October 1, 1962 - March 29, 1963

Merv Griffin's guests are Jack Benny, Peter Lorre, Dr. Joyce Brothers and Bobby Breen. 

A rare interview appearance for Bobby Breen.

NOTE:  All but one of the 125 NBC Daytime THE MERV GRIFFIN SHOW broadcasts are NOT know to exist. However, Phil Gries founder of ARCHIVAL TELEVISION AUIDO, INC. is personally responsible for audio taping 35 of these shows, direct line, on to 1/4" audio tape when these broadcasts originally aired. They remain the only broadcast record.                                      

Topics: Floods in the Midwest, Governor Rockefeller criticizes President Kennedy's civil rights program, Pam-Am building to open, Brooklyn dock boss Tony Anastasio is dead, Congress to approve a bill permitting Winston Churchill to become an honorary US citizen, Herbert Hoover receives an award from Stanford University, SINA group wants animals clothed.                          

A live news conference with President John F. Kennedy.           

Merv Griffin's guests are Joan Crawford, Allen Drury, appearing on March 7, 1963 and  Adela Rogers St. John, Bert Lahr, Walter Slezak and William Saroyan, appearing on March 8, 1963. 
Two shows combined.              

October 18th, 1959-1966, 

A one hour syndicated taped color weekly broadcast, featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The series was awarded a Peabody. Superb music by a 71 piece orchestra in the sumptuous setting of a ballroom. Different guest conductors appear on a weekly basis and take the podium. 

Walter Hendl Conductor.

Isaac Stern violin.  




  

 



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Music of Broadway with a Latin beat, hosted by bandleader Edmondo Ros with special guest singer Janice Harper who sings:

-"Love Fell Out With Me,"
-"Tell Me That You Love Me Tonight,"
-"Love Me Now, Love Me Never,"
-"Just Say I Love Him."

NOTE:
 A rare television audio air check  broadcast whose sound quality has been improved as best as can be from the original deteriorating master 1/4" reel to reel audio tape.
Audio is good to excellent with variations heard in spots during a few passages, but very discernable and worthy of inclusion in the collection of Archival Television Audio, Inc. 

Joined in Progress with a closing by Edmondo Ros, thanking guest Janice Harper for appearing on this half hour special.  
  
Produced by Associate Television (ATV)                            

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

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


Jack Paar's guest is Richard Nixon. Nixon talks about politics, President Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev, and Charles De Gaulle. 

                                      

Host Clifford Evans' guest is William F. Buckley Jr., editor of National Review. They discuss the conservative movement in the United States. Panel: Ruth Nathan, Sioux City Journal, 
Margaret Hickey, Ladies Home Journal, 
Nina Jones, White Plains Reporter-Dispatch.   

Topics include, Segregation, Anti Semitic Judgements, The Importance of Forwarding a Point of View, Empathy for the Negro race as a Conservative, Reasons why Buckley would not run for President, State of Israel...an intrusion to Arab populations, and Circumstances required for the Emancipation of the Negro in America.                                                 

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 from the Capital Arena in Washington, DC.                                                                        

The guest is Jack Benny.   
Jack Benny states that he first appeared on radio on The Ed Sullivan Show on March 29, 1932, thirty one years ago.                        

Voices in The Headlines was an American news program broadcast on ABC radio featuring the top news stories of the day. It was hosted by long-time radio and television announcer Fred Foy. 

A review of the week's news: Floods in the Midwest, Cuban matters are discussed by Dean Rusk, 200,000 Cubans fled the island, comment on four US fliers killed in 1961 abortive Cuban invasion, political fever for 1964-George Romney withdraws as a presidential candidate, Nixon derides Kennedy, the Supreme Court rules that RR can impose new work rules to end featherbedding, the New York City Newspaper strike is almost over, Jimmy Hoffa comments on automation, 200,000 miners strike in France, Charles De Gaulle's enemy Georges Bidault exiles himself from France, he appears in Britain says he will overthrow "Fascist" De Gaulle pro-Nasser coup in Syria, Bob Hope comments on fifty-mile hiking craze, Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty leader of the Catholic Church in Hungary, may be released in Hungary. 

Narrator: Fred Foy.   

NOTE: Fred Foy, best known for his voicing the opening of THE LONE RANGER on radio joined the ABC TV announcing staff in New York in 1961. For ABC RADIO he narrated the award winning news documentary, VOICES IN THE HEADLINES a 25 minute weekly wrap up of salient news events of the week with sound bites representing the news as it was recorded.                                                                                                                             

The voice of Premier Fidel Castro is heard (in Spanish).             

Topics:  Comments on the Kennedy administration, (losing momentum), comment on feather-bedding in railroads, comment on changes in the world since Stalin's death ten years ago, the little "cold war in the west," France vs. Britain and the USA, nuclear Nato force is discussed, Jim Rhodes reports on Cassius Clay who predicts via poetry victory over Doug Jones and Sonny Liston. The Pan-Am building opens, the best sellers in books are described, a comment on RCA's "Dynagroove" revolution, backward steps in hi-fi?, NBC TV programs to watch tonight, include Walt Disney's World, Car 54 Where Are You?, Bonanza, and DuPont Show of the Week, "Comedian Backstage" profiling comedian Shelley Berman.

