January 5th, 1956-1970 (Syndicated)

Wrestling From Washington was a twice-weekly wrestling show produced by the Capital Wrestling Corporation owned by Vincent McMahon Sr. Bill Malone was the original host but was replaced by Morris Siegal (1956-1959). In 1959, Ray Morgan became the host and remained until 1970 when McMahon moved the operation to Hamburg, Pennslyvania. Vincent K. McMahon Jr. (McMahon's son) then became the program host. 

Host Ray Morgan interviews Brute Bernard from the Capital Arena in Washington, DC.                                                                   

Radio news special. A right-wing forum attacks President Kennedy's administration.                         

The 17th Annual Tony Awards for excellence in theatrical performances for 1962 are awarded from the Hotel Americana Imperial Ballroom in New York City. The Master of Ceremonies is Abe Burrows and Robert Morse. Broadcast locally on WOR-TV Channel 9 in New York. WOR radio host Jean Shepherd opens and introduces the show. George Abbott wins the Best Direction of a 
Musical award for "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum."  

Produced by David Yarnell.

NOTE: This rare television audio air check broadcast was recognized by The Guinness Book of World Records, June 19, 2002 (Claim #5364), for the most money paid for a television soundtrack, sold to The American Theatre Wing, Inc., by Archival Television Audio, Inc., transacted on June 20, 2001.



 

NOTE: The first 42 minutes of the one hour broadcast. 
                                                                                                                                                                   

December 24th, 1948- June 4th, 1950 (NBC) October  2nd, 1950-June 24th 1955 (CBS) September  17th 1955- June 12th, 1963 (NBC) 

In 1944, the year his first record was released, Perry Como appeared on radio in The Chesterfield Supper Club; when that show came to television late in 1948, Como came with it, and has remained on television for more than four decades. The Chesterfield Supper Club, which also featured The Mitchell Ayres Orchestra and the Fontane Sisters, was originally seen on Friday nights but soon shifted to a half-hour slot on Sundays, opposite Ed Sullivan's "Toast Of The Town." In the fall of 1950, Como shifted to CBS where he hosted his own show for the next five seasons; the fifteen-minute program was seen Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, following the network news. Also featured were the Mitchell Ayres Orchestra and The Fontane Sisters, together with announcer Frank Gallop. In the fall of 1955 Como returned to NBC, where he hosted a weekly hour show for the next eight years; from 1955 to 1959 it was seen Saturdays and was titled The Perry Como Show. From 1959 to 1963 it was seen on Wednesdays and was titled The Kraft Music Hall. The Mitchell Ayres Orchestra and Frank Gallop were again featured, along with The Ray Charles Singers and The Louis DaPron Dancers (later, The Peter Gennaro Dancers). The Como Music Hall Players included Don Adams, Paul Lynde, Kaye Ballard, Jack Duffy, and Sandy Stewart.

Show of 5-1-63. Guests: Mickey Rooney, Connie Stevens, Satirist Allan Sherman. Parody of Jackie Gleason's "Joe The Bartender" Sketches. Connie Stevens: "I've Got Your Number" Mickey Rooney: "Real Live Girl." Perry Como: "If There Is Someone Lovelier Than You" All: "On The First Warm Day" "Hootenanny." 

Commercials included. Announcer Frank Gallop. 

January 5th, 1956-1970 (Syndicated)

Wrestling From Washington was a twice-weekly wrestling show produced by the Capital Wrestling Corporation owned by Vincent McMahon Sr. Bill Malone was the original host but was replaced by Morris Siegal (1956-1959). In 1959, Ray Morgan became the host and remained until 1970 when McMahon moved the operation to Hamburg, Pennsylvania. Vincent K. McMahon Jr. (McMahon's son) then became the program host. 

Host Ray Morgan interviews wrestlers Buddy Rogers and Brute Bernard from the Capital Arena in Washington, DC. The two wrestlers end their feud.                                                                                     

Topics: Report on dictator Francois Duvalier of Haiti,- threatened with invasion by the Dominican Republic, Hughes Rudd reporting from Port-au-Prince Haiti, President Kennedy favors Samuel Stratton for New York Senator, Nixon will live in New York City, comment by Rockefeller (pleased), the police arrest 450 children in Birmingham, Alabama for race demonstrations, Senator Thomas Kuchel says right-wing groups try to scare US with hoaxes, (Chinese Red troops are poised to invade the US from Mexico) President Kennedy talks to the wives of Congressmen).                                                             

September 21st, 1962- September 10th, 1965 (NBC)

A Friday night variety series starring Jack Paar. Jonathan Winters was a frequent guest on the show.


Guests are Phyllis Diller and John Henry Faulk.

