1964-06-07, WCBS, 26 min.
April 5, 1964 - September 9, 1965
Host Carl Reiner welcomes celebrity guests Mickey Rooney, Lee Marvin, Nanette Fabray, Agnes Moorehead, Oscar Levant, Ann Blyth, Gordon MacRae, Sheila MacRae and Sal Mineo to this primetime comedy quiz.
NOTE: Very few examples of this series in video or audio survive.
1964-10-00, WABC, 00 min.
January 4, 1964-February 7, 1970. This hour-long variety series was a midseason replacement for "The Jerry Lewis Show."
Guest: Agnes Moorehead
1966-07-19, WNEW, 54 min.
The film premiere of "The Blue Max" starring George Peppard, James Mason, and Ursula Andress. Some of the guests interviewed include General Curtis LeMay, Agnes Moorehead, Cesar Romero, Adam (Batman) West, Elmo Williams, (Executive Producer,) Lee Meriwether, Ann Miller, Charles Robinson, Jim, and Henny Backus, William Provost, William Wellman, Veronica Cartwright, George Montgomery, and James Mitchum.
Hosts: Bill Welch and Army Archerd.
Some commercials included.
Special broadcast on WNEW-TV Channel 5 in New York City.
1966-11-06, WNBC, 78 min.
This special musical adaptation of Lewis
Carroll's classic stars Judy Rolin, Roy
Castle, Robert Coote, Richard Denning, Nanette Fabray, Ricardo Montalban, Agnes Moorehead, Jack Palance, Tom Smothers, Dick Smothers, and Jimmy Durante as "Humpty Dumpty."
1966-11-16, WPIX, 60 min.
The New York and Hollywood movie premiere of "Is Paris Burning?" starring Leslie Caron, Kirk Douglas, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Alain Delon, Gert Frobe, and Orson Welles. Directed by Rene Clement.
In New York, Jack Lescoulie talks to Otto Preminger, Frederick March, Florence Eldrich, Leslie Caron, Ann Francis, John Erikson, Polly Bergen, and Barbara Rush.
In Los Angeles, Debbie Reynolds talks to Army Archerd.
Hosts: Jack Lescoulie and Army Archerd.
1966-11-16, WPIX, 60 min.
The New York and Hollywood movie premiere of "Is Paris Burning?" starring Leslie Caron, Kirk Douglas, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Alain Delon, Gert Frobe, and Orson Welles. Directed by Rene Clement.
In New York, Jack Lescoulie talks to Otto Preminger, Frederick March, Florence Eldrich, Leslie Caron, Ann Francis, John Erikson, Polly Bergen, and Barbara Rush.
In Los Angeles, Debbie Reynolds talks to Army Archerd.
Duplicate of #15244.
Hosts: Jack Lescoulie and Army Archerd.
1967-02-10, CBS, 00 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.
Guests: Agnes Moorehead, Norm Crosby, The Hollys.
1967-10-29, WRFM, 113 min.
Archie Rothman is host for this weekly series heard 10 PM to Midnight. On tonight's program, the 1938 classic radio drama "The War Of The Worlds" with Orson Welles and his Mercury Players is heard. Also, the classic suspense drama "Sorry Wrong Number" starring Agnes Moorehead and other radio program excerpts, from the past, are broadcast.
1968-04-28, WCBS, 52 min.
February 5, 1967-June 8, 1969. This program is a repeat. "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.
1968-10-30, CBS, 57 min.
December 27, 1967-May 22, 1969. Jonathan Winters as host of a Wednesday-night variety hour. Joining him were Abby Dalton, Cliff Arquette, Pamela Rodgers, Alice Ghostley and Paul Lynde.
1968-12-22, WOR, 48 min.
James Stewart is roasted. George Jessel emcees this hour variety roast series featuring testimonials to guests of honor. This syndicated series aired from September 15, 1968 to March 9, 1969. Reruns ran through March 1, 1970.
1969-01-21, WABC, 52 min.
September 24, 1968-May 20, 1969. This was the "A Cold Is Nothing To Sneeze At" broadcast. Television's only musical comedy series. "That's Life" starred Robert Morse and E.J. Peaker. Also featured were Shelley Berman and Kay Medford.
1969-02-02, WOR, 48 min.
A rare testimonial roast honoring Agnes Moorehead who reminisces and thanks all for such occasion at the end of the broadcast.
George Jessel emcees this hour variety roast series featuring testimonials to guests of honor. This syndicated series aired from September 15, 1968 to March 9, 1969. Reruns ran through March 1, 1970.
NOTE: Commercials deleted. On the CD version an eleven second gap (track 5) is included between track 4 and 6.
1969-12-09, 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.
1970-11-00, KDKA, 294 min.
A fiftieth anniversary of Radio Broadcasting, 1920 to 1970, with narrators Ben Gross, Jimmy Wallington, Henry Morgan, George Hamilton Combs, Garry Moore and Jack Bogut. Tracks include Warren Barber, Rudy Vallee, Fanny Brice, Eddie Cantor, Al Smith, Amos 'N' Andy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Lauder, Will Rogers, Ben Bernie's Orchestra, Jack Benny and Mary Livingston, Arthur Godfrey, Charlie McCarthy and W.C Fields, Victor
Borge, Herbert Hoover, Bob Hope, Ed Wynn, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Fibber McGee and Molly, Agnes Moorehead, "The Lone Ranger," "The Shadow," Irene Wicker, Jack Armstrong, "Young Dr.Malone," "Mary
Noble Backstage Wife," "Sybil Trent,
Eleanor Powell, Ziegfeld Follies with James Melton, Lanny Ross, Ben Grauer, "The March of Time," Huey Long, John Daly, Walter Winchell, Winston Churchill, Kay Kayser's Orchestra, Command Performance,
Wartime Songs, "Your Hit Parade," Harry S. Truman, "Stage Door Canteen, "Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Douglas MacArthur, Bing Crosby, Princess Elizabeth, Edward R.
Murrow, General Wainwright, Wendell Willkie, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Bruce Morrow, Stan Freberg, William B. Williams, Rod MacLeish, Barry Farber, Death of J.F.K., radio fluffs and commercials.
1971-07-26, ABC, min.
May 10th 1971-August 30th, 1971 (ABC)
Mel Torme hosted this nostalgic look at selected years from the twentieth century. Each week a different year was highlighted thru remembrances and song.
This week: 1941. Films include Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt's "Date That Will Live In Infamy" speech; the Battle Of Britain ; arms production in the US; Japanese-American internment camps; civil air defense training sessions; and stars such as Abbott and Costello selling war bonds.On a lighter note, Agnes Moorehead reminiscences about Orson Welles and her part in "Citizen Kane," and boxing champ Joe Louis is seen in training.
Host: Mel Torme.
1977-09-18, WCBS, 158 min.
Walter Cronkite introduces segments with famous political, creative and entertainment personalities as well as news events from the past fifty years of broadcasting. Heard are: Bruce Dunning,
Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Richard M. Nixon, William S. Paley, Eric Sevareid, Orson Welles, Goodman Ace, Mel Allen, Eve Arden, Red Barber, Edgar Bergen, Bing Crosby, Joe DiMaggio, Douglas Edwards, Arthur Godfrey, Ted Husing, Agnes Moorehead, Charles Osgood, Andy Rooney, Red Skelton, Casey Stengel, Marie Wilson, The Andrews Sisters, Fred W. Friendly, Benny Goodman, Edward R. Murrow, Frank Sinatra and Robert Trout.