                                                                                                                

Topics: 
Radio Broadcast. The New York City newspaper strike is almost over, comment on Republican presidential prospects for 1964, a play on Broadway "Strange Interlude" runs for five hours.                                                    

  Slum housing in Negro and Puerto Rican neighborhoods is discussed.        

The 1963 Hollywood Deb Stars. 

Dupe Of # 7013.                                                                            

The 1963 Hollywood Deb Stars                                      

Merv Griffin's guests are Shirley Booth, Peter Cook, Louis Lomax,
and Marilyn Lovell.             

 September 21, 1962 - September 10, 1965

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).

Jack's guest is Liza Minnelli.                                                                                          

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 from the Capital Arena in Washington, DC.                                                                

Voices in The Headlines was an American news program broadcast on ABC radio featuring the top news stories of the day. It was hosted by long-time radio and television announcer Fred Foy. 

A review of the week's news: Barry Goldwater, Dean Rusk, and Florida Senator George Smathers comment on what to do with Cuba, communist infiltration in South America, Fidel Castro attacks President Kennedy personally, Senator Goldwater attacks Pentagon defense cuts in the budget, Secretary McNamara accused as "dictator" in defense matters, moon project funds might be cut.

Narrator: Fred Foy.   

NOTE: Fred Foy, best known for his voicing the opening of THE LONE RANGER on radio joined the ABC TV announcing staff in New York in 1961. For ABC RADIO he narrated the award winning news documentary, VOICES IN THE HEADLINES a 25 minute weekly wrap up of salient news events of the week with sound bites representing the news as it was recorded.                                                                                                                                          

January 27, 1961-April 21, 1961; September 28, 1961-September 21, 1964. This was the first broadcast of the series. Home viewers were able to participate in this hour-long musical series, as the lyrics to the songs were superimposed at the bottom of their screens; viewers were invited to "follow the bouncing ball" as it moved from one lyric to the next. Goateed composer-arranger Mitch Miller led the Sing-Along Gang, and on-stage aggregation of about two dozen. Among the featured vocalists were Leslie Uggams, Diana Trask, Barbara McNair, and Gloria Lambert. "Sing Along with Mitch" was introduced on "Ford Startime" in 1960 and had a limited run in the spring of 1961, alternating with "The Bell Telephone Hour," before going weekly in the fall of that year. Reruns were exhumed in the spring of 1966 to replace the faltering "Sammy Davis Jr. Show." Bill Hobin produced and directed the series.  

                                                                                                                                                                                  

     September 21, 1962 - September 10, 1965

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).                                                                                                               

October 5th, 1956-May 12th, 1963. 

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show was an American Variety Series, hosted by Dinah Shore and broadcast on NBC from October 5th, 1956- May 12th, 1963.

Salute to St.Patrick's Day. 

                                                                                                     

The Edie Adams Show, an Emmy Award winning SPECIAL, was a pilot for future Edie Adam's monthly SPECIALS...a total of eight half hour broadcasts were televised on ABC television, premiering October 23, 1962, followed by broadcasts on December 13, 1962, January 20, 1963, February 26, 1963, March 17, 1963, April 19, 1963, May 28, 1963, June 18, 1963.

Local station airing in Chicago, Illinois.

Guest: Malcolm X.            

Between September 24th, 1955 and March 19th, 1963, Judy Garland appeared in four television specials. This March 19th, 1963 program was her fourth before she would appear in her own network series, "The Judy Garland Show." (September 29th, 1963-March 29th, 1964). 

Record number 7226 is a dupe of number 926.                      

President Kennedy in Costa Rica on what to do with Castro, retort from Radio Havana, the US tries to curb hit and run strikes by exiles against Cuba, French nuclear testing in the Sahara, Attorney General Robert Kennedy to investigate big-time crime in the US, Karl F. Rolvaag is elected Governor of Minnesota, will take office on March 25th.                                     

CBS newsman Walter Cronkite narrates this special on illegal bookmaking in a Boston Store. 

Narrator: Walter Cronkite.  
NOTE:
The original broadcast was telecast on November 30, 1961. It was banned in Boston Massachusetts until this rebroadcast, shown for the first time.                                  

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 "Handsome" Johnny Barend and Buddy Rogers. Comment from Rogers.                                                                      

The Bruce Morrow (Cousin Brucie) rock and roll show, broadcast on WABC radio in New York City. Short segment. Music and talk.

Host: Bruce Morrow.                                                   

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

Topics of the day: Castro would "box" Khrushchev's ears as a result of the missile crisis, President Kennedy back from Costa Rica, comments on Cuba, a proposed nuclear test ban treaty, Senate hearings on TFX plane contract "scandal," measles vaccine to be distributed for general use, French coal miners on strike, Ambassador Adlai Stevenson in Paris, gets cool reception, Adam Clayton Powell and Malcolm X (Black Muslim Leader) lash out against whites and Jews at a rally.

Host: Tony Marvin.