                                      

World Today is a radio news program broadcast over the Mutual Broadcasting System and hosted by Tony Marvin. 

Topics: A racial crisis in Birmingham, Alabama-five hoses and dogs are turned on the negro protest marchers, Francois Duvalier "voodoo" government of Haiti, Americans scale the top of Mount Everest, Dean Rusk confers with Nehru in India, problems facing President Kennedy on a trip to Western Europe.

Host: Tony Marvin. 

                                                                                                                                 

Radio program from KOR radio Las Vegas featuring news of politics, TV, Hollywood, etc. with J.D. Griffin of The Daily Mirror.

Host: John D. Griffin.                                                  

     September 21, 1962 - September 10, 1965

Brooks Hayes, President John F. Kennedy's assistant talks with Jack. In addition, a kinescope is shown of the 1952 Republican Convention.

Jack Paar elected to pursue a three year NBC series in prime time soon after stepping down as host of THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JACK PAAR (1957-1962). These broadcasts took on the form of a variety / talk show format. Each telecast opened with a Paar monologue. Also shown from time to time were personal home movies shot by Jack on various trips by the Paar family to Africa, Russia, and Europe.Jack's daughter, Randy Paar would often assist her dad narrating these films.  

Appearing with Jack were many of his old regulars from the TONIGHT SHOW including Alexander King, Oscar Levant and Jonathan Winters. This 10pm Friday prime time slot attracted many notable guests, including Richard Nixon, Barry Goldwater and Ted Kennedy. Also, given exposure were many young and veteran entertainers, Liza Minnelli, Judy Garland, Ethel Merman, Peggy Lee, and stand-up comedians, among them, Woody Allen, Bill Cosby, Godfrey Cambridge, Jackie Vernon, Mike Nichols & Elaine May, Burns & Schreiber, and Dick Gregory. 

Impact appearances occurred introducing footage of The Beatles, prior to the group appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show, and a young Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali), singing and spewing poetry with Jack and Liberace. 

After three years (one and a half years less than his tenure on THE TONIGHT SHOW), Jack Paar called it quits and would prematurely retire from the business with the exception of  producing and starring in a handful of Specials for NBC and accepting one brief return to regular television, for nine months, hosting an ABC late night talk show, JACK PAAR TONITE in 1973).                                                                                                                                                      

Topics: 750 negroes including comedian Dick Gregory are arrested in Birmingham racial crisis, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell predicts blood-letting in Washington, President Kennedy appoints General Curtis Lemay as Chief Of Staff.            

1962-1964 Syndicated.

Mike Wallace narrates biographical retrospectives of notable people. This syndicated filmed 65 half-hour program series was one of the first to be produced by David Wolper. 

The life and career of General George Patton are profiled.

Narrated by Mike Wallace.



                                                           

October 11th, 1961-August 26th, 1963 (NBC)  
NBC newsman David Brinkley covered a wide variety of topics during its two-season run. Brinkley appeared live and filmed segments were also featured. 

"Haiti." A report on the dictator government of Francois Duvalier. 
David Brinkley interviews Dr. Duvalier. Coverage includes the presidential palace, the plush hotel Oloffson, the market place and slums of the capital city of Port-au-Prince. Brinkley reviews the political unrest in the state and talks with former place public relations man Herbert Morrison.

Part 1 of 2 parts.

Host: David Brinkley.                                                                          

Barry Farber was an American conservative radio talk show host. He produced the Tex and Jinx radio program which starred Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenberg. The show was heard weeknights on WNBC radio from 10:30 PM to midnight. Farber was also an author and commentator who wrote for various US newspapers. He was ranked the ninth greatest talk show host of all time by Talkers Magazine. He joined WOR radio in 1962 after a stint at 1010 WINS radio in New York City. When Farber left WOR radio he joined WMCA radio in New York City for an afternoon drive time show that lasted until 1989 when WMCA changed its format to a Christian radio station. 

Jose Miro Cardona former leader of the Cuban exile group talks about Cuba and communism, debate on current Israeli-Arab problems.
                                                                                      

September 27, 1960 - June 4, 1963

BELL AND HOWELL CLOSE-UP! a series of reports produced in the main by ABC News' newly formed CLOSE-UP! unit headed by John Secondari, but often by Robert Drew and his team at Drew Associates in association with Time, Inc. Of particular  interest is the fact that John Daly, ABC's vice-president of News and Public Affairs, resigned in protest following the broadcast of Drew's "YANKI NO!" Daly, who in 1953 had become that network's first nightly TV nightly news anchor quit his ABC post in disagreement with the network's  new practice of farming out documentay assignments to independent producers.
 
Unfortunately for Robert Drew Associates, which were creating a new way of making documentaries ('DIRECT CINEMA'), only five different documentaries from his company, three of them filmed by documentary cinematographer Richard Leacock, were broadcast in total (one a two parter) from December 7, 1960 to May 16, 1961.

