1966-12-27, NBC, 24 min.
NBC Newsman Frank McGee reviews the year 1966.
1966-12-27, , min.
A review of the year 1966.
1966-12-27, CBS, min.
"At The Drop Of Another Hat" opens at the Booth Theatre in New York City. There would be 105 performances.
Manchester United midfielder Bobby Charlton wins the award for best European football player.
1966-12-27, NBC, min.
A year end review of the year 1966.
1966-12-28, WCBS, 52 min.
September 25, 1963-June 7, 1967. Danny Kaye hosted his own Wednesday-night variety hour for four seasons. Regulars included Harvey Korman, four-year-old Victoria Meyerink & youngster Laurie Ichino.
1966-12-29, NBC, 52 min.
September 16, 1965-May 24, 1974.
A variety hour hosted by Dean Martin. Several of the shows were celebrity "roasts," set at a banquet table, in which the guest of honor was showered with insults by other celebs. Regulars of the series included pianist Ken Lane (1965-1972), Kay Medford, Lou Jacobi, The Golddiggers, Marian Mercer (1971-1972), Tom Bosley (1971-1972), Rodney Dangerfield (1972-1973), Dom DeLuise (1972-1973), and Nipsey Russell (1972-1974).
Dupe Of # 1911
1966-12-29, WNBC, 52 min.
September 16, 1965-May 24, 1974. A variety hour hosted by Dean Martin. Several of the shows were celebrity "roasts," set at a banquet table, in which the guest of honor was showered with insults by other celebs. Regulars of the series included pianist Ken Lane (1965-1972), Kay Medford, Lou Jacobi, The Golddiggers, Marian Mercer (1971-1972), Tom Bosley (1971-1972), Rodney Dangerfield (1972-1973), Dom DeLuise (1972-1973), and Nipsey Russell (1972-1974).
1966-12-30, ABC, 16 min.
September 9th, 1966-January 6th, 1967 (ABC)
A Friday night variety hour seen on ABC. It did not catch on with the viewing public and was canceled in January 1967 after just four months on the air. The show was produced by Bill Dana with Bobby Rydell, Irving Benson, and Donna Loren as regulars. Benson was seen as an offstage heckler.
Milton's guest is Mickey Rooney.
1966-12-30, WNEW, 40 min.
The Movie Premiere of "A Man For All Seasons," starring Leo McKern, Robert Shaw, and Paul Scofield. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Live from the Music Hall in Beverley Hills, California.
The movie won the award for best picture at the 39th Academy Awards, Fred Zinnemann won the award for best director, and Paul Scofield won the best actor award. Broadcast on WNEW-TV Channel 5 in New York City.
Host: Bill Welch
Joined in progress.
1966-12-30, ABC, 16 min.
September 9th, 1966-January 6th, 1967 (ABC)
A Friday night variety hour seen on ABC. It did not catch on with the viewing public and was canceled in January 1967 after just four months on the air. The show was produced by Bill Dana with Bobby Rydell, Irving Benson, and Donna Loren as regulars. Benson was seen as an offstage heckler.
Milton's guest is Mickey Rooney.
Duplicate of #15291.
1966-12-30, , min.
The movie premier of "A Man For All Seasons"
Interviews with Paul Scofield who won an Academy Award for his role, Robert Shaw, and Orson Welles.
1966-12-31, WABC, 78 min.
Beginning in 1929, a New Year's Eve Tradition...Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians. Guy Lombardo was best known to TV audiences for his annual New Year's Eve telecasts. His brothers Carmen (the band's musical director), Victor, & Lebert were all members of the orchestra. Guy, the eldest, was designated the leader. For most of his years in television, Guy Lombardo represented nostalgia for the '30s and '40s. At midnight the traditional welcoming in of the New Year at Times Square is presented. Jack Lescoulie brings in the New Year at Times Square.
The best-known New Year's Eve shows on radio and then television were hosted by bandleader Guy Lombardo, who hosted 21 consecutive New Year's Eve shows from 1956 to 1976 on CBS, and for a time in syndication. Lombardo's first radio broadcast on New Year's Eve was heard on December 31, 1928 over CBS Radio, and for a time he even split hosting duties by broadcasting on CBS Radio before 12 Midnight EST and on NBC Radio after Midnight. Lombardo would host 48 straight New Year's Eve broadcasts until his death in 1977, and famously performed "Auld Lang Syne" by his Royal Canadians as the clock struck 12 Midnight, ushering in the start of a New Year.
