1966-05-22, CBS, 162 min.
The 8th Annual Emmy Awards are presented live from the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, California.
Chet Huntley presents a special award to Edward R. Murrow
Outstanding Dramatic Series: The Fugitive
Best Variety Special: Bob Hope Christmas Special, Carol Baker accepting
Hosts: Danny Kaye and Bill Cosby.
1966-06-05, NBC, 1 min.
Gemini 9 report.
Host: Peter Hackes.
1966-07-16, ABC, 1 min.
Gemini X mission promo with Jules Bergman and Peter Jennings
1966-09-28, WNBC, 52 min.
For his first variety show of the 1966-67 season, Bob Hope has surrounded himself wtih many of his former leading ladies. They include Lucille Ball, Madeleine Carroll, Joan Caufield, Joan Collins, Arlene Dahl, Phyllis Diller, Anita Ekberg, Rhonda Fleming, Joan Fontaine, Signe Hasso, Heddy Lamarr, Dorothy Lamour, Marilyn Maxwell, Virginia Mayo, Dina Merrill, Vera Miles, Janis Paige and Jane Russell. Also on hand: Paul Lynde, Jerry Colonna, Ken Murray and Peter Leeds.
1966-10-03, WNBC, 27 min.
September 12, 1966-December 26, 1966. Country and western singer Roger Miller hosted his own half-hour musical variety series.
1966-10-15, WABC, 78 min.
1947 by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe about a strange village that appears for only one day every 100 years.
1966-10-16, 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 # 1229
1966-10-16, 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.
1966-10-24, WCBS, 52 min.
Anthony Newley is Lucille Ball's guide for a whirlwind tour of London. Joining in are Wilfred Hyde-White, James Robertson Justice, Peter Wyngarden, and The Dave Clark Five.
1966-11-02, ABC, 13 min.
A report on President Johnson's return from the Far East.
Peter Jennings, host.
1966-11-02, WABC, 54 min.
Presented on "ABC STAGE 67." The 300 year old ghost of Sir Simon is disturbed by an American family renting an old English mansion. Based on the classic Oscar Wilde short story of 1887.
1966-11-03, ABC, 13 min.
The latest news. Peter Jennings reports.
1966-11-30, NBC, 29 min.
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.
Host: Johnny Carson.
Guests: Peter Marshall, Lola Falana, and George Jessel. This broadcast is from The Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
NOTE: This specific TONIGHT SHOW may only contain an opening monologue by Johnny Carson.
Other content, as listed, will have to be monitored and confirmed upon your order request.
1966-12-10, WABC, 42 min.
Guest host Jimmy Durante welcomes guests Peter Lawford, George Carlin, The Turtles, Elaine Dunn, and Mrs. Miller, who sings a hilarious duet with Durante.
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.
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.
1967-01-25, 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.
1967-02-02, ABC, 52 min.
September 14, 1966 - May 11, 1967. A potpourri of assorted specials with no regular host. Included were variety, dramas, and occasional documentaries.
David Frost introduces viewers to the best late-night-life establishments located in London, including the posh West End, noted for its theaters, shops, and restaurants, and the shady Bohemian quarter called Soho.
There are song and dance routines, impersonations performed and a drama recreation. On the humorous side there is comedy performed by Peter Sellers who portrays a snobbish wine taster, and a bombastic BBC announcer interviewing a deep-sea diver, played by Kenneth Connor.
1967-02-12, WCBS, 00 min.
1967-02-21, CBS, 00 min.
Guests are Don Knotts, Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Back Porch Majority,Maggie Peterson and The Bruce Davis Quintet.
Andy offers a comic monologue about a successful small town boy named William Shakespeare, does a medley of Country and Western hits with Ernie, and in a sketch with Ernie,plays a farm boy who hates animals. Andy joins Don in a routine from their night-club act.
1967-02-21, CBS, 00 min.
Guests are Don Knotts, Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Back Porch Majority,Maggie Peterson and The Bruce Davis Quintet.