"YANKI NO!" broadcast  December 7, 1960

"X-PILOT" broadcast February 6, 1961

"THE CHILDREN ARE WATCHING" broadcast 
February 16, 1961

"ADVENTURES ON THE NEW FRONTIER broadcast 
March 28, 1961

"KENYA: LAND OF THE WHITE GHOST, part  1" broadcast
May 9, 1961

"KENYA: LAND OF THE WHITE GHOST, part 2" broadcast
May 16, 1961 


"MONEY FOR BURNING," A documentary about the Secret Service (protecting the president from harm and protection of US money from counterfeiters). 

Deputy Chief Paul Paterney and agent Richard Roth describe and then raid a counterfeiting distribution center. Undercover agents explain their roles and methods. Tips on spotting bad bills are also offered. Interestingly, in 1962 five hundred thousand dollars' worth of bogus bills was passed in the USA. Three and a half million was intercepted before it went into circulation and 737 do-it-yourself currency producers were arrested. 

Narrated by Oscar Rose.  

Sponsored by Bell and Howell.                                                  

Topics: Further racial strife in Birmingham, Alabama, comment by Jackie Robinson, the crisis in Haiti, the 74th American GI dies in the Vietnam war, ship crash in New York Harbor.             

Barry Gray was an American radio personality, often referred to as "the father of talk radio." His late-night New York City radio talk show was carried by WOR radio and then later by WMCA. 

Barry Gray returned to WMCA in 1950, and stayed there for 39 years, refining the talk show format still utilized today. During the 1960s, he was in the odd position of having an 11 p.m.-1 a.m. late-night talk show on a station otherwise dominated by Top 40 music and the youth-targeted "Good Guys" disc jockey campaign. But for teenagers who kept their radios on into the night, Gray's show was a window into the high-brow New York culture of the 1940s and 1950s.

Topic: The racial strife in Birmingham, Alabama. Barry Gray talks with negro minister Wyatt Tee Walker about the racial strife in Birmingham, also interviewed New York, Congressman Samuel S. Stratton. He talks about and attacks New York Republican Senator Kenneth Keating.                                                     

Broadway, Hollywood, TV, and political news, other items.

Host: John D. Griffin.

                         

A satire on current news and events. A group of young iconoclasts takes over for a half-hour of far-out satire. 
Their targets are anything that needs to be deflated, poked at, pulled apart, or stripped of pretension. 
The show is based on a current BBC program "That Was The Week That Was" (or TWTWTW") which has created quite a stir in England. Like "TWTWTW" 'WGOH" searches the current scene for its material.
The show is the product of the whimsically named South Sea Trading Company, which is composed of Clay Felker and Jean Vanden  Heuvel, co-producers, Jonathan Miller director  (Beyond The Fringe") and performers Peter Cook, ("Beyond The Fringe") John Bird, (The Establishment") Roger W. Bowen and MacIntyre Dixon, (Second City"), and Pat McCormick, (comedy writer and actor. The group is hopeful that a series will develop from Tonight's program.   

An experimental special program that takes an audacious comic-satirical look at the news and current happenings.                                                                             

Report from Birmingham, Alabama on current negro-white crisis in that city, the White House observes the situation closely.            

  Ed Sullivan' guest Vivian Leigh makes a rare television appearance. She sings and dances "Wilkesbarre Pa." a number from her Broadway play, "Tovarich."             

Topics: 3,000 Federal troops sent by President Kennedy to Birmingham to quell riots and bombings in racial crisis, Governor Wallace protests US interference, Attorney General Robert Kennedy comments, astronaut Gordon Cooper prepares for orbital space flight tomorrow.              

Barry Farber was an American conservative radio talk show host. He produced the Tex and Jinx radio program which starred Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenberg. The show was heard weeknights on WNBC radio from 10:30 PM to midnight. Farber was also an author and commentator who wrote for various US newspapers. He was ranked the ninth greatest talk show host of all time by Talkers Magazine. He joined WOR radio in 1962 after a stint at 1010 WINS radio in New York City. When Farber left WOR radio he joined WMCA radio in New York City for an afternoon drive time show that lasted until 1989 when WMCA changed its format to a Christian radio station. 

A debate between Frank Meyer (a conservative) and Henry Adler (a liberal) on politics, racial strife, etc.

Host: Barry Farber.
                                                            

October 11th, 1961-August 26th, 1963 (NBC)  

This program was the winner of both an Emmy and Peabody award in 1962. NBC newsman David Brinkley covered a wide variety of topics during its two-season run. Brinkley appeared live and filmed segments were also featured. 