Once the Lombardo orchestra began their annual television shows, there would be a live segment from Times Square, which was (and still is) the focal point of the nation's largest New Year's celebration. In the early years of Lombardo's television specials, Robert Trout reported on and counted down to Midnight in New York's Times Square; but for most of Lombardo's years on television, another legendary newsman, Ben Grauer, had the honor. (Grauer, by the way, also reported from Times Square for NBC Radio on celebrations following the surrender of Japan on August 14, 1945.
The first New Year's Eve special on television was broadcast on December 31, 1941 on WNBT New York, and consisted of entertainment broadcast from the Rainbow Room, atop the RCA Building in New York's Rockefeller Center.[3]
Due to World War II, there would be no more New Year's Eve specials on television until December 31, 1945. WNBT produced a remote broadcast of festivities in Times Square. While NBC had begun to feed programs to WRGB is the Albany area and WPTZ in Philadelphia, information is unavailable as to whether either or both of these stations broadcast the program, or if it was seen just locally in New York.[4]
Unless New Year's Eve fell on a weekend, NBC would carry a special New Year's version of "The Tonight Show" each year beginning in 1954, including coverage of the arrival of the New Year in Times Square.
Dick Clark himself had actually emceed one New Year's Eve TV special prior to 1972; on December 31, 1959, he emceed a 90-minute New Year's special on ABC. One of the guests was Frankie Avalon. But it would be the last time Clark would do a New Year's Eve television special for the next thirteen years.
By the 1970s, Lombardo's big band music skewed to an older generation, so Dick Clark started his telecast in 1972 to compete.
Duplicate of #5378.
1966-12-31, WNBC, 8 min.
Ben Grauer hosts the festivities from Times Square in New York City as the year 1967 is ushered in. An All-Star parade of bands and their band leaders follows bringing in the New Year.
1966-12-31, WABC, 78 min.
Beginning in 1929, a New Year's Eve Tradition...Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians. Guy Lombardo was best known to TV audiences for his annual New Year's Eve telecasts. His brothers Carmen (the band's musical director), Victor, & Lebert were all members of the orchestra. Guy, the eldest, was designated the leader. For most of his years in television, Guy Lombardo represented nostalgia for the '30s and '40s. At midnight the traditional welcoming in of the New Year at Times Square is presented. Jack Lescoulie brings in the New Year at Times Square.
The best-known New Year's Eve shows on radio and then television were hosted by bandleader Guy Lombardo, who hosted 21 consecutive New Year's Eve shows from 1956 to 1976 on CBS, and for a time in syndication. Lombardo's first radio broadcast on New Year's Eve was heard on December 31, 1928 over CBS Radio, and for a time he even split hosting duties by broadcasting on CBS Radio before 12 Midnight EST and on NBC Radio after Midnight. Lombardo would host 48 straight New Year's Eve broadcasts until his death in 1977, and famously performed "Auld Lang Syne" by his Royal Canadians as the clock struck 12 Midnight, ushering in the start of a New Year.
Once the Lombardo orchestra began their annual television shows, there would be a live segment from Times Square, which was (and still is) the focal point of the nation's largest New Year's celebration. In the early years of Lombardo's television specials, Robert Trout reported on and counted down to Midnight in New York's Times Square; but for most of Lombardo's years on television, another legendary newsman, Ben Grauer, had the honor. (Grauer, by the way, also reported from Times Square for NBC Radio on celebrations following the surrender of Japan on August 14, 1945.
The first New Year's Eve special on television was broadcast on December 31, 1941 on WNBT New York, and consisted of entertainment broadcast from the Rainbow Room, atop the RCA Building in New York's Rockefeller Center.[3]
Due to World War II, there would be no more New Year's Eve specials on television until December 31, 1945. WNBT produced a remote broadcast of festivities in Times Square. While NBC had begun to feed programs to WRGB is the Albany area and WPTZ in Philadelphia, information is unavailable as to whether either or both of these stations broadcast the program, or if it was seen just locally in New York.[4]
Unless New Year's Eve fell on a weekend, NBC would carry a special New Year's version of "The Tonight Show" each year beginning in 1954, including coverage of the arrival of the New Year in Times Square.
Dick Clark himself had actually emceed one New Year's Eve TV special prior to 1972; on December 31, 1959, he emceed a 90-minute New Year's special on ABC. One of the guests was Frankie Avalon. But it would be the last time Clark would do a New Year's Eve television special for the next thirteen years.
By the 1970s, Lombardo's big band music skewed to an older generation, so Dick Clark started his telecast in 1972 to compete.
1967-00-00, , min.
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.
1967-00-00, WCBS, min.
February 5, 1967-June 8, 1969. "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" was a breath of fresh air, but to CBS the Smothers Brothers seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, with the wrong things to say.