Andy offers a comic monologue about a successful small town boy named William Shakespeare, does a medley of Country and Western hits with Ernie, and in a sketch with Ernie,plays a farm boy who hates animals. Andy joins Don in a routine from their night-club act.
Duplicate of 6960A.
1967-03-26, WNBC, 53 min.
15 satirists look at the foibles and follies of TV. Targets include commercials, news correspondents, convention coverage TV themes, weather reports, and insulting interviewers. Satirists include Bernadette Peters, Dennis Allen, Arthur Alpert, Sudie Bond, MacIntyre Dixon, Charlotte Fairchild, John Heffernan, Tony Hendra, and Nick Ullett, Nagle Jackson, Paul Larson, Paul
Melton, Maggie Peters, Jaime Ross, and Virginia Vestoff.
1967-04-14, NBC, 72 min.
An NBC Television SPECIAL:
A look into German death concentration camps during World War 11. The play is set in a courtroom where witnesses confront the accused who represent real people. Alexander Scourby introduces the play. The cast is comprised of those actors who performed in this play on Broadway (1966).
Commercials deleted.
THE INVESTIGATION dramatizes testimonies by Nazi death-camp inmates. Adapted from the Peter Weiss Broadway play.
For years, the machinery of Auschwitz consumed them, millions upon millions. Statistics cannot communicate the horror; adjectives cannot describe the nightmare. It is only through the testimonies of the survivors that we can understand what took place, and that it COULD HAPPEN AGAIN!
The play is set in a courtroom where witnesses confront the accused (represented by real people). The atrocities which occurred less than an quarter of a century ago are related calmly and quietly. With equal reserve, the accused reply, "WE ONLY OBEYED ORDERS."
NOTE:
This color taped 90 minute SPECIAL PRIME TIME NBC TV broadcast is not extant IN ANY FORM, VIDEO, AUDIO (with the exception of the master 1/4" reel to reel recording archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc.), or TRNASCRIPT. It was not archived by NBC or archived by the major museums in the USA (Paley Center for Media, UCLA Film & TV Archive, Library of Congress, Museum of Broadcasting).
Even more sadly noted and unexplained is that there is NO REFERENCE to this broadcast title on the internet, or listed as an IMDb entry.
The one listing of this title can be found in The Library of Congress as a rare theater program Playbill, ONLY (found in the Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection).
It is interesting to note some of the following review excerpts from Variety Television Reviews:
“The NBC presentation deserves all the recognition it may get as one of the outstanding programs of the season.”
“If to forget history is to be compelled to relive it, this dramatized presentation could not be aired often enough.”
"THE INVESTIGATION" WAS REPEATED AND AIRED ON SUNDAY APRIL 16, 1967 FROM 3:30 TO 5:00 PM EST.
“If it were not known to be history, playwright Peter Weiss’ play could be mistaken for the sickest kind of theatre of the Absurd.”
1967-04-14, NBC, 72 min.
An NBC Television SPECIAL:
A look into German death concentration camps during World War 11. The play is set in a courtroom where witnesses confront the accused who represent real people. Alexander Scourby introduces the play. The cast is comprised of those actors who performed in this play on Broadway (1966).
Commercials deleted.
Duplicate of #8334.
THE INVESTIGATION dramatizes testimonies by Nazi death-camp inmates. Adapted from the Peter Weiss Broadway play.
For years, the machinery of Auschwitz consumed them, millions upon millions. Statistics cannot communicate the horror; adjectives cannot describe the nightmare. It is only through the testimonies of the survivors that we can understand what took place, and that it COULD HAPPEN AGAIN!
The play is set in a courtroom where witnesses confront the accused (represented by real people). The atrocities which occurred less than an quarter of a century ago are related calmly and quietly. With equal reserve, the accused reply, "WE ONLY OBEYED ORDERS."
