columnist Max Freedman, and reporters Ben Bradlee9The Washington Post) and Robert Novak (New York Herald Tribune).

Moderator: David Susskind.




Seen on WPIX-TV Channel 11 in New York City.                                                                                                                                         

1958-1987

Theatrical and television producer David Susskind hosted this talk program consisting of a wide variety of topics. Each show centered around one topic consisting of four to seven guests.

Host David Susskind talks to four wounded GI's. They relate their experiences in Vietnam.


Host: David Susskind. Seen on WNEW-TV channel 5 in New York City.                                                                                                                                            

1958-1987

Theatrical and television producer David Susskind hosted this talk program consisting of a wide variety of topics. Each show centered around one topic consisting of four to seven guests.

RERUN of broadcast ATA#987


Host: David Susskind interviews Jean Dixon.                                                                                                                                         

1958-1987 (WNTA, WNEW, WPIX) Syndicated in New York. 

Host: David Susskind conducts a round table discussion on the subject, "Is There Life on Other Planets?" 

The panelists:

Ray Bradbury, dean in the science fiction writing world. He has recently dramatized three of his futuristic tales, calling it  "The World of Ray Bradbury."   

Issac Asimov, a serious scientist and a leading science fiction writer.  

Lester del Rey, Author of 30 science fiction and science fact books.

 Walter Sullivan, science editor of The New York Times. He is the author of the award winning book, "We Are Not Alone."

The panelists also speculate about life on earth in the year 2000.

NOTE: On October 2, 1966 OPEN END would leave its one hour format and return to a two hour time slot. After eight years the name of the broadcast would change from OPEN END to THE DAVID SUSSKIND SHOW, premiering on October 2, 1966 with guests Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Pete Seeger.  


                                                                                                                                                           

TV documentary about Duke Ellington and his life on the road, filmed in 1967 and first shown in 1974. 

Duke Ellington is joined by Roger Miller, Milton Berle, Della Reese, Bobby Goldsboro, Today's Children, and Doc Severinsen.                        

The annual Orange Bowl Parade, telecast live from Miami, Florida. Lorne Greene and Florence Henderson are the hosts. Celebrity performers include Bobby Rydell, The Supremes, and Connie Francis.

This program contains the final 15 minutes only.  

          

      April 3, 1967 - June 16, 1967
Danny O'Neil hosts this short-lived daytime game show on which contestants try to guess the unusual secrets held in common by a guest panelist.   

Three minute excerpt.      

April 3rd, 1967-June 16th, 1967 (ABC)

Short-lived daytime game show hosted by Danny O'Neil.  

July 2, 1967-September 3, 1967. 

Our Place was an American musical variety show that aired on CBS during the summer of 1967. The official "host" was one of Jim Henson's early Muppets, Rowlf the Dog. The show's other regulars were comedians Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber and the singing Doodletown Pipers.

Jim Henson showcased some of his early Muppets, the most regular member of the Our Place cast being Rowlf the talking dog. He actually co-hosted the show with B&S. Talk about a big break for Rowlf! Our Place kicked open the door for the mutt who'd later find greater fame in a 1970s series featuring him and his other Muppet pals. Jack Burns, would be head writer for the first season of The Muppet Show (Syndicated, 1976-1981). 

Each episode featured a guest, Carol Burnett receiving the honor in the debut which aired Sunday, July 2, 1967 @ 9:00pm EDT. Other guests included Arthur Godfrey, Woody Allen, Soupy Sales, Nipsey Russell, Eddie Albert, Dick Shawn, Shelley Berman, Cyril Richard, and Joel Gray. 
The executive producer was Bob Precht who produced The Ed Sullivan Show and was also Sullivan's son-in-law. Bill Angelos and Buz Kohan wrote and produced the show and John Moffitt was the director.

NOTE: With the exception of the third broadcast (July 23, 1967 with guest Dick Shawn), uploaded in six parts (51:30) in 2008 on you tube, no other example of the other nine shows is known to exist in any broadcast form (video, audio, transcript) in the archives of UCLA Film and Radio, Paley Center for Media, Library of Congress, Museum of Broadcasting. 
                          