Excerpts from previous shows are presented. Dates include 9-24, 10-1, 10-8, 10-15, and 10-22-67.
1967-00-00, N/A, 15 min.
Syndicated. 23 year old Hywell Bennett, star of "The Family Way," is interviewed.
1967-00-00, NBC, 12 min.
June 7th, 1967- September 1967
The Vic Damone Show was a summer replacement series for the Dean Martin Show. Regulars included Gail Martin, (Dean's daughter) and Carol Lawrence. The Series was rerun on NBC in the summer of 1971.
Guests: Peggy King, comedian Alan King.
1967-00-00, PBS, 00 min.
Host Keith Berwick interviews comedian Carl Reiner.
1967-00-00, , min.
Computerized matches of the world's greatest boxers.
Dempsey vs. Corbett, Sullivan vs. Braddock, Louis vs. Williard, Fitzsimmons vs. Sharkey, Baer vs. Johnson, Marciano vs. Tunney, Jeffries vs. Walcott, Ali vs, Schmeling, Dempsey vs. Sullivan, Louis vs. Fitzsimmons, Baer vs. Marciano, Ali vs. Jeffries, Dempsey vs. Louis, Jeffries vs. Marciano, Dempsey vs. Marciano.
1967-00-00, SYN, 3 min.
1965-1967 (SYN)
Thirty-minute talk show starring host, Gypsy Rose Lee.
Gypsy Rose Lee, who is generally credited with introing the idea of gab as an adjunct of peeling, is still talking on this ABC-TV syndicated strip now being distributed by Seven Arts.
This show debuted on KGO-TV in San Francisco (the station that produces it) in April and was picked up by KABC-TV in Los Angeles
a month later and is now on WBKB-TV Chicago.
Miss Lee is a greatly uninhibited and somewhat undisciplined hostess, both factors which provide the best and worst of the show. She's quite well-informed and widely experienced and has a considerable knack of showing interest in and contagious appreciation of her guests.
Guest: Ethel Merman.
1967-00-00, WBAI, 88 min.
A rare insight into the world of Charles
Laughton as he touches on many topics including those passions which ignite his creativity.
1967-01-01, , min.
A review of the year 1966.
1967-01-01, NBC, 40 min.
September 27, 1962-September 3, 1967 (NBC); September 20, 1969-July 17, 1971 (NBC); 1976 (Syndicated). In 1962, Williams was finally given a fall series on NBC; the hour show lasted five seasons and featured The New Christy Minstrels and the Osmond Brothers. His third NBC series, which premiered in 1969, featured comics Charlie Callas and Irwin Corey, along with Janos Prohaska; the hour show lasted another two seasons. In 1976, Williams hosted a syndicated series, entitled "Andy." The half-hour show featured puppeteer Wayland Flowers.
40 minute excerpt. Missing opening including introductions, and Andy Williams rendition of "Winchester Cathedral." The introduction and beginning of Phyllis Diller stand-up routine is not present. Rest of the broadcast complete, including:
Andy Williams introduction of Ella Fitzgerald who sings "Midnight Sun," and in a duet with Andy singing, "The Lonesome Road."
Andy Williams sings, "Born Free, "The Way You Look Tonight," "In the Arms of Love," "Charade," and "May Each Day."
Andy introduces Barbara Hewitt, 1967 Queen of the Tournament of Roses, and five entrants who accompanied her in the parade.
Andy introduces Henry Mancini, who plays a medley of his written hits including, "Mr. Lucky," "Days of Wine & Roses," "Dear Heart," "Pink Panther," "Moon River," and "Peter Gunn."
Andy Williams and Henry Mancini reminisce with humorous "tongue in cheek" anecdotes.
1967-01-01, WNBC, 15 min.
September 27, 1962-September 3, 1967 (NBC); September 20, 1969-July 17, 1971 (NBC); 1976 (Syndicated). In 1962, Williams was finally given a fall series on NBC; the hour show lasted five seasons and featured The New Christy Minstrels and the Osmond Brothers. His third NBC series, which premiered in 1969, featured comics Charlie Callas and Irwin Corey, along with Janos Prohaska; the hour show lasted another two seasons. In 1976, Williams hosted a syndicated series, entitled "Andy." The half-hour show featured puppeteer Wayland Flowers.
1967-01-01, WNBC, 58 min.
Birgit Nilsson, Leontyne Price, Joan Sutherland and Renata Tebaldi perform their favorite arias and discuss the art of the prima donna with Donald Voorhees. There is a Bell Telephone commercial informing the public of the latest state of the art developments in communications for 1967.
1967-01-02, NBC, min.