NOTE:
This color taped 90 minute SPECIAL PRIME TIME NBC TV broadcast is not extant IN ANY FORM, VIDEO, AUDIO (with the exception of the master 1/4" reel to reel recording archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc.), or TRNASCRIPT. It was not archived by NBC or archived by the major museums in the USA (Paley Center for Media, UCLA Film & TV Archive, Library of Congress, Museum of Broadcasting).
Even more sadly noted and unexplained is that there is NO REFERENCE to this broadcast title on the internet, or listed as an IMDb entry.
The one listing of this title can be found in The Library of Congress as a rare theater program Playbill, ONLY (found in the Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection).
It is interesting to note some of the following review excerpts from Variety Television Reviews:
“The NBC presentation deserves all the recognition it may get as one of the outstanding programs of the season.”
“If to forget history is to be compelled to relive it, this dramatized presentation could not be aired often enough.”
"THE INVESTIGATION" WAS REPEATED AND AIRED ON SUNDAY APRIL 16, 1967 FROM 3:30 TO 5:00 PM EST.
“If it were not known to be history, playwright Peter Weiss’ play could be mistaken for the sickest kind of theatre of the Absurd.”
1967-05-07, NBC, 60 min.
"Michelangelo: The Last Giant," first of a two-part chronicle narrative drawn from Michelangelo's writings with views of his sculpture, painting and architecture. Part 1 traces the artist's early years. Peter Ustinov is the voice of Michelangelo. Narrator: Jose Ferrer. (Rerun; 60 min.). Original telecast on December 22, 1965.
1967-05-22, WNBC, 54 min.
September 12, 1955-June 12, 1963. In the fall of 1955 Perry Como returned to NBC where he hosted a weekly hour show. From 1955 to 1959 it was seen Saturday evenings and was titled "The Perry Como Show." From 1959 to 1963 it was seen Wednesday evenings and was titled "The Kraft Music Hall." Regulars included Frank Gallop and the Ray Charles Singers. After his final weekly June 12, 1963 broadcast Perry Como appeared in scores of specials, beginning October 3, 1963, airing on NBC, CBS & ABC, and concluding on December 6, 1986.
1967-05-24, NBC, 60 min.
Ninth annual Grammy Awards Telecast.
Produced by George Schlatter.
Telecast on Video Tape from Hollywood, London and New York.
Ella Fitzgerald, The Beatles, Eydie Gorme, Louis Armstrong and others perform.
Producer George Schlatter logged 15,000 miles to tape this year's Grammy Award winners. Performances by some of the winners of this year's Grammy Awards, made by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), annually, this year announced March 2nd and presented at various dinners around the country on that date. The re-created performances will also be introduced on the program by other top show business stars.
1967-05-24, NBC, 180 min.
Ninth annual Grammy Awards Telecast.
Produced by George Schlatter.
Telecast on Video Tape from Hollywood, London and New York.
Ella Fitzgerald, The Beatles, Eydie Gorme, Louis Armstrong and others perform.
Producer George Schlatter logged 15,000 miles to tape this year's Grammy Award winners. Performances by some of the winners of this year's Grammy Awards, made by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), annually, this year announced March 2nd and presented at various dinners around the country on that date. The re-created performances will also be introduced on the program by other top show business stars.
Ella Fitzgerald receives The Golden Achievement Award.
1967-05-24, NBC, 180 min.
Ninth annual Grammy Awards Telecast.
Produced by George Schlatter.
Telecast on Video Tape from Hollywood, London and New York.
Ella Fitzgerald, The Beatles, Eydie Gorme, Louis Armstrong and others perform.
Producer George Schlatter logged 15,000 miles to tape this year's Grammy Award winners. Performances by some of the winners of this year's Grammy Awards, made by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), annually, this year announced March 2nd and presented at various dinners around the country on that date. The re-created performances will also be introduced on the program by other top show business stars.
Ella Fitzgerald receives The Golden Achievement Award.
Duplicate of #7704.
1967-06-22, ABC, 52 min.