July 2, 1967-September 3, 1967. Hosted by Rowlf the Muppet. The comedy duo of Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber and the Doodletown Pipers were also featured.             

July 2, 1967-September 3, 1967. Hosted by Rowlf the Muppet. The comedy duo of Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber and the Doodletown Pipers were also featured.             

July 2, 1967-September 3, 1967. Hosted by Rowlf the Muppet. The comedy duo of Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber and the Doodletown Pipers were also featured.             

July 2, 1967-September 3, 1967. Hosted by Rowlf the Muppet. The comedy duo of Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber and the Doodletown Pipers were also featured.             

July 2, 1967-September 3, 1967. Hosted by Rowlf the Muppet. The comedy duo of Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber and the Doodletown Pipers were also featured.             

July 2, 1967-September 3, 1967. Hosted by Rowlf the Muppet. The comedy duo of Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber and the Doodletown Pipers were also featured.             

July 2, 1967-September 3, 1967. Hosted by Rowlf the Muppet. The comedy duo of Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber and the Doodletown Pipers were also featured.             

Comments by Bob Considine on "coup" in Greece by Greek colonels.                                       

January 5, 1968-April 26, 1968; September 27, 1968-January 31, 1969. This was the first broadcast of the series. This hour-long variety show was staged at a different military base each week and was hosted by a guest star. 

*During the following broadcast dates, Operation Entertainment was pre-empted and not broadcast: 1968 - 2/9, 3/15, 10/18, 11/15, 12/13, 12/27. 

Rich Little is host, broadcast from Camp Pendleton, CA.  

Operation Entertainment lasted two seasons. There were 30 different broadcasts with 15 different guest hosts. They included, Rich Little, George Carlin, Dick Cavett, Dean Jones (3 times), Dick Shawn, Tim Conway (6 times), Roger Miller, Ed Ames (3 times), Flip Wilson (2 times), Don Rickles, Jim Lange (2 times), Jimmy Dean (5 times), Phil Harris, Bob Crane, Dale Robertson.  

Broadcasts orignated from bases located in 8 States, including, 
Texas, California, Georgia, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Missouri, Florida and South Carolina.                                   

January 5, 1968-April 26, 1968; September 27, 1968-January 31, 1969. This hour-long variety show was staged at a different military base each week and was hosted by a guest star.

George Carlin is guest host broadcast from Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.              

January 5, 1968-April 26, 1968; September 27, 1968-January 31, 1969. This hour-long variety show was staged at a different military base each week and was hosted by a guest star.

Dick Cavett is guest host broadcast from Fort Hood, Texas.            

January 5, 1968-April 26, 1968; September 27, 1968-January 31, 1969. This hour-long variety show was staged at a different military base each week and was hosted by a guest star. 

Dean Jones is guest host, broadcast from The USS Constellation in San Diego, California.            

January 5, 1968-April 26, 1968; September 27, 1968-January 31, 1969. This hour-long variety show was staged at a different military base each week and was hosted by a guest star.

Tim Conway is guest host, broadcast from George Air Force Base in Victorville, California.             

January 5, 1968-April 26, 1968; September 27, 1968-January 31, 1969. This hour-long variety show was staged at a different military base each week and was hosted by a guest star.  

Jimmy Dean is guest host, broadcast from Lockland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.            

January 5, 1968-April 26, 1968; September 27, 1968-January 31, 1969. This hour-long variety show was staged at a different military base each week and was hosted by a guest star.  

Tim Conway is guest host, broadcast from George Air Force Base in Victorville, California.            

January 5, 1968-April 26, 1968; September 27, 1968-January 31, 1969. This hour-long variety show was staged at a different military base each week and was hosted by a guest star.   

Roger Miller is guest host, broadcast from Fort Hood, Texas.          

January 5, 1968-April 26, 1968; September 27, 1968-January 31, 1969. This hour-long variety show was staged at a different military base each week and was hosted by a guest star. 

Dean Jones is guest host, broadcast from the USS Constellation in San Diego, CA.