Topic: "Haiti" part 11. 

NOTE: See ATA#14080 Part 1 for more details.                                                

A special advance report on the space flight of Major Gordon Cooper.            

From the educational news network a report related to Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King and other negroes celebrate their partial victory over segregation policies in Birmingham, Alabama.                          

The space race between the United States and Russia. 

This sequel to "THE RACE FOR SPACE," David L. Wolper's first entry into producing independent documentaries for television, provides the first complete look behind the US and USSR manned space efforts and includes exclusive films of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's epic space flight, the development of American's Mercury astronaut program and a look into the future of space exploration.

Originally aired in 1959. 

Narrated by Mike Wallace.                                       

Negro comedian Dick Gregory, released from jail, talks to followers in Birmingham, Alabama.             

Presented on ERN (Educational Radio Network)
News on the strife in Birmingham, Alabama, Governor George Wallace charges US interference, negroes charge "police brutality," an interview with CORE director James Farmer.                         

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 series of monthly NBC variety specials of music, song, and comedy.

Host: Bob Hope.                         

October 1, 1962-May 22, 1992. 

Johnny Carson, host of NBC's network late-night "Tonight Show" reigned for 30 unprecedented years...five times the combined tenure of Steve Allen, and Jack Paar. Carson was impervious to competition, including efforts to dethrone him by Les Crane, Joey Bishop, Merv Griffin, Dick Cavett, Jack Paar, Pat Sajak, Joan Rivers, and Arsenio Hall. Sadly, very few complete "Tonight Show" broadcasts survive during Johnny Carson's first ten years of broadcasting. Around 1965, through the early 1970's, oldest tapes were first erased systematically by orders from myopic NBC executives, to be recycled for purposes of saving money. Ironically, in many cases, these older master tapes were too brittle, and portended probable drop-outs for re-use after being erased. Subsequently blank after being erased, these older questionable master 2" Quad tapes were either sparingly used or never used again for recording new programming and eventually were discarded. Saving thousands of dollars at the time (wiping master tapes for potential re-use) resulted in losing millions of dollars by NBC in today's marketplace, and more importantly wiping thousands of historic TONIGHT SHOW broadcasts, which contain precious personal anecdotes from political, show business, and sports icons of the past.

Johnny's guests are Zsa Zsa Gabor, Marlon Brando, Howard Duff, Ida Lupino, and Allan Sherman.

15-minute excerpt. 

NOTE: Marlon Brando appears slightly inebriated and before long he irritates Ms. Gabor to the extent that she walks off the show. 

  This was Marlon Brando's first appearance on a late-night talk show. He was preceded on the panel by Zsa Zsa Gabor and when it was Brando's turn, Gabor continually interrupted his conversation with Johnny Carson. It looked like Brando might not get a word in beyond his opening remark, so Carson asked Gabor to leave the show, which she did.

On the May 11, 1968 episode of the Tonight Show, guest Marlon Brando reminisces with Johnny about the 1963 show and how he, without realizing it, drank way to much champagne prior to his guest appearance. He admits he was drunk and barley able to not trip on himself when introduced.  

On the July 26, 1979, episode of the Tonight Show, Johnny tells a story about this night. After commenting that his and Ed's mugs contain only coffee and tea respectively (no alcohol.) He reminisces about when they were doing shows in California a few times a year, They had a courtesy bar set up for the guests. He says that Marlon Brando didn't come out till 20 minutes before the end of the program, and by then he had been imbibing champagne for over an hour. He laments that the episode was not on tape.

*Both of the above clips are included in this ATA#14098 air check, preceding the infamous May 15, 1963 broadcast moments. They both run a combined four minutes making this total air check 19 minutes long.

A brief clip from the May 15, 1963 Brando guest appearance is heard in the slightly under three hour biography documentary BRANDO (2007). 
                                                                                                                                                                                              

Continuing coverage of astronaut Gordon Cooper's spaceflight while in its 11th orbit.                          

The third and final manned space mission of the United States Mercury Program launched on May 15th, 1963 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft, Faith 7, carried United States astronaut Gordon Cooper and completed 22 earth orbits before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.               

The last American astronaut to fly alone to date on May 15th and 16th, 1963. Cooper piloted "Faith 7" solo across twenty two orbits. The mission lasted nearly 34.5 hours and focused on making sure that astronauts could work stably in the spacecraft when it was in different modes of operation. 

The final orbit, descent, and pickup of astronaut Gordon Cooper's spaceflight.             

An NBC special report on the spaceflight of astronaut Gordon Cooper. Also features President John F. Kennedy.             

Extended coverage of Major Gordon Cooper's 22 orbital flights. Jay Barbaree and others join the broadcast of "Faith 7" Flight in progress at 14:24 into orbit.