May 18, 1967- August 31, 1967, June 2, 1969-August 15, 1969
The 1967 edition of SUMMER FOCUS presented reports on a variety of subjects both current and historical in nature. A number of the programs were rebroadcasts of previously aired ABC documentaries drawn in part from THE SAGA OF WESTERN MAN.
In 1969, SUMMER FOCUS returned as the title of an irregularly offered group of five reports on topical issues, hosted by Frank Reynolds.
Peter Jennings, Anchors this examination of political protest, in America. Historian John Blum traces the origin of political protest, and analyzes the current unrest over antiwar demonstrations.
We revisit recent peace demonstrations in major cities, and pro and con reactions from (among others) civil-rights leader Martin Luther King; Gen. William C. Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam; Sen. Mark Hatfield (R. Oregon); and GIs in Vietnam.
1967-07-06, WPIX, min.
Live coverage of movie premier: "Woman Times Seven," starring Shirley Maclaine and Peter Sellers.
1967-08-29, WCBS, 52 min.
July 4, 1967-August 29, 1967. This summer variety hour had no regulars. Reruns were syndicated in 1968 and 1969.
1967-10-22, WCBS, 52 min.
June 20, 1948-June 6, 1971. Television's longest-running variety show ran on Sunday nights for twenty-three years. Its host, Ed Sullivan.
1967-11-11, NBC, 70 min.
Joined in progress, "Hallmark" opens its 17th season with this adaptation of John Hersey's Pulitzer Prize novel, "A Bell for Adano."
The story, a Broadway hit in 1944 and a movie in 1945, focuses on Maj. Victor Joppolo, military governor of Adano. Joppolo's job is to establish democracy in the conquered Sicilian town. His only tools are his energetic dedication and enthusiastic idealism. The obstacles are Army red tape, "military necessity" and the people's dark memories of the Fascist past. TV adaptation by Roger O. Hirson ("The Outpost," "Don't Go Upstairs"). Producer-director: Mel Ferber.
Maj. Victor Joppolo..........John Forsythe
Sergeant Borth..........Murray Hamilton
Tina..........Kathleen Widdoes
Captain Purvis..........Peter Brandon
General Marvin..........Herbert Doland
Tomasino..........Bob Ellenstein
Trapani..........Tom Skeritt
Lieutenant Livingstone..........Brian Avery
1967-11-24, ABC, 10 min.
1967-11-28, NBC, 58 min.
Vin Scully calls the play by play of this first annual (only time) televised softball game, pitting major league baseball players against celebrities. Jerry Lewis does the color commentary in the booth alongside Scully.
1967-11-28, NBC, 58 min.
Vin Scully calls the play by play of this first annual (only time) televised softball game, pitting major league baseball players against celebrities. Jerry Lewis does the color commentary in the booth along side of Scully.
Dupe of # 6971
1967-12-16, WCBS, 52 min.
September 29, 1962-September 12, 1970. Jackie Gleason was a fixture on CBS for most of two decades. In the fall of 1962 Gleason was back to a Saturday slot, which he occupied for another eight seasons. From 1962 to 1966 it was called "Jackie Gleason and His American Scene Magazine," and featured topical comedy sketches as well as musical numbers. One of Gleason's characters, Joe the Bartender, appeared regularly. Addressing the camera as his patron, Joe told a few jokes before calling out the tipsy Crazy Guggenheim from the back room. Guggenheim, played by Frank Fontaine, traded quips with Joe and then sang a song. Sue Ann Langdon was also featured regularly. In 1966 Gleason moved the operation to Miami Beach. The show was retitled "The Jackie Gleason Show." For the first time in almost a decade, production of "The Honeymooners" was resumed. Gleason was reunited with Art Carney; Sheila MacRae and Jane Kean were added to play Alice and Trixie. Many of these later "Honeymooners" sketches ran a full hour, and the accent was now on music.
1968-01-09, WNBC, 27 min.