The 1967 Rose Bowl game was the 53rd edition of the college football game, played at the Rose Bowl,in Pasadena, California, on Monday, January 2nd. The game matched the #7 Purdue Boilermakers of the Big Ten Conference and the unranked USC Trojans of the AAWU (Pac-8). Purdue won 14-13, after USC scored a touchdown in the fourth quarter and opted to go for a two-point conversion to win the game, rather than kicking an extra point to tie.
Lindsay Nelson and Terry Brennan Report.
1967-01-02, NBC, 15 min.
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.
1967-01-02, NBC, 100 min.
The 78th annual Tournament Of Roses Parade telecast live from Pasadena, California.
All three networks carried this annual parade, each with different hosts. This is the NBC telecast. It includes commercials.
Ed Ames, in the parade sings "My Cup Runneth Over."
Hostess Betty White and Host Bill Culen describe the festivities and talk in the booth with Pat Boone and Barry Sullivan.
Barbara Hewitt is the Rose Queen. Thanat Khoman, Thailand's Minister of Foreign Affairs is the parade's grand marshal.
Theme: Travel tales in flowers.
NOTE; A lost broadcast. Very few Rose Day Parade broadcasts circa pre-1979 are extant in any broadcast form.
1967-01-03, WCBS, 52 min.
September 25, 1962-June 23, 1970. One of television's most inventive and popular comedians, Red Skelton hosted his own series for twenty years, seven of them in a one-hour format, "The Red Skelton Hour" on CBS. Skelton began his television career on NBC September 30, 1951 with a half-hour filmed variety series lasting until June 21, 1953. He then began his CBS affiliation, and began hosting "The Red Skelton Show," a half-hour variety show broadcast live until October 18, 1960, and subsequently on videotape. This series aired from October 13, 1953, continuing until June 26, 1962. From July 21, 1954 through September 8, 1954, "The Red Skelton Revue" was broadcast live on CBS in a one-hour format. Red Skelton returned to NBC in a half-hour taped format for his final series. "Red" as the show was known, premiered September 14, 1970. The first four broadcasts included introductions by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew (September 14, 1970), Dean Martin (September 21, 1970), Jack Benny (September 28, 1970), and Johnny Carson (October 5, 1970) who got his big break writing for Skelton in the early 1950's. Red Skelton's last first-run regularly scheduled television program aired on March 15, 1971.
1967-01-04, WCBS, 52 min.
September 25, 1963-June 7, 1967. Danny Kaye hosted his own Wednesday-night variety hour for four seasons. Regulars included Harvey Korman, four-year-old Victoria Meyerink & youngster Laurie Ichino.
1967-01-05, WNBC, 52 min.
September 16, 1965-May 24, 1974. A variety hour hosted by Dean Martin. Several of the shows were celebrity "roasts," set at a banquet table, in which the guest of honor was showered with insults by other celebs. Regulars of the series included pianist Ken Lane (1965-1972), Kay Medford, Lou Jacobi, The Golddiggers, Marian Mercer (1971-1972), Tom Bosley (1971-1972), Rodney Dangerfield (1972-1973), Dom DeLuise (1972-1973), and Nipsey Russell (1972-1974).
1967-01-06, WROW, 00 min.
Lowell Thomas With The News is a radio broadcast.
1967-01-06, ABC, min.
September 9th, 1966-January 6th, 1967 (ABC)
A Friday night variety hour seen on ABC. It did not catch on with the viewing public and was canceled in January 1967 after just four months on the air. The show was produced by Bill Dana with Bobby Rydell, Irving Benson, and Donna Loren as regulars. Benson was seen as an offstage heckler.
Milton joins regular Irving Benson who plays audience heckler "Sidney Spritzer."
1967-01-06, WNET, 80 min.
Presented on "N.E.T. PLAYHOUSE" (Part 1). The original off-Broadway cast recreate their roles in this adaptation of Moliere's comedy, "The School For Wives." The misadventures of an old man who has raised a young girl in complete ignorance of the ways of the world in order to make him the perfect wife. Some variations in sound.
1967-01-06, ABC, min.
September 9th, 1966-January 6th, 1967 (ABC)
A Friday night variety hour seen on ABC. It did not catch on with the viewing public and was canceled in January 1967 after just four months on the air. The show was produced by Bill Dana with Bobby Rydell, Irving Benson, and Donna Loren as regulars. Benson was seen as an offstage heckler.
Milton joins regular Irving Benson who plays audience heckler "Sidney Spritzer."
Duplicate of # 15294.
1967-01-06, WNET, 90 min.