Herman (Peter Noone) and the Hermits singing quartet were filmed singing nine songs in concert and also touring the midway at the Ohio State Fair last summer. This cinema verite rock documentary contains almost 500 shots required to cover the Hermit's hectic paced weekend, as they converse and perform for their fans. Songs include, "I'm Henry VIII," "Don't Know Much About Biology,"There's a Kind of Hush," "I Understand," "Dandy," "Jazabel," "Sugar" and "Green Street Green."
1968-01-20, WABC, 52 min.
January 4, 1964-February 7, 1970. This hour-long variety series was a midseason replacement for "The Jerry Lewis Show."
1968-02-02, WABC, 47 min.
Joey Bishop welcomes guests Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford. Regulars are Regis Philbin and Johnny Mann.
1968-02-04, WNEW, 55 min.
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.
Topic: "Let's Dump LBJ." Four disenchanted Democrats discuss the anti-Johnson movement and their desire for an open convention in Chicago. The guests are Allard Lowenstein of New York, Donald Peterson of Wisconsin, Zoltan Ferency of Michigan, and Mrs. David Hoch of New Hampshire. On another topic: humorous views of show-business personalities are offered by Rex Reed, Gay Talese, and Liz Smith, freelance writers who specialize in celebrity profiles.
1968-02-05, ABC, 15 min.
The latest news on Vietnam. Peter Jennings with a report on cowboy rodeo star Larry Mahan.
Bob Young reports.
1968-02-11, WNEW, 67 min.
Richard Burton and Sammy Davis Jr. headline this benefit for the Welsh village of Aberfan, where over 150 people - mostly children - were killed in an avalanche of coal waste in 1966. Other performers are Shirley Bassey, Peter Sellers, Tommy Steele, Tom Jones, Frankie Vaughn, Glynis Johns, Lulu, Millicent Martin, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan. Hosts are Elizabeth Taylor, Sean Connery, Stanley Baker and Bob Barker.
NOTE:
Originally broadcast in the UK.
Occasionally, minor variations in audio quality.
1968-02-11, WNEW, 67 min.
Richard Burton and Sammy Davis Jr. headline this benefit for the Welsh village of Aberfan, where over 150 people - mostly children - were killed in an avalanche of coal waste in 1966. Other performers are Shirley Bassey, Peter Sellers, Tommy Steele, Tom Jones, Frankie Vaughn, Glynis Johns, Lulu, Millicent Martin, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan. Hosts are Elizabeth Taylor, Sean Connery, Stanley Baker and Bob Barker.
NOTE:
-Originally broadcast in the UK.
-Occasional minor audio variation quality.
1968-02-14, CBS, 3 min.
A CBS management editorial on the negro boycott of the 1968 Olympic games. Peter Kohler reports.
1968-02-19, CBS, 17 min.
Excerpts of TV News from both CBS and ABC News on February 19th, 1968.
1968-03-02, WABC, 52 min.
January 4, 1964-February 7, 1970. This hour-long variety series was a midseason replacement for "The Jerry Lewis Show."
1968-03-29, CBS, 19 min.
The funeral of Yuri Gagarin, Peter Burns in Fort Gordon, Georgia with a report on the sniper defense program, unrest predicted in the Summer. Dan Rather, Bill Plant, and Jeff Guralnick with Vietnam news.
Joined in progress.
1968-03-30, CBS, 20 min.
President Johnson has disdain for anyone who riots, garbage strike protest brings violence, "Poor People's March" planned for next month in Washington, DC by Dr. Martin Luther King, Dr. King comments, racial crisis and violence in Memphis, Tennessee, Dr. King comments on his failed effort, comment by President Johnson, comments by Richard Nixon, Eugene McCarthy, and Robert Kennedy, Czech's new leader is General Ludvik Svoboda" Liberalism" with communism, he arrives in East Germany and Poland, Camel Cigarette commercial, a report on Senator Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy, Prague Czechoslavikia Communist ruling now changed, Peter Kalisher reports, Alexander Kendrick with a comment on income taxes.
Host: Reed Collins.