October 9, 1966-January 24, 1972. Dramatic anthology series which had a run on public television for a little over five years. SEARCH PROGRAM TITLE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS.
1967-01-06, WGY, min.
Radio broadcast of the David Brinkley report.
1967-01-08, NBC, 52 min.
September 27, 1962-September 3, 1967 (NBC); September 20, 1969-July 17, 1971 (NBC); 1976 (Syndicated). In 1962, Williams was finally given a fall series on NBC; the hour show lasted five seasons and featured The New Christy Minstrels and the Osmond Brothers. His third NBC series, which premiered in 1969, featured comics Charlie Callas and Irwin Corey, along with Janos Prohaska; the hour show lasted another two seasons. In 1976, Williams hosted a syndicated series, entitled "Andy." The half-hour show featured puppeteer Wayland Flowers.
Dupe of number 1241
1967-01-08, WNBC, 52 min.
September 27, 1962-September 3, 1967 (NBC); September 20, 1969-July 17, 1971 (NBC); 1976 (Syndicated). In 1962, Williams was finally given a fall series on NBC; the hour show lasted five seasons and featured The New Christy Minstrels and the Osmond Brothers. His third NBC series, which premiered in 1969, featured comics Charlie Callas and Irwin Corey, along with Janos Prohaska; the hour show lasted another two seasons. In 1976, Williams hosted a syndicated series, entitled "Andy." The half-hour show featured puppeteer Wayland Flowers.
1967-01-08, ABC, min.
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 top news stories: US pilots shoot down seven MIG's over Vietnam, an interview with one of the pilots,
US Marines in the Mekong Delta, a pilot discusses North Vietnam bombings, Russians reject peace proposals by Britain, Everett Dirksen comments on peace efforts or the end of the bombings, Cardinal Spellman just back from Vietnam, Ronald Reagan is the new Governor of California, Jack Ruby dies, Oswald's mother accuses Ruby of the Kennedy assassination, Melvin Belli comments on Warren report, Fidel Castro's eighth anniversary as leader of Cuba, President Johnson rejects painting of him.
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.
1967-01-08, ABC, min.
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 top news stories.
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.
1967-01-08, NBC, 30 min.
A report of the day's news.
1967-01-09, WGY, min.
A sports talk call-in radio show heard in the Schenectady, NY area hosted by Jay Silverman.
1967-01-09, WGY, min.
A live call-in sports talk radio show heard in the Schenectady, NY area with host Jay Silverman.
Possible duplicate of #9397.
1967-01-09, , min.
Jack Ruby dead. Adam Clayton Powell is excluded from his seat in the House Of Representatives amid charges of corruption.
1967-01-09, NBC, min.
January 9th,1967 -August 28th, 1967- (NBC)
Satirist Buck Henry co-creator of "Get Smart," devised this half-hour comedy about the mother-dominated crimefighter.
An imitation Batman, Captain Nice was set in Big Town. William Daniels portrayed Carter Nash, a police chemist who devised a secret formula that turned him into a crimefighter. Alice Ghostley played Carter's mother and Ann Prentiss as Sargent Candy Kane, his admirer.
Series premiere.
1967-01-10, WCBS, 52 min.
September 25, 1962-June 23, 1970. One of television's most inventive and popular comedians, Red Skelton hosted his own series for twenty years, seven of them in a one-hour format, "The Red Skelton Hour" on CBS. Skelton began his television career on NBC September 30, 1951 with a half-hour filmed variety series lasting until June 21, 1953. He then began his CBS affiliation, and began hosting "The Red Skelton Show," a half-hour variety show broadcast live until October 18, 1960, and subsequently on videotape. This series aired from October 13, 1953, continuing until June 26, 1962. From July 21, 1954 through September 8, 1954, "The Red Skelton Revue" was broadcast live on CBS in a one-hour format. Red Skelton returned to NBC in a half-hour taped format for his final series. "Red" as the show was known, premiered September 14, 1970. The first four broadcasts included introductions by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew (September 14, 1970), Dean Martin (September 21, 1970), Jack Benny (September 28, 1970), and Johnny Carson (October 5, 1970) who got his big break writing for Skelton in the early 1950's. Red Skelton's last first-run regularly scheduled television program aired on March 15, 1971.
1967-01-10, , min.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson gives the annual State of the Union address in Washington, DC.
1967-01-10, WABC, 52 min.
Telecast of the concert given by The Beatles at Shea Stadium in New York on August 15, 1965; featuring Sounds, Incorporated, Brenda Holloway, King Curtis and The Discotheque Dancers, also performing. The report covers the time before, during and after the concert, including comments from members of The Beatles group in their dressing room.